Sunday Grins on Doodlers Anonymous


33% comfy

Yes! I’m on Doodlers Anonymous!

Sunday Grins is a new awesome project by Lisa Currie where she asks some random questions to illustrators and doodlers and one has to reply… with doodles!

My questions were quite fun indeed and here they are… (click to see larger!)

“Is there a sport that you wish existed?”

teacup biscuit dipping championship


“If aliens exist, what do you think they look like?”

aliens exist

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we won an FWA!


Simple Machines FWA

Our beloved creature Simple Machines is site of the day on the FWA. This is such a reward for months and months of love that Helpful Strangers have infused into this project!



we are happy and helpful strangers


Project pitchfork

Project pitchfork sketches

Finally at Helpful Strangers we have a brand new website full of our love for all things digital.
Come visit us and see how helpful we are!



blogged!


The many talents of Mr. Patrick Smith


sketch for Windosill © Patrick Smith

Officina Creativa interviewed for you Patrick Smith, genius artist and creator of the beautiful Windosill: wonderful flash-animation-game-experience which has rightly been a lot around the blogoshpere lately. Take a look at the article - this time is both in Italian AND English…



Simple Machines


Simple Machines MSI ChicagoOur latest project at HS has just gone live! Check out Simple Machines and help Twitch build catapults out of spoons and ramps out of sandwiches. Working with the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago has been a pleasure and we are all very proud of the outcome. Learning physics has never been so sweet…



green rocking chicken


pretty charts


daytum chartJust got my invitation to Daytum. Daytum is a web application that lets you make charts of pretty much anything you want and displays them in nice pastel colours.



bestiarum minimum


mythological beasts

These mythological paper beasts are very cool. These are Minotaur and Dragon.

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tongue-twisters in 109 languages!