Design Blog and Design Inspiration

Wonderful Hand Painting Artwork by Guido Daniele!

ezuca — Mon, 07 May 2012 19:28:56 +0000

What you are about witness is not a wild animals digital photography! It’s called “Handimals” – gorgeous hand painting optical illusions.

The artist behind this masterpiece of an art is Guido Daniele (born 1950), an Italian artist who is the creator of this amazing selection of hand animals. Born in Soverato, Daniele completed his education from Brera School of Arts in 1972, specialising in sculpture and then joined the Tankas school in Dharamsala, India until 1974.

Daniele has previously worked as a hyper-realistic illustrator, co-operating with editing and advertising organizations, innovating with airbrush and testing out various painting approaches and methods. He has painted backcloths up to 400 square meters in size. He has also painted trompe l’oeil illustrations and pictures for private houses and public buildings.

In 1990, Daniele created a body painting technique, and his work has been applied in advertising images and commercials, as well as fashion events and exhibitions.

Presently, Guido Daniele lives and works in Milan, Italy. Enjoy!

Website: www.guidodaniele.com

Website: www.guidodaniele.com

WWF – Give a Hand to Wildlife

England Stonehenge

Cruise Ship

Eiffel Tower

Russia

Norway Viking Ship

Mexico Chillies

Holland

England Queen Guards

England Tea Pots

Thailand White Elephants

Canada Elk

Carribean Fish and Coral

Italy

Stern

Heart

Dead Or Alive 5: Sexual Elements Divert Gamers From Fighting!

ezuca — Mon, 07 May 2012 19:06:01 +0000

Dead or Alive 5 has never been embarrassed of its crave for women breasts. With most of its female characters being well endowed, there’s always a good bit of bouncing and jiggling happening during fights.

Now generally, if you look well enough, you can see a difference between the various ladies ‘bounce rate’, but this has now be taken to a whole new level with Yohei Niibori reassuring that breast jiggle will also fluctuate based on the costume put on.

Clothes opacity will also differ for each costume.

However game director Yohei Shimbori said that Dead Or Alive 5 will boast characters with presence, rather than overstated physical proportions.

Dead or Alive 5 will lower the obvious sexuality of previous game titles, for the sake of enhanced presence for characters, backgrounds, audio and the "overall experience" according to director Yohei Shimbori.

"Up to now, the presence of the characters has stood out from the overall atmosphere of the game such as the backgrounds and the fight itself," Shimbori said.

"In Dead Or Alive 5 we are not only concentrating on making the characters stand out, but we are including more presence to the backgrounds and sound, etc. to contribute to the entire experience. In the past games the more sexual elements may have been a diversion to the fight and those were the only aspects that made characters stand out. However, in Dead Or Alive 5 we are making sure that characters themselves have actual presence."

Shimbori stated that despite the fact that the game is still being modified and tweaked in Alpha, the overall tone wouldn't be brazenly sexual like its game predecessors.
Enjoy the below Dead or Alive 5 gameplay demo!

‘The Avengers’ Smashes U.S. Box Office Record!

ezuca — Mon, 07 May 2012 18:31:59 +0000

Hollywood is rejoicing after “The Avengers” attained effortlessly the greatest film opening of all time.

The Avengers superhero smashed the record for the biggest US opening weekend, taking $200m, early figures indicate.

The former best opening weekend was Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, which opened in July 2011 with $169m.

“The Avengers” was distributed by the Disney studio which is still recuperating from publishing one of the priciest failures ever back in March.

Its science fiction saga “John Carter” led to Disney incurring a $200 million write-down, and studio chairman Rich Ross submitted his resignation back in April.

A spokesperson for Disney said: “It’s been a fantastic weekend on every single front.”

“The Avengers,” which was directed by Joss Whedon and cost $220 million to produce, puts together a number of characters who have showed up independently in past blockbusters.

It stars Robert Downey Jr as Iron Man, Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Chris Evans as Captain America, Jermey Renner as Hawkeye, and Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow.

Hollywood is already on the way to a record year at the box office in 2012.

The Avengers failed to overcome the final Harry Potter’s first day takings record of $91m (£56m) but has beaten it over the following two days.

No other big movies dared go up against it, with only the British film The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel being released on the same day.

