Amazon's gone full Chinese New Year with this 2022 Year of the Tiger gift card in red envelope.

SNAXSHOT! My latest binge (Only #25 so far!) is a hyper-millennial-voiced aesthetic packaging, CPG business, global focused snack + drink trend newsletter by Andrea Hernández. (Her twitter is quite the packaging rabbit hole to fall down.)

NBA Top Shot (from the folks behind CryptoKitties) - is this the next gen of baseball cards... or an NFT hype $$$ bubble? (The faux packs look like condom packaging, and the digi-cubes are... hm...)

Koko Cardboards Super Heroes Play House - minimal cardboard doll house that you can fill with their matching furniture. (Seems like fun inspiration for a laser cutter project...)

Birthday Girl Greeting Card Series at Rifle Paper Co - love the big reflective glasses and headwear.

Safework Signs is a great side project from the folks at at Oxford Pennant. Stickers, signage, and more to help businesses keep people (and staff) safe!

“Hellos Without Handshakes” is a new public service campaign to discourage the practice of handshaking as businesses across the country begin to reopen. It includes a collection of free, downloadable posters. Created by High, Wide, & Handsome.

Quentin Blake has lots of e-cards! And he's just added a series of rainbow ones for your friends that need a little happy boost. (Also check out the coloring pages.)

The James Dyson Foundation CHALLENGE CARDS! 44 engineering and science challenges (for kids) from the engineers at Dyson - lots of familiar experiments with fun simple instructions, illustrations, and explanations/videos.

Guerilla Tacos in DTLA has an Emergency Taco Kit! (Complete with 30 eggs and toilet paper) As restaurants and business have to adapt to survive COVID-19 chaos, it's time to get creative.

The Oriens Tarot Deck: 78 card animal themed tarot deck, that gives back to our rainforest! Designed by AmbiSun, Illustrator + Graphic Designer based in Melbourne Australia.

The Pen Type-C from CW&T is here, and it's a mere 3 credit cards thick! A titanium bookmark pen with a detachable clip... and an addictively fun flip-to-open action.

lebird - love the simplicity of the packaging with the wooden bird set into corrugated cardboard, tucked into a bright yellow sleeve.

Giantsuper kids products by Paul Lee Design - Beautiful illustrations and smart designs. Especially the Construct-O-Cards Tummy Time Flash Cards and Tummy Time Playboard + Art Cards (that can pop up with magnets) and have mirrored surfaces.

Wee Gallery Baby Swaddle Blankets have such cute, playful packaging creatures! Bunnies and Splatter patterns are so tempting. Also take a look at the 'freebies' section for fun Valentine's Candy Hugger Cards and more you can print out.

Hiring Hand - Creative Inquiry Interview cards. This deck was created to breathe new life into the hiring process.

Minted All-In-One Greeting Cards with Tear-Off Recipe Cards.

In From The Storm Brutalist Architecture Christmas Cards featuring The Barbican, Glenkerry House and Welbeck Street Car Park; all with a Dollydagger twist!

Food Fortunes - a foodie twist on tarot cards by Josh Lafayette.

Cute cards and stickers of plants, flowers, and vegan goodies by Common Objects Co.(aka Katrina Tan) that are packaged in lovely little glassine envelopes.

Dangerous Experiments for After Dinner - "Twenty-one beautifully illustrated cards detail each challenge, which are all based on traditional games and tricks, along with step-by-step instructions and explanations of the science behind each."

Bunny with a Toolbelt Window of Wonders! This is a street's-eye-view window gallery, loaded with original characters from the books and playing card deck, an ever-evolving woodland scene, and more in Portland, OR.

Dodgy Dogs! A card game illustrated by Jean Jullien, created by Yolky Games. Currently on Kickstarter (just backed by NOTCOT!)

Briki Vroom Vroom - adorable wooden kids toys and card/prints.

CIA: Collect It All is a competitive card game based on the CIA game Collection Deck. Players take on the role of agents who are collecting intelligence and tackling security threats over multiple rounds. By Techdirt + Diegetic Games.

Papercuts - A unique set of playing cards, crafted by hand, through the delicate art of paper cutting by Suzy Taylor. An Art of Play Project!

Greehouse pop up card

VIDEOTHE RED STAIN (La Macchia Rossa) by Francis Ford Coppola Winery. Young American brings a red-stained shirt to the dry-cleaning business of an elderly Italian couple, and they wonder how it came to be... chess boxing? affair? Beautiful intriguing film!

