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Roundup of Business Card Inspiration Roundups

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18 Smokin’ Hot Business Card Designs

So courtesy of our inspiration gallery FaveUp, which has just passed 1000 items of inspiration, here are 18 smokin’ hot business card designs

24 Creative Business Card Designs

Collection of creative business card designs that everyone should see.

26 Business Cards of Graphic & Web Designers on Twitter

I asked my designer, developer and blogger friends on Twitter if they would like their business cards featured in my next blog post (add me on Twitter so you don’t miss out next time). Here’s the outcome. Drum roll please…

50 Creative Business Cards of 50 Graphic Designers

Last week’s post requested all designers and web developers interested to submit their creative business cards for an upcoming post on TDC…. and this week we have the results!

100 (Really) Creative Business Cards

In this article, we’ll take a look at 100 truly outstanding business card designs which show that there are truly no limits to the design of a business card.

Coolest Business Cards Part 2

Yesterday I posted a blog listing the coolest business cards…well there are just too many to just stop at 1.

Inspiration: Business Card Designs

I know there is a lot of different kinds of business card now days but since abduzeedo is giving out some traditional cards prints, I focused on that and put up some great card designs by really good designers so you can inspire yourself when creating yours.

Most Creative Business Cards

Business card is something that represents you or your business when you not there so is very important to have at least a nice business card but these are definitely one of the most creative I have ever seen with great graphic design and crazy ideas for your inspiration.

The Coolest Business Cards - Use of Cool Shapes, Textures, Creativity, & Talent

This was the most fun that I have ever had posting a blog. This blog is for showcasing the most amazing and innovative business card designs that I have ever seen. Some of the following business cards are shaped like objects, some have pop-up textures, some of these business cards even have plants growing from within the card itself.

More Cool Business Cards - Business Card Layout & Design Part 3

I have noticed that our most popular blog posts tend to be when we list really cool layouts and designs. So I have decided to post some more cool business card designs. Some of these business card designs have really cool cutout shapes including dieline cuts, cool combinations of papers, embossing, cool use of materials, impressions, metals, and inks. I hope that you enjoy.
You might also enjoy our past Cool Business Card Design Finds:

The Coolest Business Cards - Beautiful & Unique Business Card Designs Part 4

This is the 4th part of our Coolest Business Card series. This time, we are including the printer (when we can find out the information) who printed these business cards. We received many responses from graphic designers wishing to know how to get similar business cards printed since many of the business cards displayed have complicated folds, cuts, etc. I hope that you enjoy the next set of ‘cool business cards’. Feel free to submit your own.

More Cool Business Cards - Business Card Layout & Design Part 5

This is the 5th part of our Coolest Business Card series.  These are the coolest and most innovative new business cards that I could find out there. Some of them are pretty cool. Feel free to submit your own.

The Coolest Business Cards - Beautiful & Unique Business Card Designs Part 6

This is the 6th part of our Coolest Business Card series. You will love these new business cards that I found online.  I hope that you enjoy the next set of ‘cool business cards’. Feel free to submit your own.

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Roundup of Package Design Roundups

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20 Unusual and Creative Packaging Designs

Even though the goal of modern retail packaging is to encourage potential buyers to purchase the product, clever packages can also be a great source of inspiration. This post showcases innovative and creative packaging design ideas from all over the world.

50 Beautiful and Effective Package Designs

Effective packaging design breaks away from the standard rules and conventions that we are accustomed to, giving the product a unique edge to stand out from the rest.

Amazing Package Designs

Every now and then I post a bunch of really cool package designs to keep everyone updated to what’s new on this side of town, this time is no different I made an amazing selection of package designs that would make you buy the product and not throw away the package.

Beautiful and Expressive Packaging Design

As an ongoing part of our monday inspiration series today we present excellent examples of beautiful, attractive and communicative packaging design. We have also tried to present creative and unusual ideas which you could use for your projects. Below the gallery you will also find some further references to blogs and resources related to packaging design.

Delicious Beer Package Design

One of the most commom beverages out there has been getting some new colors for some time now. Beer packaging, and labels are getting more beautiful each day, and it’s really cool to check some examples of delicious beer package design.

