Decide what
represents you.
The printed one says your name. The other one is you — your face, your work, every number you choose — and it is in your pocket already. Show the code, they tap once, and you are in their contacts. They install nothing.
Free forever for one card/7 days free, then $4.99 a month
Which business card would you rather hand over?
Okonkwo Studio
David Okonkwo
Director of Photography
+234 802 445 1190
david@okonkwo.studio
okonkwo.studio
On paper
On Ravencard
Not mock-ups. Each of these is drawn by the same code that serves it to a recipient, on a different one of the 27 designs. Open any of them.
Swipe →
Your card
Élise Tremblay
Creative Director · Atelier Nord
ravencard.app/u/elise-tremblay
or send the link — it is the same card
Two phones, four screens, and nothing installed on theirs.
Your card lives at one web address, and the code for it is on the card itself. Nothing to open, nothing to send, no app on the table between you.
Any phone, any make, the camera they already have open. No app on their side, no account, no pairing that fails in a loud room.
The real page, full screen: your portrait, your title, the numbers that matter and the work you are proud of. What is in the frame that comes with these words is that page, loaded live — not a picture of one.
A contact written into their phone book with your photograph inside it. Six months later they still know which of the two people called Élise you were.
Two phones, four screens, and nothing installed on theirs.
Your card lives at one web address, and the code for it is on the card itself. Nothing to open, nothing to send, no app on the table between you.
Any phone, any make, the camera they already have open. No app on their side, no account, no pairing that fails in a loud room.
The real page, full screen: your portrait, your title, the numbers that matter and the work you are proud of. What is in the frame that comes with these words is that page, loaded live — not a picture of one.
A contact written into their phone book with your photograph inside it. Six months later they still know which of the two people called Élise you were.
If you keep the printed one
Nothing is wrong with a good printed card. It is simply finished the moment it is printed, and six things follow from that.
A new number or a new title and every card already handed out is wrong, with no way to correct it. A Ravencard is updated at the same address, so the ones you gave out last year say what is true today.
A name and a number go into their phone, and a week later nobody remembers which one you were. Ravencard writes your photograph into their contacts with them.
A title is all a printed card has room for. Yours carries the projects that start the conversation.
The box is empty at exactly the event you needed it for. A code on your phone does not run out.
Until they do, you are a piece of card in a pocket. One tap puts a Ravencard in their contacts.
Paper tells you nothing once it leaves your hand. Pro shows how often your code is opened.
The five tabs of the app, named as the app names them
Show your QR code. They scan it, tap once, and your name, title, numbers and photograph are written into their contacts. They install nothing.
The code beside this is live. Point a phone at it and Élise Tremblay’s card opens.
This exact card
Élise Tremblay
Creative Director · Atelier Nord
ravencard.app/u/elise-tremblay
Open it here insteadMost digital cards drop a name and a number into the address book. Ravencard embeds your portrait in the vCard, so in six months they still know who you were.
Both of these are the same person, saved from the same room.
Saved without it
Élise Tremblay
+1 514 887 0142
A name and a number, and no idea which one she was.
Saved from Ravencard
Élise Tremblay
Creative Director
Atelier Nord
The portrait travels inside the vCard itself, so the phone book shows a face.
Up to 10 projects, each with its own images, documents and a link you name yourself. The conversation starts at what you are building, not at your job title.
Shown: the three on David Okonkwo's card, as the card lays them out.
Selected projects — 3
on David Okonkwo’s own card
Lagos Nights
A short series on the city after midnight, shot entirely on available light.
Watch the film →
Adire
A documentary on indigo dyers in Abeokuta, three years in the making.
Trailer →
Field Notes
A print of stills from ten years of sets, sold to fund the studio’s workshops.
See the book →
Editorial, photographic, graphic, action-first. Each one takes your colour, card colour, text colour, pattern and typeface while you watch the card change.
Every name in the list is a design the product ships; the three picked out in green are the ones that hand over their colour, ground, pattern and typeface.
Every one yours to change
Every one of them takes your colour, your ground, your text colour, your pattern and your typeface. The case further down opens any of the five cards on this page, live.
Open one in the caseScan them with the phone camera. The text is read and sorted into fields, filed as a contact, and stays searchable and filterable by tag.
Still prefer the printed one? Plenty of the people you meet will too — this is what becomes of the ones they hand you. The text is read, sorted into fields and filed as a contact you can search.
Camera
Halden & Reid
Marcus Reid
Partner, Structural Engineering
+44 20 7946 0318
m.reid@haldenreid.co.uk
haldenreid.co.uk
Clerkenwell, London
Read from the card
Filed in your contacts, with a tag
Search, tag and file the people you have scanned, and push any of them into the phone book with one tap.
This one works: type in it, or press a tag.
5 of 5
Élise TremblayCreative Director · Atelier Nord
Marcus ReidPartner, Structural Engineering · Halden & Reid
Sofia MarchettiHead of Product · Nimbus Health
David OkonkwoDirector of Photography · Okonkwo Studio
Kenji WatanabePrincipal Architect · Watanabe OfficeWhat is in the case is the page a recipient gets after they scan the code — loaded from this site, at phone size, with nothing simulated. Put your hand on it. Switch the name and the whole design changes with it.
live — b-portrait
Pro opens with 7 days free when you start it in the app, then $4.99 a month. Cancel any time in the App Store.
$0forever
One card, and everything a recipient needs to keep you.
One card, free for as long as you keep it.
$4.99a month
Every design, every project, and the numbers behind the card. $39.99 a year.
On the web, billed by Stripe. In the app, by the App Store.
Every answer below is the product’s own copy and its own limits, restated
No. Show your QR code. They scan it, tap once, and your name, title, numbers and photograph are written into their contacts. They install nothing. The card opens in whatever browser is already on their phone.
Scan them with the phone camera. The text is read and sorted into fields, filed as a contact, and stays searchable and filterable by tag. Search, tag and file the people you have scanned, and push any of them into the phone book with one tap.
Editorial, photographic, graphic, action-first. Each one takes your colour, card colour, text colour, pattern and typeface while you watch the card change.
One card, and everything a recipient needs to keep you. One card with your photo, title and contacts. 1 design to build it on. 3 social links. 1 project with up to 3 images. 5 paper cards scanned, in total. Save-to-contacts with your photo embedded.
Build the card tonight, hand it over tomorrow. One card is free for as long as you want it. Pro opens with 7 days free when you start it in the app, then $4.99 a month. Cancel any time in the App Store.
