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Creative Black Business Card Designs

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Business cards have an important role for your company / individual identity, especially if your’re work area isn’t online and you have to interact with clients everyday. The esential information a business card should have is your contact info (phone, email, address) and after that it’s up to you how you manage to arrange this in a way that your clients will never forget. But in order to have a creative business card a graphic designer always should be your first choice. I’m pretty sure he’ll come up with something amazing if you provide him accurate business info.

The color of a business card is also important and for today will focus our attention on black, color of elegance, style, mystery and power. Black business cards are great for fashion companies, clothing and music industry, jewelry stores, especially if you want your business to be a top one. The black color is frequently associate with dominance and elite and empowers the other colors associate with it. If you decide to use black as the main color for your new business card, the chances to make a color combination design mistake are pretty low.

Today, we’re featuring 40 new stylish and well designed black business cards to inspire you in the process of creating your own black business cards. The business cards present below come in different shape and size, so you’ll have a large palette for inspiration.

Black Business Card Designs

1. Maze Business Card

2. Bozhinovski Card Design

3. Black & Silver Business Card

4. Black Diamond Business Card

5. Photography Business Card

6. JM9 Design Studio Business Card

7. Bright Black Studio

Ads That Go Beyond Creative

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I remember seeing an infographic not too long ago about how many ads we’re seeing daily without even realizing it. And they are not few if you think about it. It’s no surprise the Sao Paolo mayor decided to turn the city into an ads-free one.

However, even if we’re subjected to seeing ads everywhere we go, you must admit – some are truly amazing and worth looking at. That’s what today’s post is all about – not the ads that you’d rather skip without blinking, but the ones that are so creative you’d probably stop and stare for a minute or two.

This is a collection of 30 ads that go beyond creative and I just know you’re going to enjoy them.

30 Creative Ads

Delsey Luggage: Tarmac

AirWick: Bucket

Pastorini Toy Store: Pilot

Avis: Reunion

Pampaverde: Extra big burger

Smart: Pollution

Buggy Shoes

Creative Resumes That Put Yours To Shame

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A simple resume is no longer enough. Although a CV is still a place where you store information about your professional background, nowadays you need a little extra creativity to get noticed. It’s no longer about the information included, but about the presentation and how you “sell” yourself to the employer.

Lately, we’re seeing more and more remarkable CVs that are personalized to the position people are applying to. This means a lot more work but if you’re really serious about landing the job, it’s worth the effort. To help you out in your research, I’ve gathered a collection of the 25 most creative resumes I could find on the web that are going to make you rethink yours. Take a look and don’t forget to share them with others.

1. Sarah Odgers – Graphic Designer resume

A neat 3D resume designed by/ for a graphic designer. It includes all the information about the candidate, but its design is far from traditional.

2. Mohammed Mahgoub – Web designer& Developer resume

Simple yet attractive resume where the designer uses the little space available to present its skills and experience.

3. Blog Sociale t-shirt resume

What better way to advertise your services than putting your resume on a t-shirt for everyone to see? Very cool idea!

4. Mike Jones – Graphic Designer resume

As a graphic designer, your resume’s design might as well “sell” your services and convince an employer to hire you. Mike got it right, wouldn’t you agree?

5. Michael Anderson resume

Infographics are an interesting way of presenting one’s skills and experience. I especially enjoyed the Daily intake& output.

6. Pau Morgan – Graphic Designer resume

Here’s another neat graphic designer resume where a pinwheel is used to describe his professional background. Short, colorful and to the point.

Website Designs of Top 15 Artists on iTunes

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Nowadays it’s no longer about being fashionable offline, but also online. So, I was curious to see how thewebsite designs of the most popular singers/ bands on iTunes look like. With celebrity singers, you expect remarkable website designs considering they have big budgets, which means they invest a lot of money into their online image considering the amount of fans that check their sites on a regular basis.

These websites usually include the singer’s or band’s biography, along with new singles, popular tracks and recently launched albums. So, let’s see of these artists care so much about their online images as they do about their appearances offline.

The websites of the top 15 singers/ bands on iTunes

1. Rihanna

2. Glee Cast

3. LMFAO

4. Adele

5. David Guetta

6. Bruno Mars

7. Flo Rida

8. Katy Perry

9. Maroon 5

10. Foster the People

11. Taylor Swift

12. T-Pain

13. Gym Class Heroes

14. Coldpay

15. Cobra Starship

Amazing Lomography Snapshots

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Lomography is a pretty new form of photography, introduced in the early 90′s by a bunch of people from Austria. The toy lomo camera is the central piece when it comes to shot out of focus, oversaturated, high contrast, blurry photos. Most of the cameras are designed to produce a single photographic effect so keep that in mind if you consider buying one. Probably one of the greatest effects is the lomo fisheye, a 170-degree view, creates an amazing circle illusion.

Lomography is about having a lot of fun while taking photos so don’t bother overthink a possible scenario just click the camera shutter release. You can resume “lomography” term to 10 Golden Rules, according to Lomography.com. You can follow or break them, it’s you choise after all.

1. Take your camera everywhere you go.
2. Use it any time – day and night.
3. Lomography is not an interference in your life, but a part of it.
4. Try to shoot from the hip.
5. Approach the objects of your Lomographic desire as close as possible.
6. Don’t think.
7. Be fast.
8. You don’t have to know beforehand what you captured on film.
9. Afterwards either.
10. Don’t worry about any rules!

Keep in mind that the best photos come out of spontaneous, impulsive situations. Always have the lomo camera with you and the moments you have captured share them with other fellow enthusiasts.

Here’s our collection of some stunning lomo photos. Hope you like them as much as we do. Share your favourite one with us.