Business cards remain a staple in nearly every company’s brand identity package. Any time you pass that little rectangle – or square, or circle – of paper to someone you’ve met, you have the opportunity to make a lasting impression.

CreativePro.com has offered download of one of their articles on what items to include in a successful card design, along with what size, shape and other things should be considered.

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Stefan G. Bucher, the man behind 344 Design and the online drawing and storytelling experiment dailymonster.com, discusses the creative challenges of being both a maker and a thinker, communicating to large audiences across a wide range of media. Find out first-hand how he has spent the past 20 years building a practice that allows him to pursue his many strange and labor-intensive interests, while also managing to keep the lights on.

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Hear and see why Stefan Sagmeister thinks it’s a good idea to close his studio every 7 years for 12 months and spend it trying out various little design experiments, for which there is never enough time while running a regular practice.

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A great article on the CFX Creative web site about the value of design in our everyday lives and its importance to business and individuals. It’s interesting to see how the far-reaching efforts of designers in a variety of disciplines – graphic designers, architects, interior designers and industrial designers – shape the very world around us.

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An interesting article on what makes designers tick – and how those unique perspectives and ways of thinking can be useful to the average Joe or people in other specialized occupations.

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An easy-to-read design magazine with helpful tips, tricks and tutorials, in addition to featured projects and design-related news.

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We’re excited that the site is coming together and we’re making progress, slowly but surely. The latest area of the site to make its debut is the Design Groupies Bookstore. We’ve hand-selected a list of titles that we’ve found invaluable in the day-to-day life of a designer. If there’s a title on your bookshelf that you just can’t live without, drop us a line and we’ll add it to our library!