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Great dress created by Liz Tan for a Halloween costume. I don't see why it is limited to Halloween though, looks like proper attire for any day.

I really need to get my wife one of these for one I go as Mario. Yes, Peach is a more obvious costume choice, but this is just awesome!

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Very cool Pac Man bag I found over on technabob. I mean how cool is that? I am a big fan of the second one because it is a bit more low key, but the first one is nice and bright.

Too bad they are only in Korea right now, the $39 price tag isn't bad though.

Makes me think about a design project I am working on, and how I might have to do a second one...

We all know that I am somewhat obsessed with video games. While I was traveling last week, I did not have a NES for my daily mario on it, so sad. As a fan of video games I am also a fan of video game art and "I am 8-Bit". If you don't know what that is it is in LA each year and is a gallery event filled with video game inspired art. Very cool. 

Above is the guitar hero guitar strap that was created in conjunction with" I am 8-bit" from Couch Guitar Straps. It also happens to be the strap on my guitar hero guitar. Love it. I am also thinking about / working on painting my guitar to go along wih the strap. Maybe soon I will have some time to work on that. I will be posting the end result on here for sure, maybe some process pics.

*NOTE I was told today how I didn't mention that my awesome wife got me the guitar strap... Well she did, and now I pay for being wrong.

A friend of mine passed this link along to me today. Not only cool shirts, but they actually mean something and can help do something.

These shirts from StatAttak are based on life expectancies from various countries. The creators of the shirt line came across these statistics, were appalled by some of the low numbers like Mozambique: 31, then found a way to make people aware of them. Plus, 20% of the sales of the shirts is going to go towards building an orphanage in Mozambique. Not only are they donating the money but they plan to go there and help build it.

So, buy one of these shirts, then when someone asks you about it, tell them why you bought it, and maybe they will help too.

I have been eyeballing these shirts for a little while and finally decided to put them up here. I found these awhile ago by forgotten means but they are t-shirts created in tribute to famous designers by Paul Nini.

He has added quite a few new shirts since I looked at his store the last time. Some I liked, and some I didn't. These are a few of my favorites though.

- I actually had the pleasure to meet Wolfgang and hangout out with him my first year in our design program. I wish I would have realized his true significance to the design world at that time. No autographs, no books signed. So stupid.

- One of my projects was on Saul Bass, and I cam to love his work. The poster I did featured this same image which was from his film title work for The Man with the Golden Arm.

- Love Brockmann all together. I own so many of his books, studied his work, just love it. A huge influence on my development as a designer

- Can't leave out Josef and can't forget studying him and painting color swatches by hand for months my first year. Where did I put that color studies book?

So those are my favorites. Wouldn't mind picking up a couple of them one day. Go and check out the rest for sure. I kind of wish their names were not so huge on the shirt, because it could make for a fun guess the designer quiz.

Quick great gift item

Pantone Cufflinks

I was at a wedding last weekend and although it wasn't really fancy enough to need cufflinks, if I had these I would have rocked them. They come in 12 different colors including Olive 17-0535 and the Pantone 2009 color of the year Mimosa 11-4800. 

Both of these colors are great as well as some of their other options. I was a big fan of the yellow before it was named color of the year, or even projected as a color trend (lets say my one time of being ahead of things...). I do really wish they were named in my more familiar colors such as 109c etc.

One day they will be mine. They can be found here for $67 a pair.