learn how to make a trendy business card in today's Illustrated tutorial perfect
for 2018 so let's waste no more time today guys but if you do enjoy the
tutorial make sure to share unlike my content to support the channel
we need an adequate document for today's business card design so in Adobe
Illustrator a head up to create a new document I'm using millimeters and the
standard business card size is 85 millimeters by 55 millimeters one of the
key components that we need to add in this section is three millimeter bleeds
and a bleed is crucial for print projects also of course we need to use
CMYK as the color mode and also high resolution to ensure a crisp printing
outcome on your business card design will make the front of the business card
design first and foremost in today's Illustrator tutorial so press M for the
rectangle tool and then cover the canvas all of the way up to the bleed edge the
bleed edge is represented by the red lines lock this down in place as it will
resemble the background you will need to bring your graphics up to the red lines
but will important content such as text and logos we need to be within the black
lines the black line is where the print job is going to be cut so just keep this
in mind for your business card design select a gradient in the color palette
and then press L or for the ellipse tool create a circle by holding down shift on
the business card front side if you then hold down the alt/option key
and click and drag the circle was going to be duplicated below and this is the
technique that you're going to be very aware of if you watch my channel often
however you now need to resize a smaller circle by holding down shift select both
of the circles and then align them along a vertical plane and this is very
important and you'll see why later now duplicate the larger circle and then
duplicate it one more time above but make this one larger still so you now
should have two sets of circles like mine here and select one set of the
circles and head up to objects blend and blending options we want to use the
specified distance setting and numerical measurements will depend on the size of
your design we can change that later for now just choose something like 0.3 as
I'm doing here when you've done that and go back up to object and blend for this
time select make this will create an interesting shape that we're going to
utilise later in the tutorial for our business card design stay tuned in to
this step-by-step process in today's tutorial for the final business card
design outcome you can go back into the blend settings window and click preview
to see real-time changes if you want to make some adjustments repeat the same
process for the second set of circles and then you should end up with
something a little bit like this
we're now going to use the pencil to make a line that was stretch along the
front of your business card design you need to make sure the stroke line is not
a color fill and shift and X together what's helpful between a stroke and a
fill now we're going to make the really cool function so select both the line
and the blend shape by holding down shift and then head up to object blend
and replace spine now I really like this effect and I think it looks really
awesome on a business card and you can actually use it in many different ways
for now though block down this shape by pressing
command or control 2 on your keyboard
locate the pen tool again and start drawing from the end of the line using a
stroke path as we did previously you can press V to select off of the pen
tool path and this is a quick way to access a selection tool which I use all
of the time again repeat the process for replacing the spine on the stroke path
but with the other blend object you may experience that a thicker portion of the
line starts in the middle like you can see here and to rectify this you simply
need to head up to object blend and then reverse button obviously for your trendy
business card design you can experiment with this function have some fun with it
by pressing a on your keyboard you will access at the rec selection tool and
then you can adjust a line at the anchor points like you can see here so we're
next going to design the second part of the business card and then learn how to
export perfectly for print in a day beulah straighter just to speed things
up in today's illustrator tutorial I've gone ahead and added a gradient
background by pressing M for the rectangle tool and placing a gradient
overlay I also have an image of myself which I snapped on my DSLR and uploaded
illustrator place the image over the gradient and
then you probably know how much I love to use illustrator blend modes so today
is no exception head into the transparency window and
adjust the blend mode here you can experiment different blend modes and
also you might even want to place the gradient over the image and then change
the gradient blend mode instead of using the image blend modes also try using
multiple different images to get a really neat so then kind of like 3d
blurry effect which is actually something that fits into the 2018
graphic design trend I'm quickly going to show you how to export your design
from Illustrator perfectly for prints we're going to want to export a PDF so
go to a file and then use Adobe principle PDF option here use the most
recent version of Acrobat and then take notes of my settings that I'm using
by default the compression should be fine and then in the printing mark
settings you can see the ones I'm using here if you're printing for a client now
you might want to add in the color bars and also document info settings
everything else should be fine by default so go ahead and click the
expiration
in Adobe Acrobat you can actually change the view settings to view your business
card more efficiently and here is my final outcome after playing with the
blend mode settings on the image of myself like I said have some fun with it
and make something really cool with today's business guy tutorial remember
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