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Creativity plays the best part in business card designing. Within 9×6 cm space, the card designer expresses the first impression of the card holder. Designer has only a limited space but a huge message to convey. The business card is the best medium for the card holder to introduce himself as well as promote his business.

Designing a business card is a very challenging work from DTP point of view. Every element of the business card has to be studied in detail such as the content, content layout, card color, font color, font type, etc. These aspects are vital since the actual printing press has to support the color combination and font type for printing. Mostly PageMaker and Photoshop are used for DTP work of the business card.

The layout of the card can be either vertical or horizontal. Sometimes double-sided printing is used for best-fit. Interestingly, there are many business cards that are printed on different materials reflecting the nature of the business. Businesses related to wood prefer to use a wood-like material to emphasize their field. Plastic material or transparent thick or thin material are used that gives a glazing look to the business card. The embossed cards give a rich look to the business card.

Enormous array of designs are available in the market depending upon the type of industry such as marketing, health care, finance, tours & travels etc. There are options to decide on the shape of the card such as oval, round, square, rectangle, or die-cut to the needed shape. One will be amazed or even spell bound on the variety of business card designs available in the market including the 3D plastic card.

Business cards need not always be a card! A creative chest physician designed a balloon business card that is only legible when inflated demonstrating how important it is to have healthy lungs!