Postage stamps have always been fantastic canvases for creativity but, it has to be said, nearly always within a...
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We’ve seen the Pantone name applied to a good number of products over the years, but this concept by...
We kick off this new “Cool” series with a couple of packaging concepts that come straight out of our...
This birthday party invitation HAD to have made the other parents laugh out loud and feel just a tad...
Welcome to “Cool Packages: International Edition” as we meet the early German bird that gets the worm, pack up...
Halloween isn’t all TP’ing houses and scary movies, right kiddies? Terrifying design can often be some of the most creative....
Invitations are probably one the most ubiquitous printed pieces there are, from personal events to summons to various corporate...
There’s just something about a perfect bound magazine – that chunky, substantial feel, that spine just waiting for copy...
We all have our favorite liquor-related stories. That time Beth tried to get into the wrong car and set...
I don’t know about you, but marketing materials and packaging that artfully harmonize cool design with the perfect paper...
That intermittent thudding sound is Hollywood beating its head against a wall of its own creation. Obsessed with an overblown...
As designers, we want our work to surprise and delight. Thankfully, today’s printing techniques give us a nearly infinite...
Spotlight: Zanders Papers Don’t let the quaint, ivy-covered face of the Zanders paper mill fool you. This 189-year-old...
By Aaron Berman Like some of those exotic beer blends you come across while perusing your local grocery shelves,...
Or is it? This self-promotional CD case, one of the faves in my printed pieces collection, definitely shows a...
When the Croatian Phonographic Association wanted some cool business cards, Ivan Dilberovic was only too happy to come up...
“Ugh, I’m really tired of boring bread-and-butter work,” said every designer ever. “What’s the secret to getting people to...
We tried to come up with an overarching theme for this week’s business cards. After staring out the window at PaperSpecs...
The rash (we use the term advisedly) of subscription boxes recently has proved one thing pretty clearly: cool subscription...
Inspired by climbing summer temperatures, Pasadena design studio Farm created a fun, finely detailed self-promo package with locally produced...
For the sharp-eyed readers out there you weren’t mistaken, we didn’t do a Cool Cards post last week because,...
Backed into a corner we will, on occasion, admit that there are some pretty cool business cards out there...
With memories of last week’s HOW Design Live fresh in our minds, we can’t help but be proud that...
Often it seems that wine & spirit companies instruct their label designers to focus 100% of their creativity on the...
It’s OK to admit this: we do get a bit “theme obsessed” here at the good ship Cool Cards....
Calendars are like catnip to many designers, more so when typography is the theme. Recognizing this, German typography and...
If great design is nourishment for the imagination, then great food packaging design is a gluttony of nourishment indeed. This...
Taking flight with a 1960s Pan Am-inspired theme, this invitation for a nonprofit arts group showed ingenuity and finesse....
Let’s pretend for a moment that we’re not automatically predisposed to adore any wine that rejoices in the name...
So intrigued by his own collection of ephemera was prolific letterpress artist Fabien Barral (aka MR CUP) , he...