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So I’m shamefully including the word “sexy” in the title of this post to increase search engine hits… is that a crime?
Today is collab friday again – and this is another reader suggestion! This time from my good buddy and fellow northwest-michigander Robbie Morford.
Here on the northwest shores of Lake Michigan, we experience a natural phenomenon known as “lake effect.” We’re perfectly positioned in climate and landscape to enjoy hundreds of inches of snow every year. Most years the snow starts falling around Thanksgiving and continues each day until after Christmas. The newness of winter and the pure white blanket that covers everything is always an inspiring change. I don’t think I could ever live in a place that has no winter.
But as we turn the corner into February, each of the slowly falling flakes brings with it a tiny dose of depression.
When weeks and months pass without any sunshine, our bodies and minds enter a kind of hibernation that makes motivation hard to come by.
For Collaboration Friday today I got a handful of totally random vector shapes from Minneapolis designer (and Old & New contributor) Anne Ulku.
I saw a snail and some tee-pees and a bird face so there you go.
Want to do a fun collaboration next Friday? Follow me on Twitter so we can make something rad.
It’s Collab Friday!!
This week’s illustration is a reader suggestion… and for some reason this week everyone was suggesting super-weird and specific things (like I’m that weird??)
Everything from three-headed-kitten-mermaids to stilted tortoises…
When two different people happened to mention pie I knew we were on to something though…
@sacredlotus suggested bunnies eating pie and Matt suggested Cake vs. Pie…
So I decided to draw Cake vs. Pie in a bunny-eating contest.
Still kind of weird for me, but that’s the fun of collaborating, right?
What should I draw next time?
Get this delicious illustration on your desktop dudes:
I’m lucky enough to have never suffered from chronic depression.
But it does sneak up on me from time to time.
Every once in a while I’d just as soon stay in bed and am lucky that my office is a mere 3 feet away or I’d never make it.
Today is one of those days.
Earlier this week I threw a “who wants to collaborate today” on Twitter and the first to respond was Lori Andrews (aka @designertweets) so I told her to send me a photo and I’d do something fun with it.
Having watched Lori’s work for a while I totally expected one of her Albertan landscape polaroids, but she totally threw me for a loop with this shot of Wonder Woman on her day off..
I immediately thought of those 1980s READ posters that you’d see at the library.
This is the first of a brand new project category for Strong Odors – every Friday will feature a collaborative project. It will either be an Odorifous interview, a spontaneous collaboration like this, or a reader suggested illustration.
So for next Friday I need your help!
Leave a comment below or on my Facebook page what I should draw and I’ll pick my favorite to publish next Friday (January 20).
Who knows, your idea may even end up as a limited edition print!
Are you an illustrator, photographer, artist, designer, etc? Let’s do something fun together! Email me with an idea or a random image.
On the rare occasion that I pour a cup of tea without spilling a drop I feel like some sort of martial arts master.
I’m sure it’s possible that after a million years of pouring tea our society could have designed a pot less prone to dribbling, but to pour a perfect cup from some sort of fool-proof “modern” design just wouldn’t offer the same satisfaction.
In those one-in-a-million moments when I lift and tip with the perfect angle and trajectory that not a single molecule of red rose drools down the spout I sit up straighter and feel that much more confident… like I can take on this afternoon with the unmatched balance of voracity and patience of a Jedi master.
