Green Business Card
by Matthew Sparkes, London, UK on 06. 4.07
This interesting business card is a design by Jamie Wieck. Even though I've seen similar ideas before, this still struck me as a fantastic way to bring a little nature into the business world. If lots of people started to hand these out, then I could start a little card-garden on my desk.
"For this project I set out to design a business card that a prospective client would want to keep on their table rather than in their pocket. The result was a business card that worked like a miniature house-plant, growing alfalfa or cress when dipped in water - a business card for 'another bloomin' designer'. The logo was also cut into a 'seed stencil' that allowed the logo to be grown on either earth or lawn; on uncut grass, the message would remain hidden until the area was mown." :: Jamie Wieck (via Boing Boing)
Cute but not very practical is it?, the card will very quickly catches molds and fungus spore, brownpatches will appear and very soon, it would smell very bad.
unless there's some clever idea behind it to prevent all that happening ^^
I must admit it that the business card is incredible. Woww!
Greenest Business Cards Ever, Ever.
Scott Kyle, Principal at Full Scale Architecture in Richmond, VA, contacted us with an unusual idea: he wanted to print business cards in the greenest possible way. Being a letterpress printer himself, he wished to employ our antique Chandler-Price in the process. Taking the idea of recycled paper to the next level, Scott saved up chipboard packaging cartons for months and sent them to us, all neatly trimmed down to 8×10 sheets. Some of them were cereal boxes, some from toys and ice cream pops. Our personal favorite was a PBR carton!
He designed a two color card that was printed in cyan with a very dark blue soy ink overprint for the type. We printed them on the back of the carton paper and round-cornered them. The result, we think, is a striking marketing piece that shouts green printing in a way most projects can’t. Check out the pic below, and look for them on our portfolio page coming soon.
Thanks to Scott for helping us challenge convention and create special identity materials. This is the kind of job that makes being a green printer fun! Check out Scott’s architectural work at www.fullscalearchitecture.com.
Greenerest Business Cards, Ever!
Those cards sound very cool (Barefoot Press)...but in the spirit of friendly competition (even though we know we are cheating a bit), I think we've got you beat for green business cards.
Our service, called TextID, allows users to sign up for a textid (similiar to a screen name) and they can pass along the name to contacts along with a shortcode, 555411. The recipient will receive a text message with contact details, a brief message and even a link to a brochure or flyer.
It completely saves on paper, ink--the expense of both, and gives you a very cool way to pass along your information.
Anyone interested in trying it out can do a free trial at Text ID website.