Chanpory Rith
Feb 14, 2008
Being a designer is a curse. Why? Because everything around you looks like crap. That includes menus, signs, websites, business cards, and worst of all, greeting cards. Go down the greeting card aisle in any drugstore, and you’ll soon be overloaded with banal cartoons, flowers, and kittens. And don’t even get me started on the typography.
So where can you find tasteful greeting cards that don’t gouge out the eyes?
Try these independent greeting card printers and designers. They won’t have the Hallmark crown on the back. But that’s a good thing.
Binth
Egg Press
Elum
Pinkerton Design
Red Bean
Supermarket
Whimsy Press
Not happy with these choices? Post a comment, and let us know where you go to get cool designer greeting cards.











25 Comments
Archaeogeek
7:07 am
There’s always Moo.com for making your own or choosing from all the other designs they have! I like these choices though.
David Moldawer
7:30 am
Hey, my wife made a whole bunch of downloadable Valentine’s Day cards, Chanpory!
http://www.samanthahahn.com/blog/2008/01/20/valentines-day-cards-for-free-to-download-print-or-email/
Bryan Villarin
10:15 am
Thanks for posting these, man. It’s nice to have alternative spots for cards…that actually look good! :)
charmed
10:20 am
lovely & free valentine’s ecards:
http://www.katespade.info/?section=bmine
xoxo
Mandy W.
10:47 am
I am forever on a quest to find unique, cool, trendy cards.
Here are some of good ones I have come across;
RockScissorPaper http://rockscissorpaper.stores.yahoo.net/
Yee Haw http://www.yeehawindustries.com/home.html
Uncooked http://www.uncookedlandthestore.com/store.php
Linda and Harriett http://www.lindaandharriett.com/c/holiday/holiday.html
Seltzer Goods http://www.seltzergoods.com/
Red Bean http://www.shopredbean.com/
Note about the link below: These cards could be considered distasteful to some. http://www.kissmekwik.co.uk/Page_1.aspx
Joshua Clanton - Design for the WEB
11:05 am
Ooh. Nice. I especially like the ones from Pinkerton. I’ll have to get cards from them in the future.
Derek
12:47 pm
Less about traditional greeting cards, tinyprint.com has tons of cool birth announcements and holiday cards.
Derek
12:50 pm
Oops, that should be http://tinyprints.com
Chanpory Rith
3:45 pm
David, I’m lovin’ those cards. They’re super cute!
Jason
11:46 pm
For some reason, I’m drawing a blank on a couple of others but Palindrome Press always has some nice stuff. (like Egg Press, they’re also here in Portland)
Edd Mills
2:15 am
How could you leave out Paperchase?! They sell loads of designer cards by other artists as well as in-house designs: http://www.paperchase.co.uk/
Robert
5:25 am
Archelaus has some wonderfully strange offerings.
amy
8:54 am
I am amazingly luckey to have an interesting card shop withing walking distence of my office :-) People always comment on my cards, how they are unusual or for some people, down right funny :-)
So, for anyone in Reading, Berkshire, UK go to Bt Is It Art? off Broadstreet, in cross street I think, very very worth it
POFO
9:29 pm
I’m a cartoonist. I did a range of cards but no one wants to buy them. But I think they’re cool. Check em if you want.
http://www.pofocentral.com or http://www.urbangraphic.co.uk
POFO
Julie
7:35 pm
She’s SO Creative makes really clever cards: http://www,shesocreative.com
Julie
7:37 pm
Oops! I meant http:www.shesocreative.com
Penny
11:42 am
thanks for including Pinkerton Design — we’re doing our best not to suck. we’re hoping to have a new website soon where you can buy our non-sucky cards. Until then you can find some at: jackcards.com & foldmodernpaperie.com
Glenn
2:26 am
Excellent stuff! Here too..! http://www.coolcards.co.uk Glenn
jesse willmon
4:00 pm
You could check out my cards at http://www.jessewillmoncards.com
I just got my site up
David Dutton - Greeting Card Business Coach
7:16 am
Hey thanks for the resources.
I was searching for greeting cards in google and found your site.
Nice layout by the way.
Dave
Donna
8:44 am
Take a look at http://www.minormail.co.uk/ although based in the UK worldwide shipping is available.
kathleen
11:01 pm
Check out cafepress.com/stickandbags, this is a whole product line with quirky off the wall greeting cards (as well as a bunch of different products) no hallmark crown here!
kathleen
11:02 pm
sorry it’s http://www.cafepress.com/stickandbags
Card Cafe Cool
9:19 am
those are pretty cool i like them and im going to show my friend this page
Lolly
3:42 am
Try http://www.lookmama.com.au for something different. There’s some pretty funny cool stuff there.