I’m out of business cards so I need to have more printed. I’m thinking of doing either the smaller card which is still larger than a standard business card at 3″ x 4 1/2″ OR the larger card which would double as a handout at shows. It’s more like 4″ x 7″ and will have the same text as the smaller card. Though I’ve decided the card should say ‘artist’ instead of ‘portraits’ mainly because I want to keep my options open. 🙂 Sorry about the white spot from my flash on the big card.
I don’t get that many opportunities to hand out business cards, I use them mostly at shows. And if I’m somewhere and someone asks me about my art, I’m comfortable handing them the larger postcard.
I would love to hear about other artists’ marketing materials!
Is cost a factor? Do you get more of the smaller ones for the same price fewer of the big ones would cost? At shows the bigger card would look more impressive and they’re great to mail out too. But like how the picture is cropped in the smaller cards better.
Hi Silvina, thank you for your opinion! I don’t think there will be much difference in cost, and anyway I think it’s more important I do what is most effective. (That is my way of justifying the larger cards. :)) You bring up some good points about the larger cards. They would be good to mail to people with a note written on the back. Thank you!
Joan
If you were to hand me only one card or the other, I think I’d get a different impression of your work as a whole based on that card. The smaller card to me would say somewhat more “traditional”, and because of its cropping, the larger card would say somewhat more “contemporary”. I only noticed this when I covered one, then the other,and looked at them separately.
Maybe look at them apart from each other, and choose the one that feels more like you?
Larger is good for notes, but smaller I can slip into my purse/pocket more easily.