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My friend Steve has this uniquely discolored orange sitting on his desk and posted it to facebook.

At last week’s SVA internship fair we had a contest which was this: Draw the thing that you are most glad for on a piece of paper. Whoever wins gets a prize mailed to their house and is featured here, on our super awesome blog. People were glad for many things including friendship, money and dogs’ ears. I am glad for the never-ending supply of Polish chocolates in our office and the 2 seasons of Sons of Anarchy that are still waiting for me in my queue.

There is one though that stood out for us from a lovely student named Boseon Kim:

As Professor Slughorn said to Harry in his Potions class when he won a bottle of Flex Felicis, “The clear winner!” What did it for me was the fat smiley orange and sweeties on the cover. As everyone knows, candy is surely the way to my heart. Congrats Boseon!

Working with the lovely ladies of OrangeYouGlad is really fun and silly times are frequent. Usually I feel right at home with them except for a tinge here and there that reminds me that I am a boyMAN. Awhile ago I had one of these moments when sifting through our magazines in the bathroom. To pass the time, I decided to take a pen to the older issues. Here is one of the dreary fake blah blah blah stock photo covers I couldn’t help but graffiti. Typographic help from Veronica.

Sometimes the things we make don’t get any love. Even from everyone except one person in the office. Well, I love you sausage monkey! I LOVE YOUUUU!

I read this article in the NY Times yesterday about the hunger crisis in Somalia and found myself wanting to do something to help. My thinking is that if we all donate $10 (one day’s lunch) to my little fundraiser via Mercy Corp we can raise $1k in no time.

As a bit of encouragement , I’m offering some schwagg.
if you donate $10 – I’ll send you a little kitty drawing
if you donate $20 or more – I’ll send you a little kitty painting (like those shown below)

If you make a donation be sure to include your name / email at Mercy Corp (or if you prefer to remain anonymous email me- tammy@orangeyouglad.com) so I can follow up with you to get your address.

Did these little paintings the other day and posted them over at XTRAPULP/SLURP. OYG’s not terribly active but fun to look at illustration blog.

You can see a few more plus some new ones by our 423 neighbor Erin Shigaki.

I have recently learned about the genius that is Jim Flora, who was best known for his super awesome record album covers from the 40′s & 50′s.  You can see them here. This one is my favorite one, because I like love cats:

Anyway, I was inspired to make Jim-Floraesque drawings:

Yes! Now I’m going to go eat chocolate and bacon.