Historical Figures Get a Branding Makeover With Modern Business Cards

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Historical Figures Get a Branding Makeover With Modern Business Cards
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Would you hire Roald Dahl or Vincent van Gogh? With a beautifully crafted business card (http://mashable.com/category/business-cards/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), it's hard for hiring managers to resist these superstars of history.

To celebrate the launch of their new letterheads, online stationer MOO (http://us.moo.com/) created custom business card and letter head designs for 12 prominent figures. Each design plays on its particular celebrity's personality to reflect their personal brand — at least if they had branding back in the time of Henry VIII or Jane Austen.

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Some of the designs also make clever plays on words or references to the figures' lives and works. Albert Einstein's cards reflect a bold E=mc2 within the typeface while William Shakespeare (http://mashable.com/category/shakespeare/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)'s make a reference to writer Christopher Marlowe, who is rumored to have written some of The Bard's famous plays. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/28/historical-figures-business-cards/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

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