These days business cards are a dime a dozen, literally. So, it has become customary to make a card that’s just a little but more, something that others will remember. Adafruit, of arduino fame (and possibly every other thing you’ve ever heard of from the maker faire) has just released these fun business cards. Their catch? Spirographs. Just pop out the pieces from the card, and doodle the rest of your day away. A great way to have yourself remembered.

I personally would add more info and remove the ruler and superfluous other shapes, but great idea nonetheless.

Tired of drawing all over your Chucks? Now you can color in STYLE with these dresses created by Berber Soepboer. I suppose you could really color any black and white pattern with fabric markers, but encouraging it with ample white space is a great idea.

A really nice set of posters by Urban Outfitters (couldn’t find the designer responsible).  Some people would argue that reusing fonts, colours, and graphic elements makes the designer’s job easier.  I might agree that setting up each design becomes a bit simpler, but the challenge is in making each poster different enough that they remain interesting.  And these ones, all 23 of them, are.

Oh.   There’s also music, or something?

This is what sound looks like.  That is, if you played two different sounds into a fluid, mapped the interactions in three dimensions, wrapped the resulting surface around a cylinder, and then machined it out of styrofoam.  Apparently Eva Schindling gets paid to research this kind of thing.

The final product is, admittedly, less than impressive.  It was milled on a table-top CNC machine, so it’s kinda puny, but blow it up 10 times and make it out of brass or laquered plastic, and you’d have a serious sculpture.

As someone with a degree in engineering who spends most of his time browsing ffffound, I suppose you can imagine why I find these types of projects so appealing.  It’s the kind of thing that makes me say, “Man, I could have done that.“

John Berkey is one of those names that you should know, but probably don’t.  I’ll bet every single one of you have seen one of his paintings.  Maybe it was in an absurdly inaccurate futurist magazine that insisted we’d all be crossing the Atlantic underwater in Jetships by 1994.  Or maybe it was the illustrations he did for the original Star Wars.  Dude had some serious chops.

Check out this gallery for more of his work in hi-res, or this collection for some totally absurd 80s novel covers.  The first gallery is Hungarian, so, you know, watch yourself in there.

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Now this is art.  Someone has made a desktop collage by stacking pictures of Slimer and the three original Ghostbusters, all backlit by Manhattan’s skyline.  But, it’s even deeper than that.  Look at the names of the tabs above the pics of the ‘Busters.  This means someone probably created HTML files with the names “Egon Spengler” and “Peter Venkman” for titles.

“Uoarrrggh!” Slimer screams, (captioned by the Safari search bar) as he’s sucked towards an open trap.  Special effects courtesy of minimizing in OS X.  To see something even weirder, try going to www.trackybirthday.com, the URL in the GB’s window.

The image itself, on nastynets, links to a playlist by the Discoghosts.  One of the tracks is called Ghostbustersbusters, so I’m going to assume that this image is some sort of promo for their music.  Here’s hoping it pays off, because this type of genius commands recognition.

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Ever dreamed about receiving an old fashion telegram? Well one company, telegramstop, is bringing back the roots of snail-mail. Merging technology with age old letter sending, the company replaces your periods and full stops (read returns/enters) with -(STOP)-, prints them out in an old typeface, on a telegram and mails them off to your recipient. Perfect for your next RSVP, birthday greeting, or wedding invitation.

Now if only someone brought back the singing telegram.

I’m not sure exactly what to call this: “drawings” that emerge in the highlights and shadows caused by carefully creasing and folding paper?  It might be closer to sculpture in terms of how the image is created, but whatever you want to call it, you have to recognize the talent needed to create these scenes.  Simon Schubert has a surprisingly large collection of similar images which are all delightfully subtle.

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Danish studio e-Types is proving that corporate design doesn’t need to be tame or stale; just look at their design for Learning Lab Denmark’s quarterly publication.  They’ve made a cover that could be framed and hung on your wall for what I think is the equivalent of the company newsletter.  Usually, these publications are cobbled together in MS Word, so it’s refreshing to see someone not only taking design seriously, but actually making it a priority.

I don’t know what Learning Lab Denmark even does, really, but I’m already a fan.

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