Business Card Designs that make you look boss

concrete business card

Concrete business card (Source: Hypebeast)

Do you remember that opening scene in American Psycho when they are comparing business cards?  They were commenting on the raised lettering, embossed print, the card stock and the typography.  Even though we live in a digital world where everyone communicates of email, the formality of exchanging business cards is very much alive.  Business cards still represent a way of marketing that says a lot about your company, your design value, branding, and it is a totally effective  way of of putting YOUR brand in someone else’s space.

If you are starting a business or already have one, we’d like to offer a couple tips on business card design.

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Boombotix Presents CRAYnial Custom Art Show at Big Umbrella Studios SF

DIY Toy

The Boombot portable speaker line was conceived from urban vinyl toy customization.  We are proud to return to some of our core roots by getting to work with some really talented SF based local artists.  CRAYnial will be held at Big Umbrella Studios on Friday, May 11th, 2012.  If you’re familiar with toys like the Kidrobot Munny, you may recognize a similar aesthetic in the Boombot.  These vinyl toys are actually engineered to be customized by artists.  They’re also known as DIY toys.  The culture has been somewhat of an underground spin-off from the popular sneaker-head and skate deck customizing community.  This medium is yet another fun 3D canvas to express yourself on.

Boombotix CEO commented, “CRAYnial is going to be a really cool way for us to collaborate with other artists while also taking a step back and digging for new artistic inspiration on this medium.  I always admired looking back and seeing one shape/character take on a wide array of identities when I put on vinyl toy shows back in 2007-08.  Boombotix was founded originally with the intent to bring function/tech to these cool toys, so now it’ll be cool to revert and dig back into the artistic side.  Who knows…we might even find the next design for our future artist series….”

BIG UMBRELLA STUDIOS
906 Divisadero St.
SF, CA 94115

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Mind-blowing concept: flying luxury homes

Designer comes up with idea for futuristic homes: make ‘em fly

If you’ve seen the latest addition to the Boombotix portable speaker family – the Sunnuva Birch BB2 – then you know that the folks here have a major appreciation for kick-ass design.

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Packaging Design that makes you CRAVE

Aiaiai headphone package design

Anytime you buy a great product, there are a lot of influences that sway you to make an investment.  At any given time, you have a wide selection of products to choose from, and without having had the experience to try out every single one, you are naturally going to be initially drawn towards superficial elements like product packaging.  Price and specifications are going to be secondary, but the thing that will make a consumer pick a product up off the shelf is going to be the package.  In this article, we are going to focus on the TMA-1 Headphone package by a Denmark based firm called Aiaiai.
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Drum Roll Please..Purple BB2 Name Revealed!

Thank you to ALL who participated in the naming of our Purple BoomBot2 contest. There were some real winners in there and some great stories that made us chuckle! We narrowed down the names submitted to the top 5 we liked most.

  1. GRAPE JAMM (submitted by Shanny Bee)
  2. PURPLE SWAG (submitted by Sara Sonic)
  3. MR VIOLET (submitted by Collin Cox)
  4. PURPLEX (submitted by Leonardo Pichara M. Sily)
  5. PHAT BEET (submitted by anonymous)
Purple BB2 Prototype

Purple BB2 Protoype - Final Product Will Look Slightly Different

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