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I stumbled on to a
post this morning about Woz's business card:
From
Jeff Nolan's blog.
How cool is that? Different, stylish - I love the grille pattern. Tell me that's not gonna leave a good impression and give you something to remember about when you meet someone. Besides, I doubt it'll get lost in your pile of paper business cards. Also probably shows how modern and cutting-edge you are (no pun intended, though I wonder how sharp those edges are...) given metal seems to be the new cool these days, especially looking at all the various metal fittings and furniture items we have.
A comment on that blog led me to a place that does it, a UK-based company called
PlasmaDesign. Here's another metal business card sample from their site:
They also have frosted plastic business cards too, which also look pretty awesome:
Of course, there's the cost factor, and at 604 bucks AUD for 100 metal ones (6 bucks per card if you're slow), or 360 bucks AUD for 100 2-color translucent plastic cards (3.60 per card), we're not all gonna be using less trees soon, but that's part of the cool thing about them - if everyone had these, then they wouldn't be unique anymore. For now, if you can afford it, I reckon it's well worth it if it fits in with your business, for example, I couldn't imagine an antiques shop having these. I personally prefer the translucent plastic ones - metal ones have the cool factor at first, but they just don't feel like a business card.
That said, I'm still waiting to get my first metal business card...