Inspiring packaging design

Even if you aren’t actively working in packaging design you can still respect and be inspired by some of the creative and eye pleasing solutions that are out there. I searched high and low on the web for some excellent packaging design examples in various categories. Enjoy the post and be inspired!

Inspiration: Packaging Design

Some people really pay attention to it, some really don’t notice it, but doesn’t always go as the saying “you can judge the product by it’s box” and sometimes we end up getting something because of the box and here are some really good samples of it.

Lovely Package Design Projects

Once again I made a selection of package designs but this time I went a little deeper and got a lovely selection of great package design projects, so you can get a lot of views of each project and also find out more each design

More awesome product packaging

The last creative packaging post was very well received and I’ve been meaning to do a second one for a while now. The difficulties of temporarily having no internet at home and moving twice have kept that idea in the box though…until now. I finally got around to finding some great and inspiring examples on the web.

Packaging design inspiration - 45 Really Nice Packaging Designs

This Article is continuation of one my packaging design inspiration series - packaging design inspiration

Packaging design inspiration

Packaging is one of the most common example of graphic design. Apart from displaying the important information, the packaging has become an important sales tool.With the use of illustration, color, typography and even various packaging materials,A beautiful and attractive packaging can boost the selling and stands out from the rack of competitors.here we presents some coool packaging deisgns to inspire yourself

Packaging design inspiration - Part II

This post in the continuation of our previous post Packaging Design Inspiration Part-1 ,

Phenomenal Packaging Design & Inspiration

In this post, we’ve collected inspiring, unique, and brilliant packaging to demonstrate that good, timeless design speaks louder than words.

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Roundup of Fonts Roundups

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5 Freefonts You Shouldn’t Have Missed

Particularly District Thin, Kontrapunkt and Com4t Fine Regular offer quality and can be used for serious online-presentations. Let’s take a closer look at 5 freefonts we’ve found on the Web over the last month.

10 Awesome Free Handwritten Fonts

It’s no secret in the MyInkBlog community that hand drawn websites are a growing trend, and one that I rather enjoy. This post will showcase ten such free handwritten style fonts that are sure to add a touch of personality to you next design. In no particular order, my ten faves are as follows…

10 Awesome Free Serif Fonts

This is the second part of a five part series featuring my favorite free fonts for design. This compilation will focus on ten very useful serif fonts. These fonts are perfect for print copy and large headings. Check them out!

10 Awesome Free Sans Serif Fonts

I find it so important as a designer to have an awesome library of fonts at your fingertips. Choosing the correct one can make or break a design. The resources are out there to find some great free fonts, but sometimes the search can be a bit overwhelming. I’ve decided to put together a series of posts that feature my 10 favorite fonts in 5 different major categories.

10 Awesome Free Script Fonts

I really enjoy the look of script fonts when they are used properly in design, especially in headers and logos. In this post, (part 3 of my series on awesome free fonts), I’ll showcase my ten favorites. In no particular order, they are…

10 Ultra Cool Retro Blocky Fonts

Retro Blocky Fonts are great for posters or projects with big typography. They also look stunning when made into 3D like in PSDTUTS cool tutorial Design Soft Stylized 3D Type . There seem to be more and more 3D Typography tutorials emerging so i thought i would search the web and put together a list of all the 3D Blocky Fonts I could find. Some of the fonts are free but unfortunately others aren’t but thats ok.

15 Awesome Free Fonts

Once again I went through Deviantart and found some great freebies, this time fonts, fonts that you may not even seen before and yes they are really good, check it out yourself, use and abuse them

15 Beautiful High-Quality Free Fonts

Every now and again we take a look around, select “fresh” high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually the time you should be investing in your current projects. We search for them and we find them, so you don’t have to.

15 Fresh High-Quality Free Fonts

Every now and again we take a look around, select “fresh” high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually the time you should be investing in your current projects. We search for them and we find them, so you don’t have to.

17 designers favorite fonts

Everyone has their favorite fonts. Fonts that are very versatile and work well for a variety of projects. With that in mind we asked some very well known designers and digital artists what their top 3 serif and top 3 san-serif fonts would be. Among the artists we spoke with are Eduardo Recife, Tom Lane and Radim Malinic.

