Business cards design is heading in new directions every year. More and more companies are starting to design their business cards with more savvy. They are producing cards that are not just the plain drab white business cards with black lettering. They are finding new and unique ways to produce business cards. Nice business cards are something that is becoming increasingly necessary to set you apart but there are things that you shouldn’t ignore.
Letterhead and envelopes and other stationery should also get some attention in your branding design. There are things that incorporate design features for letterhead, catalogues and envelopes as well. Good letterhead and envelopes is another tool to set yourself apart from the competition. Let the professionals do all the work and they’ll design a great looking brand for you.
admin Stationery Branding, Business Cards, Catalogues, Envelopes, Letterhead
Here at the LogoBang blog we’re going incorporate tutorials or other neat tricks that you can try. Here’s a cool way to spruce up some basic text.
1. Choose a font and color you like and type out your desired word.
2. Right click and create an outline of the text.
3. Sheer text with the sheer tool if desired, we made ours look like the image below.
4. Add a gradient to your text, we used a black and white gradient with a 90 degree angle.
5. Make a duplicate of the text (while the text is selected an easy way to do this is to hold down alt then click and drag) and select the pen tool and draw a curved line over the duplicated text.
6. Select the text and curve and choose the DIVIDE option in the pathfinder, delete everything that was on the top portion of the curved line.
7. With both the partial text and original text selected, use the align tool and select VERTICAL ALIGN BOTTOM.
8. Make any additional adjustments to the gradients if required.
9. Add a stroke to the original text.
The finished product should have a glossy look such as above.
admin Design a Logo, Typography graphics tutorials, illustrator
