{"id":1761,"date":"2025-06-15T14:45:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T14:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diamondstatemanagement.com\/?p=1761"},"modified":"2025-06-21T15:11:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T15:11:00","slug":"gotta-catch-em-all-cringemon-turns-linkedin-personas-into-pokemon-style-collectible-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.diamondstatemanagement.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/15\/gotta-catch-em-all-cringemon-turns-linkedin-personas-into-pokemon-style-collectible-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"gotta catch \u2019em all: cring\u00e9mon turns linkedin personas into pok\u00e9mon-style collectible cards"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cring\u00e9mon collectible Trading Cards Call Out Corporate Cringe<\/h2>\n

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Cring\u00e9mon is a\u00a0comedic\u00a0art<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0project that transforms stereotypical\u00a0LinkedIn profiles<\/strong><\/a><\/span>\u00a0into Pok\u00e9mon-style trading cards<\/a><\/strong>. Blending nostalgia with protest, the series exposes\u00a0corporate ego and jargon through a collection of absurd, fictional office creatures.<\/p>\n

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Conceived by London-based artist and BAFTA-winning writer Dan Berg, the project reimagines LinkedIn personalities as fictional trading card creatures. Drawing on the aesthetic language of Pok\u00e9mon, each of the 50 cards features an original character, such as the Fake Mentor, Disruption Ninja, or Empathy Consultant, complete with bios, hobbies, and ‘mic-drop’ facts.<\/p>\n

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logo with cards | all images courtesy of Dan Berg<\/a><\/p>\n

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Dan Berg’s Cring\u00e9mon concept turns LinkedIn into comedy<\/h2>\n

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Artist<\/a><\/strong> Dan Berg describes the work as a response to the surreal theatre of professionalism, characterized by exaggerated titles, manufactured authenticity, and self-mythologizing personal brands. Berg frames these personas as monsters from another realm, ‘a fantasy world where people list ’empathy’ as a skill and write 2,000-word posts about firing someone with grace.’<\/p>\n

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The cards are digitally illustrated, designed at standard playing card size, and printed on heavyweight art paper by a specialist card manufacturer. While the project mimics the format of a collectible deck, it deliberately subverts function. In this game, there\u2019s no hierarchy, no win condition, only satire. Cring\u00e9mon invites viewers to question how much of modern professionalism is performance, and how close it already is to fantasy.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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photograph of the cards<\/p>\n

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digital mock-up of ‘Fablemaker’<\/p>\n

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digital mock-up of Founda<\/p>\n

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project info:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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name:<\/strong>\u00a0Cring\u00e9mon<\/a>
\ndesigner:<\/strong>\u00a0Dan Berg<\/a> | @bergonomix<\/a><\/p>\n

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designboom has received this project from our\u00a0<\/i>DIY submissions<\/i><\/a>\u00a0feature, where we welcome our readers to submit their own work for publication. see more project submissions from our readers\u00a0<\/i>here.<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

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edited by: christina vergopoulou | designboom<\/i><\/p>\n

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Cring\u00e9mon collectible Trading Cards Call Out Corporate Cringe   Cring\u00e9mon is a\u00a0comedic\u00a0art\u00a0project that transforms stereotypical\u00a0LinkedIn profiles\u00a0into Pok\u00e9mon-style trading cards. Blending nostalgia with protest, the series exposes\u00a0corporate ego and jargon through a collection of absurd, fictional office creatures.   Conceived by London-based artist and BAFTA-winning writer Dan Berg, the project reimagines LinkedIn personalities as fictional trading […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.diamondstatemanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.diamondstatemanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.diamondstatemanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.diamondstatemanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.diamondstatemanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1761"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.diamondstatemanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1769,"href":"http:\/\/www.diamondstatemanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761\/revisions\/1769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.diamondstatemanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.diamondstatemanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.diamondstatemanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.diamondstatemanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}