Lollypops
Atypyk looks at the world and product design from an innovative, quirky and intelligent perspective. The French design duo that creates ton of fun products and here are just a couple of their fun ideas. Check out their site for many, many more.
Wine called Christ's Blood
Swimming cap
Bathtub non-slip stickers
I usually don't play online marketing games but I've had the kind of day where the idea of spitting soda onto a canvas seemed like a more productive (read: non-destructive) use of my time. McDonald's Pop Art allows visitors to pick their favorite soda flavors, a straw and dribble, spit and spray them onto a virtual canvas. Its actually kind of fun! Go forth and waste 10 minutes of your billable time!
If you're anything like me, on Mondays you need some inspiration. Here's a few goodies that we've found lately.
Sub-Studio explores a wide range of creative endeavors from home decor to fashion, illustration to photography.
Wee Birdy covers the retail design and fashion in London and features a "Birdy of the Week".
Modernemotive is a one-woman greeting card venture with an inspiring blog that features her favorite finds on Etsy as well as gorgeous photography and interviews with other artists.
[Thanks to BossMan Jim™ for the links!]
We love finding reasonably-priced artwork to make our walls pretty. That's why we are excited that Mark Penxa, a friend of Pica + Pixel and an amazing illustrator, has a great art garage sale going right now! With prices ranging from $15—$75, everyone can leave with something to make them happy. I personally snapped up two pieces for myself. And while you're there, check out his sketchbook, snowboards for DC and skateboards for The Girl Skateboard Co.. Rad.
The Hugo Awards, the prestigious science fiction award given annually since 1955 by the World Science Fiction Society (WSFS), held a contest to redesign the logo and award for 2009. There were 390 entries from 215 different entrants from 24 different countries. The winning entry was created by Jeremy Kratz of Arkansas. The logo was used to create this year's trophy and distributed to the winners last night including my personal favorite, Neil Gaiman who received the award for best novel.
Congrats to both Jeremy for the logo and Neil (and all the other nominees and winners) for continuing to inspire us with stories full of imagination!
[Surf Style collages from sfgirlbybay]
In keeping with the tropical/holiday theme this week, this is, sfgirlbybay, the online moniker of interior design writer/editor Victoria Smith. She has recently featured several tropically-themed posts so I thought this was a perfect time to introduce my favorite interiors blog. sfgirlbybay features a wide array of interior design-related topics and her posts occasionally feature her own lovely photography.
[Photos from sfgirlbybay's recent trip to Napa Valley]
[Image by David Klein. Link via Grain Edit]
Sorry for the recent absence. As always happens when I plan to go on holiday, I get swamped at work and have to double-time it, so my extracurricular activities have had to take a backseat over the past couple of weeks. That said, it seems fitting to post a few holiday-related posts in honor of the end-of-summer travels. Hope you enjoy them and I'll be back soon!
Pica + Pixel are huge fans of Charles S. Anderson and his lovely repository of vintage clipart called CSA Images. Bliss coursed through our veins when we found out that some of their stock was selling for $7 per black and white images for the world to use and abuse. We got a little nostalgic to see that the art collages to advertise the new collection reminded us of Craphound. Yay!
I don't think he did this, but it reminds me of the work he has been doing the past couple of years.
While looking for illustrators for a project at work the other day, I found a great little blog called Oatmeal and Cinnamon that focuses on a couple of our big obsessions here at Pica + Pixel: handwritten type, wonderful illustrations and just general awesomeness.
