Archive for November, 2008

Inspiration | A couple of cool images

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

We draw inspiration for not our modern jewelry in a number of ways, such as seeing what other creatives are doing. Since both of us have a design-background, we regularly use tools like Adobe Illustrator of Photoshop in our ‘ideation’ phase when we come up with new products.

When we saw this “Real-World” photoshop image, we knew we had to share.  There’s a Flickr set of how they put this image of the Photoshop interface using real-life objects:

(via BoingBoing.  See the full-size image here).

We also love illustration, which is part of the reason why we started up our Metal for Monsters line — it gave us an excuse to collaborate with some really talented illustrators.  The second image that crossed our paths recently is a great illustration by Patrick Moberg:

(via Drawn! See Patrick Moberg’s blog here).

New products | Stainless steel rings with inlays and “Make Your Own” custom pendants

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

We’ve just added our newest product to our online jewelry store; stainless steel rings complete with some beautiful inlays:

Stainless steel rings by Blend Creations

They’re good for both men and women (as both of us wear them), and are available in sizes 5-10 in half-size increments.

Also, we just added “Make Your Own” Metal for Monsters pendants (in both wide and tall orientations).

We know there are plenty of creative types out there: people who doodle, or people who have kids that make wonderful drawings that parents would love to show off, or perhaps you just want to make your Roscharch/palm print ink blot masterpiece.

Whatever the case, you can do it on our ‘small canvas for a big cause‘.  To make your own Metal for Monster pendant, just download this PDF, create, and send it back to us either by email or fax (full instructions are on the PDF).  You can sign it on the back, or write a special message, or even put another little doodle.  We’ll send you back a mock-up for your review before it gets produced, and then you’ll get your very own completely custom, laser-etched stainless steel pendant.  All that, and $16 from the sale price will still go to UNICEF.  Pretty cool, eh? :)