18 Custom Cool Fonts

Tired of those same old fonts and looking for some new custom and cool fonts? Then you have come to the right place! We have put together a great collection of cool fonts from freelance designers and typographers who were kind enough to take the time to create these fonts. Be sure to check the usage rights of these fonts before you start throwing them in your projects. If you have created any cool fonts yourself, be sure to lets us know about your font in the comments below. Enjoy the cool fonts!

19 More Free Quality Fonts

The results are listed below - the most beautiful fonts, created by the open-source community and free for personal, academic and (sometimes) commercial use.

20 Free Handwritten Fonts And Resources

Handwritten font  can really say something special  personalizing communications with Your visitors. Actually there are a huge amount of great fonts out there, we never heard of. I wanted to dig a little deeper and so I created my own selection with some very special handwritten fonts and also great font resources, You probably never heard of!

21 Awesome Free Fonts

Once again I went through Deviantart and found some great freebies, this time fonts, fonts that you may not even seen before and yes they are really good, check it out yourself, use and abuse them.

21 More Free Fonts to Enhance Your Designs

This article showcases the Most Beautiful and Fresh Free Fonts to inspire and encourage good typography selection in web design.

25 Classic Fonts That Will Last a Whole Design Career

Eric Gill, Adrian Frutiger and Max Miedinger are names we associate with the classic typefaces designers use on a daily basis. Their font creations are timeless designs that look right at home no matter what century we’re in. This collection of 25 classic fonts is a round up of the best and most popular fonts every designer should own. You can be sure that they will last your whole design career.

26 Must-Have Free Fonts

There are a plethora of free fonts available on the internet, but many of them are lackluster or completely impractical.  Today, we have 26 must-have fonts that are free to download and use in your personal designs.

30 Best Fonts, Downloadable Fonts, Free Fonts, Cool Fonts for Designers

Here are 30 of the Best Fonts / Typefaces that every designer must / should own sorted by alphabetical order. There are 15 serif fonts and 15 sans-serif fonts. These fonts will last you your whole career!

30 Brilliant Typefaces For Corporate Design

We looked around and researched recently released corporate typefaces that have been frequently recommended, mentioned or discussed on popular typography-related blogs, forums and magazines. In the end, we came up with a list of the most promising corporate typefaces and collected information about each of them. The result is this comprehensive showcase of typefaces, together with links to specimens and pricing information.

30 Fonts You Want to Have

We’ve compiled our own list of 30 fonts we think you should have if you don’t already have them. The list is a mix of some popular ones as listed in a “Favorite Font” thread over at Mintpages, and some of them I have added myself because I happen to be a big fan on them. Each font also has a url listed where you can grab it from (damn we make it convenient for you huh?) Enjoy!

35 Free Fonts to Enhance Your Designs

The basic purpose behind this post is to show you Popular, Artistic and most importantly Free Downloadable font types to save your time searching them online. Direct download link available for the entire fonts.

36 Font Resources You Should Have in Your Bookmarks

When you’re designing a new web template, logo, or software application, One of the hardest thing is looking for that perfect font. A good font can really make or break a great concept. You can never have enough fonts at your disposal and the more choices you have,Here i’ve listed sites where you can download Quality fonts for free and also some nice Font Compilation Posts From other website and blogs, Here we go….

40+ Excellent Freefonts For Professional Design

Quality costs. The price of “bulletproof” fonts usually reflects their quality and starts at 50$ per typeface. However, before purchasing a font you will probably use only once in your designs you might want to take a glance at outstanding free alternatives first.

40+ Extremely Beautiful FONTS Hand-picked from deviantART

The web is rich with creative and amazing fonts, and one of the most unusual source of Beautiful Fonts are those you can find on deviantART fonts gallery. Today we would like to present 40 incredible FONT which you can use for web or print design. Let’s take a close look at some of the most beautiful fonts we’ve found on deviantART. Some amazing fonts are missing? Let us know!

63 Must have Grunge Fonts

Looking for the best free grunge fonts out there? We have found all of them and they are trapped in this post.

