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INTRODUCTION. History of Visiting and Business Cards.
A business card that you leave with your interlocutor is highly suggestive of its owner. Therefore, it must be created to inspire only positive emotions. Irrespective of its immediate function (to attract or convey business information) business card must be stylish, well made-up and printed. Elegant descendants of the austere Gauls, the French, claim that visiting cards first appeared in their land in the seventeenth century. The Chinese, in their own turn, seek to prove that visiting cards were invented by their ancestors shortly after they had concocted explosive powder. However, the first ever known sample of a visiting card, dating back to 1786, was found in Germany. Gradually, with the development of certain rules of use, the cards had become common by the nineteenth century. On the other hand, there appeared an ever-growing social group of private entrepreneurs who had a constant need to exchange their contact information. These pragmatic people did not wait for the polygrpahic industry to turn to their needs and started to print out their own cheaper business cards to give them at presentations, exhibitions etc. In the modern business card design, with its developed clear professional conventions, one can still detect the two conflicting approaches, the fanciful and the functional one.
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Original size: 50x90 mm.	Original size: 50x90 mm.	Original size: 50x90 mm.	Original size: 50x90 mm.