To promote our film production company we sent out our facebook fans a retro looking "Membership fan club card" and people started submitting pics with their cards. The link has some of the pics that peeps have submitted.

Adam's Lowe's illustration plays with and within the rarefied space that is fashions stylistic trump card, working the push/pull friction of surface and depth, control and impulse, line and shape, romance and sex.

Ecosystems just debuted a new table at BKLYN Designs that transforms into a bench with a simple swipe of a credit card.

concept artist Michae Marcovici collected credit card data of 100 persons in the web and sent them his book "how I used your credit card to pay for this book online" for 9,90 USD

Letterpress card inspired by the ubiquitous email disclaimer. Share your deepest and dark secrets inside this blank card, which appropriates the legalese of the digital age for your written correspondence. By PrettyBitter

You need to remember yo' mama! Perfect simple popup card for Mom - so all her Mom friends can be jealous.

From Gramkin Paper Studio 's Rejection Card line. A great way to decline someone's annoying offer. Because when you can't say it to someones face.. say it with a card

a beautifully crafted hand letterpressed promo shaped as an oragami fotune teller by Libby Egan.

Online IS the real world (isn't it?) ... my guest post of a rant over at the Small Business Marketing Guide/DIY blog... how do you approach taking brands online?

Know someone who's lost their job recently? Cheer 'em up with this RIP, JOB "sympathy" card.

"One for you, one for me" is an interactive card line from ThreefoldCollective. Hand screen printed on chipboard, each card is perforated to tear and share with a friend.

Two of our current Parisian greats have paired up to create a nice little card case, who could resist?

LEDit is a led screen ticker emulator for the iPhone and iPod Touch. LEDit is great to say something to your friends when they can’t hear you, such as at the disco, in class, in business meetings, etc.

King Popcorn makes some awesome cards that are a nice mix of card + embroidery + rivets... and who doesn't want to send a card saying "I love our adventures."

Limited edition Valentine's Day Baggu with two color halftone heart print. For the sweethearts, moms, daughters, BFFS, teachers, friends and other lovelies in your heart. Way better than a card. $10

This is kinda hot. Card measures 6" x 4.5" and label is approximately 1.5" x .3". Thread color may vary. Surprise your loved one.

So awesome that Souris (aka the Hustler of Culture) not only won a Hans Wegner Wishbone Chair, but also got Matt Groening to draw her a Lisa Simpson on the winning card!!!

ATM Hotel- A five star shelter for a cold Winter
A golden card for the homeless.

These UnCut sheets of Smoke & Mirror Playing Cards designed by Si Scott were taken straight off the factory press of the United States Playing Card Company and are extremely limited. Each copy is signed by Dan and Dave.

FEATUREDOur friends at Busy Beaver Button Co. sent over the cutest holiday card! With button of course...

Awesome Christmas video, done in slow-motion.

Fullhouse, an interactive agency in Milwaukee, sent out this entertaining creative battle holiday greeting card to clients and friends. Enjoy!

With a mission to create a "greener" holiday card, the advertising agency TURKEL found a fun way to recycle vintage greeting cards into something new. They collected 3,000 cards...

Check out Tellart's beautiful, interactive "augmented reality" holiday card for 2008. Use your webcam to create flurries on your desk and play winter melodies.

Here's another Augmented Reality example ~ McCann Brazil's xmas card ~ print it out and show it to your webcam to watch santa dance!

Signature Creative is a leading Interactive Agency in Hollywood, CA and this is their online holiday card to celebrate the season. Enjoy!

Two new 20x200 editions from the design studio Superdeluxe, part of their Card Suits series.

Augmented reality robots for Christmas? Better than socks! Xmas card from Special Moves! Just print and hold it up to your webcam!

Love Hatch's holiday promotional card - Jumping JAQK marionettes.

Hoffman Holiday Card - Fun snowman card creator, complete with some strange stuff to put on snowmen. Definitely a good way to waste a few minutes!

Wieden and Kennedy London have created a Christmas Card Making Machine in their front window. It works by taking a picture of your face and placing it randomly onto one of the 12 Christmas characters which is then uploaded immediately on to the site. Find your face online and email your very own personalised christmas card to your loved ones for free!

The simple sentiment on this card from b designs pretty much sums it up. Love it. (Deserve it.)

