WTF Tuesday
WTF Tuesdays
Obama is coming to China, quick, make a statue out of hair.
Cookies?
Stock Photographer: Ok so I have an idea. I’ll get three mannequins, put them in the kitchen, I’ll have the Mom mannequin serving freshly baked cookies to the two Kid mannequins. That wont be creepy at all.
http://www.veer.com/products/RBP9019228_Three-mannequins-portraying-a-family
WTF Tuesday
WTF Tuesday
To Donna, Love Bob.
WTF Tuesday
Found this on the internets, don’t be scared.
Kid Drawings
My kids love drawing and coloring and making crafts/messes and maybe that’s because we’re crazy/mean parents and don’t let them watch TV. We have a TV, its old and we don’t get any channels not even the basic ones. Of course we do have a ridiculously large shelf of DVD’s but still, no TV in the Brijs home. You can call us weird, it’s fine. I’m totally fine with my kids being crafty and getting marker and paint all over the coffee table in the name of self expression. Posted below are some drawings that my oldest son did, I think they are pretty hilarious.
Joseph Self Portrait (age 6)
Joe did this one for Halloween and asked me to posted it on facebook and to wish everyone a Happy Halloween.
Little Mermaid, notice the man boobs on King Triton
Joe made this one for this little Sisters birthday, she happens to be a huge fan of the Little Mermaid, how thoughtful of him, right? Maybe not having cable is a good thing after all.
Merry Christmas
I’m back/Halloween
So I’m no good at this blogging thing, I blog for a while then I stop for an even longer while. Anyway I am going to try this again. I’ll be posting things I’m working on and design that inspires me.
For Halloween this year a few work buddies and I decided to be the Martian Yip Yip aliens from Sesame Street. If you haven’t heard of them or don’t remember peep this. We found a costume pattern here but we modified it some. Anyway our company goes all out at Halloween and about 1900 kids come through the office, it was a lot of fun. This is what they looked like, I’m the magenta one.
RIP Mike
Courtesy of etchasketchist.blogspot.com
A message
Just this today.
Designing Through the Recession
I stumbled upon this great article by Michael Bierut entitled “Designing Through the Recession” Its a must read.
Peep it here.
Thanks www.designobserver.com
Poster by Lester Beall for the Rural Electrification Administration, 1937
Stock Photo Hilarity
Working as a designer requires me to be familiar with stock photography sites in order to fulfill the needs of my creative assignments. A person who uses stock photography instead of hiring a photographer can save time and money, but can also sacrifice creative control. There are a number of sites out there, the top 3 I spend the most time on are veer.com, gettyimages.com and istockphoto.com. Every once in awhile I find a funny stock photo that makes me laugh and wonder why it even exists. Some photos are so ridiculous I can’t imagine anyone ever spending the money for it. From time to time I will post any hilarious stock photos I find. To get things started here are a few I stumbled upon most recently.
[All images are from Veer, click on the photos to view or purchases them.]
Retro Trading Cards and Mustaches.
I have always had an appreciation for the design of old sports card. The colors were great, the photos were terrible in a good way and the typography was fascinating. Oh and the mustaches on Phil Jackson and Pat Riley are equally amazing. I’m sure collectors today would say that trading cards have improved, the technology certainly has but I still look back at these cards and think they were rad.
Last summer my sports fan Uncle celebrated his 60th birthday and I was asked to create a retro looking football card as a party favor. It was a really fun project and Uncle H.B. seemed to enjoy it. The one on the left was the actual card+party favor and the one on the right was a poster and below is the back of the card written by his talented daughter Lacy.
Advancement in sleeping bag science
I stumbled upon the Lippi Selk Bag on the interwebs recently and think these are pretty rad. Just imagine instead of a sleeping bag you could rock one of these insulated suits to sleep in or wander around camp sites scaring boy scouts or maybe you are into doing old school b-boy poses like the photo below. You can check out their site here.
