30 Of The Most Creative Business Cards Ever

A good business card won’t ensure your success, but it can definitely help! The best business card can make all the difference in the first impression that you have on someone, or whether or not you leave an impression at all, so here are 30 custom business cards that will get you thinking about how you might want to present yourself!

Many of us are probably guilty of accepting personal info cards out of politeness and then just throwing them away or forgetting about them (I know I am). These creative business cards, however, stay with you – psychologically or physically. Some of these business card designs double as useful tools, product samples or funny little toys, while others manage to make a point about the person on the card that will stick more than just a name and an address.

With the emphasis placed on networking these days, it’s more important than ever to stand out of the crowd – and here are a few good business card ideas for how to do it! For other great examples of creative marketing and design, check out our packaging and bagvertising posts.

1. Cosmetic Surgeon Business Card

Creative business card with embossed design held between fingers.

Advertising Agency: Demner, Merlicek & Bergmann, Vienna, Austria

2. Yoga Trainer Business Cards

Creative business card with cutouts for fingers, depicting a stretching pose.

Advertising Agency: Marked for Trade

3. Cheese Grater Business Card

Creative business card shaped like a cheese grater in a paper sleeve.

Creative business card designed as a cheese grater beside a block of cheese and grated pieces.

Advertising Agency: JWT, Brazil

4. Tearable Divorce Lawyer Business Card

Creative business card for James A.W. Mahon, a divorce lawyer, featuring contact details on a textured background.

Creative business card designed to look torn in half, held in two hands, featuring contact details.

Notice that the card has contact information on both sides.

5. Yoga Mat Business Card

Creative business card shaped like a yoga mat, promoting Flow Yoga.

A simple, yet very creative business card for Vancouver yoga center. The card rolls just like a yoga mat.

6. Fitness Trainer’s Tearable Business Card

Creative business card featuring a weight loss theme with a cut-out design reducing belly size.

Zohra Mouhetta helps you strip away your belly! (Advertising Agency: Leo Burnett, Dubai, United Arab Emirates)

7. Designer’s Seed Packet Business Card

Creative business card with a smiling face design and plants growing from the top.

Creative business card with seeds and plant design, partially sprouting from the edge when held.

Designed by Jamie Wieck

8. Circumciser’s Business Card

Creative business card design featuring a unique perforated pattern and contact details.

Advertising Agency: Agency: Healthy People by Grey, Istanbul, Turkey

9. Event Photographer’s Viewfinder Business Card

Transparent creative business card resembling a camera viewfinder held against a grassy background.

10. Dentist’s Cavity Business Card

Creative business cards with tooth-shaped cutouts for a dentist, featuring contact details on white cards.

Designed by Michael Häne & Remo Caminada

11. Stretchy Personal Trainer’s Business Card

Creative business card that stretches to reveal contact details for a personal trainer.

If you want to see the text on this business card, you have to do a little stretching exercise.

12. Hair Dresser Business Cards

Creative business cards with colorful designs and smiley faces, demonstrating unique and playful branding.

Creative business card being cut and folded into a 3D design resembling a face with yellow hair.

Creative business cards with colorful, fringed designs resembling happy faces arranged on a white background.

Designed by Igor Perkusic

13. Cigarette Filter Business Card

Creative business card with a cannabis leaf design for head2headshop in Toronto, featuring contact details.

Creative business card design with a cannabis leaf and contact details for head2headshop.

A creative business card designed as a rolled cigarette on a neutral background.

Advertising Agency: Bos, Toronto, Canada

14. Buy/Sell Investment Representative Business Cards

Creative business card shaped like a stock chart, held between fingers, featuring contact details of Franco Caligiuri.

Creative business card with red graph design for financial security and investment representative.

Advertising Agency: Rethink, Canada

15. Yoga Center Straw

Creative business card shaped like a bending straw for a yoga center.

Advertising Agency: Leo Burnett, Shanghai, China

16. Sommelière Wineglass Business Card

Creative business cards with wine glass stain designs on a wooden table.

Creative business cards with wine stain design for a sommelier named Mylène Poisson, arranged on a gray surface.

Designed by Caserne

17. Your Own Personal Lego Agent

Creative business card made from a LEGO minifigure displaying contact details on its back.

Creative business cards designed as LEGO figures with personalized names.

18. Picture Frame Business Card

Creative business cards resembling ornate picture frames, showcasing unique design and innovation in branding materials.

Advertising Agency: Piko, Moldova

19. Stylish Transparency Business Card

Creative business cards with sunglasses and mustache designs.

Creative business card with colorful glasses and mustache overlay on a person’s face in the background.

Designed by Dario Monetini

20. Makeup Business Card

Creative business card featuring a lipstick print on a napkin with contact details.

Creative business card with a lipstick mark stamp being applied to a napkin.

Advertising Agency: OpusMúltipla, Curitiba, Brazil

21. Toy Chair Business Card

Creative business card folding into a miniature chair, showcasing unique design and innovation.

Creative business card being folded in various steps by hands.

Advertising Agency: DDB, Brazil

22. Miniature Plumber’s Plunger With Contact Information

Creative business cards designed as blue mini plungers with contact details.

Designed by Indelible Design

23. Seed Packet Business Card

Advertising Agency: Struck, USA

24.Bike Multi-Tool Business Card

Creative business card shaped like a multifunctional tool for a bike tech, featuring contact details.

Creative business card used as a bike tool.

Designer: Rethink Canada

25. Classic Rock Theme Business Card

Creative business cards shaped like combs, featuring musical notes and the brand "MOD.

This groovy hair salon comb plays a classic rock theme when rubbed by fingernail, using the same principle as a musicbox comb. (Advertising Agency: Fabio Milito design, Roma, Italy)

26. Transformable Cargo Box Business Card

Creative business card with a flexible, origami design showcasing branding and contact details in a unique folding box shape.

Advertising Agency: Y&R, São Paulo, Brazil

27. Restaurant Salt Shaker Business Card

Minimalist business card design with the word "SALT" and perforated dot pattern.

Designed by flux

28. Survival Training Dried Meat Business Card

Creative business card made of beef jerky for a survival training company, held by a person in outdoor clothing.

Advertising Agency: Rethink, Vancouver, Canada

29. Tennis Business Card

Creative business card shaped like a tennis court, showcasing innovative design.

Advertising Agency: Publicis, Brazil

30. Grillable Business Card

Creative business card with the words "grill me" in lowercase on a minimalist white background.

Creative business card with heat-sensitive reveal, held above a candle.

Creative business card for BKK Grill with a "grill me" design on a black background.

Image credits: adsoftheworld.com

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