Punkahontas has some pretty funny pirate santa vs jewish ninja holiday cards

LONDON — For sale: a vast tunnel complex in central London. The asking price is $7.4 million.

On wedding design: a pixel wedding. [Editor's Note: So. Awesome. Pixel letterpressed card, pixel cake, pixel laser etched moleskines, pixel boxed chocolates, hidden pixel in ring...]

”Survey catalogue” made by Hampus Jageland. to encourage business people to get out into nature....

Brian McCarty does Kaiju. "Business as Usual"

Epos Special Edition Visa - 100 Card Designs from 100 artists from around the world.

The most influential designers of our time.

ever wonder how your hard drive and other electronics get trashed?

Target ups their gift card tech again - Digital Camera GiftCard $50.00 - $1,000.00 ~ 2 AAA batteries, 1.2megapixel, 8MB

when reading a nytimes article on the suffering economy in china, i spotted this shot of piles of santa snoopys. one looks like it might be escaping!

sad, strange, creepy and beautiful illustrations by maximilian combüchen in berlin. [Editor's Note: i'm liking his animal doodles and the rhino laser cut biz card!]

Brando's Spy Pass Card Micro Camera ~ Capture Still Photo, Record Video and Audio and Record Audio, 4GB memory!!! Video Resolutions: 352 x 288 pixels & Still Photo Resolutions: 1280 x 1024 pixels

Jason Sho Green got stiffed by a few major clients that went out of business ~ So he's selling off some older sketches in hopes to get by ~ help one of our favorite artists out!

Spell out a name, business, or words of inspiration with our letter photo art.

Tanner Goods introduces a new premium collection and the first piece up is this thick elephant print card holder. The leather is so thick, you can see it will last for years...

Showcasing a new business model for Graphic Design Studios.Far From Timid is a lifestyle design company that transforms original works of art into powerful surface patterns for use in home and fashion.

Credit Card Cutlery by Ineke Hans: must-have !

Political Pumpkin Carving Templates ~ and for those who are confused, i consider politics personal/private and not NOTCOT business (but please vote) ~ and we are about what is creative and interesting to see!

VIDEOAgency goes right to the office door. A Dutch agency ph/law has turned to viral and digital out of home in an innovative way to get considered for new business.

Herman Miller unveils Embody chair, meant to enhance health and productivity of workers [Editor's note: what is up with the rearview of this chair???]

N50 Magnet "Wedding" Rings ~ strongest magnets around plated in silver and gold ~ clear a credit card or hd with the swipe of your hand?

zChocolat.com has gourmet handmade truffles prepared by world famous chocolatiers in mahogany boxes that can be engraved. After the sweets are gone, a beautiful personalized jewelry or card box still remains

Blogger Sean P Aune finds an interesting viral card from the mysterious activists of "Anonymous".

Illustrated by renowned artist Si Scott and developed by Dan and Dave Buck. Smoke & Mirrors are luxury playing cards printed on premium quality Aristocrat paper. Printed by the US Playing Card Company.

business guys on business trips. so funny cuz its true. you cant help but smile at these illustrated lame office stories.

JHill Design's line is called Places I Have Never Been and revolves around drawings of her imaginary vacations. Like this one, saying "Cheerio!" from Chester, England.

Dangerous represents the definitive work of underground magician and ex-card cheat Daniel Madison - a massive two volume DVD anthology covering his magic (Mystique) and cardistry (Motion), past and present. Previews at jump.

Denmark isn't famous for cars, but that is about to change with the Sondergard kit car roadster. The brainchild of danish business man Ricky Søndergaard and designed by the BMW designer Jesper Hermann

By simply pointing their mobile phones at blotchy black-and-white newspaper ads, consumers could bring to life colorful 3-D animals during a campaign by Wellington Zoo in New Zealand.

it may be poop, but guano is big business in peru.

FEATUREDMighty (Tiny) Radar Party coming up! And they sent out the cutest cheekiest invites ever... insanely TINY print, and a magnifying glass slipped into the card for all of us lacking the vision required to read it.

TIME interview with the boys behind "You Suck At Photoshop" - which had a great 10 episode run that taught us all a lot, and got us through the writers strike... also check out the spin off series about Sw4shbuckl3r...

GSM 'SupaSlim'. Smaller then any credit card and twice fun. You can make calls anywhere on the world and plus, you can spy any conversation in a 6m radius! Spy as you can!

