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hello and welcome to the 1000+ of you adding hipster-animals.tumblr.com after its inclusion in the “cute” tumblr spotlight.
this is not a very active tumblr, but please enjoy the two years of posts in the archives.
hipster-animals.com
"It's like Richard Scarry characters went to a Grizzly Bear show."
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drawn by Dyna Moe, NYC
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Thanks for following Hipster Animals. Now we are sleeping.
things to consider doing during our hibernation:
- reblog animals from the archive
- order a custom animal
- buy prints or t-shirts
- contact the creator
check out the animals ordered by people on hipster animals custom
(…or order your own. it’s only money, right?)
“Dating You Would Be A Disaster”
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“A Real Mix Tape”
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“Cocaine Makes Me Horny”
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“I Hate You”
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(Source: dynamoe)
- 12 Drummers Drumming
- 11 Pipers Piping
- 10 Lords-a-Leaping
- 9 Ladies Dancing
- 8 Maids-a-Milking
- 7 Swans-a-Swimming
- 6 Geese-a-Laying
- 5 Golden Rings
- 4 Calling Birds
- 3 French Hens
- 2 Turtle Doves
- And a Partridge in a Pear Tree.
owlinmypocket asked: What inspired you to make hipster animals?
This blog started in April 2011. I had been drawing for the TV show Mad Men for about three years and was very burnt out. I wanted to do a project that was far away from white guys in 60s suits as possible.
As research for Mad Men Illustrated I was looking at a lot of 50s-60s advertising and then children’s book illustration for style cues. I rediscovered Richard Scarry (Best Word Book Ever, What Do People Do All Day), who I loved as a kid. His “Busytown” resembles the ideal hipster neighborhood in a lot of ways — pedestrian friendly, small niche businesses — so the impulse was to create the sort of animal gentrifiers who’d move into Busytown after Mr & Mrs Cat fled to the suburbs because Busytown collapsed into a nightmarish hellscape in the 70s. One assumes too many worms in Tyrollean hats moved in and brought the property values down.