The Avengers has so far taken $641 million worldwide.

Research: Australia Had ‘Globe-Trotting’ Dinosaurs

ezuca — Mon, 07 May 2012 17:55:58 +0000

Paleontologists stated Monday a new fossil breakthrough discovery indicated Australia's dinosaurs were sophisticated globe-trotters, unlike the "unique weirdos" of its present wildlife.

Scientist Erich Fitzgerald said an ankle bone fossil discovered 87 kilometers (54 miles) from Melbourne suggested that carnivorous and meat eating dinosaurs known as ceratosaurs lived in what is now Australia some 125 million years ago.

He stated the discovery indicated that back then Australia had the same large, well-known predators such as tyrannosaurs and allosaurs which are located around the globe.

"The dinosaurs we see here are not unique weirdos like modern koalas and kangaroos on a global scale," Fitzgerald said.

"Contrary to the modern animals we see in Australia, these meat-eating dinosaurs in Australia represent globe-trotting groups which spread out across the world before the continents began to separate.

"We've got representatives of groups that are actually found everywhere else. We really have this melting pot... where it was really a cosmopolitan bunch of dinosaurs which called Australia home 125 million years ago."

The ceratosaur was a reasonably small, meat-eating dinosaur which matured to be one to two meters high and could be as long as three meters.

The finding, declared in the journal Naturwissenschaften, contributes to the image about dinosaurs in eastern Gondwana, the continent which split into Australia, Antarctica and India between 80 and 130 million years ago.

"It had been thought that isolation played a lead role in the formation of Australia's dinosaur fauna," explained Fitzgerald, a Museum Victoria paleontologist.

"But the ceratosaur and other new discoveries show that several dinosaur groups were here. These dinosaur lineages date back to the Jurassic, 170 million years ago, when dinosaurs could walk between any two continents.

"Until now, this group of dinosaurs has been strangely absent from Australia, but now at last we know they were here -- confirming their global distribution."

Fitzgerald reiterated the ankle bone, discovered close to the coastal town of San Remo by an amateur palaeontologist in 2006, was only six centimeters (2.4 inches) wide but was of great importance in comprehending dinosaurs in Australia.

"Apart from Antarctica, Australia has the world's most poorly-known dinosaur record," he stated, adding that even "tantalizing fragments" can end up providing researchers with a wealth of information.

Samsung’s Next Generation Smartphone Flagship: Meet The Galaxy S3!

ezuca — Mon, 07 May 2012 16:59:43 +0000

South Korea's Samsung Electronics on Thursday revealed its newest leading smartphone at a London unveiling event as it attempts to nail its placement as the world's best-selling mobile phone manufacturer.

The Galaxy S3 features a 4.8-inch screen (12.2cm), 22 percent larger than its predecessor the Galaxy S2, the hugely popular forerunner that assisted the company overtake Nokia as the world leader.

In spite of the larger screen, Samsung states that the phone is not much wider than its predecessor due to its smaller frame.

Other new improvements involve "intelligent camera features" which use face-recognition technology; and enhanced voice-activated controls.

An enhanced processor also enables users to watch video and write messages at the same time.

"With the Galaxy 3, Samsung has maximized the consumer benefits by integrating superior hardware with enhanced smartphone usability," mentioned JK Shin, President and Head of IT & Mobile Communications Division at Samsung.

"What makes me most proud is that it enables one of the most seamless, natural and human-centric mobile experiences, opening up a new horizon that allows you to live a life extraordinary," he added.

The new model also makes use of the Android operating system, and its performance in the marketplace is perceived to be vital to the success of the Linux-based system.

"The importance of the Galaxy S3 to Samsung cannot be underestimated," Adam Leach, principal analyst at Ovum, told the BBC.

"The company has built its reputation on producing the 'must-have' Android smartphone and in the process has become the poster child for the Android platform."

The mobile phone handset's new "Smart stay" function is developed to recognize how the phone is being used by having a camera on the front identify movement of the eyes.

It also ships with an eight mega-pixel camera with a zero-lag shutter speed to deliver immediate image-capturing.

Samsung Music Hub will offer a personal music streaming service and the Game Hub, Video Hub and Music Hub will soon be accessible internationally.

