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It’s Filthy Friday!

Friday, February 10th, 2012

Filthy Friday desktop wallpaper available for free download

The Zoom Creates team has created six sets of  temporary tattoos, and to share some of our ink-spiration, we’ll be posting a “Tat-A-Day”. The “Tat-A-Day” posts will last throughout the duration of the Rethink Ink contest. So tune in and get ink-spired to create your own!

You would think, with shower day being yesterday, how could it possibly be Filthy Friday today? Well, we haven’t managed to get that dirty in the past 24 hours, BUT unfortunately our mouths have. Filthy Friday is a day filled not only with wonderful alliteration, but also with dirty, filthy colorful words. On Friday, it’s not frowned upon to drop a swear bomb. So, if Illustrator crashes, the printer takes 200 years to warm up, or if someone doesn’t put the coffee pot back for accessible left-handed use, we openly share our 4-lettered profanity with the office. And we don’t stop there, if you’re happy and you know it, we like to shout it to the rafters. And with it being Friday, that’s always reason enough to celebrate! So happy F*$@in’ Filthy Friday everyone!

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Whether you need it or not

Thursday, February 9th, 2012

The Zoom Creates team has created six sets of  temporary tattoos, and to share some of our ink-spiration, we’ll be posting a “Tat-A-Day”. The “Tat-A-Day” posts will last throughout the duration of the Rethink Ink contest. So tune in and get ink-spired to create your own!

We’re starting off our “Tat-A-Day” posts with a few from the Zoomer-ific set. It’s full of tattoos referencing the little things that make us laugh, but there are a few of those Zoomer inside jokes that may need a bit of an explanation.

Today being Thursday, otherwise known as Shower Day, we decided to kick this off with “Whether You Need It Or Not”. This tattoo is inspired by Greg, one of our talented designers. Since starting at Zoom he has claimed that he showers only once a week, and always on Thursday. Some think he’s messing with our minds and testing whether we’ll fall for his lies. Robin is known to believe anything and everything she hears, so she’s an easy target! But others are convinced that Greg is just comfortable enough with his coworkers to let us in on his “dirty” secrets. The debate continues…

I asked Greg this morning why Thursday was shower day. He said, after years of shower schedule experimentation, with everything from once a month to twice a week, he found once a week to be the perfect schedule. Thursday, it turns out, is perfect, because its sort of mid week, and yet closer to the weekend. We all know that it’s more important to be looking (and smelling?) your best on Friday than it is on Monday.

So there you have it. Happy Shower Day to all!

Don’t forget to stop by the Zoom Ink web site, check out all the tattoos and score some free downloads!

Think you can do better? Bring it! Stop by our Facebook page and submit your own tattoo idea. Our design team will be designing the concept that inspires us the most!

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Rethink Ink

Wednesday, February 8th, 2012

Your Mom Tattoo

Today we officially launch the Rethink Ink Contest. The Zoom Creates team has created six sets of super fresh temporary tattoos and we want you to dream up the next one.

What’s your inkspiration?

Head over to the Zoom Creates Facebook page and submit your best idea for a tattoo design. The concepts that inspire the Zoom team the most, will win all six sets of our temporary tats. Plus, the grand prize winner will get their idea produced by our graphic design team and will receive a set of their tats and a stylin’ T-shirt to show off their design to all of their jealous buds.

We’re not stopping there

Free Desktop Background and Smart Phone Background DownloadsWe want to make sure everyone’s devices stay rockin’ too. Drop by the Zoom Ink site to spice up your laptop or mobile phone with backgrounds inspired by the tats. You won’t want to hide these from your mom! To see the whole collection and score some amazing free downloads, make sure to hit up the site!

For the duration of the contest we’ll be featuring a “Tat a Day” on the blog to give a little background on where our inspiration came from for the Zoom Ink tats. So, tune in, get inspired and don’t forget to show off your inkspiration!

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Holiday Design Toolkit

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

We are hours from the winter shutdown, but we don’t want to leave you without any suprezzies. I’ve uncovered some fun holiday-themed design tools to get you through the upcoming weeks.

1. Make sure you download this fun free aged serif font series called IM FELL (used below). It’s the perfect addition to your holiday cards, table place-holders, and don’t forget the present tags!

2. If you don’t want to spend time drawing your own snowflakes for your holiday window display, just download this set of free snowflake dings for a wide variety of styles, that you won’t have to repeat.

3. Your holiday designs wouldn’t be complete without a few swirls and flourishes. These babies are a toughie to hand draw, so just download this free vector art to spice up your designs. Try overlaying over your seasonal photos for a fun holiday gift to grandma!

4. Need a little nature in your designs? Download this free vector branches and get rustic!

5. Have a craving to make your own special wrapping paper? Download this free demask wallpaper pattern (used below) to make your presents sing!

6. Need a festive frame for those custom cards (seen below)? Download this super collection of vector goodies. Don’t miss out on the deer, birdies, & flourishes. Nontradtionalist? This pack isn’t all just holiday, Create your own wrapping paper using the scull and crossbones as a pattern.

7. Stuck on picking a color theme for your party? Check out 50′s Christmas color pallet on Kuler.com. Or maybe the urban holiday pallet is more your speed?

8. Not a designer? Well, we wouldn’t leave you empty handed, check out these pre-made printable designs. They are way too cute. Also, this Spooky Bois Lime Green Paper and gift box isn’t just for Halloween, use it as a festive wrapping paper.

Now get creative and go crazy. If you do use items from the toolkit we would love to check them out, so don’t forget to send your pictures our way! Happy Holidays!

Image made from items in the Holiday Design Toolkit

Image made from items in the Holiday Design Toolkit

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