IdN Magazine

International Designers Network (IdN) is one of the most highly regarded digital and graphic design magazines around, and believe us, it's quite stunning.

Produced in Hong Kong and published quarterly, IdN Magazine caters to professionals, students and the design-fixated alike everywhere. Several years back it slimmed down from a larger size to a more compact oversized A5 book format, jettisoning easier page-flicking for a more dense and immersive read. This is because the magazine's approach is to explore just a few elements or even a single design area in depth rather than to skim a lot more.

Design titles published in this way are all too rare and for this reason we keep a good selection of available back issues to enable designers to create a useful resource library.

Here's the publisher description for the latest issue, IdN 28/4: Identity & Business Card Design:

“Hello, nice to meet you — and here is my card…” We have nearly all said this and proffered said card hundreds of times. No matter your occupation, a business card can be a huge plus. So it is worth spending some time and money on, even paying a professional to do it if you are not yourself a designer.  

A good business card should contain all the relevant information about you in a business context: name, working title and company, contact details. The aim is to make sure that the receiver can get in touch with you when they need to. There is a standard size for these pieces of cardboard (90 x 54mm) and it is best to stick to it so that it fits neatly into your card-holder (oversized cards usually end up in the waste-paper basket).