So you’re a fan artist, you have some work that’s making waves on Tumblr/DeviantArt/your mom’s Facebook and you’d like to try to monetize your work? We’re here to help. This is part one in an occasional series for artists who are looking to do more with their art. THE MAJOR...

Emojis originated in Japan, but thankfully their use has spread rapidly throughout the world. Many of us send text messages and emails that consist entirely of the pictographs. Soon we may even be able to forego words entirely and rely on emoji- based communication alone. Though emojis exist across a...

  Alana McCarthy is an amazing, award-winning illustrator.  Her commercial clients have included The Wall Street Journal, Cadbury, Coca-Cola, Scholastic, Penguin Books, and Absolut Vodka. She also created the adorably fresh logo for our sister site Freak4MyPet.com. Alana is best known for her Geeky Pet art, which depicts cats, and the...

Oh Valentine’s Day- a holiday supposedly about expressing love, sending cards, flowers and teddy bears, but lets be real here- Valentine’s day is all about the candy! Whether you are single, dating, betrothed, married or divorced candy is pretty much all you should be eating this weekend. While some of us...

Pantone Guides are books of thin cardboard color swatches that artists, designers, printers and manufacturers use to “color match” when a design enters its production stage... i.e. they ensure that you are painting lavender instead of eggplant by accident. Different printing equipment and computers can have different ideas of what a...

Peddy Mergui is a top branding expert, artist, and designer. He is known for his prowess at making “rule-breaking” designs and concepts. His recent project, Wheat is Wheat is Wheat, pairs basic commodities like eggs, rice, and milk with luxury packaging. This work illuminates the struggle Mergui faces as a...

Woe is everyone. SkyMall, our favorite mile-high catalogue is going out of business. Where will we buy our paper towel holder phone chargers and denim lounge pants now? In memoriam this post is dedicated to our favorite SkyMall-related art and a Tumblr project called SkyMall Doodles, which asked airline passengers...

Fabrics made from recycled and earth-friendly materials are all the rage these days. There is nothing cooler than being fashionable and treating Mother Earth with kindness. Candy wrappers, trash bags, fast food wrappers, and newspapers can all be turned into great outfits. Here are our favorite looks made from recycled...

  For the most part the fashion world likes its models and spokespeople as young as they can get them. Teenagers crowd the pages of fashion magazines and the runways in New York, Paris, and Milan. That is why we’ve been thrilled recently that women over fifty have been popping up...

Disposable coffee cups usually get tossed in the garbage or recycling when the coffee dries up, but amazing things can happen when artists not only hang on to the vessel that held their morning coffee, but spend loads of time adorning them!! Recently, some awesome Starbucks worshippers have illustrated the cups...