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Dezeen promotion: business stationary brand Vistaprint have introduced a range of customisable business cards inspired by architecture and design.

The collection of over 100 new designs is inspired by trends in design, fabrication details and architectural structures.

Here are some more details from Vistaprint:

Architecture-inspired business cards by Vistaprint.com

Vistaprint.com has introduced a new collection of over 100 business cards inspired by trends in modern architecture and design. The designers decided to create the fully-customizable documents as a counterpoint to our successful antique-inspired business cards.

The creative team found inspiration from a range of design blogs (including Dezeen), trend reports, and their surroundings in Barcelona, where the office is located. The Shanghai Expo was opening as they began work on the business identity sets, so it served as a particularly inspiring source.

The team riffed on fabrication techniques such as laser-cutting and etching in their designs. In addition, rigorous structural elements came into play.

Vistaprint typically creates industry-specific designs for small business owners, but these business cards were aimed at providing a broadly applicable stylistic offering that could appeal to an aesthetically exacting range of customers: architects, engineers, programmers, DJ’s, consultants, and high-end craftsmen, among others.

In the last six months, Vistaprint.com has established a full strategy and design team in their Barcelona-based office to address the needs of markets in Europe. Their efforts have resulted in over 500 business identity designs targeting European trends, including the ones seen above. To see more designs, check out vistaprint.com

About Vistaprint:

Vistaprint N.V. offers a multitude of products and services micro businesses need to effectively market to and increase a customer base on a limited budget. Products include printed options such as postcards, rubber stamps, and business cards; promotional apparel like hats and custom T-shirts; and marketing services such as websites and email marketing.

Vistaprint N.V. empowers more than 9 million micro businesses and consumers annually with affordable, professional options to make an impression. With a unique business model supported by proprietary technologies, high-volume production facilities, and direct marketing expertise, Vistaprint offers a wide variety of products and services that micro businesses can use to expand their business. A global company, Vistaprint employs approximately 2,200 people, operates 22 localized websites globally and ships to more than 120 countries around the world.

Vistaprint’s broad range of products and services are easy to access online, 24 hours a day at www.vistaprint.co.uk

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Collaged fake album covers by Guided By Voices frontman Robert Pollard

by Noah Armstrong

Before Robert Pollard formed the seminal lo-fi band Guided by Voices, he was a high school student making imaginary album covers for imaginary bands. The collage style of these mock album covers would eventually manifest itself in much of the album art for Guided by Voices, and a multitude of his solo and side projects.

Pollard regularly visits flea markets and antique shops looking for magazines, posters and text books—anything old that can be taken apart and re-assembled in two-dimensions. His collages combine type and imagery in a way that seem to recall a bygone era that never actually existed. The resulting aesthetic lies somewhere between British Invasion poster art, B movies and the pictures one might find in a decades old photo album. Eschewing digital mediums, each piece is made entirely of glue and paper.

Pollard’s collages and songwriting share many similarities. Both seem shrouded in an esoteric surrealism, lean heavily on accessible pop aesthetics and are delivered with a sense of honesty and rudimentary production. “They both have to do with re-assembling familiar imagery to create interesting landscapes,” he says. “One with sight, the other with sound.”

“The Public Hi-Fi Balloon“—an exhibit of Pollard’s recent collages—will show at the 45 Space in New York at the end of this month. Set up to look like a fake record store, it will be comprised of imagined LP and seven-inch covers as well as a rack of fake magazine covers. Mr. Pollard will be present for the 27 August 2010 opening and the show runs until 28 August 2010.

Designer Aurélien Barbry of Denmark has created a collection of cork stoppers for design brand Normann Copenhagen.

Called Wine & Bar, the set features stoppers in three shapes plus a cork with pouring spout.

Here’s some more information from Normann Copenhagen:

Normann Copenhagen presents a series of Wine & Bar accessories in a natural design

Warmth, proximity and humour are the essential features behind Wine & Bar, designed by Aurélien Barbry. Wine & Bar is a complete set of useful wine-related products in an attractive and friendly cork design. The expression is organic, the function clear.

First launch comprises three different wine stoppers and a combined stopper and pourer.

The source of inspiration was traditional wine production, in which cork was used to seal the bottle. Today, other materials are also used. Aurélien Barbry has created an original series of Wine & Bar, which ironically enough are made from cork. Each product has an individual expression. One of the stoppers, for example, takes its shape from a wine glass. At the same time, the different parts create a complete whole.

Aurélien Barbry explains: ” My designs are based on objects in daily use. I redefine their use, and find new shapes and expressions to give new life to the object. Often, when you just drink one glass of wine a day, you lack a decorative, yet functional, stopper for the wine bottle.

I think that it is interesting to use cork, which is an honest material, traditionally used as to seal bottles, for a series of Wine & Bar. For me, cork radiates a warmth and gives the series its natural look. Wine & Bar celebrates both the daily meal table and dinner parties”.

Wine & Bar ensures that the wine bottle is suitably sealed and can be reused repeatedly.

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