Creepily lovely little things

I stumbled upon Jessica Joslin's website and I have to say I am in loooove! She creates these whimsical little creatures by hand and each one has this morbidly beautiful quality to them. Check out her site there is definitely a lot of slick stuff to go through!

Super Mario lives!

Old school twist on the ipod

How can you not love this?! A gramophone and ipod unite - who woulda thought? This piece is the size of a table lamp and made of ceramic. Hmm, I would actually prefer not seeing the ipod. Maybe it could slip into the bottom part of the faux gramophone? Well I still desperately want one - how could I not? Oh yeah - maybe cause it's $500 bucks! sheesh! I will just stare at the photo to satisfy my mock gramophone craving.

You can purchase it here.

Skullastic.com

Hey there!

Hope everyone had a swell New Year's celebration. I spent mine in DC and it was fun! I got to hang in China Town, see the Washington Monument, ride the metro and see alotta Obama paraphernalia. I had a nice dinner at this spot called Sonoma and it was all spent in great company. I also stopped by this vegan bakery called Sticky Fingers and ohhhhh my it was deeeeeelicious! I had a chocolate brownie and this bagel with tempeh bacon for breakfast yesterday. Droooolable material! I brought back a cupcake for my friend Tanya and I swear she was making sweet lovin to it! It probably would have been a good idea if her and the cupcake had their own room! hahahah ;)

Well now onto the business side of things...

Good news alert: Skullastic.com is up and running! Now you may ask "What in the turds is Skullastic.com?" This spot provides school supplies with attitude. From t-shirts, rulers and journals - any F student would be excited about these school supplies! Skullastic is based in Hollywood and I had the pleasure of working with them when I was living in LA. I designed the "Decomposition" notebook and it was a ton of fun to work on.

Don Rich - founder of Skullastic approached me with this slick project. His concept was to put a twist on that old school composition notebook and to use the title, "Decomposition" notebook. He went on elaborating his intentions with this notebook; objects decomposing into the cover and many other gross and smelly things. I was instantly smitten! I had the opportunity to use my hand lettering skills & I definitely went to town on this one. Below is the final outcome.

front cover

I presented the idea to have the bugs ingesting the old marble pattern to go along with the decomposing idea and Don dug it. Phew! ;) I then went ahead and created a bunch of bug illustrations to complete the cover.

front interior

What I was really excited about was that the lined paper didn't have to be that generic lined notebook paper. I got to explore that avenue and tie the concept into every part of this journal. 

back cover

Yes, I hand lettered all that info in there which caused me to be cross-eyed for 3 days. ;)

Later gators! :D