How to Design Business Cards

Go to any professional networking event and you’ll still see printed business cards in circulation. Business cards make exchanging the full-range of contact information easy and well-designed ones make a lasting first impression. Learn to design your own in How to Design Business Cards with Lara McCormick.

Lara will teach you everything you need to know to create well-designed, attention-grabbing business cards using Adobe Illustrator or InDesign. 

You’ll learn:

• The basics of selecting and combining fonts
• Ways to emphasize key information
• Layouts: alignment and grids
• How to incorporate logos and color

You’ll get tips on choosing between standard or custom sizes and how orientation and spacing impacts readability. Lara will show you where to find unique typefaces and she’ll offer tips on printing orders of all sizes. You’ll also get a collection of business card templates you can customize.

Paper is sticky - make the most out of your next introduction by leaving behind a beautifully-designed custom business card that represents your personal brand.

The DIY series is for creatives who want to create designs for themselves. The classes are geared toward beginners who aren’t necessarily ‘designers’, but need materials to represent themselves (or their small business). Classes labeled DIY are project-specific, under three hours in length, and priced affordably. Learn to design what you need quickly and easily.

• Class Introduction
• What Information to Include on your Business Card
• Size & Orientation of a Business Card
• Choosing a Hierarchy & Layout for your Business Card
• Choosing & Using Fonts for your Business Card
• Color Combinations on a Business Card
• Logos & Images on a Business Card
• Printing & Paper Options for a Business Card
• Prepping Your Business Card Files
• DEMO: Business Card: For Work
• Business Card Demo: For Play