Cringémon collectible Trading Cards Call Out Corporate Cringe
Cringémon is a comedic art project that transforms stereotypical LinkedIn profiles into Pokémon-style trading cards. Blending nostalgia with protest, the series exposes corporate 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 card creatures. Drawing on the aesthetic language of Pokémon, 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.
logo with cards | all images courtesy of Dan Berg
Dan Berg’s Cringémon concept turns LinkedIn into comedy
Artist 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.’
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’s no hierarchy, no win condition, only satire. Cringémon invites viewers to question how much of modern professionalism is performance, and how close it already is to fantasy.
montage of the printed cards
photograph of the cards
digital mock-up of ‘Fablemaker’
photograph of the cards
digital mock-up of Founda
digital mock-up of packaging
project info:
name: Cringémon
designer: Dan Berg | @bergonomix
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edited by: christina vergopoulou | designboom
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