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"The Mosaic Frame has been designed in-house, by MOO's fantastic product designer, Paul Thorogood. The design developed as we noticed so many people were framing their MiniCards, either to hang on their own walls, or to give as a gift or keepsake to friends. One of the great things about MiniCards is the fact that every single one in the pack can be different - and we're very excited to say that every single frame can be different too! The clever design means you can frame the cards in either portrait or landscape format - or, a mix of the two. You can lay the cards out, move them around and find a design that works best for you - and don't worry, it's pretty impossible to make a layout that doesn't look good. (We did try)."

You'll recall that I'm a big fan of Moo Minicards, and this picture frame is a natural extension of that product. Looks pretty cool - although in creating my Minicards, I found that it's a bit difficult to find pictures that are workable with the ultra-narrow aspect ratio of the cards. Still, this is a unique way of presenting your Minicards, and the ability to re-combine the layout at any time is super cool. Those guys at Moo are awesome!

Moo is a delightfully quirky printing company based out of the UK with an equally quirky product that they call "Minicards" that are incredibly fun, especially for digital photographers. Minicards measure 28mm wide, 70mm tall, and they're printed with a matte laminate finish on 350g/m2 paper (think business card stock). The print quality is extremely high, with no discernible dot patterns that I could see. So what makes these little cards so much fun? Everything! First off, unlike pretty much every other printing process for cards that I can think of, they allow you to upload up to 100 images for your 100 Minicards. Or, if you want, you can upload only 10 images and you'll get 10 Minicards of each image - or any combination thereof (you get the idea). They have a great interface for pulling photos from your Flickr, Facebook, and other accounts, or you can upload images off your computer. If you dont' want to use your own photos, they have a variety of ready-made designs. On the back you can have up to six lines of text, and a choice of several small icons. I wish there were more icon choices though! Read more...