Looking Back At 2008 / Proud Customers

It's been big year for a lots of reasons:- Good projects all year long.- A new shop down by the river.- Getting out of the basment.With some changes to wrastle:- Partners to answer to.- Partners to work with on new stuff.- New clients with new projects.- A little less time spent in the production department.Which gave me more time to focus on stuff like:- Field Notes- That goddammed documentary. Coming "sometime" in 2009.- Setting up the new shop.- Trying like hell to keep Lovejoy way busy all fiscal year.- Hunting down the vinyl.- Thinking up, producing and hawking new DDC Merch.And of course, I'm trying to plan up one hell of a 2009. January is turning out to be a real barnburner, that stokes the fires of many different areas of my life:- Roadtrip: A hellish drive across the nation.- Bucolic Villages: Possible trip to Vermont to work.- Arts & Crafts: Big night out in Bend for Yamada's skatepark.- Gluttony: One final tradeshow in Las Vegas.- Internationalism: IPSO tradeshow in Munich. Maybe.- - - -APPRECIATION, PRIDE AND ORANGE STUFF: It's been a big year for DDC Merch. I can't thank you guys enough for supporting all this stuff. I mean , really. Luckiest guy ever.I updated the DDC Merch gallery with some wild characters, so be sure to take a pass through it, to check out all the proud customers. Family, more or less. Thanks.- - - -DAY LATE, DOLLAR SHORT: The "Christmasville" Flickr set from Neato Coolville.- - - -SHOULD'VE LINKED THIS ONE YESTERDAY: "What Christmas looked like a long time ago, way before our time."- - - -BOTTLE CAPS: Here's a great Flickr set called, "Milkman, keep those bottles quiet." Go through each and every one of them. My buddy John from Illinois sent me a pile six months back and man, I still flip through them every couple days. So good. (Sent in by the good people of Annyas.com.)