VIDEONintendo Switch LABO! Amazing variety of (customizable with coloring) cardboard add ons for the Switch coming 4.20.18.

On unique cannabis packaging options - (BUREAU) Business-to-Business makes custom, white-label products for medical marijuana dispensaries and legal retail cannabis establishments.

AdWeek rounds up the "Agency Holiday Cards 2017: The Most Creative Farewells to the Year" - so many films, experiments, edibles, posters and more...

FEATUREDHowliday Surprise just arrived from TCB Studio (Taking Care of Business Elvis & Aretha style) - the brainchild of Charmaine Choi in collab with illustrator, Annie J Lim. Check out their print, tote, notebook, wrapping paper, dog treats and more!

NYTimes "Inside the Home of Instant Pot, the Kitchen Gadget That Spawned a Religion: The electric multicooker is a true viral phenomenon. We went to the company’s Canadian headquarters to learn why." by Kevin Roose

FEATUREDApple Store Offline Exclusives at Apple Park and One Infinite Loop Stores in Cupertino. Both have a different selection of Apple goods from t-shirts and mugs to totes, cards, baby onesies, notebooks and more.

Away has made Mini Suitcases (in 10 colors!) to house a range of Holiday Gift Sets! They work best as super gift cards price-wise. The mini suitcases look similar to mini Rimowa and Samsonite's you'll find in some first/business class flights.

Good read on Design*Sponge "How to Change Your Business When You’re Already Established" by Rebekah Carey. Tackling that moment of realization that it's ok to walk away from something successful, especially if it's tearing you apart.

Nashville Honey - a spicy honey liqueur from Nashville Craft. Hand distilled from cane sugar and honey, this small-batch craft spirit is infused with natural ginger, cardamom, lemon peel, and cinnamon.

Hardgraft Phone Card Card Combo (in dusty black and classic brown leather) a temping, sleek combo of phone case and wallet.

ARC'TERYX Veilance durable, ultra thin casing leather goods - card wallet, billfold, and passport wallet. Slim, strong, and oh so sleek due to laminating instead of stitching the leather.

FEATUREDVicki Sawyer illustrates beautiful birds adorned with party hats and more made of leaves and flowers. She has a great collection with Hester & Cook of cards, placemats and more.

NYC Metro Cards featuring the work of Barbara Kruger!

"This plant will never die!" card with a Fiddle Leaf Pin by The Good Twin.

design(human)design - helps you generate ideas of things to create (May you not get this desperate!) There is also a physical card based version. This project comes from the MIT Media Lab: Object-Based Media Group.

Square Mixx - Interesting read in LA Weekly "A New Koreatown Food Court Brings South Korea's Most Popular Chains to the U.S." Fascinating concept and business model!

FEATUREDMade by NOTCOT: Coca Cola Invitations! On the theme of human and robot symbiosis, these are part invitation and part desk object and perfectly suited to hold your phone or business cards. See the details and making-of.

Design without waste. R16 is both packing material and elegant luminary. Designed by studio Waarmakers, it is their homage to the beautiful and versatile cardboard material.

"Rent-Your-Own Rain Rooms Become Big Business in China" at Creators. Random International's installation, Rain Room is being copied for events in China.

FEATUREDItalian Design Magazines, French Newspapers, Tech/Business Mags, bestsellers and new cookbooks in eBook form... How did i just realize how many can be read and borrowed online for FREE? NOTCOT inspiration overload!

MagPi Magazine Issue 57 comes with a free AIY Projects Cardboard Voice Kit. Add natural voice interaction to projects with this exclusive Google kit.

ZIGPACK - Cardboard wine bottle carrier. European Product Design Awards 2017. Design by Facil

VIDEOChase: The Ripple Effect Ad by Droga5. To launch the Chase Ink Business Preferred card they challenged Mark Isreal of Doughnut Plant to use 80,000 points from his card. Weirdly, it seems like a making-of parody, but is real.

Roadtyping "Home is where your rooftent is" card

Melt London Children's Milk Chocolate Golden Egg and Coral Egg. Fun packaging with the minimal cardboard bunny egg holder.

The House of Cards Table is a piece of furniture that addresses topics such as lightness and instability, but with sense of humor and a lot of identity, which is a mark of the work by designer Mauricio Arruda.

Pretend Store by Fuzzco has the cutest State Bird Pins! Of course i'm biased towards California's adorable quail! (But that Cardinal is amazing too... and together they are so cute!) Hope they make all 50 state birds.

Adorable Monkey Business Nutter Cookie Cutters really add a fun dimension as these squirrels arms hold nuts, candy, etc.

