Business card size and dimensions to highlight your brand

Key quotes:

• "Sketch was not made for print-based design.Business cards, brochures, posters… these exist within a physical world of inch/centimeter/point/pica measurements, CMYK or Pantone colors, and presentation on a variety of papers and materials."
• "This article will mostly use inch measurements, as used for print design in the US."
• "Sketch measures everything in pixel units, so we need a way to convert our design to the physical world of inches."
• "If you save your PDF through Illustrator, pixel and inch dimensions will be automatically included in the file."
• "When all of your text has been converted to outlines and all of your colors are CMYK, it’s time to save a separate PDF (I add “-print” as a suffix to the new filename)."
• "If your Sketch design includes bitmap images (non-vector images), they will be automatically converted from RGB to CMYK when you change the Document Color Mode."

Transcript: Hello welcome to business card dimensions calm and if you're on this watching this video right now you may be asked to the most obvious question which is what is the dimensions for business card and I have the answer right here for you if you just want a quick answer it's three and a half by two inches that's the final print size final cut size of a business card but I wanted to do this video so I could do give you a little bit more details on what's required for designing a business card I'm actually using Photoshop and so I want to do a short tutorial showing you how to do that alright you're going to go to file go to new and in the new template setting you're going to make sure that your margins are measurements are in inches then we're going to set it to to the 3.5 we're going to go with 3.25 and instead of two inches for the height we're going to go with 1.75 all right going to make sure your resolution stays at 300 pixels per inch and that your column mode is in CMYK and not RGB... See more →

Key quotes:

• "To help you along the way, we’ve put together a few important tips for designing a fashion lookbook for your brand — choosing the right photos and layouts, including the right information about your products, and getting the best professional help to create a stunning lookbook that gets you and your brand noticed."
• "Here’s another example from the same lookbook that reinforces the lifestyle-first approach: You’ll notice that when they need a page that’s focused on text and information — like the introductory segment on the left — they haven’t included a product shot with clothing."
• "If you’re designing a wholesale lookbook for buyers and distributors, you’ll also need to include a few details for each product, such as the: • Style name • SKU (Stock Keeping Unit) or style number • Colours, fabrics and size ranges • Wholesale price (minus VAT or Goods and Services Tax) • RRP (Recommended Retail Price)."

Key quotes:

• "So, basically, email signature (also called an email footer) is a text used at the end of an email message that provides a recipient with the information about a person or a company and helps recognize them."
• "When creating email signatures for office, you might like the following formula : name -> title -> business address -> phone number -> email address -> website URL -> social media profiles."
• "And while in the case with freelancers and very small teams, it may be pretty easy to create consistent and perfectly branded sigs, crafting and managing multiple email footers for a large number of employees may become a complex task."
• "To be sure your sig will be displayed properly on various devices and email clients, use paid or free email signature generators which offer a variety of templates and good technical support, are created by professional designers, and compatible with almost any email client."

Key quotes:

• "So if you want to know how to create a good logo then you must hire a professional logo design freelancer you could me."
• "This will help you to get an idea of the options that are available on how your business card can be and you can tell your designer what exactly you want."
• "Step 5: Add your contents This is the most important part because all the other designs are to attract the viewers but this is the part where you informate your viewers and tell what they want to know about you and your business."
• "Each Color has its own characteristics and emotions so it is important to know what you want before selecting your color also make sure that the color of your logo design and name card color should match with each other."

Transcript: You hello and welcome to my youtube channel PowerPoint University many of my viewers and subscribers have requested me to design a business card in PowerPoint so I have designed two different business cards so I'm just going to show you this is the first one the front side of the business card I have used two different colors where you can see your light blue and a dark grey or a black color and then you can see here I have added the left side the name the mobile number the email addresses and the location and on the right I have added the logo and the QR code to scan easily and this is the back side of the business card where I've just added the logo with the tagline and below the website details only and then the next design I have used here with an orange color combination and this time I have used the logo on the left side with a QR code and on the right side I have added the name again the mobile number email address and the location so this is the front side and this is the back side of... See more →

Key quotes:

• "But to create a great design, it’s important to begin by knowing the exact dimensions and aspect ratio, so that when they get into people’s hands, the name, logo, and other information will look just right, neither too small or comically big."
• "The materials of the business cards are as crucial as the designs themselves."
• "The most common paper stock for business cards has a matte and smooth finish."
• "Therefore careful selection of fonts should be the next step in the design process to ensure key information are as legible as possible, on the selected material."
• "If you want to create a clean, slick and modern business card, start with sans serif fonts for the name and title."
• "Note that in the following design, although the card looks clean and neat, it come out a bit dull."