Voice recognition interface "S Voice" enables the user to verbally control the alarm clock, music features, text services and calendar.

The handheld mobile phone device goes on sale in Europe in May to be followed by roll-outs in Asia, the Middle East and Africa.

Samsung last week reported a record net profit of 5.05 trillion won ($4.44 billion) in the first quarter, thanks mostly to very solid smartphone sales.

Apple, which is involved in a patents legal dispute with Samsung, is anticipated to launch a new version of the iPhone later this year.

The “Read – Do – Rank Method”: Basic Link Building – Step 6

ezuca — Mon, 07 May 2012 16:40:46 +0000

To Do:

Ask for links from colleagues, friends, and business partners

Why?

Contact specific friends, vendors, suppliers, and clients to consider linking to your website if they have a “resources” web page. This is a great way to showcase your website on more listings. Websites that advertise competitors will very likely advertise your site as well.

How to complete?

If you have not already done so, reach out to people you know who have websites (friends, family, colleagues, acquaintances, etc.), or reach out to sites consistent with your specialty.

CLICK HERE TO E-MAIL YOUR LINK REQUEST.

Please be sure to personalize your email as it will dramatically increase the likelihood that someone will create a link to your site.

Concrete Art-FX: Decorative Concrete Flooring

ezuca — Thu, 03 May 2012 11:01:30 +0000

Concrete Art-FX that is based in Ontario-Canada is one of the best concrete polishing contractor that I came across and is a leader in decorative concrete flooring. They provide a wide array of concrete material related services such as concrete floor staining, concrete resurfacing, concrete engraving, concrete levelling, polished concrete floors and everything in between.

Concrete goes hand in hand with the environment. From houses to buildings to roads, adopting concrete as a construction material for recreational, residential and commercial use really assists in preserving and conserving our natural resources and provides a plethora of benefits to customers. Environmentally wise , concrete has actually a lot to offer.

Constructing houses that are green and environmentally friendly is quickly becoming a benchmark for many builders and homeowners, as they find out how simple it can be to take advantage of long lasting and endurable construction without compromising on aesthetics and going well beyond the budget.

In fact, using environmentally friendly methods and material in construction such as decorative concrete floors is not only very beneficial to the Eco-system but it is also about expressing yourself while designing your home.

Decorative concrete flooring is a very appealing option for a new home or office. It is a perfect example of this harmony and interaction between beauty, durability and economy, providing you with a sustainable, low-maintenance floor that will last for the lifetime of your home or office.

Exposed concrete floors, preserve resources by serving both purposes as a foundation plate and as a finished floor. This cancels the need for carpeting and other floor coverings that would obviously will become weary and require replacement with time progression. In addition to preserving materials, decorative concrete flooring provides many other Eco-friendly benefits, such as considerably helping in better energy efficiency, enhancing indoor air quality, and design versatility.

So for any decorative concrete flooring needs, I strongly recommend Concrete Art-FX!

55 Awesome Country and Tourism Logos!

ezuca — Wed, 02 May 2012 20:48:57 +0000

The Tourism sector has developed to become one of the most lucrative industries. As the likes and dislikes varies from one person to another (culinary tourism, religious tourism, cultural tourism, or ordinary sight seeing) so does the need for diversification of those entities or countries. In an effort to place themselves on a specific niche, they also have to build a visual identity; an identity that we are going to look at only from the logo perspective.

Please find below 55 country and tourism logos that depict the tourism industry in a specific country. Enjoy!

Denver Christian Counselor: Hope, Help & Healing

ezuca — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 22:22:19 +0000

Counselling has enormous benefits on one's life. The major benefit of counselling is that it assists people to enjoy and appreciate life more. It can assist people in exploring their inner selves and defining the means and techniques to reach their goals and objectives hence helping them out to become who they really want to be in their lives. Counselling has a vital impact as well on helping people maintain healthy and long lasting relationships with their loved ones.

Through counselling, people can feel better about themselves, they can have more inner peace, more comfort and they feel more confident and safe in their lives. Relationships whether be it with family members such as husband or wife, or be it with friends, are significantly enhanced and improved via proper counselling. Counselling can have direct positive effect on physical health in terms of reducing daily social and professional life pressure and stress.

