Random Design Finds

Alright, enough sour milk posts. I found some funny and interesting design related sites recently:



The "Hotdoll" solves an interesting dilemma...how do you save your soft animals, spare pillows & boyfriend's jeans from you dog Spot's incessant lovemaking? Well, give him a love doll of course. DUH. Awww...look at the little guy. It's almost romantic. Product design prototypes are always interesting.

I stumbled across this fantastic site by a couple of artists over in Washington State. The site is called Fleet Street Scandal and it offers these incredible prints inspired by 60's and 70's pulp fiction artwork. I love it. These guys show great talent in style, color and composition.

These guys over at the Cardboard Monacle offers a blog that's perhaps a little more on-topic then mine when it comes to finding design related interesting news. Anyway, they created this list of what they thought was the top 20 Animal-Themed Comic Characters which I thought was pretty funny.

Yeah, you really had to have been a comic geek to appreciate this list. But I've always admired comic art. Some of the artwork that these comic designers create on a monthly basis are sometimes so beautiful I think they belong on gallery walls more so then the ridiculous stuff that gets passed for fine art these days. I got 3 boxes of old comics stuffed away in storage somewhere...I hope my fiancee doesn't toss them all away someday.