i ate this recently: a beautiful pink heart-shaped lamington, twice the price of normal brown block-shaped lamingtons because it was made for mother’s day. surely this is the best mother’s day product ever. beats the ugg boots, the cosmetic gift sets, the DVDs of “something’s gotta give”, the discounted kitchen appliances…
actually i came thisclose to getting the braun blender with the glass jug and five speeds including one labelled with “icon of bowl of soup”, which would be perfect for the impending broccoli soup experiment. but instead came away with special mother’s day priced “lost in translation” DVD. woo!
trivial, soup-related distractions aside, i think i’m finally getting back into the merry swing of werk, four, maybe five months after returning from overseas. the last few weeks have been spent tweaking logos: working out kerning in extremely small increments, debating whether a milky chocolate brown is better than a rich coffee brown, nudging a graphic representation of a fig around a box trying to make it look less turd-like and more fig-like (unrelated to previously mentioned brown issue), wondering if 5pt type is too small…
oh it’s been fun! and now the anticipation of getting it all back from the printers. crisp letterheads and lush, environmentally unfriendly, matt-celloglazed business cards. so i was quite horrified when amongst the penis enlargements (so many penis enlargements!) and cheap software i was offered in my inbox, there was this handy service. shudder, and sigh.
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me thinks the heart shaped pink lamo is very spesh. i would have bought it. i like to get the biscuit cutters and try to make heart shaped pancakes, not as warm and fuzzy as the lamo, just a deep internal sense of accomplishment.
the other thing you can make with the heart shape cutters — big ones — is fried eggs. classy!
who are you, mysterious regular visitor tvdog, with your knowledgeable appreciation of cake and gelato?
a big white heart with a yellow dot is classy.
me? just a guy who appreciates Danks St, Pyrmont markets, the Gaelic club and many other regulars on your site. I stumbled across this place (no, I wasn’t the swedish guy looking for porn) when there was a story about a cow shaped sandwich maker, then a coffee maker and was hooked by your drawings and posters with the disgruntled stories (if I wasn’t so crap at it I think I would have liked to have done graphic design myself) and now I’m enjoying the adventure in fine eating. I’m better at eating than design.
if it’s any consolation, eating is much funner than designing. doing the two simultaneously is also not too shabby, but the keyboard can become overwhelmed with crumbs, and the mouse sticky with chocolatey smudges.
wow. you have been coming by for a while. years even, it would seem! maybe you need some sort of badge-of-office. ^_^