The End

This blog is done.

Farewell internet friends,

Kevin

www.kevinbyrd.com

chirp.byrdhouse.com

 

Atlanta Community Food Bank Holiday Card

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Armchair invited Atlanta Community Food Bank people to share their meaning of the holidays with one word. Give, receive, enjoy and pass it on. See the card here


 

My secret love affair with the Frosty Clementine

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  Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you the fabU-lous, most delightful, Frosty Celementine.



(eh-hem, a round of applause here perhaps.)



This is the result of five years of research, study and intensive testing. Development and growth over this time, both formulaically and emotionally, contributed to this iteration, now release for public consumption.



There’s a few secret variations I will share with you one day. For now, please give the basic recipe a chilly will good time: frostyclementine.com



Please note that a snowball is not crucial. Crushed ice works just as well as snow. (But I mean, WOW have you made the drink with a bona-fide snowball? omgbbq.) Also, only a few bartenders know the drink by name upon order. One is in Estes Park, Colorado, by the name of Terrance.

Alexa’s Top 90 Design Weblogs

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Want to know the top design blogs according to Alexa? Well, we’ve compiled all 90 of them. I have no clue how they come up with these rankings, but hey, these are great sites to check out and bookmark! (ReubenMiller ranks 24 – not bad.)

1. Treehugger

2. MoCo Loco

3. Inhabitat

4. Cool Hunting

5. The Cool Hunter

6. NOTCOT

7. Hostess with the Mostess

8. Graphics and Illustrations

9. Designspotter

10. Design You Trust

11. Fuel Your Creativity

12. Swissmiss

13. Cribcandy

14. Josh Spear

15. Design Observer

16. Positive Space

17. Hawksmont

18. Oh Joy!

19. It’s Nice That

20. Functioning Form

21. The Ad Mad

22. Sub-Studio

23. Desire to Inspire

24. Reuben Miller

25. Creative bits ‘n’ bobs

26. Graphic Design Blog

27. Poppytalk

28. Print Pattern

29. 2Modern

30. Design Sojourn

31. Roadside Scholar

32. Idealist

33. Curiobot

34. Design Notes

35. Graphic design for life

36. Land Living

37. Designers Block

38. Decor8

39. Architectradure

40. Design Crack

41. Absolutely Beautiful Things

42. Design Sponge

43. Serial Consign

44. Elit Alice

45. Love Made Visible

46. Twenty1f

47. 30gms

48. Pasta and Vinegar

49. Oh My So Cute

50. Cuteable

51. Rolling Rains

52. Style Court

53. Scoutie Girl

54. Cool Design Ideas

55. Bookmarkd

56. Redsil

57. Push A Pixel

58. Black White Bliss

59. DesignTaleStudio

60. Nordic Design Blog

61. Trend Insights

62. Funfurde

63. 49 Sparks

64. Studio469

65. Neo Nomad

66. ImedaGoze

67. Things of Random Coolness

68. LedLightRay

69. PagePlane

70. A Thing of Beauty

71. Raven’s Nest

72. Design Scout

73. Rebang

74. Reverseorbit

75. Inert Greymatter

76. Trendmatter

77. Design Boston

78. The Zaum of Mr Brown

79. The Terminally Juvenile

80. Designer’s Library

81. Greenwix

82. Old Glutton

83. Blog Sessions

84. Something In The Way

85. Dog Opus

86. Rag and Bone

87. Storm from the East

88. Lena Corwin

89. Obsidian Dawn

90. All the Best

Holiday Bonus

Byrdhouse and Weight Watchers would like to offer you this special gift during the holiday season: 250 FlexPoints. These can be used to splurge (in moderation of course) on special treats, parties or dining out. Please don’t tell Weight Watchers.

1800 Tequilla Essential Artists Bottles

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Earlier this year 1800® Tequila launched a campaign featuring nine cutting-edge artists. Each piece of artwork is featured on 1800® limited edition tequila bottles, all of which can be purchased.

Each artists’ style is unique, representing various designs, mediums and perspectives. The nine artists featured in this limited edition production are: Dosa Kim (Atlanta, GA), Glenn Barr (Detroit, MI), Artillery (Chicago, IL), Chris Dean (Detroit, MI), Jorge Alderete (Mexico City, ME), Josh Ellingson (San Francisco, CA), Hannah Stouffer (San Francisco, CA), Jeremy Bacharach (Chicago, IL).

The bottles are great collectibles – whether you decide to drink the contents or not.

Continue reading to see more photos and learn about how you can apply your own artwork to a bottle (and even buy it), and how to enter your art into a cool competition.

Below, is the full series of nine bottles.

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One of the really fun parts to this feature is the chance to enter your own art and preview it on a live bottle on the website. You can actually purchase your own customized bottle with your artwork – which is a great idea for the holidays. 1800 will also be selecting a winner for some decent prize money ($10,000 – not bad!) and publicity. The contest ends soon – mid-December, so get going and enter!

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