PigSpigot Artist Spotlight: Sun Day Greetings
Friday, September 10th, 2010Sun Day Greetings is a card company conceived and operated by Alan & Brenda Kellman. They pride themselves in their simple style with both design and verse. Brenda is the creative side while Alan handles the business and sales. Brenda answered a few questions for the pig; thanks Brenda!
What inspires you?
I wish I knew. [...]
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Posted in Greeting Cards, PigSpigot, artists | Comments Off>Card of the Day: Our Childhood is Dying?
Monday, June 7th, 2010When a beloved figure from our youth dies, we question our own mortality. And what better day to do so than on one’s birthday! This phenomenal card is perhaps the perfect birthday greeting: humorous, timely, poignant. Nice work, Ben Schwartz! Send it today!
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Card of the Day: Danke Schoen
Friday, May 28th, 2010Everyone remembers that climactic scene in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off – the perfect day of hooky has culminated in an all out parade and, you guessed it, Ferris is at the center of it all, singing the classic tune, Danke Schoen. As for this card by Nicole Daddona, I’m practically speechless. It’s an immediate contender [...]
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Card of the Day: It’s a Girl!
Monday, April 26th, 2010Ben Schwartz has done it again. Cool as a cucumber and cute as a cuddly centipede (eh, was going for the alliteration). He’s created a whole set of It’s a boy/girl cards that anyone introducing a newborn to the world would love to send out!
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Artist Spotlight: Nicole Daddona
Monday, February 1st, 2010Nicole Daddona likes 80s workout videos. She also likes to create awesome cards–which is why we get along so well.
She’s made some awesome card creations here at PigSpigot, which is why she’s our featured artist today!
Here’s what she had to say about her work:
What inspires your work?
Anything! I really love typefaces. I know that’s really [...]
Tags: 80s workout videos, artist spotlight, bacon, love, Nicole Daddona, santa rules
Posted in artists | No Comments »>Artist Spotlight: Konstantin Vernikovskiy
Friday, January 22nd, 2010Sometimes you see a person’s name and work and you bridge the two together, creating a mental image of what you believe the person looks like, enjoys doing, etc. Konstantin Vernikovskiy never gives you exactly what you’re expecting. His work is dark and beautiful, and always uniquely clever in its wording.
We caught up with Konstantin [...]
Tags: Konstantin Vernikovskiy, micro-stories, video games, web-comics
Posted in artists | No Comments »>Artist Spotlight: LaDon
Sunday, January 17th, 2010Lisette, or LaDon as we like to call her around the sty, hails from the City of Angels. We love her crass sarcasm and her occasional, but well-executed, puns. She’s a woman of words, art and fashion–no kidding. Lisette transfers art to clothes, clever use of language to her cards, and clothes into her art [...]
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Posted in artists | 3 Comments »>Artist Spotlight: TonyInfamous
Friday, December 18th, 2009Well, well, well. Looks like we finally caught up with the infamous Tony, TonyInfamous.
Catering to scumbags and political incorrectness, Tony makes us laugh, quietly, hunched over our computer screens in our parents’ basement…
Anyhow, here’s what he told us about his art:
What inspires your work?
Well, I’ve always been into art for as long as I can [...]
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Posted in artists | 1 Comment »>Artist Spotlight: Jabzug (AKA Johanna Abzug)
Friday, December 11th, 2009Jabzug, known to the real world as Johanna Abzug, is always on top of the pop culture comedy. She made a card featuring Polanski in jail, another one highlighting the Balloon Boy incident (cover art below), and Kanye, Imma let you finish card. Beyond the amusing cultural references, she’s created a greeting card to break [...]
Tags: AIR, artist spotlight, balloon boy, Brooklyn, Jabzug, kanye, pedophile, polanski, santa
Posted in artists | No Comments »>Artist Spotlight: D-Ferg33
Friday, December 4th, 2009
D-Ferg in da house. This comic turned greeting card creator knows how to make us laugh.
We caught up with D-Ferg33–David Ferguson–about his work, what kind of cards he likes… Here are the deets:
What inspires your work?
What inspires my work are subjects that are funny or subjects that we can all relate to.
What’s your [...]
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