Leave it to the ever stylish, super cool Japanese to round up 100 of the best artists in the world to design custom images for a range of credit cards.

Japanese powerhouse department store Marui decided that their Plain Jane EPOS Card design wasn't cutting it. Always in pursuit of customizing and stylizing everything, Marui teamed up with New York agency Big Coporation to ensure their card holders could out cool other credit card holders the world around.

"Gravure/Big Corporation has announced today their curation of artists based or represented in the USA for the groundbreaking 100 Design Cards project for EPOS Card, Japan. The project, a limited-edition of 100 credit card designs by top global artists, is the first-ever limited edition credit card and the first project ever to combine contemporary art, fashion and culture with a financial product."

"Gravure's curation included new and established artists and designers such as Julie Verhoeven, Studio von Birken, Ju$t Another Rich Kid, Kenzo Minami, Hope Gangloff, Deanne Cheuk, Elisabeth Arkhipoff, Nico Berry, Andrew Kuo, and Big Corporation."

"The project has been a runaway success met with immediate critical praise, as well as commercially, with over 1000 new card applications per day since it's launch in late September. The EPOS Card 100 Design Cards project will continue through September 2009."

Checkout a sampling of the designs below.

Ju$t Another Rich Kid

Kenzo Minami

Studio von Birken

Big Corporation/Gravure

Nico Berry

Julie Verhoeven