60 Brilliant Typefaces For Corporate Design

Below you’ll find over 60 first-class typefaces for corporate design. Please notice that they are not free; however, we’ve focused on typefaces which are definitely worth spending money on. So which typefaces are “bulletproof”? What fonts can be used effectively in almost every Corporate Design? And what are the options for unique, but still incredibly beautiful typefaces? Let’s find out.

80 Beautiful Typefaces For Professional Design

Over the last few days we’ve browsed through dozens of type foundries, read dozens of designers’ articles about typography, analyzed font rankings and visited bookmarked font-related suggestions. So this post has ‘em all. Well, OK, at least many of them.

104 Free Fonts for Web Designers and Logo Artists

The basic purpose behind this post is to show you Popular, Professional and most importantly Free Downloadable font types to save your time searching them online. Direct download link available for the entire fonts. All the screenshots again made in usual way so there is no confusion in checking the actual preview and corresponding font types.

105 Free Grunge Fonts for Web Designers and Logo Artists

Grunge Style Typography has been quite a popular for a while now, and it doesn’t seem like it’s going anywhere away anytime soon. So Below, we compile a list of Over 100 Free Downloadable Grunge Fonts for Web Designers and Logo Artists by which you can save your money as well as time and focus on making great applications.

Top 7 Fonts Used By Professionals In Graphic Design

All though there have been many other most used font posts, most of them outline fonts used by the ‘not-so-well-trained’ designer. In this post I want to outline the fonts that are often used by the more ‘professional’ of designers

Top 15 Fonts for Packaging Design

Over the last several years I’ve been using many different fonts when designing brand identities and packaging. I like to think of fonts as having their own personality - just like people. Fonts can be brash, silly, elegant, refined, cool, delicate, straightforward, austere, lush or honest. Good use of typography goes a long way, and your choice of fonts will have a significant impact on getting the product/brand’s message across appropriately. I’ve thought about what fonts I’ve used more than once and why I like them. Out of the countless fonts I’ve used, here are 15 of my favorites (in no particular order). Enjoy!

Top 100 Best, Cool, Most Popular Professional Fonts

Based on a German website, these are the top 100 best fonts of all time.

Extraordinary Free Fonts Collection

This is a really amazing collection of free download fonts collected from dafont.com. There are many more on the site, I just try to share some of hundreds of wonderful fonts are you can find this site.

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Roundup of Logo Inspiration Roundups

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10 successful logo redesigns

When a logo is used for a number of years, the brand awareness that is amassed can prove a valuable tool in the marketing arsenal of large corporations. With that in mind, logo re-designs often implement subtle changes to refresh the look whilst considering customer recognition.

15+ Amazingly clever logos

Logo design is a huge part of graphic design. A logo is a name, symbol, or trademark designed for easy and definite recognition. I’d like to share with you a selection of logos that I feel are some of the best around. Hope you enjoy.

23 Inspiring Blue Logos

Having inspiration sources is one absolutely important step in the process of creating a logo. The most trends you manage to check out, the best! Since I’m developing a logo for a new company, and their color is blue, I started a research on some blue logos… here are some of them.

25 Sources For Logo Design Inspiration

As logo designer You can often find moments, when You cannot think of anything good, but then such inspirational like this can become very handy. There are a lot of logo showcase sites You can inspire from and usually those sites list also all logo on popular categories, so You can see which logos and actually why there are so popular, sometimes artists even add their logo creation workflow there, allowing us to see what’s really happening behind the scene. OK, now to the post - I found together 25 logo showcase, portfolio sites and even few blogs which dedicate their life to help You become an expert as logo designer. Enjoy!

30 Beautiful Logos

Every now and then I look up some logos and find some of them very inspiring, from now on I will start sharing the ones I like the most, so this can be and inspirational selection for me and for you guys. This first selection can sure be called beautiful.

36 Clever and Creative logos

The better a logo greater the probability that your clients will remember you and get back to you. For that: designers have to be creative and have to work their ass off in designing beautiful, unique logos. And the results they come out with their hard work are stunning and spectacular.

