This week, we discovered an utterly charming card used by Isaac Asimov (“natural resource” is right) and, inspired, began hunting for more famous peoples’ business cards, whether boilerplate or highly designed, staid or comical. After the jump, check out the business cards of everyone from Abraham Lincoln to Lady Gaga, and be sure to link us to any we missed in the comments!
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They don't need any introduction now but there was a time they used to.
The revealing business cards of successful artists, tycoons and politicians contain some remarkable insights into the personalities of their owners.
Donald Trump's showy card hints at flamboyance, Harry Houdini's unusual triangle gets immediate attention and Andy Warhol's demonstrates his understanding of the link between commerce and art.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg shows that when you're the boss you can put anything you want on your card, and no one can say no.
For more than a century before the arrival of 21st century tools LinkedIn and Facebook, business cards were a vital introduction and source of information.
In the infancy of business cards, lawyer Abraham Lincoln included a small essay explaining his credentials.
"Business cards provide a very pragmatic function", says corporate psychologist Travis Kemp.
"For an individual however, it can be a more personalised vehicle that enables a little more freedom to express uniqueness and to communicate a nuance or more intimate insight into who the owner is as a person, what they stand for or what they want the receiver to know about them."
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