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Gift idea 7 | For the fun-loving

Tuesday, November 30th, 2010

This is day 7 of our 10 days of gift ideas.  Take a look at days 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6.

If there’s someone on your holiday shopping list who likes a touch of fun and whimsy in their accessories, then they’ll get a kick out of our Oog Charmer Necklaces.  There’s the skull, the old-school gaming styled ghost, or our impish devil.

Take advantage of this gift idea and use the promo code GiftIdea7 to get 33% off* any Charmer necklace purchase. This promo code is good for TODAY ONLY and expires at midnight (EST) tonight.

*As with all promo codes, you can only use one per order, and it cannot be combined with other offers.

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Inspiration | Charmer-inspired jack-o-lanterns?

Wednesday, October 27th, 2010

When we originally designed our Oog series of Charmer necklaces, we wanted something fun.  It was just a coincidence that they happened to be a little spooky too:

If you haven’t yet carved your pumpkin yet for Hallowe’en, here are three free jack-o-lantern templates you can use:

To use the templates:

1) Click on the template you’d like to use, and you’ll be taken to a full-size version.

2) Right-click the full-size template and “Save image as”, to save the template to your computer

3) Print out your image in landscape orientation with your printer, or re-scale as necessary.

4) Tape or pin the template to your pumpkin. You can use a pin to mark the outlines and then connect the dots of the outline.  (You’ll be cutting out the grey areas of the template).

Enjoy! If you use any of these templates, we’d love to see photos of the complete jack-o-lanterns!

Update: Here are some photos of completed jack-o-lanterns, thanks to my friend Shannon!

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Inspiration | Test your Colour IQ

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Being in a creative field such as design, we make it a point of pride to pay attention to small details (like the intricate patterns of our engraved-wood designs, or the tiny radius in the corners of our bamboo inlays — that’s not a result of happy accidents; it’s all on purpose!)

Another thing we can be rather picky about is specific shades of colour – how to name the various washi patterns we have is always fun.  I had seen this a while back and meant to blog about it, and then noticed that Drawn! mentioned it today — this is a fun little test to see just how well you can discern varying hues. Good fun for all you visual-types :)

It doesn’t take that long to do, and in case you’re wondering here’s Vivian’s result:

The lower the score the better, so not too shabby.  So you can see why we make it a point of contention to identify ‘vermillion’ versus ‘rust’!

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Inspiration | Pitagora Suicchi

Thursday, July 20th, 2006

After spending too much time watching various videos on Youtube, we found these videos of Rube Goldberg machines that they made for segments on a Japanese kids’ show called Pitagora Suicchi (Pythagorean Switch). A warning though, the music can get annoying and the video’s a little over 4 minutes long.

We’re suckers for these types of things. In my first year of design school I was required to make a similar type of machine that had to be powered by a steel ball and take up no more than 2 cubic feet while running a total of ten seconds. The other requirement was that it light a match in the end. And have a theme. Hard, but in the end, kind of fun. Mine had a New Year’s theme, counted down from ten, played Aud Lang Syne and popped a balloon full of confetti to boot. I’m glad I’m not in school any more ;)

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Inspiration | Putting the fun in function

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

I’ve always had a soft spot for whimsical design — hence why we own a $20+ “Mr. Suicide” bath plug, when the local Canadian Tire will gladly sell you a replacement bath plug for $2.

I re-discovered j-me: original design, via a link from not martha (who linked their clever lemon squeezer/juice catcher today). J-me is the work of two designers and brothers, Mark and Jamie.

In the past, I remembered seeing their key I’ve seen their his and hers key holders:

I like that they won’t be accidentally falling off the wall (available for £12).

These simple coat hooks are good too — especially if they actually encourage the photographee to actually hang up their coat, instead of say, leaving it on the furniture… (available for £5).

They’ve got a small range of products, but each have their functionality with a dash of fun.

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