Artist Business Cards

For a season of fairs, 400 cards cost $31.86, under 8 cents each, far less per card than a weekend's 100.

What Are Artist Business Cards

They are full-color business cards for painters, illustrators, photographers, tattoo and makeup artists, ceramicists and gallery reps: the front carries a piece, the back carries a handle, a website and how to commission you. Focused versions exist too: the Graphic Designer Business Cards for layout and type, the Photography Business Cards built to show an image, and the Make Up Artist Business Cards for beauty pros.

Papers and finishes that suit artwork

The stock decides how the image reads before anyone looks at the composition. Coated gloss holds the most saturation and the deepest blacks, which suits photography and digital work with heavy shadow, and a High Gloss UV Coating pushes that further. Uncoated and cream stocks soften every edge, closer to how a drawing or a watercolor sits on paper. Kraft turns the white areas of your file into the brown of the sheet, so it works for line art and single color work rather than full bleed color. Linen puts a woven tooth under the fingers, metallic pearl in ice, champagne, silver or gold shimmers most in the lighter areas, and the ultra thick stocks run up to 80pt, with colored-center cards up to 64pt that show a stripe along the cut edge.

Specialty finishes live on their own products. Spot UV business cards lay a clear gloss over one chosen shape, so a signature or a single element catches the light. Foil business cards stamp a metallic layer no ink can imitate. Edge painted business cards line the cut edge in color. Cotton business cards print on a thick soft sheet for work that should feel like paper first, and the Ultra Thick Business Cards and Soft Touch Business Cards take weight and feel further.

What Size Should an Artist Business Card Be

Pick the size by how you hand the card out. The standard 2" x 3.5" slides into every wallet, cardholder and portfolio sleeve. On a market table, the 2" x 2" square reads like a small print swatch. The 1.5" x 3.5" slim cut suits vertical compositions and panoramic photographs, and the European size runs slightly larger for a touch more room. For the familiar wallet card across the board, the Standard Business Cards cover that.

Design Ideas for Artist Business Cards

• Full bleed artwork on the front, details on the back. One piece, edge to edge, nothing else on that face. It is the layout that most looks like a small print rather than a card.
• A mini portfolio grid. Four to nine pieces tiled on the back at thumbnail size, with the strongest image filling the front, gives a gallerist a sense of range in one glance.
• A series, several pieces per order. Order sets, up to 24 designs at the same size and stock, so the cards on your table do not all match while the back stays the same.
• Signature and edition number. Treat the card as a miniature print: the piece on the front, your signature and a number on the back, with the variable data option printing a different number on every card.
• A QR code straight to the portfolio. Put it small on the back near your name, pointing at the work rather than the home page, and keep it off the artwork on the front.

Start from a plain template

Pick a plain layout from the free business card design templates, drop your artwork onto the front and set your name and handle on the back in the online editor.

Placing a painting or a photograph yourself? Run it past the trim using the blank business card template for your size, which marks the 1/8" bleed and the safe margin for the signature and the type.

How Much Do Artist Business Cards Cost

Count the shows ahead: a season of fairs at 900 cards costs $53.83, under 6 cents each, and a gallery or print shop stocking 8,000 pays $179.25. A thicker stock, the UV coating, rounded corners or variable data add to the base price. The slider below covers the first six tiers, from 100 to 600 cards.

How Do Artist Cards Compare to the Rest of the Range

The comparison below puts artist cards beside kraft, die-cut and diamond glitter business cards with the starting price of each.

See How Printed Cards Land

Cards printed at our plant, on a spread of stocks and finishes, show how color holds at 2 or 3 inches. Tap any print to see it larger.

How Fast Can You Get Artist Business Cards

Standard production is 3 business days, and when a show sneaks up you can move to 2-day, Next-Day or Same-Day production for a set percentage on top of the base price. Approve your proof by the same-day cutoff and your cards ship that afternoon from the NYC plant; 99.8% of 4OVER4.COM orders land on time with 82% shipping early.

See the Rest of Our Cards

Scan the full print product range, or business card printing, where every stock, size and finish lines up side by side. The creative professionals collection gathers the print that goes around the card: postcards for a show, prints, and the rest of what a studio hands out.

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