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Following our recent post featuring some brilliant business card designs, our team have researched the lengths you can go to regarding brand identity and business card presentation.

The following photos show edible  business cards, useful business cards and amazing concept planning….

Well as we pack our final box of cables and mouse mats I thought I’d leave you with a couple of brilliant business card designs.  I’d love to say they were designed by our creative department, but they were sent to me by a partner agency, and I thought I’d share them with you.

Its that time again and Pure Design International are offering another chance to win 500 Full Colour Business Cards.

The cards will be professionally designed by one of our team (or we can use your standing artwork if necessary) and then printed free of charge – we even throw free delivery in too.

The Full Colour Business cards will be 2 sided, Matt Laminated and printed on a weighty 350g board.

There is no catch, no hidden costs, just the guys at Pure Design feeling like being kind…. With our latest campaign ‘Grow your Own Business’, feel free to get your fingers green and request ‘Green Friendly’ printed business cards – printed on recycled paper – and save a few trees!

Just enter your name and brief message below – maybe even throw in a ‘joke of the day’ to brighten everyone’s day up – rude jokes will be deleted as we are a family friendly agency : )

The winner will be draw out of a hat by last times winner – the Cutting Shop – on the 9th October.

Each year 14 million hectares of forest disappear from the surface of the planet. Illegal exploitation and businesses linked to it do nothing but destroy the fauna and flora. They also deprive many human beings of their means of subsistance.

In less than 40 years the ecological footprint of people in France has increased by 48% whilst in the same time period the population of the country has only increased by 27%.

That in itself, the energy footprint, calculated on the basis of the surface necessary for a country to absorb its CO2 emmissions, more than doubled (+134%) since 1961.  These figures make you think…they reveal a reality: our lifestyles and our behaviors influence directly and lastingly on the environment. It is therefore urgent to act now!

Pure Design International have resolutely chosen to commit themselves to helping the environment, by working with French certified ‘green’ printers, by ensuring paper stocks follow the FSC Certificate and that they follow the Standards ISO 14001 and EMAS. 

We are therefore giving away 1000 FREE Full Colour Business Cards, printed on 350g Recycled Cyclus paper to one lucky winner.  

Just fill in your details in the ‘Leave a Comment’ form below. Remember to enter your name, email address and comment. If you like, you can also profit from a bit of self promotion by entering your website address.

The prize involves a professionally designed business card, printing and delivery to an address of your choice. The Winner will be announced on Wednesday 18th March.  

With 12.000 programs of conservation, the WWF is one of the foremost worldwide organizations for the protection of nature and defense of the environment. The WWF has the role of stopping the process of degradation of the planet and of building a future where human beings will live in harmony with Nature. With this objective, the organization works to preserve the worlds biological diversity, to guarantee a durable use of natural resources and to encourage measures intended to reduce pollution and overconsumption.

In this way, the WWF recommends the use of post-consumption recycled paper and supports the step of environmental performance.

In a few years, companies have become fully aware of the impact of their industrial activities on the environment. The sector of design and print does not make exception to the rule in this respect. Indeed the production of printed paper requires the use of hazardous substances that can then affect the ground, water and air. Because the sources of pollution are now clearly identified, it is now possible to bring specific answers throughout the printing chain.

FSC Certificate (Forest Stewardship Council) 

Of international origin, set up in 1993 on the initiative of ONG, companies and local government agencies. This standard is a forestry certification which guarantees a better management of the forests by taking into account the economic aspects as well as the safeguarding of the environment.
 

Standards ISO 14001 and EMAS 

These two international and European standards certify the systems of environmental management. They ask of companies the implication and the respect of a process of continuous improvement and impose also requirements in term of communication with the recipients. The EMAS remains the most demanding in terms of the obligation of results.

The label Imprim’Vert

A brand created in 1998, it now replaces the label reflexnature. Imprim’ Vert certifies actions which are respectful of the environment. All labellized printers are committed to respecting 3 criteria: good management of dangerous waste, security of the storage of dangerous liquids to avoid accidents and risks of pollution, non usage of toxic products. The carbon assessment makes it possible for a company to evaluate the greenhouse gas emissions generated by its activity. The objective is then to set up a short and medium term action plan to reduce these emissions.

At Pure Design International, we are putting everything in place to reduce our ecological impact and ensuring we only work with printers who also follow these strict guidelines. 

• Reduction of wastage at source 
• Barrels of 200 litres for ink (reduction of packaging waste, less wasting of the product) 
• Automatic distribution of ink in the machine 
• Use of hired washable rags for cleaning the machines 
• Use of the process CTP without chemicals 
• Objective of “paper free zone” in house 

Developed waste with 99%

• Tank doubles hull for liquid waste (solutions of rinsing of the machines, of the developer, water of washing of the machines) 
• Special skip for the collection of the DIB (cardboard, plastic, metal and wood) 
• Containers for aerosols (anti-static sprays), for oil filters and batteries, waterproof containers for specific waste (soiled rags, plastics and cans…) 
• Compactors for paper and trimmings (more than 2000 tons recycled each year) 
• Recycled computer materials

Choice of consumables on the basis of their environmental impact

• Use of vegetable based inks 
• Progressive abolition of isopropanol (certain workshops function with 0% alcohol) 
• Absence of chlorinated products 
• Referencing of eco responsable suppliers 
• Use of recyclable toners

Rigorous management of energy

• Recovery of the calories generated by certain technical equipment to heat the workshops 
• Heating and air-conditioning of the buildings ensured by heat pumps 
• Taking into account the energy performances of machines at the time of investment decisions
• Installation of schedules to facilitate the setting up of a car sharing scheme 
• Sensitizing of the personnel to energy saving