freak animals

29 April 2010   //     0 comments   //   caught my eye, type

I was looking for dog pictures the other day and wandered over to DaFont, my favorite free font website. Found the dogs I needed, and also found this: Freak Animals dingbat font. How fantastic are these? Wouldn’t they look great printed large and framed in a group?

Created by the apparently awesome Rodrigo German.

frankenstein: an unintentional study

28 April 2010   //     0 comments   //   caught my eye, clever, design

Traveling around the web tonight, I found two different, unrelated, brilliant Frankenstein interpretations. I’m totally inspired by them both.

Logo by Siah Design, found at LogoPond, a great source for logo design inspiration.

Book cover by Julian Hansen, found at his portfolio site.

decision tree

28 April 2010   //     0 comments   //   cartoon

Oh yes. I like it too.

See more of Harold’s Planet, and subscribe to their daily cartoon here.

And here’s a bonus cartoon for you — my all-time favorite from them:

vintage carnival gambling boards

23 April 2010   //     1 comment   //   color, design, ephemera, vintage

Just found these Vintage Carnival Gambling Boards over at the always exciting Modern Fifty. What do you think they are?

Regardless, wouldn’t they look fantastic in a kids room?

Buy them here.

beam drop

21 April 2010   //     0 comments   //   nature, video

Thank you Jen Dawkins for sharing this amazing, zen-like video with me on my birthday.

I could have watched this for an hour and been amazed anew with each drop.

vintage records

13 April 2010   //     1 comment   //   ephemera, kids, vintage

Wow wow wow. Just, wow.

Moddern Kiddo has a phenomenal post up today with about a million vintage kids’ record covers. If I weren’t careful, I’d end up posting every one of them here for you to see. But instead go over there and check em all out. I’m always a sucker for the drawn-on-a-napkin, bleedy technique above. And the red title on the pink background? With the fox’s purple hat? Is fantastic.

And the panels in this one. With the crazy color palette. Red, moss green, yellow, flesh and navy? Are you kidding me? I can barely stop staring at it.

La la la la, lightbulb.

(All photos are credited at the original post. Go see.
And thanks Modern Kiddo for being so altogether awesome.)