We're all familiar with traditional playing cards, decks with memorable suits including Clubs, Diamonds, Spades, and Hearts. But what if your playing cards didn't look much like standard playing cards, would you still be able to recognise the 4 of Diamonds or the Ace of Spades? One design group set out to create minimalist cards that challenge the norms while still adhering to great design values.

Custom Card Decks With Unique Print Designs

Product and marketing designers Joe Doucet & Partners decided to print promotional card decks that used the absolute minimum number of visual cues to portray the different suit and cards designs. The resulting cards are almost entirely bare, save for insignia

This time of year one of the hottest promotional products you can order is a customised calendar for the next year. By getting in before the Christmas rush, you get your personalised calendars in hand for distribution in time for the start of 2018. A group of Australian firefighters, who regularly put out charity calendars, have started taking orders for what may well be the ultimate fundraising calendars for the new year.

Unique Custom Charity Calendars for 2018

Custom promotional calendars are a great option for fundraising groups because they allow for your full-colour messages and photos to be seen for a whole year by recipients and their peers alike. One group who have been taking advantage of calendars

It can be tough to distribute pizza evenly when you have friends over for a party. It's all well and good if they come pre-cut, but if you're doing it yourself using your handy pizza cutter, it can be a nightmare ensuring the pieces are manageable. Enter maths nerds who have worked out the correct way to slice your pizza (mathematically rather than practically speaking).

 Using a Pizza Cutter to Slice Mathematically

The monohedral disc tiling method involves cutting your delicious custom pizza into twelve pieces. While the name is fairly unappealing, the logic is sound, by curving your cuts you get an even distribution and enough slices for a hungry group. One of the downsides to this is that

We're all familiar with punctuation marks; they're the little additions to our everyday sentences that give things a little bit extra. If someone wants to make a clear point, they might use an exclamation mark! If someone has a question, they may use a question mark? But did you know that there are a lot more forgotten punctuation marks out there that are making a comeback in this modern age just in time for typography fans to take advantage of them!

• Forgotten punctuation marks were once common but have fallen out of use due to changes in language and writing styles.
• These marks, like the interrobang and sarcmark, can enhance expression and clarity in text-based communication.
• Incorporating forgotten punctuation marks in typography projects may improve message delivery in marketing.

We're all living in a world where Virtual Reality is an actual thing now and not just some movie plot line. But how do we best factor this cutting-edge technology into our marketing and advertising campaigns? One airline has come up with an ingenious way to make the most of VR while also encouraging people to use their service.

Promotional Virtual Reality

We've all been on a budget flight before, and while the price is right, it can be tough not getting jealous of slightly more expensive flights with more leg room, food included in the ticket, lots of entertainment options, and plenty of staff on hand. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines decided to pitch their services to people flying one of these less friendly budget airlines by handing out promotional

Starbucks is a brand that's internationally recognised not just because of its coffee, but because of the memorable mermaid logo gracing its many products and outlets. One Korean artist, Soo Min Kim, has started recycling the chain's iconic takeaway cups into quirky and innovative pop culture art that takes the Starbucks mermaid logo into unfamiliar territory.

Promotional Cups Transformed Into Logo Artwork

When a corporate logo becomes as memorable as the Starbucks mermaid, it can take on a life of its own in artistic circles. In the case of Kim's unique recycling of branded takeaway cups, the mermaid logo transforms into pop culture icons from art, movies, comic books, and the digital world. She is consistently

These days it's tough to find a unique business card idea that hasn't already been tried a million times before. But Toronto designer Dorota Pankowska has thought outside the box to create a deceptive business card that makes the recipient immediately pay attention. How they've achieved this is quite natty and inventive, check out the method below.

Personalised Business Cards With Hidden Decoration

What makes these business cards so intriguing is that they appear completely blank, to begin with, like a standard piece of card. It is only you hold the card up to a bright light (or shine your phone torch behind it) that the card details become visible.