today here at Satori graphics you're going to learn how to make a professional business card in Illustrator
perfectly print ready as a
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professional business card in Illustrator we need to make a new
document in this writer for a business card I'm working in CC 2017 in case this
menu looks a bit weird to you as this is going to be a print ready business card
we want to select print I'll use millimeters and in the description below
I've added a link to various sizes a business card around the world but the
standard size that I use is 85 millimeter in width by 55 millimeter in
height we're going to need to our boards and
it's crucial that use CMYK as a color mode and then a three millimeter bleed
and if you click this icon here it's going to be around the entire canvas
I'll explain what a bleed is soon here you have more settings in case you want
to take a look
the space between the canvas and the red line is the bleed this is essential for
princes to make sure there are no print anomalies and everything is flush you
need to bring your design to the red line but everything in the bleed will be
cut away and discarded take the polygon tool and then click the artboard
you need to type in three size to generate a triangle this will be the
makeshift logo design for my professional business card in today's
illustrator tutorial adjust the stroke to something similar to mine here and
then take the scissors tool to cut two points into the triangle in the bottom
right you can then remove the stems from the selection tool by pressing delete on
the keyboard we now need to outline the stroke and then bring down a guide if
you don't have your rulers open press ctrl or command R on your keyboard
this is where we take the direct selection tool to change the shape of
the design
if you notice here when I drag the anchor down he says on this is basically
Illustrator telling you that the anchor is on the same line as it was previously
which is what we want for our design go ahead and adjust the shape similar to
mine
our down the alt/option key in click and drag the shape to duplicate it like so
rotate the new shape by 180 degrees and then place it next to the other one
if you select both shapes and then press command or control G is going to group
them together go ahead and duplicate this group over and over across the
business card canvas once you have your of shapes align them in the align window
like I've done here
group is entire section together and then duplicate them below
this will be half of the front side of the business card so besides it for
making a half of the canvas and then duplicate that down one more time
you can make sure everything's equally spaced apart by using this option in the
language Oh using a white fill and then the ranks Hangul tool make a shaper with
the entire canvas up until the bleed and then send it to the back
you can then lock this down so it doesn't move around throughout this
business card tutorial
next go ahead and open the Pathfinder window you need to select the shapes and
then congroo them twice draw a shape down one side that will cut away the
excess shapes press command or control C to copy the shape and then hold down
shift to select the rectangle shape and one of the Legos using the minus for an
option Pathfinder window you will now delete this file press command or ctrl F
to paste it back into place and repeat the process on this side and on the
right-hand side of the business card
to finish off the front of our professional business card to make sure
everything is ungrouped and then duplicate one of the Lego
shapes
make a circle with the ellipse tool hold down shift I personally feel that gold
and black and white is a great color scheme for this business card so make a
circle and then make it gold add a white fill to the logo and bring it to the
front of all the layers and a place on the design
we will now work on the backside of the business card so out a white shape that
goes all the way up to the bleeds and then locky in place I forgot to send
this shape to the back when I was making my design but it doesn't really matter
too much duplicate a logo from the shapes on the left hand side and then
bring it over to the eye board you would also want to make a circle and make sure
the logo is on the above layer
I went for a white logo on a black circle which I think works well but feel
free to experiment for your professional business card design
for the social media icons I saved an image from the internet and then I
opened an illustrator go ahead and open the image trace window with the icon
selected click the ignore white option and make sure black and white is
selected click preview to see how the final outcome is gonna look and then
when you're happy go to object image trace and expand you now have a vector
icon for your business cards and you can do this for icons
you can also open up the symbol window and then locate the web icons here
you're gonna find in turn icons such as email phone and Internet in case you
want to use them yourself
I used a guide to make sure everything is aligned perfectly and all of my tanks
my business card is a version of how that's occur in case you want to know to
finish off the business card in Illustrator you can group together the
right section here and then group to give the left section on the back and
then you can align them like so at this juncture save your business card as an
illustrator file and then outline all of your type ready for a PDF
go ahead and save your design it's illustrator PDF and choose a newest
version of Acrobat and click the view PDF after saving option I'm going to use
these pre mark settings here and if you have any warnings on your print job they
will be displayed here once you've saved it you can check over your design for
any errors or anomalies so there was asset or graphics tutorial
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