Counselling can significantly improve a person senses in terms of making him or her understand better the surrounding they live in such as loved ones and also understand better his or her own thoughts, feelings and responses.

Here comes the role of Denver Marriage Counselors who are highly educated, skilled and experienced Christian therapists working under the umbrella of the Denver Christian Counselor association, offer a safe, comforting and friendly ear to whomever is in need of their counselling assistance. Whether be it someone who is in need to talk about his or her fears and perceptions or about troubling or private concerns.

Through applying Christian principles and spiritual truths; Denver Christian Counselors provide a full range of Christian counseling services for individual, group, marriage, sex addiction, adolescent, children, anger management and family counseling.

SeoCenter.nl: SEO, PPC and Web Content Company

ezuca — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 11:38:20 +0000

Today I want to talk about an awesome website that offers professional services pertaining to Search Engine Optimization (SEO) , Pay Per Click (PPC) and link building campaigns.

seocenter.nl is based in the Netherlands however they cater to all kind of businesses regardless of their geographical locations.

The guys at SEO Center use a proven strategy in performing their SEO, PPC and link building campaigns which is guaranteed to rank their customers websites and blogs in no time on the first positions of page one of the most prominent search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Bing for the keywords of their choice.

The adequate and unmatched experience, body of knowledge and perseverance of seocenter.nl guarantees amazing and very successful results to their customers through adopting cutting edge and very effective one-way link building techniques and methods.

seocenter.nl can also manage your Google Adwords PPC campaigns from A to Z, massively increasing the efficiency and profitability of your campaigns while keeping the cost involved at its lowest possible levels. They can even track and maintain your Google Adwords campaigns after they establish them for you which will relieve you from this daunting task and let us focus on other aspects of your business, all that for a very low monthly fee.

And as we all know "content is king!", seocenter.nl are leaders in populating your website or blog with updated quality, relevant, unique and very SEO-friendly content that will ensure a flood of new daily visitors generated from pure organic search results, all that at an extremely competitive price!

So what are you waiting for? Contact seocenter.nl today and reap the huge benefits! Highly recommended SEO, PPC, link building and Content provider company!

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A Collection of the Most Creative, Clever and Interactive Business Cards Designs!

ezuca — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 21:48:58 +0000

Even the most imaginative business card style and design can't ensure your company success, nevertheless it is one of those very first factors that make a really long enduring impact.

So, you must not miss a chance to demonstrate your best features and attributes here, because your business card is much more than just your contact details. It also conveys your company’s values and character.

Never restrict your creativity to a simply rectangle! Don’t forget to involve some interactivity – people really like to play and solve puzzles.

If it happened so that right now you are considering creating a wonderful business card – you’ve come to the right place!

To assist you do that, we have collected a collection of the most creative, clever, imaginative and incredibly interactive business card designs. Enjoy the inspiration!

Lush: Business Card Filled With Seeds

The business cards were letter pressed by hand and stuffed with grass seed. The best thing about them is when you hand one out, the seeds shake and instantly pay off the idea. (Advertising Agency: Struck, USA)

Business Card for Cosmetic Surgeon

Via the use of two rubber inserts, this business card shows the effect Dr.Kiprov’s cosmetic surgery can have. (Advertising Agency: Demner, Merlicek & Bergmann, Vienna, Austria)

Business Card For Fitness Trainer

Zohra Mouhetta helps you strip away your belly! (Advertising Agency: Leo Burnett, Dubai, United Arab Emirates)

Another Bloomin’ Designer’s Business Card

“By following the instructions correctly a decent bloom would have been seen within a week.” (Designed by Jamie Wieck)

Yoga One: Get Stretchy

If you have stretchy fingers you can make this girl do wonders! (Advertising Agency: Marked for Trade)

Knot Business Card for Massage Therapist

Michael Royer is a massage therapist in Toronto. Clients have to loosen the knot to reveal the message.

Personal Trainer: Stretchy Business Card

If you want to see the text on this business card, you have to do a little stretching exercise – it’s like a warm up before going to Poul Nielsen.

