How to make a Business Card part 1

In this tutorial, I will be showing you how to create a business card.

Things you will need
Adobe Illustrator
Century Gothic font
Chef hat vector


Step 1

Open up a new Illustrator file and for this tutorial, we will be using a new cmyk file. Change the units to inches, width to 3.5 in., and height to 2 in.

You should see something like this if you did it right. Go ahead and save it as businesscard.ai. or a name that you will remember it by. Also, save it to a place where you can find it easily.

Step 2

Go to File>Open, and find the Cafe, Restaurant icons, Symbol File( it should say cafe_icons.ai) and select it. Once you open it select the hat shown above.

Step 3

Copy and paste the hat to your businesscard.ai file or whatever you named your first file as.

Compound Path

Now there is something that you should know about the hat. It is actually formed from a compound path. A compound path is an option that lets you use an object to cut a hole in another object

For the next step, we want to remove the first compound path, which looks like a black outline around the hat.

Step 4

Double click on the hat to enter isolation mode(this allows you to select and change different grouped objects in the compound path). Click once on the black outline. It doesn’t matter where as long as you click on it.

Push delete or backspace and you should be left with a black silhouette of the chef hat. The other two objects will still be grouped and that's what we want. Double-click in any area outside of the hat to exit out of isolation mode.

Step 5

Move the hat over to the left and then get your type tool and type the word Chef. Open up your character panel by pushing Ctrl+T(PC), or Command+T(Mac). Switch the default font to Century Gothic. Change the style to bold. Put the kerning on optical. Set the font size to 60.

Step 6

Go to type>create outlines(you should see blue points all around each of the letters)

Click and drag your mouse and select both the hat and the letters(blue points on the hat and letters just like the image above). 

Step 7

Next go to window>pathfinder Shift+Ctrl+F9(PC) ⇧⌘F9(mac). Then go to shape modes>Unite (the c and the chef hat should be combined now like the image above)

Step 8

Double click in the logo to get in the isolation mode and select the c and chef hat and go to swatches and choose the 3rd one the far right side on the top row. 

Step 9

Bam!!! Now you have the backside of your business card. On the next part, we will be making the front with all the contact information and stuff on it. Catch you later!