In my quest to be the best gift giver ever, I stumbled across Moose: Art for living. It’s an Australian based website “designed to showcase the products on display as clearly as possible, so that you, at home, can see up close the hard work and effort that lie at the heart of everything on offer.”
It’s easy to navigate and features cool gifts that aren’t going to require an American Express black card. Every day and fine jewelry, art, bags and ceramics are the shopping focus.
One of my favorites in the Art area is Badbird by Andrea Zuill. Her collection “is a range of work elegant in its simplicity and hilarious in its viewing.” “Angry bird print” is my #1 pick and it’ll be hanging on my wall in 2-4 weeks.
I fell in love with Threadless T-Shirts awhile back after a friend mentioned their web site. Then I fell even harder for skinnyCorp, the daddy-o of Threadless. Totally guys I feel good about buying stuff from and wouldn’t mind a job if they wanted me. They say it best, so a bit more info from their site:
Threadless was created to give designers and artists an opportunity to unleash a little creativity and display it to the masses. Anyone can visit the site, download our templates and submit a design. Then, the designs are voted on. The winning designers receive $1,000 in cash and prizes, huge amounts of notoriety and their design printed and sold on a tee.
Threadless has grown to be an extremely strong community of folks with a strong appreciation for the arts. It is now the home to many designer interviews, themed competitions, an active forum, a hugely successful street team, hundreds of pictures of people wearing the tees, a monthly tee shirt club and much more.
Maybe I’ll even design a t-shirt one day….
