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Hold This Smart Business Card to See Your Heart Beat

Cabe Atwell

The one-man ace engineering wrecking crew - If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find me, maybe you can hire... the Cabe-team

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March 5th, 2016March 4th, 2016

You can get a lot of quick info from a business card — name, job title, contact info — and now you can also see your heart beat.

How-To: Duct Tape Business Card Holder

Haley Pierson-Cox from Red-Handled Scissors is a maker of crafts, a lover of cats, an avid swearing enthusiast, a cross-stitch book author, and a general purveyor of quirk. She's also sometimes an irritable cartoon named Tiny Cranky Haley. https://www.redhandledscissors.com

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March 28th, 2014 0

Give your business card case as much creative personality as the cards inside with this handy and customizable duct tape business card holder tutorial!

How-To: Edge-Painted Business Cards

By Haley Pierson-Cox

Haley Pierson-Cox

Haley Pierson-Cox from Red-Handled Scissors is a maker of crafts, a lover of cats, an avid swearing enthusiast, a cross-stitch book author, and a general purveyor of quirk. She's also sometimes an irritable cartoon named Tiny Cranky Haley. https://www.redhandledscissors.com

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January 17th, 2014 0

Check out this fun edge-painted business cards tutorial from Jordan at Oh Happy Day–the color stripes are eye-catching in a stack and confetti cute on a single card!

Papercraft Business Card

By Andrew Salomone

Andrew Salomone

Artist, writer, and teacher who makes work about popular culture, technology, and traditional craft processes. http://www.andrewsalomone.com

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November 5th, 2013 2

These classy little gents just walked out of artist Camilla Taylor’s clever business cards that double as little papercraft sculptures.

3D-Printed Superhero Figurine Business Cards

By Laura Cochrane

Laura Cochrane

"To oppose something is to maintain it." –Ursula Le Guin

Currently: NEO.LIFE Alum: Instructables and MAKE

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March 21st, 2013 22

When you’re out networking, you could hand someone a plain old flat, rectangular piece of paper with your information printed on it. But wouldn’t it be much more awesome (and memorable) to hand them a 3D-printed figurine of you as a superhero, with your email address on the bottom? That’s what the folks at the Amsterdam interactive design agency Resoluut did. Each employee illustrated a superhero version of themselves and had 20 copies 3D printed, with their email address printed on the underside.

Creative Business Card Roundup

By Lish Dorset

Lish Dorset

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February 1st, 2013 0

This roundup of business cards collected by Lexy of The Proper Pinwheel is fascinating.

Concrete Business Cards

By Michael Colombo

Michael Colombo

In addition to being an online editor for MAKE Magazine, Michael Colombo works in fabrication, electronics, sound design, music production and performance (Yes. All that.) In the past he has also been a childrens' educator and entertainer, and holds a Masters degree from NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program.

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April 25th, 2012 8

French design group Murmure made this set of concrete business cards. They’re memorable, but I’m not sure I’d like to squeeze even one into my wallet. From a design perspective, Murmure notes the clean look of the typography, set against the roughness of the material used.

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