We all get them and give them out, how are people perceiving you and your company when they just have your card to look at? Here’s some great examples of business cards and promos handed out like business cards, all creative, most are memorable.

Eddie Shannon has put online his collection of movie posters. His intention was to preserve the originals but still be able to access his collection. There are a huge range of illustration and design styles, definitely a time waster for any illustrator or designer. The Warriors poster was one of my favourite from my childhood.

Louise fili and Steven Heller have a new book out “Scripts: Elegant Lettering from Design’s Golden Age“. It’s a great resource and compendium of  classic scripts and uses of those faces. Once the most popular faces, they were killed by their popularity. today they are more of a novelty, but beautiful nonetheless.

Most creatives don’t often get the chance to run with a great idea because clients are too apprehensive. I’d hate to be the Creative Director that convinces a client to do something edgy only to have it backfire.

So many people don’t get a chance to take a holiday or bring their laptop and cell with them. They end up not really having much of a holiday. This ones for you guys, the driven, the dedicated, the perfect employee.

I turned fifty today. I don’t feel like I’m running out of time, but I figure the Rolling Stone’s song doesn’t exactly apply to me now. I heard a guy on the news today, a baseball coach, who was coming out of retirement to coach his old team. They asked if at 80, he could do the job. He said “my driver’s license says I’m eighty, but I’m not”. Words to live by.

The first illustration was based on the rough. The second was a revision to make the illustration more medical looking.  I like the first one, to me it’s more dramatic and heroic.

Semir Zeki, professor of Neuroaesthetics at the University College in London shows that art stimulates the same centres in your brain that are activated when you fall in love. I always knew art was a feel-good occupation, I just always thought it was for the creators.

When Hitler started destroying Europe, he had vey few vocal critics. John Heartfield (Helmut Herzfeld) was adept at telling the world what Hitler was up to. His medium was photo collage which–before photoshop–was a difficult medium to master. Here’s a great brief on his work.

Once again, something from the archives of jokes friends send me.

Rules To Consider

1. Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

2. Don’t worry about what people think, they don’t do it very often.

3. Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian anymore than standing in a garage makes you a car.

4. Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.

5. lf you must choose between two evils, pick the one you’ve never tried before.

6. My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.

7. Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.

8. A person, who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.

9. For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program.

1 0. lf you look like your passport picture, you probably need the trip.

11. Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of cheques.

12. A conscience is what hurts when all of your other parts feel so good.

13. Eat well, stay fit, die anyway.

14. Men are from earth. Women are from earth. Deal with it.

15. No man has ever been shot while doing the dishes.

16. A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.

17. Middle age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.

18. Opportunities always look bigger going than coming.

19. Junk is something you’ve kept for years and throw away three weeks before you need it.