Back in November Mike was part of the torch relay for the winter olympics (!!!). He decided that it was enough of a momentous occasion that he bought the torch. Turns out you only pass the flame, not the torch itself. But we had no idea how to display it. The organizers were selling a stand that you could put on a shelf or table or whatever but
We didn’t like the design
We had no where to put it
Even if we liked it and had a place to put it, it is almost guaranteed that our gremlins cats would knock it over
So we knew we wanted to put it on the wall, and we were envisioning some sort of hook or whatever, but we didn’t know what would fill this duty or what such a thing would be sold as (since no one really sells “torch hooks”). This past weekend though, we came across the perfect thing while looking for castors – rubberized hooks for hanging tools in the garage. Not only was the rubberized bit almost the exact same colour as our walls, they were only 0.89$ a hook! Compared to the 50+ dollars that the stand would have cost us. It was super easy to mount (screw hooks into wall) and we only needed two.
I just wanted to let everyone know that I’m now accepting custom logo work requests on Etsy! My Etsy shop has been revamped and I’m rearing to design up a storm!
The Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA) released a font called “Coming Together” just a little while ago as part of Font Aid. It’s entirely ampersands (this character: &) contributed by many different artists. It’s only 20$ US and all of the funds go directly to MSF (Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders). It’s such a cute idea and a great cause and it shows that no matter what you’re good at, you can always lend a hand (not everyone needs to be a doctor/foreign aid worker).
So lend a hand and get a cool font in the process! It’ll probably be the best 20$ you spend in a while!
Is it bad that I want a Pogo Printer? I know that they’re pretty lame in the sense that they’re poor quality without the vintage appeal and after somewhere around a year of Polaroid saying “naw, we’re not going to make our classic film anymore” they’ve changed their minds and are totally still making film (which means I technically could just get a “real” Polaroid camera). But at 50$ (probably more here since that’s the American price) and for 30 little prints for just over 10$, it seems like a pretty cool idea.
I was thinking it would be especially cool to have when Mike and I go to San Franciscon this summer because we got a little Moleskine City Notebook and I think that the little Pogo stickers might fit in it better than “real” polaroids. We shall see and regardless, the technology is so nifty (and I’m a sucker for those sorts of things).
I’m designing a shirt for a post-exam adventure that my class is having after out Pathology-Immunology-Microbiology exam. I figured that since the powers that be are decided that it would be ingenious to switch to computer based exams, pixel art might be appropriate. I wish that we were printing in more than one colour, since it would be fun to colour these. I might do that anyways, just for my own fun.
PS I’m watching the Oscars. I hope Up wins everything.
I saw Wilco last night. The show was amazing! Mike and I also got a poster, we shall add this to our (growing) collection of screen printed posters. I’ll take a photo of them sometime. Wilco always has amazing, amazing posters. Check them out!
Bahamas opened, and he (plus drummer) was excellent too. Listen! (courtesy of CBC3)
I might be hard to resist getting this, since it’s both letterpress and anatomical. Not to mention just plain cute. This creation is by Etsy seller Roll & Tumble Press.
This is the first poster I’ve done in a while (or at least it feels like it). The people on the Humanities Committee love bright, primary colours, so that’s what I went for.
Way back when (and I do mean forever ago) I told the very newly envisioned undergraduate science journal that I would help them with their graphic and layout design. More than a year later the first issue is out and even though it was a lot of stress at crunch time everything turned out so well and there were no issues with the printer or printing at all. I’m incredibly proud of this little thing, despite the years it seemed to take off my life.
I’m so very excited for this movie. Not only is it a book that I loved when I was a kid (I read almost all of Roald Dalh’s books), but it’s Wes Anderson and IT’S CLAYMATION!
I have a super soft spot in my heart for claymation ever since I made a couple of my own back in the day. I think that they were so smart to do this movie in this medium instead of computer animation. Don’t get me wrong, I love that style too, but this is just too perfect.
