Business Card Design

Business Card Design

“We have reached the end of this course, thank you for choosing me as your teacher, I have loved doing this tour with you, now I would like you to carry out your own final project. Take the opportunity to remember the steps and tasks that you have done throughout the course. Here is an example of how I would like to see your final project: The brief and the selection of materials Do an investigation through a small brief, where you will analyze and investigate vital points of your brand, it is extremely important that you think in detail what it is you want to communicate. At this point it is essential that you familiarize yourself as much as possible with the brand. Choose the materials you want to work with and that you feel are best for your brand.

The perfect recipe Create an inspirational mood board and go shopping. With this information, you can begin to select and define the materials and ideas for your designs and thus leave them embodied in a document that I call a recipe. Designing the card Now comes the stage of ideation and layout of your fantastic card, where you will develop various design proposals. Presentation and selection of proposals Create some mockups or visuals in Illustrator and Photoshop, so you can present them to your client and they will make the best choice. In addition, I recommend that you take the opportunity to save everything you have created in your portfolio, even if you wish you can publish some of your ideas on Instagram, or the social network of your choice. Final file and production Finally, prepare your files to send them to print and production. Do not forget to take care of all the necessary details so that everything is as you imagined it! Remember that the process is only as valuable as the result. For this reason, I would love to see not only your final project, but also the step by step of how you got it. Do not worry if you have doubts, because I will be aware of the forum to help you clear them in the shortest possible time, have a little patience if I delay in answering. I also invite you to look for new influences or other innovative ways in which we can present a business card and share them in the forum, I hope to see your progress so that, together, we can help you obtain an excellent result. Finally I say goodbye leaving you a big hug, it was an honor to share with you some of my knowledge.”

Partial transcription of the video

“Final project We have already reached the end of our course. By now you will have your fantastic business card ready. This element of communication with your client will make the first contact much more meaningful, which will make the remembrance of your brand much higher. Now let's review the necessary steps to get the final project. The first thing we did was investigate. This step is important to inspire us and understand everything about the brand. Here we define what we want to communicate and we will capture all of that on a mood board. We also leave it in a document that contains the...”

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Course summary for: Business Card Design

• Level: Beginner
• 98% positive reviews (48)
• 1150 students
• 4 units
• 13 lessons (1h 11m)
• 7 downloads

• Category

  Design

• Software

  Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Branding & Identity, Design, Graphic Design