On more innovative gift card design by target... for Speed Racer, it has a built in USB... with a mere 62.8 MB - but comes with coloing pages, a coupon, wallpapers, and a special code for the Wii game!

FEATUREDI got this mysterious envelope today, and it contained the membership booklet of The Very Secret Order of Creatives Understanding... and membership card... best Veer mailer/microsite yet!

Designer Julie Ruiz patiently lights hundreds of candles and takes thousands of pictures to create an animated sequence that is sure to brighten your day.

Ultra's Space Station 6 - Cute tempting credit card filled with 6 tiny USB flash drives... 6 2GB drive is only 90$!

NXT - on packaging design innovation, they have injected air bubbles in their shaving products, used a clear blue container, and the led in the base lights it up like a lava lamp... Gimmicky, but interesting.

Just over six months ago, theory11 set out to create the next standard in playing card design. The focus was dual: design and quality. The deck had to be the best of breed in both categories. And this is it.

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is now open for business. The vault is planned to hold "backups" of 100 million seeds from of all over the world. And it looks like a super villain hideout.

Happy Valentine's Day ~ cute flash card from Jimmyjane... with dirty spoons...

Gehry's Santa Monica Place is getting a remodel! I grew up wandering this one for the last quarter century, and i can't wait for the new more inviting, open, high end space in the works.

Death of Polaroid film now official. Start stocking up!

The next time a kid asks "Where do lego bricks come from?" ~ show them this great slideshow from Business Week!

Nike Brand Design : a simple piece crafted around the concept of gift card.

Since 1995 we have this identity card in switzerland. With this passport card, additional to the normal passport, we could travel in every european country. So we have booth, Passport and Identity Card.

Passport Card ~ applications start tomorrow, and are your new RFID tagged mini passports for LAND AND SEA travel only at land and sea ports-of-entry when arriving from Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean and Bermuda

Hong Kong gadget company, Brando, has a pretty little sim card to unlock iphones... cute idea, unfortunately only for iPhone v1.1.2

it took me some time to gt their card, but in the end i though it was pretty clever! Ambos Design: two girls working as frelance in Paris.. nice!

Crazy one use credit card sized microscopes... available in 5 packs of x500 and x1000

Web agency AKQA has created a live Xmas card for 2007 featuring a large neon sign powered by 2 festive hamsters.

Hallmark and (PRODUCT)RED competition to design a card with the theme CONNECTING(RED). Winner will be decided from ten finalists through online voting ending January 11th.

These vegetable-tanned card cases are great from Billykirk.

Graphic designer Stephen Fowler creates at collection of zoo inspired holiday cards - gemini card co.

Oxfam - buy a sheep ($45) and other products...
* You purchase an item.
* The card goes to your friend.
* The gift goes to those who need it most.

Yes please! Original rotary-dial phones, Bionic-Manned into cell phones. All you do is add a SIM card. Real rotary dial, real old-school bell. The best part? The battery will run it for 5 days!

Euro RSCG Worldwide has developed the Napkin Notebook, a spiral-bound collection of cocktail napkins ready to be filled with notes, sketches… and the next great business idea.

FEATUREDAdiri Natural Nurser - “Your breast doesn’t feel like plastic. Why should your baby’s bottle?” - Interesting new design and business story

FEATUREDThe Perfect Perch ~ a low cost flat packable seat made of double-wall corrugated card and covered in an eco-friendly UV varnish for water-resistance - by student James Chu, going into production now.

Sony VAIO VGN-UX490N/C 4.5" Notebook PC (Intel Core 2 Solo Processor U2200, 1 GB RAM, 48 GB Flash Drive, Vista Business) ~ So cute, and rumors are flying that it even comes with a bluetooth GPS unit in the box.

FINALLY! Eye-WiFi the wireless sd card is available! 2 gig for 99$

I like the ajaxy interface of shopping through this image at the Amazon All Business Center

FEATUREDIs it a card? A long layerable necklace? A secret message? All of the above! Magic Symbols.

Messages in cookies made by Wonton Food in Queens, have spread across the country, some diners have registered their reactions online...they won't always brighten your day.

Help a child. Buy a laptop and get one free. [Editor's Note: you remember the OLPC ~ well apparently sales have been disappointing, so they are doing a buy one, send one to a child program in nov, $400]

To make a donation, you needed to remove a form from this cardboard slipcase. When you slid out the form, the image on the cover changed: a child was magically removed from the street and placed in a safe home.

