I made mine using LaTeX for VL/HCC 2016. It's on http://web.onetel.com/~hibou/blog/VLHCC2016.html
I repeated enough times to fill a page, printed it, and cut the cards.
Designing a Business Card in LaTeX
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Re: Designing a Business Card in LaTeX
#22These are really beautiful business cards. But man, does anybody actually get value out of their business cards? No interesting opportunity has ever come up for me as a result of sharing business cards. At some point I stopped taking them with me. I still have a bunch of them in my desk drawer, they're very outdated, and I only use them for grocery lists. Is that just me, or are business cards going out of fashion in…
I think the answer is, it depends. In the circles where I vend stuff, if you don't have one, people look at you as a grade-A idiot. Like you showed up to a meeting without pants/a skirt on.
Heck, even when I go to startup meetups, everyone asks for a card (medium-sized Pacific Northwest city).
If they're going out of style, they're still fashionable here.
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#23Serious question: Is LaTeX used outside academia these days?
Hell I think it's just barely hanging on in acedamia
In my current experience with states-side academia: draw a line between the most math/theoretical departments through physics and end up at the engineering departments. The tendency to use TeX/LaTeX follows that line from a relatively high probability to zero on arrival to engineering. In European academia it stays reasonable high throughout.
Re: Designing a Business Card in LaTeX
#24These are really beautiful business cards. But man, does anybody actually get value out of their business cards? No interesting opportunity has ever come up for me as a result of sharing business cards. At some point I stopped taking them with me. I still have a bunch of them in my desk drawer, they're very outdated, and I only use them for grocery lists. Is that just me, or are business cards going out of fashion in…
I hand them out frequently. Sometimes to people I already know who want my contact information. It's easier to hand someone a card versus disrupting an interesting conversation to exchange details.
Re: Designing a Business Card in LaTeX
#25These are really beautiful business cards. But man, does anybody actually get value out of their business cards? No interesting opportunity has ever come up for me as a result of sharing business cards. At some point I stopped taking them with me. I still have a bunch of them in my desk drawer, they're very outdated, and I only use them for grocery lists. Is that just me, or are business cards going out of fashion in…
We got our first big break 4 months ago by giving out a business card. You have to make a connection first before you slip the card. I think your experience is more a reflection of your selling skills than anything.
Re: Designing a Business Card in LaTeX
#26Serious question: Is LaTeX used outside academia these days?
I do EECS research in the aerospace industry. Every journal we ever submit to either requires or accepts Latex. I also used it regularly to write reports as an undergrad. At least in the EECS side of the engineering field, Latex is alive and well.
Re: Designing a Business Card in LaTeX
#27In March 2014, I attended a conference in Atlanta.
In the subway, some nice guy told me I had to make business cards for the conference. So I went to some kinko and asked:
- How much for 250 business cards? - $69. - If I provide a PDF and just ask you to print and cut, can you do it for today? - Yes. - How much? - $39. Do you have the file? - Yes.
It was a lie. I opened a new LaTeX document and typed this thing, thanks to Stack Overflow.
Re: Designing a Business Card in LaTeX
#28If you're going to go through all the trouble of typesetting a business card in LaTeX, you really ought to use Computer Modern Roman so that folks know you typeset it in LaTeX. (Related; resumes in CMR always have +10 credibility.)
Re: Designing a Business Card in LaTeX
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hell I think it's just barely hanging on in acedamia
That's definitely not the case in computer science and electrical engineering at least. LaTeX definitely isn't great, but I don't see a viable alternative.
In the 1990s I used FrameMaker. It's still around, now owned by Adobe.
Re: Designing a Business Card in LaTeX
#30Has anyone ever used QR codes on the business cards or store doors? It seems like a waste of space, you need to have a special app on your phone to read it. I think most people don't use that.