My creative intuitions have been in a rut for the last year. When I was still in school I'd draw at least once a day, but without class time to doodle and my art classes for my major I just haven't been able to build up the courage to produce anything worthwhile recently. Despite the fact that I've invested in several moleskines and sketchbooks to get my juices flowing, they've been filled to the brim with To Do lists and work notes and void of any interesting drawings. Sad panda, indeed.
Thankfully, Crap Artist's last pen pal package included a tiny, slim-paged sketchbook (the Caderno in the photo). One evening a few weeks ago I decided to try it out. Page by page I started to play around with ballpoint, my prismacolor markers, and other experiments. This sketchbook has something magical about it, and in turn i've been able to make a few drawings that I'm proud of again. Here are a few of the pages, all of which are being kept track of in my Caderno Flickr set:
By pure coincidence I was checking out the Facebook Developors Wiki when Chico sent me the link to a new hoodie he just bought from American Apparel, and lo and behold there seem to be some pretty parallel color schemes going on here. A poppy red, a mustard yellow, and one two many shades of blue-ish gray-ish blue-gray. Very. Curious.
It wouldn't be too much of a surprise if Facebook picked up some color inspiration from American Apparel as there's a store a mere two blocks away from their Palo Alto office, but an even more delightful consideration is that Dov Charney sees the future of fashion through Web 2.0-colored glasses.