FEATUREDThe Art of Play Curiosity Box 2016! Unboxing the perfect box of puzzling amusements (and even a delicious dark chocolate puzzle) - including getting to assemble the laser cut 3D Card Star!

Color lovers unite! An affordable color matching system for printing with MOO Cards. A kickstarter campaign by Jonathan Bobrow.

3D Card Star - Created by Professor George W. Hart, co-founder of the Museum of Mathematics in New York City. Once assembled, the dozen pre-cut playing cards included will lock together to create a 5.5" tall starburst.

Still Nasty - new collection of pins, stickers, and cards from Pins Won't Save The World (aka Sagmeister & Walsh)

Discommon Thermoformed Leather Card Wallet. Stitchless and made of wolf grey Italian calf hide formed and laminated to orange microsuede. Such thoughtful details while still being minimal (and your cc numbers won't imprint!)

MONO LAMP - A design lamp made in Italy inspired by TV test cards.

Arlo GO - Wire-Free, Mobile, HD, Weather-Proof, Rechargeable, Audio Security Camera with an AT&T sim card and free 7 day (up to 1GB) playback. Perfect for job sites or wifi-less areas... and there's a crazy camo Ghillie Skin for it!

Flight Cards "a tribute to the greatest basketball player–and the greatest sneaker legacy–of all time."

Makers Special Reserve Playing Cards by Dan & Dave. Luxury Playing Cards featuring 14 custom illustrated court-cards. Housed inside a gorgeous wooden box featuring green-leather interior and a vintage-inspired lock and key.

ZenBunni Biodynamic Chocolate - fun interview at Mind Body Green with Zen and Bunni Nishimura about their surprising chocolate story from Topanga to the world, mud lined Venice store, creative approach to business and more!

Ernest Packaging + Fender guitar partner to make a playable cardboard guitar

Friendship Postcards! A kickstarter by Jenn and Trin of Cards Against Humanity and the Friendshipping Podcast. Fun postcards for all those awkward moments while still showing you care.

LEKKA's Tour de Suisse is a range of 12 graphic illustrations by designer Gareth Knott. Selecting icons of Switzerland and re-imagining them in a retro nostalgic way paying homage to times gone by. available as prints on wood, notebooks, cards.

To celebrate 8 years, Ugmonk created this special 8th Anniversary Set which includes a special tshirt, laser-cut metal coaster, slide-out box, and letterpressed card. Only 200 ever made.

Letterpressed Dog Cards - a variety of breed silhouettes standing and pointing! By Loyal Supply Co.

"It's PUNCH O'clock" - The Duppy Share Punch Pack has such fun packaging. Kit contains a bottle of Duppy Share Rum, along with punch bowl, ladle, cups and recipe cards.

Dempsey & Carroll Hendricks Gin Correspondence Cards lined with their usual unexpected, delightful bizarre illustrations!

Origami Zoo Baby Card that turns into a mobile!

Working Not Working interview with Delicate Estates - dark-humored adhesive sympathy cards that double as wine labels. They’re perfect for sensitive occasions like breakups, getting fired, and (eyeroll) having babies.

Pennant Greetings from Fair Goods! Adorable mini 100% wool felt pennants on greeting cards! Pennants can be easily removed from the card and hung almost anywhere.

Artist Elle Michalka will be debuting a new series of 5 x 3 feet paintings based on rituals, tarot cards, destruction and rebirth. The exhibition opens at Gallery Nucleus on July 9 with a private ceremony.

Studio Arhoj Blowfish Print Card

HELIX: cardboard shelter for contemplation. By Ootroe Studio.

Los Angeles Public Library Card by Shepard Fairey. It features the 90 year old historic Central Library. This is the first new design in 20 years and the first artist card. It is now available at all 73 locations of the LAPL.

Virus trading cards by Eleanor Lutz! Beautiful 3D animations of the actual structures of different viruses.

#DesignInTech Report 2016 from John Maeda, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Some interesting insights and perspectives on the future of the intersection of "design", technology, and business in the upcoming year.

Google Creative Lab launches an interactive application for the Five, a one year, paid program. Each year, the lab award five spots for a writer, designer, filmmaker, developer, and a wild card. What will you make?

Design*Sponge "Life & Business: Find your plot twist + become a legend in your niche." Great interview with commercial artist Andy J. Miller (aka Andy J. Pizza) about creative work and his "Creative Pep Talk" Podcast and how it's changed his life.

