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Inspiration | Art of the Business Card

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007

If you’re looking for inspiration in the design of your own business card, or just want to go looking at some good examples of well thought-out, graphic design, take a look at this Flickr Group: Art of the Business Card.

There are over 500 images of different business cards. Most of them go beyond the simple little piece of cardstock that just gets thrown in goldfish bowls in restaurants offering a draw for a free lunch :)

Here’s a couple of examples.
A clever use of props for this hair and make-up artist’s card:

And a full set of company cards, indexed depending on which department you’re looking for:

While there are some great ideas here, and some fanatastic-looking ones that are round or longer or bigger than your typical business card, like this manicurist’s card(that puts die-cuts to good use):

the ones I like best are those that actually work within the normal parameters of a business card since the unusually shaped ones just don’t work for practicality for fitting in rolodexes!

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Giveaway | Are you going to BlogHer?

Monday, July 16th, 2007

BlogHer is this big consortium of women bloggers, and every year, there’s a conference where all the women bloggers meet up. This year, Cool Mom Picks is putting on The Great BlogHer Photo Scavenger Hunt.

What does this have to do with us here at Blend Creations? Well, you (and your partner, if you decide to work in a pair) could win a washi necklace of your choice as one of the prizes. Full details are here:

Have fun to those of you who are going to BlogHer and good luck to those of you who enter the contest!

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Inspiration | The Beauty Within

Thursday, July 5th, 2007

I’ve been very negligent with the whole blogging thing. I’ve been leaving it all up to my better half. Once in awhile I would send her links to cool stuff, but that’s been pretty much the extent of my involvement. Well there’s no turning back now…

Just when you thought you’ve seen it all someone shows you something that was never meant to be seen. Like the early sketch of a painting, the complicated tools used to create the simplest tasks. These are often more interesting then the final product. There’s something magical about the thought process, the production method. Along comes Kent Rogowski with his photographic art of teddy bears turned inside out.

Childhood magic lives on, albeit in a slightly twisted way. In his interview with Nicole Pasulka, Rogowski says that his work is more about the childhood icon represented by the teddy bear than about recreating the toy. I beg to differ, but I’m not about to turn my boo bear inside-out to test it.