Design Trends for Stand Out Business Cards

Whatever industry you’re in—whether it’s in food, publishing, or shipping, a business card is both a simple and important marketing tool to have on hand. An innovative and well-designed card that highlights what your business is can create a lasting impression on the minds of your consumers and potential business associates. It also serves as a physical reminder of your business that prompts them to contact you when they need you or just to keep in touch.

Tired of plain, boring, forgettable business cards? In recent years, more and more business owners, designers, and artists, continue to think out of the box and create visually appealing business cards with designs, styles, and shapes that stand out from the usual. If you’re looking for clever and unique design ideas for your own business card that would help people remember you, here are three emerging business card trends to draw inspiration from.

Social media business cards

As of the first quarter of 2014, 74% of all Internet users use social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and LinkedIn. Internet users alone comprise a huge portion of consumers. It’s not so far-fetched to assume that your target consumers know how to use and navigate through these social networking sites. They would definitely know how to “like” photos, share content, or tweet. To attract this huge market, your business card should also include your company’s social media profiles aside from your personal contact info—name, phone number, office/company address, e-mail address, and website. It is the digital age after all. Once you give away your business card to events like trade shows, launches, and networking events, people would find it easy to look up your business social media sites online and connect with you. There’s currently a trend of business cards designed to mimic the look of the standard screen displays of popular social networking sites like Facebook. 

Minimalist design

Minimalism in lifestyle and design is big these days. There is always a chance someone would appreciate your business card with its simple, uncluttered, Zen-like design. Even though it’s tempting to fill in voids and use every square inch of space available, too many eye-catching details make a business card look confusing and unprofessional. Go simplistic to highlight your company name and personal information. Choose a high-quality paper stock and classic typography to make it look elegant and professional at the same time. It screams “take me seriously” without the pretentiousness. 

Eco-friendly or sustainable materials

 The growing trend towards sustainable living and environment-friendly business practices means these are taken into consideration even in the smallest details such as designing business cards. This is especially effective for businesses related to preserving the environment, energy-saving, social entrepreneurship, and other related industries because it reinforces what you stand for as a business and as a company. Some clever design ideas are business cards printed on recycled paper or seed packets used as business cards.  

Whatever your design preference, business cards printing London can do it for you. We also do colour poster printing London and banner printing London.    

Why cheap online poster printing London

Baker Street offers cheap online poster printing. This is more efficient for everyone concerned and helps to keep our costs down and our response timely instead of dealing individually with walk ins. We do not accept visitors who wish to bring files to us directly at our premises. All orders must be uploaded to our site, and then can be collected once your order is ready for pick up. This arrangement allows us to continue to offer our cheap poster printing London. By keeping person-to-person transactions at a minimum, we can cut unnecessary overhead costs and keep our prices down. Hence, at Baker Street, you can still get cheap printing London for all your poster needs.

For one, in terms of size, our cheapest available poster size A4 (210mm x 297mm) is still at £5 for the super satin 220gsm silky photo finish. The price goes up slightly at £7 for the super gloss 220gsm photo quality finish and £11 for the durable 220gsm laminated posters. The biggest available poster size at A0 (841mm x 1189mm) still comes at  £33 for the super satin silky photo finish and still at £45 for the super gloss photo quality finish. The other available sizes are A3 (297mm x 420mm), A2 (420mm x 594mm) and A1 (594mm x 841mm). We can also accommodate orders for custom-sized posters.

In terms of number, we can print as specified or in bulk. Pricing varies according to size and paper quality. For instance, an order for 50 size A2 gloss art finish posters costs  £186 while an order of 1000 size A0 gloss art finish posters would be priced at £649. An order of 25 gloss art finish 170gsm size A3 posters costs £30 while an order of 2000 matt-coated card 400gsm size A3 posters is priced at  £729. With respect to bulk orders for size A3 posters, we can print different designs for each copy as long as you give as a pdf containing your desired images. If your posters are meant to be displayed outdoors, it would probably be a good idea to order from our durable laminated posters which are available still at £11 for size A4, £20 for size A3, £35 for size A2 and £45 for size A1.

Because we only offer cheap online poster printing London, we can also keep the quality of our work high. We print our posters on the very best HP large format printers using extremely high quality 220gsm thick paper and a 6 ink system for razor sharp prints. The quality of our graphics is second to none with superb quality prints from your files or our artwork. We stock a range of papers and produce your job exactly to your requirements. Prints can be produced as single images up to 40" wide by any length. And we can work fast. If you upload your files to us before 3:00 PM we will have them printed and ready for you within 24 hours – a true next day service. We can also provide emergency same day service for a slightly higher charge where the same day turnaround is guaranteed, often in less than an hour. In any event, if you really want or require a more individualised service from us where you would like to meet to discuss your order personally, please email us first and we will get back to you when we can as soon as we can.

Need colour poster printing London? You need it quick and cheap

When in need of fast turnaround, high quality, and cheap poster printing, or banner printing, or business card printing, and you are in London, you don’t have to look further than Baker Street Printing. Located at 113 Crawford Street, just off of Baker Street, we believe that we can offer you the best printed poster / academic posters, the best banners, and the best printed business card to be found anywhere else in the city.

