Author: gilhooligan

I had the great pleasure of designing a logo for Michelle Fifis of Pattern Observer. She’s started up on online service that will take your artwork and repeat it to create a pattern for you. Brilliant Michelle!! See the rest of the work we did for them here

It’s been a super exciting week! Potassium Design, in collaboration with Sloan Schang of Swelldone, has launched Tinder Mill. Tinder Mill is your go-to for cards that are edgy, weird, funny, sincere, and of course, high quality. The cards are for sale on Etsy, and also on the beautifully curated shop Felt & Wire.

We have many more cards in our queue, so be sure to check back often for more selections!

is best spent on the Oregon Coast. With the sun.

Something happens between the the time I finish making a card and the time that I actually start to think about addressing the envelopes and sending it out – it’s called the entire month of December. Maybe this frozen motivation is because I’m just too darn tired from last night’s holiday party to stand in line at the post office? Maybe it’s because everyone seems to move around so much and I just can’t keep up with ever-changing physical addresses? Whatever the case, for everyone that I intended to get this card to but failed, Happy Holidays!!!

Too bad too, because the photo doesn’t do the sparkly gold paper or the velum lined inside a lick of justice.

Pink? Ok, it’s honeysuckle. But most any shade of pink is usually quite the design challenge for me. In 2011, my resolution will be to, as Pantone suggests, “Let the bold spirit of Honeysuckle infuse (me), lift (me) and carry (me) through the year.”

Pantone 2011 Color of the Year

I miss 2010’s Turquoise (Pantone 15-5519) already.

Any decent R&B song will tell you – splitting up with your sweetheart (or not so sweet)  is tough stuff. The last thing you need to endure is the relentless questioning from friends and family. But you also don’t want to risk running into your ex at a party or event where the host was unaware of your separation and invited both of you. Breakup notices deliver this message for you succinctly and stylishly. Just check the appropriate boxes, address to receiver, apply postcard stamp and off they go! Now, just don’t answer your phone.