50 Stunning Examples of a great redesign: My Top Picks

A redesign can be worth its weight in gold if you get it right. There is a thin line between freshening up your design, and taking a step backwards with a redesign.  Sometimes a redesign can be subtle and simple, and other times it can be a huge re-vamp of a company and it’s goals. Here’s a look at some of my favourite re-designs in no particular order.

60+ Beautiful Logo Design Tutorials And Resources

Today, we present some outstanding logo design tutorials to give you a head start when it comes time to creating an amazing logo for your own business.

Best Band Logos

There are some great bands out there… from rock to hip-hop, from ska to punk rock. Not all of them have cool logos, but some are memorable.

Drawing Inspiration From Creative Logos

Below we present a showcase of 50 beautiful, clever and creative logo designs that will hopefully inspire you. If you take a closer look at the showcase below, you will notice many trends. Some of these include the usage of simple shapes to create something complex, origami shapes, coloring and transparency trends, and many more.

Great Examples of Colorful Gradients and 3D Effects in Logos

Because of that I selected some of the best logos I found on Logopond that use colorful gradients and subtle 3D effects.

Great TV Series Logos

TV Series are always a great option to watch since they have an amazing content to catch our attention and these days they can even turn us addicted to it. People that like Dr. House for an example, they can celebrate every diagnostic as it was the first, or Lost watchers for a chance, they keep thinking for hours about the whole solution and understanding to the situation the characters goes through.

Negative space in logo design

It’s hard to beat a clever use of negative space in logo design. Here are 35 or so logos I enjoy that use white space well, along with the designers and agencies who created them.

Logo 101: information, tips and inspiration

We are going to talk about one of the most important areas of design: logo design. Certainly, there are lots of things to discuss here, this subject is really complex. In this article we are going to cover the main aspects, showing the importance of a good logo, giving you tips and also a collection for your inspiration.

Logo Design Basics: The Five Types of Marks

Logos come in all kinds of shapes and sizes however they typically are one of 5 different classifications. Designing a logo is about much more than an exercise in aesthetic. A logo must be a positive depiction of the product or service it represents. When designing a logo, knowing which type of mark would be the most appropriate for the application will help you achieve a stronger solution.

Logo Design Inspiration: 54 Creative Logos Hand-picked From Logopond

once again dzineblog presents you the logo design inspiration series, this time i’ve selected the logo’s from logopond, as you know logopond is one of the greatest source for logo inspiration

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Featured in a couple blog articles

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I’ve been surfing around some design blogs lately and I just want to thank them for showing some of my work. Thanks!

Inspiring Grunge Style Big Typography Posters - Featured “Artist”.

33 Amazing Typography Posters and Illustrations - Featured “Eternity II”

Retro Rainbow Tutorials and Design Showcase - Featured “Inspire/Create”, “Live and Learn”, “Retro Love”, “Hello”, “Simplicity”, and “Simplicity”

40+ Most Inspiring 3D Text Typography Designs - Featured “Green Version II”

30 Examples of Inspirational Typography - Featured “Eternity”, “Artist”, and “Fresh”

40 beautiful and creative typography designs to inspire - Featured “Eternity II”

Pôsteres Tipográficos - Featured “Artist”

Creativity Fine-Tuning: Best of PSD Vault Flickr Group – Vol. 10 - Featured “Green Version II”

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4 Favorite Font Sites

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dafont

Archive of freely downloadable fonts. Browse by alphabetical listing, by style, by author or by popularity.

Fontstruct

FontStruct is a free font-building tool brought to you by the world’s leading retailer of digital type, FontShop.

Fontex

We have hand-picked the very best Free Fonts to Download! Download amazing Free Fonts Resources today.

Fontshop

Online font sales. Browse by name, designer or foundry. Also provides custom creation and conversions, weblog and magazine.

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Negative space in logo design

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Negative space in logo design

It’s hard to beat a clever use of negative space in logo design. Here are 35 or so logos I enjoy that use white space well, along with the designers and agencies who created them.

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New typography

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Behance

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Just recently created a behance. So check that out, and if you have one, invite me to your circle!

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Sunday School Flyer

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