The Sherpa Project

My wife just received her real estate license and one of the initial things she had to do was to decide on a business card. As part of this process, we started to look around at different sites and examples of typical real estate business cards. I can honestly say that I didn’t find even one example that I thought was designed well.

Why is it that so many business cards suck? This isn’t just in real estate, it’s everywhere.

We finally came up with a design, but it’s nothing close to any of the ideas that we found online or the examples that she was given.

One business card of note (the one that provided the inspiration to design a card that doesn’t suck) can be seen in the “Down with Titles” post by Garrett Dimon. I love the fact that the card is simple, informative, and memorable. The accompanying presentation for the design of the business card can be found here (pdf).

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