Surrealitee's Doodle speakers

I'm proud to present you with Surrealitee's Doodle speakers.
Zazzle offers this product for about a month and they're quite a gadget: Ultra portable, good sound for the size and a treat to the eye! I'm posting some thumbnails here but there's more -and, hopefully, I'll be soon adding quite a few.



Due to a rather hectic timetable (i.e. me being really lazy...), it took me some time to decide which designs would fit this interesting medium. Do check them out and tell me what you think.

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You are The New Black

The New Black iPad case by surrealitee
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It's time to present with the latest of my typography projects, the New Black design. What is the new black? According to trendsetters it's something new every season -then again, nothing ever becomes the "new" black, the... old one is doing fine, thank you very much!

The New Black destroyed shirt by surrealitee

According to me, it's a way to be sarcastic to the trendies and/or to signify that you (meaning: each individual) make personal choices that may well be the exact opposite of a new fad. Every one of us is the "new black" and none of us is, because we are not a herd and our tastes are diverse.

The New Black bag by surrealitee

I put that in text, in bold lettering combined with thin drawn lines -unfortunately they can't be seen in the small previews- in what I believe to be a striking but simple design. You can see the stuff it's applied to in the New Black section of Surreality store. Enjoy, and do tell me your opinion.

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Help Japan heal

Help Japan Heal button by surrealitee
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This cracked rising sun covered with an adhesive bandage is my donated design to the Japan Relief products. The artists offer their royalties and Zazzle offers a matching donation for every item purchased. The money goes to Japanese Red Cross.

Help Japan Heal t-shirt by surrealitee
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Hundreds of designs are offered and you'll find something that suits your taste. Let's all help alleviate some of the pain caused by the disasters that hit Japan.

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Furry enough?

Furry iPhone 3G case by surrealitee
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It struck me as weird and camp. So I did it! I put fur on stuff. Well, not fur exactly... I put a photo texture of fur on stuff. So now you can have your own furry iPhone 3G Speck case or your furry mouse pad...

Furry mousepad by surrealitee
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Looks soft and plush enough to fondle! Kitsch, you say? Well, in a funny way that's exactly the point, Dear Watson! You may even get addicted enough to buy yourselves some furry Keds shoes:

Furry Keds shoes by surrealitee
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They are furry as it gets (considering they're made of canvas) and they do have a certain appeal. So, go furry on stuff -the Surreality way- on my Furry products page!

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Necklaces on Zazzle!

Just heard that zazzle started offering sterling silver necklaces. We'll be seeing much more in the next few days. I already started exploring the possibilities.

 

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Fighting beauty

Fight Lady iPad case by surrealitee
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The silhouette of a sexy, swimsuit-wearing lady and typography in pink seem to clash with a call to action and fighting. That's what I thought and that's how this idea came to life. The lady's pose is a classic old-school model's posture, yet the silhouetted raised fist can be viewed as the symbol of protest and uprising.
The woman inclines on huge, pink letters but they spell "fight" and their grungy texture is far from pristine.

Fight Lady ladies shirt by surrealitee
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I find this contradiction humorous and interesting -even slightly political. It's the latest addition in my Vectoria work and you may find it in the Fight Lady section of my store.

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Sign of the Sacred Chao

Holy Chao ringer shirt by surrealitee

A new design where the Hollywood sign gets the discordian treatment! The famous lettering is used to spell Holy Chao, the Sacred Chao of Discordianism. What is the Chao?
In the words of Malaclypse the Younger:

The Sacred Chao symbolizes absolutely everything anyone need ever know about absolutely anything, and more! It even symbolizes everything not worth knowing, depicted by the empty space surrounding the Hodge-Podge.

Holy Chao black mousepad by surrealitee

You could say it's the symbol that depicts the balance between order and chaos. In this case, I used the Hollywood cultural reference as a pretext to convey the meaning of the Sacred Chao without showing the symbol itself. A simple, humorous mashup, really. You can see more at the Holy Chao section.

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Going quack to my roots

Quack t-shirt by surrealitee
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I consider my roots to be graphic design with an unexpected, somehow surreal, touch. That's exactly where I am with this newest creation, the Quack design. Based on an old optometry drawing of an eye, it transforms this to duck's head.

Quack bumper sticker by surrealitee
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In most cases, it's available in both transparent (the medium's material shows through) or a cardboard-textured background. I do believe that each has it's own charm.

Quack travel mug by surrealitee
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For more of my work you can always peruse Surreality or my Surrealitee Design webpage.

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Mods and Rude Boys

Mod Trilby by surrealitee
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Being interested in the '60s underground culture and music, I couldn't resist fiddling with the distinctive style, fashion and symbolism of the Mods. Blame it on The Who, The Yardbirds or the Small Faces, but there's something about that era I find irresistible.
So, I played around with Union Jack's colours, thought of the trilby hat (much loved by the Mods and the Rude Boys before them) and I came up with Mod Trilby, a design that encompasses the retro pop imagery of the time and captures the mod spirit.

Mod Trilby by surrealitee
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If you are interested in old-school London scene, one of these products may be right for you. Or you may fancy this classic RAF roundel, whose iconic glory lived on through Punk, the neo-Mods and Brit Pop and stands as a landmark in pop symbolism:

RetroMod dark t-shirt by surrealitee
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But design, clothes and fashion are just games. Here's what it's really all  about:

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Art deco pop

Flora Deco by surrealitee
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An art deco floral motif provides inspiration for this colorful roundel. It's great both as a standalone design and combined with this fine, discreet gray background.

Flora Deco by surrealitee
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I like the way the vintage elements blend in a contemporary, pop-ish way. The color combination is great, too!

Flora Deco by surrealitee
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It's been a long time since I added a retropop design and I'm really satisfied with this one. I believe you'll see more artwork along these lines in the future, quite possibly with a more surreal touch. Look for more products with the Flora Deco design in Surreality.

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The subtle delights of cloudswinging

Cloudswinger by surrealitee
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This surreal concept is laid back and dreamy. I love the calm feeling and the sense of freedom it gives. It was a pleasure to create and I was lucky enough that it got noticed and awarded as one of September 16th's best among the thousands of products that see the light of day at Zazzle.

Cloudswinger by surrealitee
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This silhouetted man that swings from the skies is quite minimal and graceful, if you ask me, and it works just as good on a t-shirt as on the parallelogram format of paper stuff. You can find it in the Cloudswinger section of Surreality -don't be shy, have a look!

Cloudswinger by surrealitee
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And here's a little something to convince you that it's great even without the angles! Not bad for a design that started as an offshoot of something with a really different mood and approach.

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Digital Halloween

Halloween Bot t-shirt by surrealitee
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This roundish little fellow is a kind of digital-looking jack-o'-lantern, it's trying to be a bit scary and I believe it's a Halloween bot -whatever that is! Maybe it's an autonomous entity spreading the Halloween spirit through the internets. Anyway, it's mine (my first design after a four month hiatus) and it can be yours, too. Just check my Surreality store and be ready for the most stylish October of your surreal life!

Halloween Bot Big sticker by surrealitee
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The colors for the stripes come from the old Samhain tradition: black, orange, white, deep yellow (for gold) and gray (for silver). So, you see, there is the pagan past combined with modern aesthetics -blah, blah and blah... Just get it now, will ya?

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Pie charting

Pie Charts ladies t-shirt by surrealitee
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Here's a design (by yours truly, the Surreality Watchman) toying with the omnipresence of pie-charts and our feelings about them. Funny, in a weird sort of way -even if I do say so myself.

Pie Charts button by surrealitee
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My personal feeling on this subject?Statistics can -and often do- tell lies and our fixation with infographics and data visualization (especially those found on horrid PowerPoint presenations) has gone a little bit too far. Maybe this ironic design can be a way of showing that you agree!

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