Pick a template Pick one of these fine templates to get you started.
One final note before we begin: The screenshots here show Pages on an iPad, but the process works exactly the same on the Mac. There’s no way to automate the last step, but we can make it less painful. To design a card, we will choose one of these templates, redesign one of the cards to our liking, and then copy and paste that new design across the entire page. These are better than starting from scratch, because they’ve already taken care of the layout of multiple cards on a page, which is the most annoying part of printing business cards from a word-processor app (fancier publishing apps like InDesign have tools to make this easier). Pages has several business card templates built in. And a card is pretty much mandatory to get into press events. An official-looking card “proves” that you work for whoever you say you work for. Worse, if you don’t have a card, PR folks assume that you’re not legit. But when I tried to go card-free one year, every time I had to exchange contact details I had to explain myself, all while scrawling my email address onto scraps of paper. There’s always a new startup there trying to replace the business card with some kind of clunky app-based “solution,” but the whole show runs on paper cards. The answer to this comes from the Mobile World Congress, the yearly trade show in Barcelona where the the newest mobile tech is hawked.
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