9 posts tagged “design”

After the dust finally settled on our move, we started unpacking – both physically and mentally. One of the boxes in the back of my mind was on the Vintage shelf, where I store my love for many things vintage, retro, antique and timeless.
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50 refreshing business card designs. Just passing along the daily dose of self-loathing that might inspire some of you.

Give yourself some awesome : Bookmarks And Coffee.

As our holiday hiatus draws to a close (yes, it lasts from mid-December to mid-February), I'd like to go over a couple highlights in no particular order. Before doing that, it occurs to me that I have so many blogs, it pains me to open another one.  So I won't... at least for the moment.  Although I'd like to get a drunkbunny-specific one to go with all my drunkbunny stuff.  We'll see.

Anyway!  The following is from my updated myspace.

+inspiration+
...my friends.  this new batch is completely wonderful, inspirational, and forty kinds of awesome.  you guys rock.

+current+
...tattoos, bags, decks, a children's book and various sketcheries.  totalling about 9 projects currently with potential for two upcoming logos and a gallery.  :whew:!
i'm also pleased to announce that drunkbunnyinc.com is finally purchased and properly redirecting.  the site won't be up until i find my dreamweaver CD and get that installed.

That is the very short version.  Sorry it's taken so long.  Hope you're all well.

Happy Breakfasting,
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Sorry gang, no punchline.  It just sounded good in my head.

1) New car!  Please reference this LJ article for further details.  His name is Chubbles and I proclaim it Good.  Pictures of *my* car needed, but the default photo is pretty close.

2) Holidays make me crazy.  I am going insane. 

3) Art makes me crazy.  I am going insane.  But I love art.

4) If you've been following along, you'll know I'm bipolar.  This session is less of a mood swing and more of a mood tsunami.  My manic phase has kicked in to overdrive and my friends are to blame... they are starting to want more from me (by this I mean products/art for themselves).  This is not a bad thing in any way, I love my friends and love making things for them; my friend Eric called this the "design high", and it's very nice to hear someone else put a term to the craziness that happens.  Unfortunately the output can't keep up with the input right now.  I've been ingesting epic amounts of inspiration, mostly via MySpace ...yes, that site can actually be a goldmine for artsy folk.  It's like a giant Juxtapoz or something, but with hundreds of thousands of people.  The major problem happens when I go into a high-speed mode, and start putting out quantity instead of quality.  My perfectionism wins out, my brain then processes all of whatever I just made as Utter Crap, and I become totally depressed, resulting in a complete shutdown that lasts anywhere from a week to a year. 

The only way this process seems to work appropriately is if I'm on a deadline - if I'm not creating for just myself, then the shutdown seems to be voided by the fact that Someone Else Wants My Stuff.

So....... if you picture my brain as a normal, functioning cog inside a machine inside a building inside a city... the short version of what's happening to me right now is something like this:

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Hey you...
Have you felt like this before?
You got style but ain't got soul
Are you happy now?
Are you happy, tonight?
Or did Punk Rock get it right?
Is there no future in sight?
Oh is it different now? Is it different?

Come on
Come on, come on, come on
Where are you? Where are you?
I'm kicking and screaming
You're not listening...
Where are you? Where are you?
Everything I've believed in, has lied to me
But this could be the best day, of my life
The best day of my life

Hey you
Have you got everything you want?
Or do you want more than you got?
Is it different now? Is it different, tonight?
Or did Jesus get it right?
Or is the devil behind the light?
Are you happy now? Are you happy?

Come on
Come on, come on, come on
Where are you? Where are you?
I'm kicking and screaming,
You're not listening ...
Where are you? And where are you?
Everything I've believed in, has lied to me
But this could be the best day of my life
Oh this could be the best day of my life
Ohhh sons and daughters,
Mothers and fathers,
Everyone's waiting for our luck to change
Sons and daughters,
Mothers and fathers,
Everyone's waiting, waiting

Cause this could be the best day
And this could be the best day
And this could be the best day, best day, best day

Come on
Come on, come on, come on
Where are you? Where are you?
I'm kicking and screaming
You're not listening...
Where are you? And where are you?
Everything I've believed in, has lied to me

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Sometimes I wish I was medicated.

