Why You Should Design Your Own Business Cards
This is part of a weekly series of writing pieces I’ll be publishing each Friday during COVID-19.
There is a great book out there called “Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life” by Bill Burnett & Dave Evans.
It’s a neat book and basically the authors help readers apply design thinking to their individual lives. As the authors state, “The same design thinking responsible for amazing technology, products, and spaces can be used to design and build your career and your life, a life of fulfillment and joy, constantly creative and productive, one that always holds the possibility of surprise.”
You can read the book, attend a workshop and go through various exercises to design your life but I want to talk about something much simpler that you can do right now: Design Your Own Business Cards.
The concept is simple: sit down and start thinking about a business card that is reflective of both who you are today and who you are striving to be in the future. Around the middle of 2019, I started to do this for myself and ended up with the following:
