Farmidable

HEY! We just got interviewed on Push A Pixel. Go check it out.

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Our new pattern celebrating the spirit of whalery is up and available in our gallery! Go there, download it, and share in the distinct joy to be had when gazing upon happy frolicking whales.

Justin at Push A Pixel runs a great site featuring artists and designers from around the world.

Got some waves here for ya’! Click it to download for a truly aquatic experience.

New pattern in the works, and this one’s all about whalery…or whatever. Bit of a peek at the beasts above.

If you’re a mac user we’ve got a new widget for your dashboard. Our Farmidable RSS 1.0 widget puts our most recent posts on your dash board. This is the first version so if you find any bugs with it please let us know.

Click here to download. Works with Tiger and Leopard.

Check out this beautiful set of 26 (one for each letter of the alphabet) animal-inspired typographic illustrations, by Jeremy Pettis. Favorites include cobra, jellyfish, quail, tiger, yak, and zebra. (via k10k.org)

The Samurai-esque pattern is finished and posted in the gallery. Also, check out the inspiration, courtesy of Utagawa Kuniyoshi, here (just click on the small image to zoom…). Check it out along with all our other great patterns! Oh, and btw, minor issues may be observed with the gallery, just scroll down to find what you’re looking for.

The How Design Conference is one of the biggest and best design conferences of the year, with workshops, critiques, studio tours, and great speakers. I’ve been wanting to go for years but have never been able to. This year’s How Design Conference is in my very own city of Boston from May 18th to the 21st. I figure if my boss is going to pay for me to go this year is the year! I started writing my proposal and even found a great link on the conference web site that lists reasons to go. If I do get to go I’ll be sure to take a lot of pictures and post them up for our “Farm Fans”

Have you ever been, and if you have, why did your boss let you go? I’d love to get your comments and help.

3/04/08: I just finished writing up my proposal. If you’d like to take a look at it click here.

Check it out, we’ve got some icons available to download over at Pixelgirl Presents. There they are, right there…three down…yeah, you got ‘em.

A sketchbook is an integral part making art, design, and illustration. In fact most Farmidable patterns began with some sort of idea or concept that was brainstormed with pencil and paper in a sketch. Many of our preliminaries are even posted in our “In the Works” category. This new pattern, Rain Lines, celebrates the shapes of small pencil marks made over and over. Available in various color schemes. Check it out in our gallery or click here to download them.

Also, new but not as new as this; check out our recent Dumpling pattern.