Here are some innovative business cards using die cuts:
An original, foldable business card created for Aliendesign advertising agency.
Jimmy’s mission is to bring proper off-the-shelf iced coffee to the people of the United Kingdom and beyond.
The store concept for interior decoration shop Pino is based on its name, which means a ‘pile’ or a ‘stack’ in Finnish. That is taken visually into the new logo and the design of the shop fixtures.
Bang Your Own Drum is an upbeat branding for written communications firm.
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The Hong Kong Escape Re-enactment Organisation (H.E.R.O.) was formed to commemorate and raise awareness of the great escape of the 2nd MTB Flotilla and VIP party from Hong Kong to freedom in China on Christmas day 1941. This daring escape was led by the legendary one-legged Chinese Admiral, Chan Chak.
D.Studio created an identity and stationery that would not only excite potential sponsors but also inform them, bit by bit, of this heroic story. This was achieved by recreating an official 1940s letter that appeared to have been lost in the post for decades, complete with a postmark identity and a censor seal for added authenticity. Inside is a telegram-style letter detailing H.E.R.O.’s ‘mission’, along with a map of the escape route.
H.E.R.O.’s founders are all descendants of the real life heroes involved in the escape, so the business cards appear in the style of collectible cigarette cards, proudly displaying their relative’s portrait and providing a great talking point at meetings.
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The brief was to create a sophisticated identity and packaging that reflects The Bitter Chocolatier’s luxury offering and ironic humour.
Miguel Molina came up with a brand that has an edge. The elegant look contrasts sharply with its ironic humour. Poking fun at himself, The Bitter Chocolatier tells his tales of misfortune throughout his life through the different flavours. The product differentiates itself from other brands while entertaining the consumer.
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Founded three years ago to direct for-profit monetary goals to non-profit partners, One Village Coffee has helped organisations around the world with development work, including a de-worming project for children in Honduras and educational development in several parts of Nigeria. As part of a rebranding project, Philadelphia’s Able Design spent nine months with the employees, roaster and fans of One Village Coffee and packaged the sentiments of “a village” into a customer experience.
The coffee bag was printed in white, plus two colors, with a matte finish and gloss trapping over the logo. Because the budget didn’t allow for more than one type of bag, different labels with custom icons are used to identify each type of coffee.
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The project was to create an identity and packaging design for a fictional chocolate company called ‘Cacao Monkey’. The text on the front of the packaging was die-cut by hand into rough brown paper, chosen to suggest the organic chocolate. This reveals the bright aluminum foil beneath, which distinguishes each flavour of chocolate. The minimal design reflects the simple, honest ethics of the brand: organic, fairtrade and eco-friendly. Created by Niamh Richardson.
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The Noun Project strives to collect, organise and add to the symbols of the world's visual language, and to "share them in a fun and meaningful way."
They pledge to maintain a library of visual language icons that is free, simple, fun and high-quality and believe that each of these elements will help to effectively share their collection with the masses (in 13 languages). They make their library easy to navigate and find what you're looking for through a simple and clean interface with intuitive and accurate searches.
Plus, you get a little design history lesson at each icon, including the source/designer, year of creation and licensing info.
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These beautifully sculptural bath toys were designed in 1969 by Patrick Rylands for Trendon Toys and were part of his collection of work that won the Duke of Edinburgh's prize for Elegant Design in 1970 (now the Prince Philip Designers Prize).
Bird and Fish are the first two products to be re-launched by Selegiochi Toys under the MasterToys brand and are included in many permanent museum collections including the V&A Museum, London. The packaging is designed to be as clean and attractive as the toys with the only graphic feature being the wave which also shows that both Bird and Fish are specially weighted to float upright and above the water line in your bath. The light grey background harks back to Ryland's inspiration for the toys, traditional Inuit soapstone carvings and works well to show off the white and yellow toys.
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This packaging expresses how this museum consists of art, but emphasises the vast collection of sculpture. All art, especially the sculptures installed in the garden, have a life of their own, and live in the spaces viewers can go to see them time and time again.
