4th December
2008

- Nubby Twiglet made a wonderful post full of Graphic Design Resources.
- Fawn Gehweiler made a post recently titled Cute Clutter vs. Creative Chaos where she shows images from other artist’s workspaces and homes.
- Do art schools care about your GPA?
- I want this calendar!
- Blurb is an awesome site that lets you create your own bookstore quality books on your own computer, then you send the file to them, they print it and ship it back to you. They’re having a free shipping special for purchases over $10 from now until 11:59 PM PST December 5, 2008. That’s tomorrow night! So, hurry and make yourself a book. Enter this promotion code at the checkout: freeshipping!
- The NY Times wrote recently about the shift from starving artist, to gainfully self-employed artist in their article Transforming Art Into a More Lucrative Career Choice
- ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive posted scans from a WW2 pamphlet illustrating how to be a cartoonist in just 16 pages
- ZeroTAG (Zero Tolerance Against Graffiti) defaced an ADIDAS ad for graffiti inspired shoes in Australia a few months ago. You can see pictures on I Believe in Advertising.
- A recently graduated graphic designer writes into Salon.com for advice on what to do with life after college “I’m restless and creative but don’t know where to begin.”
I came across a video of Surrealist artist Salvador Dali on the old television show “What’s My Line?” It’s quite funny, Dali was a very eccentric man. Also, it’s really amusing to see how language in situations like this has changed since this program first aired.

Bike Furniture Design is a design and manufacturing studio specializing in contemporary, modern furniture made primarily from recycled steel and aluminum bicycle rims, handlebars, and frames.
You can see more of this wicked cool furniture at Bike Furniture.com

Silhouette Masterpiece Theatre features a lot of art pieces like this. Silhouettes of Victorian characters featuring quotes reminiscent of a Victorian LOLcats (or the online comic Wondermark). You can see the whole collection at Silhouette Masterpiece Theatre.com and order some framed prints of your favorite pieces at their Big Cartel Store.








i love that silhouette masterpiece theatre! lol.