Chest Physician: Balloon Visiting Card

A balloon was used as a medium for a visiting card, for Dr.Pramod Niphadkar, a chest physician. In order to read the details of the card, one would have to blow the balloon – an excercise that would determine his/her lung capacity. (Advertising Agency: Ogilvy & Mather , Mumbai, India)

TAM Cargo: Transformable Business Card

Transforming the traditional business card in the funny and unusual object, a little box of transporting cargo air. (Advertising Agency: Y&R, São Paulo, Brazil)

We Love You…

At first, it may seem that they really love you, but then you see that the gray bar beside the message is a scratch-off. Well, at least they are are upfront with their motives. (Designed by Sensus Design Factory)

Business Card for a Dentist

This incredibly creative card belongs to Dr. Anita Wehrle Lechmann (Designed by Michael Häne & Remo Caminada)

Divorce Lawyer: Hand-Tearable Business Card

Notice that there is a contact information on both sides of the business card.

Model Kit Business Card from Tamiya

Tamiya, who make model kits, came up with a DIY business card: all the pieces pop out of the card so you can either build a model race car, airplane, or navy boat. (Designed by Creative Juice)

Thumbs Up

Advertising Agency: Cheil Worldwide, Seoul, Korea

DJ Mohit Business Card

Personal Business Card

Personal project for Dario Monetini’s own business card. It’s made on a transparent plastic, and there’s a set of different objects you can use to put in front of the face of your friends to have a kind. The artists says it’s a funny version of an analogic photoshop! (link)

Tok&Stok: Toy Chair Business Card

Going to a store and taking a business card is customary. Now, what you can do with it is what varies. Tok&Stok turned their business card in a entertainment. To allude to their easy to assemble furniture, the brand launched an unprecedented action that converts the business card in a little chair. To do so is very simple: just detach the parts marked and put them together. The back of the card has the logo, while the seat takes the essential information such as address and phone number. (Advertising Agency: DDB, Brazil)

Helena Ayres Proofreader: Business Card

A pencil with an oversized eraser – a self promotional business card for Helena Ayres, who works as a proofreader. (Advertising Agency: Giovanni + DraftFcb São Paulo, Brazil)

BKK Grill: Grill Me Business Card

The business card was stamped using lemon juice as ink, however the only visible copy on the card is “grill me”. After grilling the card against fire, the scientific effect between heat and lemon juice will cause the stamped message to appear. The message is the name and contact detail of a stake restaurant called BKK grill. (link)

La Cambre Architecture: Business card

The new business card of this school now takes the form of a Lego brick. This new business card perfectly represents La Chambre- Architecture where the “imagination” and “construction” are at the base of the formation of the young architects. (Advertising Agency: Leo Burnett, Brussels, Belgium)

Mais Pilates Studio: Wake Up Your Body

A business card that shows, quickly and interactively, the main benefits of doing pilates: to develop better posture and flexibility. (Advertising Agency: MarketData Direct & Digital, Brazil)

Sandra Martins Makeup: Business Card

Rather than a conventional business card to offer the makeup services to the customer, it was created a special stamp that simulates a lipstick mark. The stamp may be applied to any material, such as napkins, paper sheets, tissues etc. (Advertising Agency: OpusMúltipla, Curitiba, Brazil)

Stylist Appointment Card

You can probably even use it as a comb too. (Advertising Agency: Amanda Casabella, Memphis, USA)

Broke Bike Alley

Broke Bike Alley’s business cards help you help your bike. The follow-up to their tire patch business card, this card cum tool fits in your wallet and lets you adjust your bolts and spokes. And open your beer. (Designer: Rethink Canada)

Bombay Bakery

These edible business cards were created to promote a bakery, and available in different flavors like chocolate, vanilla etc. (Designed by: Dizzy Design, Ashutosh Karkhanis)

Ninja Business Card

“This business card I came up two years ago for the studio where I worked (redkeds.com). The idea came to me in the head like a bullet, in an instant, and soon everyone enjoyed. I was inspired by old movies about ninjas and kung-fu. I thought “why not make a shuriken that will kill and still be functional” “(Designer: Albert Polyakov)

Hair Dresser Business Cards

This is a fun and standout design that is both memorable and will keep the kid busy while you get your haircut. (Designer: Igor Perkusic)

Ismet Dural Circumciser

Ismet Dural is a circumsicer who owns a clinic. (Agency: Healthy People by Grey, Istanbul, Turkey)

Styx Underwear: Only Time

Styx Underwear for men has a special character –offers a unique design that ensures that no part of the cloth will get entangled, in the middle of a manґs rear end (buttocks).