FEATUREDGreat packaging, and innovative twist to hair elastics for the active - and by a business unit of Rubbermaid! i|m active

FEATUREDYour office printer may never forgive you for the army of Gloo Men and Women you will need to make once you click this. But Gloo has taken paper cut+gloo toys to a whole new level with this set... business in the back, party in front!

Ineke Hans' exclusive Credit Card Cutlery designed for the Cooper Hewitt Museum Store.

A POP-UP greeting card from gagatree. There are 6 design and colors to choose from. Can be use as a hanging ornament, a lucky charm, or just mail it as a card.

Nourish this Pig with your flash cards and watch it oink out the data so effortlessly! This piggy shaped USB doodad supports most of the memory card formats.

FEATUREDLe blog de nesk ~ the illustrations on this site have me addicted tonight ~ who doesn't want an adorable monster that takes care of business(men) for you?

Congrats to Jessica Hagy of Indexed... she just landed a book deal for her brilliant index card posts!!!

MOVE, new product line from Normann Copenhagen ~ my favorite is the Tube Key Hanger (there is also a money clip, pillbox, and credit card holder)

For those business minded lego loving designers... here's an interview that fascinated me... Monocle's Tyler Brule interviews CEO of Lego, Jorgen Vig Knudstorp.

designer Lauren Merkin has created gold leather cue card cases for the Academy Awards... saying: remember waterproof mascara, always act surprised, and the all-important don't forget to thank your husband.

FEATUREDAnd to be thorough ~ don't forget the "here comes trouble" card from Kate Spade that was previously featured.

great article and slideshow on how advertising is EVERYWHERE...even more than before.

cute times article demystifying the wii.

CES gadgets - Spectec has a TINY SD card gps receiver where you can load maps on the microsd - SDG-810

sad nytimes article on inbred japanese dogs. i particularly enjoyed the discussion of fads, note that the bug king they refer to is indeed our favorite mushi.

Over at 30gms they got the most incredible xmas card i've seen... Thomas Heatherwick Christmas card... postage stamp extrapolated...

The U-Turn (shown above) is a business phone that draws energy from the opening and closing of the keyboard.

FEATUREDWe're so easily amused by this awesome Target Wii gift card

Naked ID designed the credit card driedel

From the brother of brother for sister - there is db clay - who makes some incredibly slick looking wallets and card cases out of gaffers tape - Silver paint hand rubbed onto the outer surface of this matte black

This is the world's deepest pool, located in Belgium. It's open for swimming and diving lessons. Very cool business philosophy.

Stainless Steel Credit card subway map for NY! Pretty handy. Where's the one for SF..?

Who doesn't want to send a fish through the mail? From design duo Sub-Studio - this is the Banded Rudderfish card from the upcoming FISH series.

Coolhunter features a the great design project of Tom Allnutt ~ swipe your credit card, get your magazine - MUCH faster than getting in line at the airport

I want Luke Chueh's first limited edition skateboard deck.

From the "Simple Words" greeting card collection at inspirico.com. They sort of say it all.

UnBeige on reading Fast Company's "DESIGN" issue --- But after reading the first line of the letter from the editor, we realized we really didn't have to: "It's official. We are present at the birth of a business fad." *groan*

MiniSD Card to USB ~ tiny!

One more hilariously honest card from YouYesYou ~ the kind of card you'd leave on the bedside table before you snuck out in the morning?

Wow - for those of us who have to do vidchat meetings, but like to hang out in non-work clothes - just thrown on a Business Bib?

a must read from the times. looks at the modern answer to the question "how do i turn my lifestyle into a business?"

csi eggs? uh... "eggvertising"?i though advertising on sheep blankets was cool...im not so sure about the eggs. what's next? tattooed shank?

Another option for SD/USB - not sure that i wouldn't losethat removable piece in an instant though

apparently cheese rolling in gloucester is serious business. wow.

The offending footwear includes a yellow picture of an Asian youth with bowl-cut hair, pig nose and buck teeth. also see: http://www.woostercollective.com/fashion/

Yay! Sandisk has the SD/USB cards in 8gig form now! with MSRP only at 99$ ~ available in march

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...)

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.

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.

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.