Tim's Novelty Business Cards 

Look at that subtle off-white colouring, the tasteful thickness of it, oh my god it even has a watermark on it.

"here I have this business card from a fellow in the US military. it's actually, as you might have noticed a fully functional Desert Eagle, with the word 'business' etched on the side."

I never thought listening to a man talk about business cards for 10 minutes could be so interesting.

Business cards that won't be thrown away. What a lovely idea.

This video made me start collecting business’s cards as a teenager. I’ll be 22 next month and I have whole albums full now. I’m super passionate about awesome business cards now.

I can't stop watching this series, it's really relaxing, kinda like Bob Ross.

my grampa was a plumber and he had cards that were decompressed sponges

I'm in a class for graphic design and we've got a project where we have to design some business cards of our own. This video helped me a lot with ideas, thanks!

this made me want to invint a new exciting card. I printed my cards 2 years ago, the design was so boring people probably used it to pick their teeth

i get an asmr vibe from these videos

best card i ever came across was a card for a bank but the card had a functional inbuilt solar calculator

The card that is folded up at 9:09 is a business card for Pixar. Tim' toys the animated movie.

When I was a face painter, another party entertainer I met called Tiffany developed business cards that were mirrors on the back, so once children had thier faces done they wanted to take one and keep it all day. Very clever woman.

The solution to the puzzle at 3:55 A=8; B=6 86x8=688

RU-vid Recommended me this. This guy feels like my grandpa. I miss my grandpa so much.

After a horrid day at work it's so relaxing and peaceful to watch tim.

"I met this guy who said he tests pens for a living! He even gave me his card with a mini cd in it!"

This is so wholesome. I feel like I'm his grandchild and he's showing me his favourite things

Some of these business cards are incredible, it's awesome to see just how creative some business owners can get when wanting to attract people to their business.

Tim should do a Q and A video!

5:36 "It has a tape on the back" - oh, Tim! It's called a CD and it goes in a computer or CD player :)

Let's see paul allen's card

""... A calendar on the back, 1998 this was." Which for the 60's, was astonishing.

What a great selection of unusual business cards! Thank you for the sharing!

This man, along with ReviewBra has the most wholesome comments ever it's literally insane i'm not even joking

My moms freind has business “card”. She does a lot of painting and other art forms but her thing that she gives people is a wooden paint brush that has all the info that you would need for her

My dentist had them with floss on the inside, and a slight metal thing to cut the string! They were awesome/

Ebjoying lots of these wonderful videos today 🙂thank you for sharing your collection for all to see.

"You see this card? This is the best business card I have ever seen, it's mine."

making your business card out of the products that you specialize in is genius, it’s a great way to be remembered

if patrick bateman saw this he would have a heart attack

I looked it up out of curiosity, that print company card that had the calendar on the back went out of business in March 2014, and had been in business since July 1960. Shame, their business card felt like it had a lot of character to it. I miss things like that.

This channel makes me happy - thank you for sharing 🙏🏻

that 'tape/record card' I'm pretty sure is one of those Business card (a offshot of Mini) CDs you could get free with cereal in the 00's. It'll probably work in a PC. They normally do.

I love you so much, I had a rough day and I feel relaxed after watching this. Thank you

That last group of cards was so clever! Really quite fascinating the ideas that some people can come up with for a "simple" business card.

Wow, I loved this video! Thank you for showing them.

Did i just watch a 10 min ad..and enjoyed it..?!! ❤️

That moment when you realized you were tricked into watching a giant commercial.

2:51 Now we know from who did Big Shaq take his inspiration

My favorite is the one at 8:40 Going to use that design for sure!

Thank you for showing us all your treasure.

"This one is from a friend of mine who makes dice, this one is from a friend of mine who is a magician, a puzzled friend of mine.. " Here I am, trying to think of a friend who is not an engineer.

I want see the rest. He has a cool and calm voice. I can listen all day

4:21 "Do you prefer the bird, or the cage?"

That's a very nice collection Tim!

the card at 2:12 is vaporwave as fuck

cant stop watching

That business card with the mini-disc reminds me of that thing from _James Bond Nightfire_...the "Q-Worm," I think it's called.

Thats very respectful of you to keep people's business cards. Most of us take them and throw them away when the other person isn't looking.... or use the really thin ones to get shit out of your teeth before you throw it away.

