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Design Better and Build Your Brand in Canva

You're reading from   Design Better and Build Your Brand in Canva A beginner's guide to producing professional branding, marketing, and social content for businesses

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800569331
Length 298 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Laura Goodsell  Laura Goodsell 
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Getting Started, Templates, and Features
2. Chapter 1: Setting Up Canva on Desktop and Mobile FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Discovering and Editing Templates 4. Chapter 3: Tools and Features for Using Elements and Images 5. Chapter 4: Designing Eye-Catching Graphics through Useful Features 6. Part 2: Creating Your Brand and Design Tips
7. Chapter 5: Exploring the Awesome Creative Tools for Branding 8. Chapter 6: Expert Hacks to Create Your Own Professional-Looking Designs 9. Chapter 7: Five Graphic Design Principles You Need to Know 10. Part 3: Let’s Get Creating
11. Chapter 8: Creating Your Perfect Logo 12. Chapter 9: Making Social Media Graphics with Canva 13. Chapter 10: Leveraging Video and Animation within Your Business Marketing 14. Chapter 11: Downloading and Sharing Your Designs 15. Chapter 12: Tips and Tricks for Printing 16. Index 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating a business card

Business cards are still being used, even in the modern world of technology and everything else being moved online. If you go to networking events, for example, or have a face-to-face meeting, being able to give someone a business card will help keep you and your business top of mind.

It doesn’t have to be complex or include absolutely everything. As long as you make it clear who you are and what you do, and give them a way to contact you easily, that will be just fine.

Start by using the Business Card size template from the Create a design tab. It will give you multiple options to create different shaped designs but stick to the classic size, which is the first option in the dropdown.

As this design is to be printed, make sure you select Show print bleed so that it will be there ready when needed, either printed by a third-party printer or through Canva itself, which we will be looking at in Chapter 12, Tips and Tricks for Printing:

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