The past four days have been a spin cycle of eating and sleeping.  Wednesday night was a hot tub party at this place my coworker was house-sitting.  Did that get mentioned?  Is that proper grammar?  I don't know, but it was okay either way.  There was wine, cheese and good times, and I slept well.  On Thursday and Friday Jason and I just ate, slept, then ate more.  So much food.  Saturday was an 1130-8 shift, followed by meeting up with Maria & Trent for a Rancho's/Claire de Lune session.  Even more food, good lord.  Then yesterday they came over for brunch... April missed out due to being stuck at work and Sandy missed out due to being hungover.  Anyway, MORE food and champagne resulted in my taking a four-hour nap.  Then I spent the rest of the day leveling and being pleased at how my progress towards a level 70 is going.  I'm not pleased at how my progress towards an expanding waistline is going, but I do like food.

There's a whole hell of a lot going on for me right now, with things involving and not involving the drama llama.  He's been trampling all over the place for the past couple weeks, but I've decided not to feed him. 

It's my current social experiment to see if I am up to the task of just relating facts as they occur, and to try to leave all my opinions out.
ALL my opinions, which means also leaving some facts out, because by bringing them up it causes nothing but tension and general evil... therefore leaving me no choice but to expound upon my opinions. 

That was a mouthful, but the short version is:  There's a *lot* going on around me, and I'm not happy about all of it.  However I need to vent, so these short bursts of vagueness are the best I can allow myself to do.  They allow me to get out some frustration without stirring up more crap.

An even shorter version would be a nod to Fight Club:  Don't let the things you own end up owning you.  This counts for the Internet too.

Oh, for those paying attention, I mentioned "things involving and not involving the drama llama".  The things not involving him are almost fantastic enough to balance out the evil right now, so that's cool.  I've been making more art than I know what to do with, which pleases me greatly.  This is good.

The external world is fragile, and he who meddles with its natural way, risks causing damage to himself.
He who tries to grasp it, thereby loses it.
It is natural for things to change, sometimes being ahead, sometimes behind.
There are times when even breathing may be difficult, whereas its natural state is easy.
Sometimes one is strong, and sometimes weak, sometimes healthy, and sometimes sick, sometimes is first, and at other times behind.
The sage does not try to change the world by force, for he knows that force results in force.
He avoids extremes and excesses, and does not become complacent.

Here are links to things I find nifty… also known as Links of Ultimate Want.  Currently they’re grouped alphabetically, though ideally I’d like to have them grouped alphabetically in alphabetical groups. 

I’m having that problem with my CDs too… maybe I should stop watching High Fidelity.

Behold!

2modern - Furniture / Home Decor

Agape - Furniture / Home Decor
allthatanda - Random Buyables
ApartmentTherapy.Com- - Furniture / Home Decor
ApartmentTherapy's Plant Therapy- Plants, Home Decor
Axi - Furniture

BenjaminHubert.co.uk - Home Decor
Book of Joe - Random Blogger and Various Home Decor
Behind the Curtains - Furniture / Home Decor
Becca-jo- Crafty / DIY
blogging top design - Interior / Exterior Design
Black+Blum- Home Decor
http://www.blueflipart.com- Art

Cheryl Think Tank - Food, Random Blogger, Crafty
Curbly -Crafty / DIY
Coolhunting.com - Random Buyables
Cribcandy.com - Random Buyables / Home Decor
Core77.com - Art / Design Resource
Christy's Modern Links - Don't Click Here, It's A Trap
Circa50 - Furniture
Cool & Eclectic - Furniture
Chiasso - Furniture / Home Decor
Cool Living - Furniture / Home Decor
craftster.org - Crafty / DIY
clothes-pin - Clothing
charles and hudson - Home Improvement / DIY
covetable - Random Buyables
crunch22 - Art / Gadgets / Random Blogger

