While not normally a fan of 3D cards, I do have a soft spot for packaging. These cards from Niels en Pascal straddle that line. These also fall into that category of face cards, although viewed through a cartoony lens. Contact information is featured on the bottom of the paper toy doll guy thing, but [...]

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Perhaps I’m a fancy-pants east-coast liberal who prefers lattes to processed meat, but I’m afraid I am not amused by Meatcards.com, a service that will laser etch a design into a slab of beef jerky. The trouble here is two-fold. First, and most obviously, an edible card means that people won’t be keeping your card [...]

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This is a first on this blog because the above cards are not business cards but rather some sort of card game. I love the design. Type and colour coming together in a fun and dramatic manner. Solid. For more info on Gravitas, check out their site »

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Yes, she’s serious. I’d heard this before in my travels, but in the world of networking 2.0 where you’re basically just taking the card so you can track someone down on Twitter, I think we’re a little more informal now. via Design Observer »

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Normally, 3D cards are annoying, especially when they don’t reduce to the conventional format, but in this case it makes a little bit of sense. Paul Adams is an industrial designer who apparently specialises in chair design. Designed by Department of Montréal. via OK Great »

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Brian Hoff of The Design Cubicle has recently compiled a showcase of 50 Creative and Interesting Business Cards of Graphic and Web Designers. Many lovely gems, and many making use of alternate materials, die cuts, letterpress, stickers, and other cleverness. One that particularly caught my eye were those of David Gheorghita. via The Design Cubicle [...]

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Die Cut, Foil Stamp, Embossed, and Folded all in the same ‘card’? Gotta love it.

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Click for a larger view » The “card” for Falmouth, UK-based design Zef Narkiewicz looks rather convincingly like a store receipt. Well done, I guess. Two questions come to my mind. First, with the URL IMakeStuffLookNice.com I have to wonder if old Zef can offer anything beyond the superficial. Second, what’s graphic design got to [...]

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Apparently, this is Steve Martin’s business card. I want one.

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If you fancy yourself a creative person, try to come up with a business card “hack” and show it off to the folks at Core 77. Business cards, those ubiquitous 2″ x 3.5″ pieces of paper stock, can be the perfect vehicle for invention. Bend one and it becomes a chopstick rest, add some paper [...]

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Ouch. There’s a lot going on there, including 3 illustrations of vehicles, 6 typefaces (including some nice Christmas Card script), fluorescent green paper, and the coup de grâce, thermography!

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