Finally I dedicated some time to implement an old idea. One day I did a postcard for BadDog postcard contest. Maybe they will print it.
The postcard says: “Attention! Please throw commercial flyers and unsubscribed newspapers to the trash container outside!”. I have an analogue card made in German and it’s stuck up on my mailbox. This antispam filter works 90% successfully.
I am striking this task off from the TODO list and going further to the other tasks.
I wanted to produce some original t-shirts for the last summer. I bought special printing paper and was choosing images, however I didn’t manage to realize the conception. There were many things that I considered as more important and then the summer passed. This year I was kicked towards the original t-shirts by an accidental purchasing of stencils made according to Banksy graffiti ideas in Camden Town, London. So the first series of tees were decorated not by ironed stickers but by sprayed pictures.
Before starting the spraying, I browsed instructables. Accoring to the examples, two-colored pictures looked much better than the singe-colored ones, so I purchased a couple of cans of paint for textile (black and white). Although they say you could use any acrylic sprayed or rolled paint.
Two-colored pictures need two stencils. The manufactured one was only for the dark color, so I had to make the one for the white color by myself.
If you decide to do something similar in the run of summer, then you can follow my experience. The first trial wasn’t successful(1), but I learned from my own mistakes, so I extend the instructions with my own tips.
So good luck in the production! If you have some interesting stencils, you can send them to me.
Do you want to surprise your friend? Do you want to express a smart thought in an unusual manner? Do you like comfortable things? Do you care about the quality of life? Bring some creativity into your daily life! Create your own tumbler (t-shirt, lamp, placard, sensation or whatever else)!
When it was said in the class of psychology that the creativity is an original layout of known things, I was rather exasperated. “Come on! The real creativity comes from inspiration, but not from the experimental constructing of known things” – I thought. But now I agree that the inspiration comes from nowhere else than from your own impressions; it comes from the things that are or get known to you. However, sometimes the creativity is just a false interpretation of the reality, that is when you don’t understand something, you create an explanation for yourself, using the words, views, or sounds that you know. And sometimes the creativity might be pulled directly by laying the known facts out in an unusual manner. For example, today while making a short break in programming, I hand wrote a word “if” on a sheet of paper, and to make the things stranger, I put the bow of the “f” onto the “i” and the dot of the “i” into the loop of the “f”. That’s creativity!
And now let’s go to the business! I had been thinking about making unique tumblers for a few months. I was thinking about views, decorating, the way of implementation, and material. And finally I glued a result from different ideas seen in my life together. It is shown in the photo above. That was tumblers made of jars and having skulls and threatening notes on their sides.
„Psycho 
“ – that was the first impression of RQ about the creation when I told him.
If you want the creativity to be meaningful, it has to carry a message or to introduce some functionality. These tumblers carry two messages. They are „what you drink, might poison your health“ and the traditional „smoking kills“. Moreover, the tumbler introduces the portability function. If you are in a hurry for your last train, you can cover the drink and take it with you. For the decoration I have chosen the stylizing to the rounded rectangles, so that the image and the font matched the shape of the tumbler better. The additional shocking impression is made by the fact that the tumbler is really just the same jar although it is with an image (associations with movies about alcohol-addicts in Soviet Union); and also by carrying the anti-advertising message (associations with the words from a tale: “Don’t drink from the track of the sheep, otherwise you’ll turn into a lamb”). In this way the tumbler always reminds you to be moderate. You can check your guests’ level of openness/closeness and the sense of humor with the tumblers too.
Thanks to Viktorija from Münster, the lifestyle company “Propaganda”, the creators of the font Lucida Console, and all the people who supported me morally for the adding value to the idea of the final product. Applause. The curtain drops.
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