Decor8 - Home Improvement / DIY / Crafty
Designllama - Art / Design Resource
Designsponge.Blogspot.Com - Home Decor / Random Buyables
Designspotter - Furniture / Home Decor / Design Resource
Dune - Furniture
Design Addict - Design Resource
Designobject - Home Decor / Random Buyables
Design Within Reach - Home Decor / Furniture
Design & Comfort - Furniture
design-milk - Home Decor / Furniture
Designbot - Art

eatdrinknbmerry - Food / Art
elaine vigneault - Random Blogger

Funfurde.Blogspot.Com - Home Decor / Art / Furniture
fabulously green - Interior Design / Style
fototiller - Art / DIY / Crafty

Generate - Furniture / Home Decor
Goodman Charlton - Furniture / Interior Design
grass roots modern - Furniture / Home Decor / Art
Georgina Goodman - Fashion
Gizmodo - Gadgets / Random Buyables
Green-Links - Save The Earth And Stuff

House&Garden Mirrors - Home Decor
Hive - Furniture / Home Decor
Home and Tell - Interior / Exterior Design / Home Improvement
Home Rejuvenation Blog - Home Decor / Interior Design

Idealist.Blinkr.Net - Ideas!
InhabitLiving.com - Home Decor
Ikea - It's All Their Fault
Informidealbite.com - Eco-Friendly Tips
ikeahacker - Furniture / Home Decor / Home Improvement
IkeaFans - Furniture / Home Decor / Home Improvement

Jensen-Lewis - Furniture
Jean Snow - Furniture / Home Decor / Random Buyables / Art
Josh Spear - Art

kfreshdesigns - Art / Random Buyables / Random Blogger / Interior Design

LandLiving.com - Home Decor / Design / Gadgets
LifeRemix.net - Random Blogger / Tips For Life
Lightology - Home Decor
Ligne Roset - Furniture
lovemarks - Uber-branding

modern-roost - Furniture / Home Decor
minimal.com - Furniture / Home Decor
minimal.com's Corner Lamp - Home Decor
MocoLoco - Furniture / Home Decor
Moss - Home Decor / Random Buyables
my marrakesh - Style / Fashion / Random Buyables
modernflat - Home Decor / DIY
modcottage - Home Decor / Random Buyables

NY Times House & Home - Home Improvement
NOTCOT - Home Decor / Design / Random Buyables

On the 6th - DIY / Food

Plushpod - Furniture / Home Decor
Purecontemporary - Furniture / Home Decor / Design
Product Dose - Random Buyables
project top design - Home Improvement / Interior Design
Positive Fanatics - Ikea News

Reluct.com - Home Decor / Design
Retromodern - Home Decor
Retrothing - Gadgets
RoseAndRadish - Home Decor / Art

Sedesregia.lt - Furniture
SOMA Sofa - Furniture
Straight from the Crate - Furniture / Home Decor
silkfeltsoil - Home Decor / Art
sfgirlbybay - Home Decor / Crafty / Home Improvement
shelterrific - Home Decor / Home Improvement
Shakadoo - Home Decor / Home Improvement
Szado - Furniture
Soho Spices - Food / Home Decor
SuckUK - Home Decor / Art
Straight Line Design - Furniture
Sensory Impact - Art / Design / Gadgets

The Groovy Mind - Random Buyables / Food
The Magazine - Furniture / Home Decor
The Well Dressed Home - Home Decor
this old house - Home Improvement
Treehugger - EcoFriendly Stuff
Trendir - Home Decor
Think Geek - Gadgets / Random Buyables
top design wiki - Interior Design / Home Improvement

uberreview - Gadgets / Art / Random Blogger
Urbane Online.com - Furniture / Home Decor
UrbanPeel.com - Home Decor
Urbana - Furniture
Unica Home - Home Decor / Random Buyables
UK Modern Furniture - Furniture / Design

Velocity - Furniture / Home Decor

WhatIsBlik.com - Art / Home Decor

Zoe Design - Furniture / Interior Design

If Architects Had To Work Like Web Designers

Link courtesy of http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/.

It made my brain hurt just thinking about it... but it's true.  Also if you architects could add some flashy blinky sh/t that looks just like the red parts on flashyblinkysh-t.com, we'd love that. Thank you.