For colour poster printing London, we start with the best HP large format printers available in the industry and combine them with the highest quality 220gsm thick paper while using a 6 ink system to print your posters in any size up to 40” wide with no limit on length. If you upload your files to us before 3:00 PM we will have them printed and ready for you within 24 hours – a true next day service. We can also provide emergency same day service for a slightly higher charge where the same day turnaround is guaranteed, often in less than an hour. For large format A0 and A1 poster printing, we can offer a full range of finishes and post print processing. For a silky photo finish, we recommend our Super Satin while our best seller, Super Gloss, will provide you with a photo quality finish at an economical price. If you need your posters mounted on a board, this is another service we offer at a nominal cost. Additionally, if you have your own posters and just need to have them laminated, then drop by our shop and we will laminate them while you wait. For your convenience and to keep our prices low we advise clients to upload their files to us via the website. This is more efficient for everyone concerned and helps to keep our costs down and our response timely instead of dealing with walk INS.

When it comes to banner printing London, we print high quality outdoor and indoor banners up to almost any size, with or without eyelets for hanging purposes. For printing full colour outdoor grade banners on 7720dpi onto 440gsm quality vinyl, with or without the eyelets, our price ranges from just £77 for a 609mm x 609mm size banner to £521 for a 9144mm x 2436mm size banner. The banners are finished with clean cut edges and, if opted, we install plastic welded eyelets. All-round Hemming & pole pockets are available for an additional 10%-20% of the listed prices. All our customers say we are the best banner printers London.

For those who are after business cards printing London, our price starts at £25 (or £30 with VAT) for a set of 50 300gsmsingle-sided full-colour uncoated cards. Then it moves up to £30 (or £36 with VAT) for a set of 100 cards, £35 (or £42 with VAT) for a set of 150 cards, £40 (or £48 with VAT) for a set of 200 cards, £45 (or £54 with VAT) for a set of 250 cards,  £85 (or £102 with VAT) for a set of 500 cards, £125 (or £150 with VAT) for a set of 750 cards, and £145 (or £174 with VAT) for a set of 1000 cards. For orders of on same day business cards, the thickest we can print on is 300gsm and on same day cards cannot be double sided. The print process for these same day cards is digital. If you want exceptionally high quality cards, you need to be willing to wait 3-4 working days so we can send your cards to press for lithographic printing.

Baker Street Printing: You’re printing Shop on Central London

If you need of cheap printing London, the Baker Street Poster Printing service is the one for you.
We offer a lot of affordable prices for our printing services. Our services include poster printing, banner printing, exhibition stands, flyers and business cards.
One of our specialised services is cheap poster printing London. We put a very cheap price tag for poster printing, especially those for bulk orders.
Aside from bulk printing, we also provide a same day / 24-hour printing policy. If you send us the poster file before 3 pm, your order will be ready at the same time next day.
We are giving you eight reasons why you should avail of our services:
1. We print on the best HP large format printers
2. We use extremely high quality paper (220 gsm thick paper)
3. Our printers have a 6 ink system, giving your posters great detail and sharp prints
4. Our graphics are simply the best. We can make your graphics or improve the images that you send to us.
5. We can customise in terms of poster size, appearance or finish and quantity.
6. We can reproduce the same top quality in our bulk orders.
7. We have an affordable price scheme for all of our bulk orders.
8. We guarantee on our same day policy.
We say that we have eight great reasons to be considered for your poster printing job.
Perfect Finish
We employ three kinds of finishes in our posters. We have a silky photo (or super satin) finish, photo quality finish (also known as super gloss treatment and lastly, we have the laminated finish for posters that you want protected but still showcasing the graphics/artwork. Both laminated and photo quality finish is our bestsellers! All these three are applied in posters in 220 gsm.
Got Size?
We understand that posters come in different sizes. We offer a range of poster sizes, along with different finishes and price tag.
For A0 (841mm X 1189mm), we only offer super gloss/photo quality and silky photo finish. A1 or 594mm X 841mm sized posters gets all three finishes at affordable prices.
A 420mm X 594mm (or A2) is also available in three optional finishes as well as the slightly larger 297mm X 420mm or A3. The A3 is our second to the cheapest size all across the board.
The largest size (210mm X 297mm) is our cheapest size and also treated with the same three finishes.
Bulk Up
We offer many bulk order packages. Bulk orders are available on three sizes. A0, A1 and A2.
All sizes use the same 130 gsm gloss paper. In addition, there is a special bulk packages for posters using the A3 paper size. In this size, the poster can be printer in three different papers – 170 gsm, 300 gsm, and 400 gsm. Bulk orders are also classified by the number of copies. Bulk copies are offered at 25 copies, 50 copies, 100 copies, 250 copies, 500 copies, 1000 copies and 2000 copies. It is also possible to print different images in one A3 poster.
For bulk orders with a custom size, please contact us to give a quote.
We also offer poster lamination service and posters mounted on a stand.
Baker Street offer great deals and cheap online poster printing London. Contact us now!