Murmure's business card and identity design for Exo

The ‘Truck Art Project‘ is the brainchild of iam Gallery Madrid and businessman and art collector Jaime Colsa. The goal is innovative yet simple: to bring avant-garde art to places where art has not been shown before.

"The Peak Oil Myth and the Rise of the Electric Car" - great animation (and food for thought!) from Bloomberg Business in their "Sooner Than You Think" series.

Van der Pop Signature Pop Pack letterpress card & envelope including rolling papers, card grinder and matchbox / MANIFESTO on reverse

iCrave puts their own spin on Google Cardboard and developed icravetour.com to immerse users into imaginative worlds created by their studio.

Churchill Solitaire (for iOS) - as developed by Donald Rumsfeld (once secretary of defense). "With two decks of cards, a “Devil’s Six” row of cards, and timed scoring, there is no more strategic or addicting solitaire game on the market."

SeaVees Essential Escape Kit - A California Getaway Bag! Includes Gift Card (for a pair of your choosing), Apolis Beach Towel, barbarian Days book, Byrd Soap On A Rope, CA-64 Hat and Tote, Sticker, and Greetings From California Postcard!

'Kampini' is the new cardboard toy from german company Kickpack. They are specialised in developing inventive cardboard products.

Fox & Fallow Feliz Navidad Holiday Card with a festive reindeer in a snow globe illustration.

Cards Against Humanity Eight Sensible Gifts for Hanukkah... it's holiday time again! So get your gifts for $15 and watch/listen to the ridiculous video... this may be the last time they do it?

Comcards - playing cards that teach you languages while you play. Perfect for travel! Lovely illustrations as well.

The City Works intricate illustrations of London cityscapes including many landmarks makes for fun poster/wrapping paper, cards, notebooks and more.

Kutarq Studios' ‘Starfish’ is a paper holder made of a single piece of extruded aluminum. Simply stick your business cards, left coins, paper notes, clips or office paraphernalia in between the fins and they will be held in place.

Muzitee Tape Me t-shirt includes a code to get a lifetime access to free fresh music from indie artists. You will get your tee in a special 80's tape replica package with a sticker and a handwritten “thank you tape card”.

Duncan Shotton has launched his clever little card case that uses an optical illusion to animate or say "nice to meet you" as you open it. [Ed. note: Like Scanimations!]

Tony Hawk rides a cardboard skateboard in the latest installment of the Cardboard Chaos video series.

The Good Twin Co. Pin + Post Cards! Cities, Horoscopes, and more little enamel pins mixed with 4"x6" cards you can give to a friend.

In collaboration with The United States Playing Card Company, Dan and Dave have reimagined AVIATOR® playing cards to honor Howard Hughes and his pioneering advancements in aerospace design and technology.

Areaware Solitaire Cards by Susan Kare (of old school mac icons and windows 3.0 solitaire too!) in all their pixelated glory. Solitaire goes from physical to digital to physical!

The Collar Stay Punch lets you turn old credit cards, gift cards, and other pieces of plastic into collar stays.

FEATUREDThe Leatherman Tread in person! This customizable wearable multitool bracelet can do everything from screwdriving to bottle opening, sim card popping, glass breaking, attaching sockets and more! And it's TSA/Disneyland friendly...

The highly sought after Nike Air Max 95 sneakers just became more collectable on it's 20th anniversary with these exclusive collectable cards, beautifully illustrated by local artists in Hong Kong.

FEATUREDWhat's inside the Cards Against Humanity Design & Science Packs! The design pack is SO colorfully illustrated (and NSFW)

GoodHangups is a clever new magnetic hanging system for Posters, Prints, Photos, Cards and much more. And they are removable & Reusable! No holes. No Damage. All Fun!

'The Thing From The Future' Card Game by Situation Lab - "an imagination game that challenges players to collaboratively and competitively describe objects from a range of alternative futures."

FEATUREDExploding Kittens (+ 30 and up NSFW deck) are here! The ridiculously successful Kickstartered card game from The Oatmeal, Elan Lee, and Shane Small has arrived - see the unboxing! (Complete with 'surprise thingie' in the packaging)

Cards Against Humanity Design Pack expansion - the cards get colorful as 30 fully-illustrated cards by some of the best graphic designers in the world and legendary printmakers.

Yuluck Baobab Tree Card. The baobab, known as 'The Tree of Life', a symbol of life and positivity, is an icon of the African savannah.

Art collective Pink Intruder has realized a pavilion made with cardboard tubes with a metallic appearance atop a mosaic made of 96,000 wooden pieces in the heart of Valencia.

