I want to work for some freelance jobs like 99designs/oDesk or other and there contest for business card design but i never tried to design any business card. From where I can find any details about business card design???
Hello! Well, for sure, there are some tips and tricks but you'll found them on your own, by the time. There are few standards, or if you are supermagic creative, than you don't need standards. Some of them you can find here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_card And some of the examples, you can check out here: http://www.behance.net/search?search=business+cards If you are interested in graphic design, for the beginning, learn and do mistakes, there's not better recipe.
Hello, You can take help from google and youtube. Just search in google using this key word "Business card Design Tutorials". You will find many resources to learn details about business card design. You can also follow Katharina&Osiris guidelines. I am really agree with her words: "learn and do mistakes, there's not better recipe".
You can also use a free templates and practice on them. Several links with good business card templates: http://www.vectorilla.com/category/graphics/vector-card-templates/ http://ownbusinesscards.net/ http://www.freshbusinesscards.com/ http://emske.com/category/print-templates/business-cards/
There are few things you need to know: - depending on the market, usual business cards sizes are: 3,5x2 inches (+ 0.125in bleeds around) & 85x55 milimeters (+ 3mm bleeds), - your project's color palette should be set to CMYK, - any raster assets used in design should have 300dpi resolution, - try to avoid using font smaller than 6-7pt. The rest is up to you
Here's some interesting stuffs: http://webdesignledger.com/ http://layersmagazine.com/ http://www.smashingmagazine.com/ it will helps you a lot
If you want to win those contestc, don't rely strongly on tutorials and principles. Many will do. Try to come with something original as well as good looking which will make your cards unique