I'm a huge fan of Scott Kim's artwork. I'm glad that his business card is as remarkable as himself :)

I kept getting recommended this guys so I finally watched him and now I'm addicted. I wonder what this guy has done all his life and where/how he got all this stuff

I used to go to the Exploratory in Bristol! Loved it.

I've recently seen business cards circulating in America where instead of a card, the individual used custom coins that where half way between a quarter and a half dollar. Along the top it read, "In Jim we trust" on one of the few that have come into my possession. I think Tim would get a good hoot out of one of those

Impressive. Very nice. Let's see Tim the Toyman's card.

It never occurred to me that magicians would have optical illusions as business cards. Nice.

This reminds me of someone I met who was a photographer, and her business card had a transparent section made to look like the viewing part of a camera. Really cool stuff. c:

Another fantastic video, Tim!

Tim's voice is so soothing.

I really enjoy your videos, thank you Steve

I can’t stop watching this channel!!!👀

Wow, hey, I know about Scott Kim! Ambigram artist. Love his work. If I remember, he did the mirror alphabet picture. One of my favorites.

A friend used to give away business cards, he would say 'Let me give you my card', he would hand it out blank side up, turn it over and all that was on it was MY CARD, They got a good laugh as well as a real card and a great story. I also knew one old guy and his card had several occupations listed, 'Skirt Inspector', 'Virgins Converted', and several more I don't remember, did I say he was a dirty old man? 🤣

Awesome Tim!

the tvd one looked so cool! id totally get one if i could find one

loved that anamorphic one

Tim reminds me of the dad in Gremlins.

For the magic eye ones, the butterfly one is just a standard layer depth on, where each part of the scene is at a different depth. The black and white one is harder because it's never in full view. but the objects in it are inverted in depth.

magic eye things never work for me :(

I wanna watch this video all day

If I remember correctly, kevin mittnick had a business card that was a lockpicking toolkit. It's made of iron and you can actually use it to open simple locks.

I remember designing my first ever business card for my uncle's new company.

Very, very entertaining video, thank you !

Wow! That's cool man!

I like your videos. They are nice and well spoken.

You can tell Tim has never used a computer when he confuses business card sized CDs for record/tape.

Well, they are very creative and of course fun and memorable. The only problem is that some of them fail as the communication tool they are supposed to be because of the trickeries they put to communicate the needed info.

Good collection!

Splendid!

I wanted to click away but his voice has me hooked.

Looks nice! Cool content!

The card at 1:38 has a Telex number on it, a form of communication so ancient now that I find its mention more interesting than the card itself.

That dice game sounds good

Now there’s NFC businesses cards where if tapped with a phone they display preprogrammed info. This can be either something like contact details, a website link or other similar things.

Bro I'm so glad other people collect business cards :))

You Sir are one interesting individual .

I paused the magic eye one and was able to see it. cool.

Tim is collecting all ... even Business Cards

This is advertising done right. Tim was sponsored by all of these companies and he thought we wouldn't notice.

For those curious, the text that can be read both ways are called ambigrams

He should get some of these laminated. Just the ones that don't open, don't involve any touch or movement so to try to preserve them. These are so awesome. :D

The tilting perspective one is my favourite! I would love a card like that. How did you think of the idea? Did a company design it?

The ibiz card includes a mini CD-ROM in back not a record. You’d need a tray loading CD-ROM drive attached to a computer to access it’s contents. Back when CD-ROMs where still common, they sold recorded mini CD-ROM discs (CD-R) that where riound on two sides and flat on the other two sides so that you could use them as digital business cards. They came with a special clear plastic sleeves that you could slide standard paper business card on and a Mini-CD business card underneath. Nowadays, you could do the same thing using a QR code (sort of like a type of bar code) that one could scan via a smartphone and be taken to a website that provides all the same info you might have included on a Mini CD-ROM business card.

did anyone think of that scene in american psycho?

The coolest one I have is one with a thin usb inside , which flips out of the card

Damn this mans collects everything

How many magician friends does he have??? O_o

The pop-up card from Structural Graphics are not a office equipment company. They design and make pop-ups among other unusual printed media.

My dad works with leather making belts, bags etc. and he makes leather card for different places so it seems some people still use them

I enjoy this too much