Goods & Services Flash Holiday Gift. Taking a cue from medicine-show claims of the past, a tongue-in-cheek wine label that touts the seasonal benefits of “Doctor Pauptit’s Wonderful Winter-Weather Warmer,” from curing frostbite to alleviating credit-card debt.

This t-shirt includes a code to get a lifetime access to free fresh music from indie artists. You will get your tee in a special 80's tape replica package with a sticker and a handwritten “thank you tape card”.

Red Raven Matte Porcelain Envelopes - perfect for place holders, wall hangings, party favors, etc.

Cards Against Humanity Science Expansion Pack - "a pack about the hit system of knowledge known worldwide as “science.” We wrote it with Phil Plait (Bad Astronomy) & Zach Weinersmith (SMBC)."

Creative crayon business card by canadian artist Dorota Pankowska, a.k.a. Dori the Giant.

Studio Arhoj Ghost Light - "The little Ghost is hand cast and glazed in transparent porcelain and comes in its own printed cardboard box." Love the box graphics too!

Business Town! What Value-Creating Winners Do All Day - "An ongoing project attempting to explain our highly intangible, deeply disruptive, data-driven, venture-backed, gluten-free economic meritocracy to the uninitiated. With apologies to Richard Scarry."

Evah Fan's The Funnies Pin - love the packaging/card the pin is on as much as the pin itself.

A business card that can start a fire for events company Wildfire, designed by Cossette.

Wow. 200GB in a tiny microSD. SanDisk Ultra microSDXC UHS-I Card

FEATUREDHA! Stock photos to promote the movie Unfinished Business! Twentieth Century Fox and iStock by Getty Images have created a set of 12 stock photos featuring the cast - Vince Vaughn, Tom Wilkinson, and Dave Franco.

Fabrication project printed in 3D, related to the city where the company is located. Joining the 4 cards all together, some of the most significant Barcelona areas are recreated: Ciutat Vella, Gràcia and l’Eixample

Adobe's Kickbox - a red box filled with Money ($1000), Instructions, Innovation Tools, and Caffeine/Sugar (Starbucks card + chocolate) that any employee can request. You can also download the materials and kickbox yourself!

Good Fucking Design Advice - Studio Romance Cards - This 2-color silkscreen print is finely crafted by The Half and Half. "You've got the best fucking bézier curves." and much more...

Leather Slim Wallet by Aecraft. Never open your wallet again, your cards are instantly accessible at your fingertips right when you need them.

INSEK Design Concrete Candles - Individually hand cast concrete vessels filled with soy wax in seasonal scents. Each candle comes in a reclaimed wood box with a seed paper card and instructions for planting in the vessel after burning.

Go Multinational, website by Amsterdam Airport Schiphol where economic and business data is plotted on a map of many travel destinations, and entrepreneurs can win a pop-up office abroad.

In an area where businessmen don't have time to leave the office, Camisaria Colombo - a famous Brazilian shirt store - decided to give them a little help by taking its Black Friday's offers to them.

Walking cardboard animal kits from Kinetic Creatures.

The Hipster Business Name Generator creates a random combination of quirky nouns placed under a decorative x with a few icons for the perfect logo.

Cardboard, a no-frills enclosure that transforms a phone into a basic virtual reality headset.

A tower of Wood/Leather Dumbells - complete with cards of exercises inside the tower.

This year Cards Against Humanity is doing 10 Days (or whatever) of Kwanza. For $15 dollars, you'll get a surprise every day for the 10 days! (Last year's were fascinating!)

Godzilla Card from Stencil - created with the use of pneumatic guns, laser cut stencils, and water based ink. A piece of street art that you can hold in the palm of your hand!

Two Hermanas Laser Cut Cards - The couples with doves flying over are even nicer in person! (Just saw them at Fig in Ojai, CA yesterday)

Ars Technica "The ugly afterlife of crowdfunding projects that never ship and never end: Even projects crowdfunded to excess enter tense, never-ending development hell." A nice reminder that Crowdfunding is not the same as buying something...

Zoobotics ZURI is a programmable robot made from paper and grey cardboard.

Zwipe Mastercard - a credit card with a built in finger print scanner

Jewelry Greetings - greeting cards with pop our rings! You can currently choose from the Dancing Hearts, Trillium Lily, Cherry Blossoms, Cattleya Orchid, Sunflower and Bunchberry.

Fantastique Playing cards by Sveta Dorosheva and Michael Novoselov with an animation on the backs of the cards when flipped.

The Woodland Deck from Pocono Modern.