I will be finishing graduate school soon, and out in the working world. I’m a student acupuncturist, and I hope to open my own business one day. With that I’ve turned my recent attention to thinking about business cards and other promotional supplies.
I have a very clear idea of what I want to use for my business card. An image of cherry blossoms embossed on the right hand side of the card, with my name and contact info in the middle. Simple, but elegant. The difficult part is with such a unique design I’m sure to pay a premium for production. I’ve been researching embossers and different options for printing a card like this.
Because I want a custom design my options are limited. Do I want to purchase a custom made embosser, and press every single one of my cards on my own? Or do I want to pay someone else to do the whole thing? Because there’s so much to consider I’m starting to think of these things early, so I can have a clear handle on them when the time officially comes to start handing out cards that say Lic. Ac.
I love embossing and letterpress. Really, anytime I get some beautiful thick paper that is letter pressed or embossed- I could eat it. But it is so expensive. Business cards would likely be in the 75ยข-1.25 a piece range. But I am a graphic designer and if I got a letterpress card I would always keep it!
In the meantime you might like this site, I love letterpress
and drool over here Dauphine press, flickr, and Blackbird Letterpress.