Top 10 Pet Peeves of Graphic Designers

10. Business cards or other corporate applications that include the font "Comic Sans" or "Courier".

9. The people who bring in the corporate applications mentioned previously in No. 10

8. The notion that the more fonts you use, the cooler it looks!

7. Clients who insist they "get you" like no one else does, because they too are a "creative spirit"..."why don't the normal people understand how we operate?!" ;)

6. Any situation involving math.

5. Clients who already know what they want, for better or for worse. And every time you try and deviate from their grand vision, they smack you back into line...even if what they want is a purple monkey dishwasher.

4. "Can't you just..." something. Those words always spell trouble for yours truly.

3. People who show up Fridays at 10 minutes until closing time, in a huge "emergency" rush for business cards for their big trade show that starts at 9 AM saturday morning. GUESS WHAT. You opted to attend this conference MONTHS ago, so why are you only here now, and you have "Absolutely no cards!!" !?!?!?!?! I don't understand these people (@_@)

2. People who haggle with the price. Especially when it's really, really fair. More than fair. If it's not worth that much, and if you could do the same thing for less time and money, WHY DIDN'T YOU?

1. "When you asked me to proof it...I didn't actually think I had to READ IT!!"

AaAaAAaAagh...*Muppet flail*

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In other news, I have decided to delve into the world of jewlery to a very very limited extent. At Anthrofest I will have custom dog collar necklaces with charms and my artwork in bottlecap charms, which will not be available anywhere else!!!

Photos to follow if all goes well. If disaster strikes, well. I'll quietly hush it up. ;)

I am also going to make bottle cap magnets and the like..keychains as well eventually, so watch out for those! I have some from a friend, and I am completely in love, and inspired by them. ;)

Meow ;)

Well, Welcome to the July Kitsch Kraft...it's a bit late (HElloooo Anne, it's like, the end of Jullyyy....) but, oh well.

It's something exciting to keep busy with.

This month's Kraft is.....

FABULOUS FLIP FLOPS!

So here's what we will need for our flip flops:

• A pair of flip flops..which are pretty much sold at every store on the planet. And since it's almost august, many places will have them on sale. You want the kind with the plastic thong on top.
• Lots of buttons, Sparkles, fake glue on gemstones, FEATHERS, or even pebbles from a fish tank! (Also cool: those glass coloured marbles they sell for putting in vases). Anything that could be used to embellish your fancy footwear. TIP: A great place to find things would be the scrapbook department of Wal Mart! or Dollarama!
• Plain white craft glue, or a high tack glue, but NOT crazy glue or a heat gun glue stick because the glue cracks off.
• A small, cheap paint brush to help you spread the glue on the back of some of your smaller decorations!

HERE is what you do...it's so simple I could spit! You take your plastic flippy floppies and you glue everything under the sun to them. A great way to create custom footwear for a certain outfit for a wedding, or for the first day of school!

Some themed Fabulous Flip Flops:

Diva-Rama: Take some of those gemstones I was talking about earlier, and glue them all along the sandal thongs with even spaces in between. If you have more than one colour or shape, make a pattern! Then, take your paintbrush and glue and put a good amount of glue on all the parts that still need decoration. (that is, in between the big gemstones). Then grab some sequins or normal sparkles and shake them all over! Wherever they hit the glue, they will stick! (you should probably put some newsprint down before you do this so you can recycle your sparkles afterwards)

Feather Flippies: Get some of those super fluffy feathers and paste them in alternating directions along the thong of the flip flop (i.e., one facting away from your toes, and one towards your toes). Don't worry that you can see the stick part of the feather, but if your feathers have long stems, you might want to snip the ends a bit. Once this is done and the glue has dried, Take out your little beads, sequins, sparkles, etc. Apply a liberal amount of glue ontop of the sandal thong and ontop of the ends of the feathers. Then you can stick buttons, gemstones, etc. along the middle of the feathers to cover their stems! The ultimate fancy footwear for a special night out!

Button Bonanza: Apply a liberal amount of glue along the sandal thong, and then pop on a plethora of different buttons to create a bonny bohemian look! (Man, I love alitteration!) The ultimate cool: Alternate between larger and smaller buttons, maybe even adding in a sequin or two for some extra sparkle!

(Not exactly a flip flop but you get the idea)

Flower Frenzy: Now this one is for the fashion forward...And may involve more work! Go forth and raid the dollar store for fake flowers...oh yes, I said fake flowers. Roses, posies, daisies, all of them! Now I think for this you may need some of the super glue I told you to use..but be careful! don't glue yourself to...yourself! Pick out some varying blooms...I would alternate between two different flowers, or the same flower in two different shades. Then, go forth and glue all along the band! You could use some piping used for sewing to cover the edges..just make sure the glue for the flowers is dry before you go in under them and start gluing on the piping.

That's it for this month!

Catch Kitsch at Anthrofest August 11th to 13th in Montreal, Québec!

~Kitsch

THE INTERNET!!! It's alive! ALIIIVE! yaaayyyy!

That means...new shirts and updates REALLY SOON. (As soon as I can set up my computer, at my desk which is taking up my entire middle of my room right now...assembled, but not exactly placed in it's optimal position, I would say.)...I should take some photos of my house. I love it so.

This weekend I bought furniture. I also bought a t-shirt tagger (ooh, t-shirt news).

well, gtg. byebye!