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Quick and easy way to jazz up your business cards

A can or two of spray paint could turn your business cards into something extra special. A gem of an idea from IS Creative Studio.

Click here to see comedian Steve Martin's business card.

Amy Merrick's website. A respite from winter.

Today, the weather here in Boston blows. Literally and figuratively. Since it's not within my power to hurry Spring along, I've got the next best thing. A visit to the homepage of Amy Merrick, a floral designer and stylist based in NYC.

 

Here are a few more pages from Amy Merrick's beautiful site.

Funny is a relative thing

"We make ants say uncle."

Pest-End Exterminators hopes you get it.

Via a Facebook Friend

Simply perfect business card

This hairstylist's business card was designed by Saulius Dumbliauskas.

Great advice

 

Via  David Dooley.

Good thinking

Via Facebook

Never noticed the arrow in the FedEx logo. Until now.

It was Toxel that pointed out to me the arrow in the negative space between the E and the X.

Click here to see the Lacoste logo gone wild.

Concrete business cards

French agency Murmure has created concrete business cards for its employees.

To keep the business cards from crumbling, they come with their own little black case.

Great idea if you're Mr. Slate.

Click here to see see a few business cards that make more sense.

Via Gizmodo

Free pizza with every vasectomy

If the offer of a free pizza is all it takes for you to get a vasectomy, it's best you stop breeding right away.

 

"Dr. Evangelos Geraniotis, left, and administrator Evan Cohen are offering a free pizza for men who get a vasectomy at Urology Associates of Cape Cod in Hyannis. The men have timed the promotion to go along with March Madness."
From the Cape Cod Times.

Click here to see a cool business card for a dental practice.

Perfect little mobile pop-up ad

When the user enlarges the type on his/her smartphone, an ad for an optician pops up.

So simple. So perfect.

Click here to see the pop-up ad in action.

Mccann Digital (Erickson) israel
VP Creative: Nir refuah
Creative Director: Ami Alush
Copywriter: Elav Horwitz, Daniel Barak
Art Director: Nir Hersztadt

What was that funeral home's name again?

Photo from the Daily Mail homepage of Whitney Houston's coffin being carried into the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey for her funeral service.

There's no missing the name of that funeral home.

Where little old ladies with bubble cuts go to die

Trudy, Trudy, Trudy. You've gone and scared the crap out of Grandma.

A simple Senior Citizen Special would have sufficed.

Via Happy Place

Creative business cards

For a bicycle repair shop:

For a professional nurse:

For a financial adviser:

Click here to see even more creative business cards.