Graphic Design Humor

IKEA Cooks

A woman in my graphic design class is designing a cookbook for her capstone project, so another student found this cookbook that IKEA has produced, because they felt you needed something as cool to do in their kitchens as their kitchens are cool. So hats off to the simple minimalism of what I like to call the IKEA flat pak cookbook (See how they've deconstructed on the ingredients (just like those damn Besto bookcases come in a million pieces). I just hope you don't need a hammer and little wooden pegs to put these recipes together!

It's Etsy Wednesday!!!

One of my favorite blogs Decor8 has Etsy Take 5 Tuesdays and since this is a lifestyle blog, based on my lifestyle and I think creative copying is fine I will make Wednesdays Etsy Wednesdays. Of course since blogging is not my career I will only give you one or two Etsy items and not ten. So for the first Etsy Wednesday I will be featuring one of my dear friend Alison's shop And Bear. Alison is being honored on The World is My Oyster (TWMO (we love initials here people)) because I'm pretty sure she is one of my only readers and that is most likely, because I make her read it. This shop features super cute paper items like children's birthday invites, but she'll create anything for you. She did the invites for my friend Megan's bridal shower which was Love Cruise themed. The invites looked like cruise tickets and the invite to the bachelorette party were the baggage claim tickets (how CREATIVE is that???!! Like I said amazing). Anyway they were so convincingly realistic that the groom's father threw it away thinking it was a cruise ticket he did not request. I love how men never notice details. It's always about the big picture. By the way, Bear is Alison's 3lbs chihuahua and my dog Clair's best friend (or fr-enemy. whatever bear.) Enjoy! And buy her stuff.

I'd Even Drink Tea if it Looked Like This

A year or so ago, my tech savvy friend, Loren, introduced to this website on packaging and graphic design and every so often I'll visit it to see what's happening in the world of branding. Well I checked it out today and this little package caught my eye.

Tea Hangers!

I think I'd even drink tea if this is what the experience was like.