You might remember my quest to find my favorite business cards in pursuit of logo and branding ideas for myself. Well it happened and I’m here to show you the results.

I ordered samples of the all-new Luxe Business cards courtesy of MOO, and I could not be more pleased. MOO recently launched the new line of premium business cards, which is basically their version of a letterpress card.

The cards are printed on Mohawk Superfine paper, which happens to be triple the thickness and weight of most cards on the market. I love the slight texture on the surface of the card and the color matching is precise.

As with any MOO product, you can choose from one of their fun designs or upload your own. I uploaded my business card design that goes with my blog and the customization process was super easy. You can even choose a band of color that shows on the edges of the card and gives it that extra something. There are four choices and I chose black to match my design.

They came packaged in a white box with magnetic closures wrapped with a purple ribbon. You can’t beat the look and the quality is second-to-none. I have the feeling these will be my go-to cards from now on. Can you tell how much I love them?

What do you think?

Element75 artwork by Sara Jensen Design.

Karte Design Fabrik is back with six new card collections, two of which have tickled our fancy — the Herringbone and Stripetown collections. We previously featured Karte Design Fabriks’ Scandinavian-inspired holiday collection and I love these new collections even more. Liz Mckeown has given these classic patterns a new updated and modern twist. All cards are designed and made in Berlin, Germany and come with a thick, flecked brown envelope.

Every so often the team at Society6 cooks up a really fantastic idea for a new print collection, art show or zine. This time, they partnered with over 20 artists on Us and Them, a limited edition 30-page zine with exclusive artwork.

I had a hard time choosing a few pieces to feature, but here are some of my personal favorites from the pages of the zine. You can purchase the prints individually as well.

Us and Them by Muxxi

By Any Means Necessary by Carl Floyd Medley III

From the sky by Natalie Nicklin

us & Them by Jason Solo

Support the Society6 artist by purchasing the Us and Them zine or a featured print from the collection.

In an ongoing effort to support independent artists from around the world, Design Milk is proud to partner with Society6 to offer The Design Milk Dairy, a special collection of Society6 artists’ work curated by Design Milk and our readers. Proceeds from the The Design Milk Dairy help us bring Design Milk to you every day.

Madison, WI-based artist and woodworker Ted Lott created this series of small house frames out of wood while in residency at the Anderson Ranch Art Center in Colorado. A nice comment on the role of traditional craft in the modern world.

He says, “Craft practices are at once defined and restrained by their connections to tradition. Viewing woodworking in the context of objects made with wood; housing, particularly stick frame construction, emerges as possibly the most widespread use of the material throughout the modern world. Utilizing these techniques in a studio based practice, it is my hope to further the conversation on how notions of craft fit into the modern world.”

D/Struct is a project and installation by Lucas Maassen & Raw Color that consists of 60 collected plastic items subjected to hammers and blenders, and brutally destroyed, reduced to tiny particles of their former selves.

With music and film being adapted formed for digital consumption, Lucas Maassen and Raw Color decided to research how a physical product can function in a digital environment, how one could acquire it via digital structures, and what opportunities it might offer the consumer.

Using 3D scanning and printing techniques, they exhaustively detached the object’s design from the material it was made of.

Each item is bagged and coded with a QR code and put on display. In the exhibition, you can scan a QR code to discover what the item used to be.

Watch a video of one of the items being “D/struct-ed”:

You can actually buy the destroyed items in the D/struct webshop. The buyer receives a complete 3D-scan of the chosen object along with the package, so that you can discover and observe what the item you’ve purchased actually used to be.

D/struct will be presented at Object Rotterdam 2012 together with MU Gallery Eindhoven February 9-12, 2012.

Credits: D/struct is made possible thanks to MU. Coen van Leeuwen and Pieter Jan Boterhoek photography and process. Remon van den Eijnden development of QR-code scanner.

In collaboration with Blank Plank, designer Karim Rashid created the limited edition Fluke Art Plank Skateboard. Blank Plank is a collaboration of street culture and art in which they seek out four artists per season to create limited edition artwork for them. Rashid lends his designer magic to the project with his signature bright colors and striking pattern. The skateboard is reasonably priced at $60 and only 100 of this design are being made.

The collaborative husband-and-wife team of Emma Biggs and Matthew Collings produces some amazing modern paintings. The couple works together on their large-scale abstract works in which she designs and chooses the color and tone of each piece while he paints them. While Biggs is well-known in the mosaic world and Collings in the broadcasting and writing fields, they come together to create these modern geometric oil paintings that really draw the viewer in.

The paintings above and below are part of a new exhibit entitled The Whole Earth featured at the Vigo Gallery in London through this Friday, February 10th, 2012.

Toil of our Hands, detail

A Flaming Sword

Fifty Righteous within the City

Inhabitants of the Cities

Every Living Substance

The Earth Divided

The Philistines’ Land

Installation view:

Below are a few of their earlier works:

Knypersley, 2008

The Crown, 2006

Two Squares, 2006

Japanese artist Haroshi creates three-dimensional sculptures out of used wooden skateboard decks. An avid skateboarder, he began collecting broken skateboard parts in hopes of making them into art. Over the years he has developed a technique where he carves stacks of old skateboard decks and cuts them into wooden mosaics. He then assembles the mosaics into the chosen form in which the exposed layers reveal various patterns.

The dog sculpture (above) and the wheel sculpture (below) are part of the opening for the new HUF x Haroshi x DLX collaboration. Haroshi used broken skateboards ridden by various DLX team riders to make the new sculptures.