The History of Business Cards

According to Wikipedia’s entry on Business Cards, business cards started many hundreds of years ago. However, according to history, they weren’t actually business cards, they were calling, or visiting cards. We first have record of these visiting cards appearing in Chine in the 15th century. They were used by the servants of the wealthy to … Read more

Lucklow Designed Business Cards

Looks like the Santa Cruz based company Luckow is the company who designed the now famous business card of Steve Wozniak. Alan Luckow, director of Luckow Design Studios said, “I designed a translucent card and two metal cards for Woz. This metal one is the one he showed to Colbert. He wanted something unusual. I … Read more

Business Cards That Aren’t…

I know, the title is very confusing.   Then again, so are Sam Harrelson’s business cards, or better yet, lack of business cards. I guess I can let Sam explain. Sam says, “I carry around about 250 blank cards at shows and make the cards up on the spot depending on how well I like … Read more

Robert Scoble on Business Cards

Robert Scoble from the Scobleizer blog said, “3) Don’t make non-standard sizes or shapes. Why? They can’t fit into binders. I bought Avery’s Business Card Pages and a binder to hold them all, that makes it easier to look through them and find cards. It’s amazing how many business cards can’t fit into those pages … Read more