The Fascinating Business Cards of 20 Famous People

In today’s climate of cell phone contacts, Facebook and LinkedIn, business cards may be becoming a thing of the past. Then again, they can still say a lot about you. 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!

[via Fuck Yeah Manuscripts]

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aliciaIvideochat 12 pts

The Social Network and it is a fake.  Their headquarters in Palo Alto at the time was 156 University Ave,  Not 3156 University Ave.  

 

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LordB 5 pts

Very nice cards, particularly the one of Andy Warhol. Thanks for this original post !

Alan M 5 pts

The Warhol one is too cool :)

leeapeea 5 pts

Did they actually have 7 digit phone numbers when Einstein worked at Princeton?

theComplex 6 pts

Absolutely LOVE Warhol's business card.

AdamJSmith 5 pts

Some of those are great cards.  Einstein's was a masterpiece. 

tanepiper 5 pts

Apparently Abraham Lincoln was a Ghostbuster as well as a vampire hunter and president

GatorDemAtl 5 pts

 tanepiper Apparently the Lincoln card, which referred to going back to where he was originally, was an 1864 campaign souvenir by the Democrats.  I am surprised that nobody did something similar in 2012, but maybe they did and I,  not being a Tea Party hatter, have not seen it.

DouglasGray 5 pts

Henny Youngman used to give out a card with pictures of two cleaning products and say, " Hey you wanna see my Pride and Joy?"

clkieffer 5 pts

The Zuck card is the card used in the move The Social Network and it is a fake.  Their headquarters in Palo Alto at the time was 156 University Ave,  Not 3156 University Ave.  

DickLipski 5 pts

I'm pretty sure that last one is a fake.