Chart Business Card

Ideally, you can trust your financial advisor to sell before a downturn and buy stocks before they go up. And so, a double-sided business card to communicate this dual promise. (Advertising Agency: Rethink, Canada)

Y+ Yoga Center: Straw

Low cost yet effective solution to showcase the prowess of a yoga practitioner on the flexible drink straws placed at fruit juice bars frequented by the target audience. (Advertising Agency: Leo Burnett, Shanghai, China)

Did you mean LaserPrintingInc.com?

Probably the best way to to show your website address on a business card.

Chris Fisher: Microphone Shaped Business Card

It’s easy to do a gimmicky card that would grab attention but the challenge was to make an impression without shouting out. Chris Fisher is one of the most-listened-to radio jockeys on Dubai’s airwaves.

Mixtape Generation Cassette Business Card

The best part of is that the phone number is hand-written. Gives this nice feeling that somebody had to do something before giving it to you (link)

Meat Business Card

Eye catchy design, however I can’t understand what meat has to do with investment company? These Meatcards are non-toxic, but not intended to be food. Eat at your own risk. (link)

Clapperboard Business Card

Creative business card designed for Feelme Crew – a team of people, dealing primarily with video shooting and editing. (Designed by: Ralev.com)

Flow Yoga Business Card

A simple, yet very creative business card for Vancouver yoga center. The card rolls just like a yoga mat.

MODhair: Musical Comb Business card

A groovy business card for Rock ‘n Roll hair salon in Rome. This comb plays a classic rock theme when rubbed by fingernail, using the same principle of a musicbox comb. (Advertising Agency: Fabio Milito design, Roma, Italy)

Bang Your Own Drum: Stationery

“Our thinking centred on referencing the name and hinting to their services – we achieved this with a drumstick pencil and drum skin business cards giving Bang Your Own Drum an identity that’s easily heard.” (Advertising Agency: The Consult, UK)

Elixia Vitalclub: Partner Programs

This card is only as dirty as your mind. (Advertising Agency: Kolle Rebbe, Hamburg, Germany)

Dr. Al

Dentist’s business card with an included dental floss.

Choko La: Candy Wrapper Business Card

The brief was to capture the essence of the brand – deliciously surprising chocolate experiences. Result: never has a business card been in such demand. (Advertising Agency: Draft FCB + Ulka, New Delhi, India)

Sponge Card

A business card for Mundo do Condomínio which sells cleaning products. It was printed on a real sponge, small enough to keep in a wallet. (Advertising Agency: Fields, Brazil)

Paddison Prestige Roofing: Roof Business Card

A clever business card for a roofing company which looks like a roof when properly placed. (Advertising Agency: Rectangle, Sydney, Australia)

Levin Tahmaz Master Trainer: Business Card

This business card was designed for Levin Tahmaz, a personal trainer to show the before and after effect of his training. (Advertising Agency: Bart, Turkey)

Head2Head Shop: Business Card

Toronto-based Head2Head wanted to produce a value-added product for their clients that wouldn’t cost them an arm and a leg. Combining this with the desire to rebrand, Bos, Toronto created a business card that served a dual purpose. (Advertising Agency: Bos, Toronto, Canada)

Cat Box

A cute business card for IT company that looks like a cat when unfolded.

Sandra Boïls: Business cards

“These business cards were created for a Spanish jazz vocalist Sandra Boïls. What makes this project great is the repeating piano key pattern that forms when the cards are laid out side by side.” (Advertising Agency: Estudio Menta, Valencia, Spain)

La Charkuterie

La Charcuterie is a deli/restaurant hybrid well known around Vancouver for serving up sandwiches filled with deli meats. To play off this, business cards were created to look like cold cuts then were strung in netting similar to the way salami’s and other cured meats are hung in delis. (Advertising / Design Agency: Rethink, Vancouver, Canada)

Casabella Furniture: Sofa

A creative business card for a furniture company that turns into a sofa. (Art Director: Amanda Casabella)

Yuka Suzuki: Hair & Make-Up Artist

A clever and functional business card for Yuka Suzuki, hair and make-up artist.

