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As companies downsize their ranks due to the recession, there is more talent out on the streets in search of a job than ever before. Cardsofchange is an initiative that aims to collect as many business cards and stories of recently laid off individuals as possible in order to connect them with new career opportunities.

How does it work?

Scratch out the old contact info on your old business card. Fill in your new email address together with 1 positive change that happened in your life as a result of your layoff. Then upload a horizontal picture of your card onto cardsofchange.

Nam is a Japanese group of graphic designers and photographers that excels in making beautifully aesthetic graphic art images.

Each image in the gallery above is utterly stunning and I could lose myself for days in each one.

Nam was established by the graphic designer Takayuki Nakazawa and photographer Hiroshi Manaka. Their joint purpose or mission statement is to make visual art based around the theme of “A fantasy in Life”. Ah, I hope the ensemble will keep these fantastic visual universes coming!

Dubbed ‘comfortably cool,’ the new Fall/Winter 2009 ad campaign for Brazilian brand Stone Bonker goes for a playful theme.

Photographed by Du Borsatto, the ads feature models Davi Costa and Pedro Cavalca in playful and goofy poses.

The ads carry the vibe of the brand, which is providing a chic yet comfortable and relaxed look.

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All the rage in Japan are several hot-selling lines of women’s loincloth underwear, or “pendre shorts.”

These undies are a modern take on the traditional white loincloths worn by Japanese men in the old days known as “fundoshi.” However, the new styles are decidedly more feminine and available in a myriad of colors and patterns.

“Cool,” “easy” and “comfortable” are words used by retailers to describe the undies, which are elastic-free. They consist of a long, rectangular cloth with tie straps at one end. After the straps are secured around the waist, the cloth is pulled from the rear to the front, then wrapped around the front straps and draped down.

Pioneering the trend is Une Nano Cool, the Japanese subsidiary of lingerie company Wacoal, which is marketing the loincloths under the name “Nanafun” along with matching bras. Numerous online Japanese retailers, such as the Love Supplement, are also selling lines of pendre shorts. Several retailers claim that sales have increased ten- and twenty-fold during the past year. 

Will the trend catch on with women in other countries? It may be too early to say, but Tarzan would surely be in his glory.