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“Librito de mÔ creates personalised children's books where the child is the protagonist. Their pet, parents, grandparents, or any other character are also included according to the wishes of the creator. Each child gets a unique book in all aspects, written and designed especially for them. The packaging needed to be low cost so the design has an artisan resolution, not only to lower production costs but to convey the warmth and originality of the product.
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Gulp, is shot entirely on the Nokia N8 phone and has just set a Guinness World Record for the ‘World’s Largest Stop-Motion Animation Set’.
Directed by Sumo Science (Will Studd and Ed Patterson), who were also behind Dot, Gulp is an animated story about a fisherman going about his daily catch, when an unexpected event occurs. It was shot on location at Pendine Beach in South Wales. The film aims to showcase the Nokia N8’s Carl Zeiss optics and its 12-megapixel photography capabilities. Three phones were used to shoot it, and were elevated 36 metres above the ground on a cherry picker in order to film the (record-breaking) set, which was over 42 x 24 metres in size.
Gulp sees Wieden + Kennedy London team up once again with Aardman Animations, who previously worked with the agency last summer on Dot, another Nokia film which also set a world record, that time for ‘Smallest Stop-Motion Animated Character’. Dot was a huge success, picking up numerous awards, including a Best in Book gong in this year’s CR Annual.
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Burnthebook are an established creative agency in the UK with a background in publishing. So, when they created their new brand and stationery, it made sense to develop ideas surrounding bookbinding and traditional printing techniques.
Their brand is based on traditional publishing marks, whilst the business cards themselves are letterpressed. The coloured edges are reminiscent of the painted edges found on antique books, but they have used a bold crimson and white for a contemporary twist.
Burnthebook is a full service creative agency. They work on projects for print and for the web with their studio being a home to designers, web developers and copywriters.
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The brief was to design an identity that was both sophisticated and whimsical for the new gourmet collection by Charles Siegel. The logo and packaging meets both of these requirements, transferring well between the printed designs and website.
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In 2010 a new brand and style of stationary was launched under the name P Around. P Around is inspired by the idea that ideas are all around us. The concept of the brand is to create functionality and beauty through the product’s intended use.
Take for example the intended use of an eraser is to erase; this functionality influenced the design of its packaging, the patterns on the packing are made by erasing material to create interesting graphics. This concept is repeated throughout the brand; the patterns on the A4 paper are designed to mimic folding a sheet of paper, the packing of pencils are decorated with drawings created with that weight of pencil.
Using the product within the packing to create the packing differentiates P Around from their competitors. Plans exist to use this idea to market other products such as scissors and glue as part of the P Around brand.
Eraser Packaging is simple and unique packing hides a deeper understanding of each product. The
The packaging design for these Handcrafted Noble Tonics syrups and vinegars makes these kitchen goods that look as good on the shelf as they taste in your food. The packaging evokes an apothecary-style hand-bottling, which suits the artisan brand of liquid ingredients. The label designs and branding come from Heather Nguyen, a designer and wedding photographer in Vancouver. The simple labels suit the pure, small-batch ingredients in the tonics.
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Zinkplaat is an Afrikaans pop-rock-blues-fusion band from South Africa. The name Zinkplaat is the Afrikaans word for corrugated metal. This, their fourth album, comes shrink-wrapped with a scratch-off ink layer on the front and back, as well as a guitar pick to scratch the ink off with. The album’s name ‘Mooi Besoedeling’ translates to ‘Beautiful Polution’. This is a very good, functional solution to the fact that a simplistic clean cd cover design stands out most from all the clutter on a store shelf, yet is very boring once bought. However one wants to read the album as a concept, people seem to love the scratch-off part.
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A Print Handbook for Designers answers questions like "Which rich black is the best," "What dpi can I get away with," and the often illusive "What's the best file type to use?" And it covers topics like Pantone versus CMYK, paper sizes, overprinting, trapping, and folds. The nicest feature? Instead of having to google for q&a, all the information you need is easily accessible in a concise handbook—a handy addition to any freelancer's or designer's desktop.
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