We love open source, so any project that provides users with the ability to use open source products really rocks our world. This time, we’ve teamed up with ColourLovers.com (Color Lovers) to create some wild labels that will catch anyone’s attention! The colors chosen for each CD and address label are ones that are supplied by various palettes cataloged at Color Lovers.

To view the templates, use any of the following office suites to open the files: OpenOffice.org, Koffice, StarOffice, IBM Lotus Symphony, or any other office suite supporting the OpenDocument format. For Microsoft Office users, an ODF plugin is required and can be downloaded for free Sun ODF plugin for MS Office.

After you open the template, click at the beginning of text and type your personal information. You can easily change the font, font size, and color by selecting the text and using the lists on the menu bar above the labels. Other options include resizing the text box, moving it to another position on the label, or adding another text box for more information. To make these changes, just click on the box around the text and drag the box corner to resize or drag the box itself to move. To add other options like adding a border or background color, double-click the box around the text and make changes in the window that appears.

Start personalizing your own labels, download an Openoffice.org Writer OpenDocument Format template for free, personalize the information and make your own labels. Feel free to remix, reuse, share, as all labels are released under a Creative Commons license.

Additionally, if you want to share your label designs with us, we would be happy to display them! Just submit your graphics to Worldlabel @ gmail.com (remove spaces). We will format them into templates and publish your designs in the exhibit.

Visit the Personalized Label exhibition

(Update) From the ColourLovers.com Blog: The folks over at Worldlabel.com had an idea to create and easy way for people to create thier own CD and Address labels using palettes geometric patterns and color palettes, and asked the members here at COLOURlovers to contribute designs for and exhibition. Read the rest here: http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2008/12/31/colorful-label-template-exhibition-at-worldlabelcom/.

WorldLabel has a PDF template designed to work with its business card cardstock. The template is compatible with most graphics programs, but you can also simply forgo the template, load the heavyweight cardstock sheets into your printer, and print out pre-designed business cards you can find for free online. A few seconds later you’ll have new 3.5-inch by 2-inch business cards in your hand, 10 to a sheet, finely perforated and ready to separate and distribute.

WorldLabel’s business card cardstock’s margins and spacing (shown in the image above) match the specs for the more than 200 free printable business card designs from my site, FreePrintableBusinessCards.net. Simply choose a design and decide if you’d like to instantly download the free .DOC version (editable in Microsoft Word) or, for $3, a .DOC version in which you can edit out the Web site name. Printable business card designs are available at other sites online as well. Microsoft Office users have shared some in that company’s online community, there are more freebies on Hewlett-Packard’s site, and on Google Docs.

While neither Worldlabel.com nor FreePrintable.net is affiliated with Avery-Dennison Corp., both the printable business cards and the cardstock are similar in format to Avery products 5371, 8371 and 8871. Be sure to uncheck “fit to page” in your printer’s preferences so the images print at the correct size.

By combining the free resources at FreePrintable.net with the easy-to-use cardstock from WorldLabel, new business cards are only as far away as your laser or inkjet printer. Bonus: You won’t have to yell at the employee who waited until he was down to his last card before letting someone know it was time to reorder.

Kevin Savetz is the creator of FreePrintable.net, a network of more than 25 sites that offer printable certificates, business cards, resume templates, and other printable items.