Making a Clipper-colorful difference

I don't know about the rest of you, but using my CLIPPER card instead of the colorful monthly MUNI transfers, was a difficult pill to swallow. Design wise: what design? Where's the attention to detail? The well balanced composition? The (gulp) font? Avant-Garde in 2011? I don't think so. Decided it was up to me to make this daily item more to my taste. After all, I'm paying for it. I have seldom purchased anything that was colorless. Even my monthly Burgermeister hamburger is prettier to look at than a CLIPPER card. And if, I should loose it one day, I hope it falls into the hands of a person who could really use some color and «happy» fonts that day. Would YOU like to have a personalized-decoupaged CLIPPER card from Mrs Claypool?

From Thriftown to Japantown

Finally! I remembered to take a «before» picture of a piece before decoupaging it. I picked up this little wooden shelving unit at Thriftown (in The Mission) a little while back for 1.99$. Must of been a nano jewelry armoire in a previous life. Both drawers were missing but it was still in pretty good condition. Painted it black. Bought a small paper sample in Japantown. Cut a few shapes, applied several coats of mod podge and voilà! I give you my new ink cartridge dispenser! This is what I do between design gigs. (Please click on photo to enlarge)