Toastvertising

It’s been a spam-filled holiday season,  while cleaning through the multitude of flagged emails i came across some REAL spam. The meaty kind… some fabulously ambitious TOASTVERTISING for the new Book Of Spam… from the guys who brought you the human flip book (remember those hundreds of tshirts that got printed for the animated advert? It was on .org as #6369), but now they toasted an animation frame by frame and by hand into 220 pieces of toast… thats more than there are pages in the Book Of Spam. See some screenshots as well as the advert itself AND the making of! (both are equally awesome and worth checking out for some toasty inspiration)

Memo Mugs

While surfing  the net , I came across some really nice lil memo mugs .. with page line prints and grids .. cool ceremics to have around a fun house or an office space.

Fun! Notebook, graph and ruled.

             

Marketing iPod Nano

Nice campaign featuring tiny boxes of popcorn that say the slogan, “iPod: Movies in your pocket.”

CHRISTMAS IDEAS !!!!

RING THE BELL …..

its a really cool interactive Christmas fun thing to do …. I just found out that I’m no better at Handbell Hero than I am at it’s inspiration. …happy holidays the fun way !!!

NOTCOT : holiday gift guide 2007

Gifting is no easy task. Nor is keeping track of all the products we’d love to gift or get. One page at a time not enough? Try this…

The perfect christmas sneaker – Emma Hope’s Velvet Sneakers/Bags (Unisex)

Emma Hope has come a long way from the overbearing florals of Laura Ashley fashions. After designing and manufacturing six collections with the company, Hope jetted on to bigger and better things – namely, her eccentric Emma Hope collection.

The designer’s most eye-catching number is easily a velvet sneaker bag which offered in bright hues of violet, gold and fuchsia, among others. The unlikely juxtaposition of luxurious velvet to hold your sweaty workout ensembles seems a perfect fit for the celebs who emerge daintily coiffed – with nary a bead of sweat – after hours-long training sessions. And for the obsessively coordinated amongst us,

I just love the sneakers .. hoping I can buy a pair during my trip over seas soon

FABRIC YULE LOG

my mom gets a yummy bûche de noël every year for christmas so i was super excited to see kayte terry’s handmade softie bûche de noël. just a little lovely friday morning eye candy. stay tuned for a new guide and a new sneak peek later today!

PAC MAN CHRISTMAS TREE

This has gotta be the coolest Christmas tree I think I’ve ever seen. Pac-Man and his ghostly pals have been reproduced in this giant holiday light display.

he “tree” features a fully-animated version of the classic arcade game, rendered across thousands of colored LEDs.

flash type

This cool little flash based type toy is the perfect way to waste ten minutes on a Friday afternoon.

25 Bad Habits of Graphic Designers

1. Taking Constructive Criticism Personally
2. Not Knowing Paula Scher, Milton Glaser, Paul Rand and Friends
3. Not Staying up on Current Events and Design News
4. Not Owning the Graphic Artists Guild Handbook
5. Charging too Little for Design Projects
6. Not Using Contracts to Cover Your Butt
7. Not Setting Deadlines for Projects
8. Doing Spec Based Work (If you like it you can pay)
9. Not Asking for a Down Payment before Starting a Project
10. Using Poorly Designed Fonts from Free Font Sites
11. Using Display Fonts as Text Fonts
12. Using the Comic Sans Font
13. Using too Many Different Fonts in One Design
14. Forgetting White Space is your Friend
15. Not Sketching Before Designing
16. Not Using Rulers on Screen
17. Relying Totally on the Computer, Especially for Kerning
18. Using Photoshop Filters After Your First 6 Months
19. Using Low Resolution Web Images for Print
20. Not Designing Logos in Vector Format
21. Making Logos Unable to Reproduce Well Small
22. Forgetting to Learn Keyboard Shortcuts
23. Not Saving Frequently
24. Not Backing up Files on an External Hard Drive
25. Not Getting Enough Sleep! Stop Drinking so much Red Bull!

Do you know any more bad habits? Let us know in the comments!

Strip Generator

A great cool tool for you candy cane lovers… this is a really cool strip generator .. experiment with it and download all those cool strips you create

This great free stripe generator has pretty much every option you could possibly need to create the perfect stripe patterns for your design projects. They have many adjustment options such as stripe size, stripe spacing, color, stripe orientation and even shadows! You can also choose from a variety of highly rated patterns created by other users in their “Your Stripes” section on the free stripe generator site. Once you create or find a stripe pattern you like simply copy and paste the code!

http://www.stripegenerator.com/

welcome back to coolness

Some really cool posters I came across… Ya I know its been a long time ..
but been busy with stuff .. but my return to blogging will be celebrated
with some really cool stuff.