Gengavan Second Hand Business Card

This is probably my favorite business card on the list! A company that sells second hand products also uses second hand business cards. (Advertising Agency: Spenat, Karlstad, Sweden)

Landscaped Business Card by Tur & Partners

This cool business card contains seedlings that germinate when you water and expose to light. (Advertising Agency: Jung von Matt)

Toronto Hemp Company

Those who have done it will understand…

Marisa Schmidt: Couple Therapist

A creative business card for a couple therapist Marisa Schmidt. (Advertising Agency: Master Promo, Curitiba, Brazil)

Good Graphic Designer

In order to get the contact information on this business card, you have to solve a little word puzzle. Luckily, there are hints on the back of the card. (Designed by Jose Antonio Contreras)

Mortal Kombat Launching on PlayStation Vita on the 1st of May 2012

ezuca — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 21:05:10 +0000

Warner Bros. has published a new Mortal Kombat Vita trailer (see below) presenting some legendary female fighters in their very own classic skins.

These throwback character costumes feature some of Mortal Kombat’s most harmful fighters.

Available in stores on May 1, Mortal Kombat for PlayStation Vita portable gaming device offers an on-the-go fighting game experience with brand new gameplay capabilities and tons of new content developed exclusively for the cutting edge and groundbreaking portable gaming system.

Mortal Kombat delivers an all-new Challenge Tower mode with 150 brand new missions, including Touchscreen Fatalities, Xrays and more.

Beyonce Named People Magazine’s ‘Most Beautiful Woman’

ezuca — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:39:46 +0000

People magazine on Wednesday named Beyonce the World's Most Beautiful Woman for 2012, describing her as a force of nature, style icon and proud mother.

The 30-year-old singer, a 16-time Grammy Award winner, said to the big-selling magazine that her just lately born daughter had provided her with new meaning to her life.

"I feel more beautiful than I've ever felt because I've given birth," Beyonce stated. "I have never felt so connected, never felt like I had such a purpose on this earth."

The "Crazy in Love," singer, and her husband Jay-Z declared the birth of daughter Blue Ivy in January this year.

"She's just the cutest thing," Beyonce said to People.

Other celebrities named on the magazine's most beautiful list included Angelina Jolie, Jennifer Lopez and Elle MacPherson.

Researchers Build the ‘Most Powerful’ Quantum Simulator

ezuca — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:28:52 +0000

Physicists in the US stated Wednesday they have created a simulator that will enable them to discover the behavior of subatomic particles not possible to determine on current computer systems.

Understanding quantum mechanics is a major challenge for researchers looking to explain natural phenomena on the subatomic level, where the laws of nature work in a different way to those of the visible world.

"Our simulator's potential calculation power outstrips anything conceivable by human beings. It is absolutely the most powerful simulator ever built," project member Joe Britton explained to Agence France Presse of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) design.

"Our experiment takes the idea of simulation from the realm of 'toy models' to full-fledged 'quantum simulator'."

A report mentioned no other researchers have managed to construct a simulator that was able to deal with more than 30 quantum particles.

"The NIST simulator has extensive control over hundreds of qubits (quantum bits)," it said -- ten times more than prior systems.

"The simulator has passed a series of important benchmarking tests and scientists are poised to study problems in material science that are impossible to model on conventional computers."

Linkedin Launches iPad App for Mobile Professionals

ezuca — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:16:54 +0000

LinkedIn users can now gain access to the professional online social media community on their iPad with an app released Thursday.

The free application is available via Apple Inc.'s iTunes store. LinkedIn states that the application helps today's progressively mobile experts who aren't always connected to a desktop pc.

LinkedIn states that users often log on to the site via their iPads in the early morning to prepare for meetings and in the evening, on the couch. The iPad application focuses on these people with a calendar function and other options enhanced for the mobile device.

Before LinkedIn users had to use iPad's Web browser (Safari) or use an iPhone application that doesn't take advantage of the iPad's full screen size.

The new application allows users to check out their profile, look at updates from their connections or add meetings to their calendar.