Inkd Blog

Introducing Stunning Satin Business Cards!

Sharath Verghese — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 00:00:09 +0000

Hot off the presses from Inkd: our new satin business cards! Each card is coated with a special silk-laminate material that gives a luxurious, silky feel. Silk coated cards are waterproof and durable as well, making sure your cards last. You’ll be sure to make a great impression with our most elegant business cards yet!

And of course, you can print your own design or any of our awesome business card templates in satin!

New Linen Business Cards! Try To Keep your Hands off Them!

Sharath Verghese — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 21:14:20 +0000

Get that expensive look and feel without breaking the budget with our new linen business cards! Our cards are printed on superior 100lb linen cover stock and are available in full color prints. The subtle cloth texture will make your cards irresistible, and help them stand out amongst the pack!

Squarespace and Why its Awesome

Sharath Verghese — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:00:02 +0000

Here at Inkd, we are aficionados of compelling, and visually stunning design. We also love ways to get amazing design easily and cheaply. Naturally, a company like Squarespace would grab our attention! Based out of New York, Squarespace is a web publishing company that provides an easy, no-frills way for anyone to build and manage awesome looking websites, blogs, and portfolios.

Squarespace’s platform allows users to build their site from the ground up with an easy to use interface that allows users who aren’t web designers the same degree of creative control over their sites. The site also includes real-time analytics and traffic stats, file-storage, social plugins, and much much more!

Also, Squarespace’s designs look amazing.

Users can choose from over 60 professionally designed website templates which are fully customizable, through their interface. Plus if you want even further customization Squarespace’s templates are super developer friendly if you feel like getting down to the nitty-gritty of your site’s design.

Squarespace is a lot like Inkd in that they are an easy, cost effective design solution that provides excellent quality designs. The company recently bagged $38.5 Million in additional funding and we think it’s well deserved. Congrats!

To help celebrate, SquareSpace has offered Inkd members 10% off the life of their account! To redeem, use the promo code, “INKD” when you join!

Online Booking Made Easy with Book’d! Inkd customers save 35%!

Sharath Verghese — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:27:34 +0000

Inkd is lucky. Since we do logos and marketing materials, we’re often the first step towards an entrepreneurs vision towards a new business idea. We’ve built up a lot of trust with our customers and, as such, we’re often asked about other business resources that we would “approve” as being of Inkd quality and value. What’s a common activity for many creatives, photographers and small business owners? Scheduling. Booking. Book’d helps businesses and organizations of all sizes promote and book their services. And we love the execution and overall quality of the product.

Like Book’d, we believe that online booking should be simple and enjoyable. Book’d gives service providers the tools they need to easily make their services available for booking online without having any special technical abilities and without having to install any software. Meeting a client or reserving a piece of equipment for your next project? It should be dead simple to do and it should be affordable. That’s what Book’d does. They took a VERY common task and made it more manageable.

Also be sure to check out the administration area that allows you to manage all your bookings, send online invoices, and track information about your customers. It’s more than just online scheduling! Founder, Jamie Stephens has done a good job on this interface and has successfully developed a means to help small service-based businesses save time and money. Jamie has been helping small and large businesses build technology and marketing strategies for their customers and he’s got a passion for building simple, usable software that allows people to focus on their core activities instead of tedious minutia.

Maybe that’s why we like him and Book’d. We want to deliver great business products that yield more value than they cost and which are a true pleasure to use.

They’ve given all Inkd customers a discount code to check out their product. Use “inkd35off ” at checkout and take Book’d for a spin!

18 Awesome Plastic Card Designs + Plastic Card Printing

Eric Schiller — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:36:12 +0000

Today we launched our exciting new plastic card printing service. Whether you choose opaque white, clear frosted, or transparent, our plastic cards are gorgeous and will definitely impress your friends and business contacts. Plastic business cards are not only beautiful, they are more durable and are completely water proof. These cards will stand out to your clients and they will save them for years.

To celebrate the launch of plastic business cards, we’ve collected 18 of the coolest plastic business cards from around the web:

Inkd Launches Design and Online Printing Combined!

Eric Schiller — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:00:50 +0000

Get Gorgeous Prints the Easy Way

Ordering prints from Inkd is different. In addition to a stylish design template to build off of, one of our professional graphic designers places your information on the card and proofs it by hand to ensure your order looks perfect. Choose from a variety of paper finishes, quantities, and sizes. All prints are always full color, and double-sided, with free shipping to the lower 48 US States. Everything you need is included, and we make sure it’s right. You’ll love the human touch.

Get Prints in Three Easy Steps

1. Pick a template
Choose from thousands of options.
Every template you see on Inkd can be customized and printed. All styles can fit almost any industry. Choose any layout you like, and well do the hard part.
Browse Inkd Templates…

2. Select “Customize & Print”
One click to get started.
Once you’ve found a template that you love, begin the printing process by clicking the “customize & print” button found on the right side of the page.

3. Choose your options
Get exactly what you want…
Choose a quantity and a finish, add it to your cart, and you’re good to go! An Inkd designer will follow up with you quickly to verify the details of your changes.

Your new prints arrive!
That was easy.
Once your final design proof is approved we get to work on your prints and ship them off to your door in no time. Get Started!

The Biggest List Ever of Amazing and Clever Twitter Backgrounds

Eric Schiller — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:04:41 +0000

Below you will find biggest collection of absolutely amazing, creative and clever twitter backgrounds.

All of the images are clickable and linked to their twitter source. Collected by Nikoli of WebExpedition18.

Powerpoint Presentation Templates Land at Inkd

Eric Schiller — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:35:29 +0000

We’ve worked hard to get these Powerpoint and Keynote compatible templates ready for prime time. The templates come in styles suited to all kinds of meetings and presentations. From business to health and nutrition, we’ve got you covered. And of course, you can easily customize them for any type of business!

These templates are of the same amazing quality that Inkd is famous for while at the same time leveraging Microsoft theme technology. Each presentation template includes six slides and themed files for both PowerPoint and Keynote. It’s easy to change colors on the fly, and we include all graphics and photos. Browse all the Inkd PowerPoint Templates and Keynote Presentation.

Keep reading for more new Presentation templates…

Roger Daltrey of The Who Sports Logo Designed by Inkd

Eric Schiller — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:56:25 +0000

Our logos are showing up everywhere! Inkd proudly created the logo for the International Charter of Rights for Young People with Cancer and recently the logo showed up Roger Daltrey’s face, of The Who fame. On June 6 Daltrey was present to launch the organization’s charter titled “The International Charter of Rights” at an event in London. Photos of the event showed up on facebook last week.

Inkd designer Shanna Fieser working on the logo

Created by five cancer centered charities from the USA, the UK, New Zealand, Australia and Canada, the International Charter of Rights for Young People with Cancer aims to change how the world treats young people with cancer. Daltrey has been active in the teenage cancer cause since 2000, when he started the Teenage Cancer Trust concert series.

10 New Inspirational Business Card Designs from Inkd

Eric Schiller — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:17:25 +0000

Here is a collection of ten of the hottest business card design templates from the Inkd library. Click on each image to view their product page.