Category Archives: Design and Inspiration

From the colorful, lively and friendly characters to creatively intricate backgrounds and scenery, all of the design elements in Duck Duck Moose apps are created exclusively by our in-house design team. It’s pretty obvious just how talented they are.

To celebrate their talents, we’re kicking of a monthly series called the Duck Duck Moose Artist Gallery where we’ll feature special drawings and illustrations created the team. We’ll explore different techniques, themes and creative inspirations while highlighting the personalities behind the work.

To get things started, we’ve gathered a variety of illustrations to giveaway to 10 lucky Duck Duck Moose fans. Check out each of the prints below and be sure to enter by 5:00pm PT, Tuesday, September 17, 2013.

ENTER THE GIVEAWAY

We thought it was time for another Illustration Friday! Today’s theme is “Kerfuffle.” Download this free iPhone and iPad background designed by one of our talented illustrators.

Happy Friday!

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iPhone 5
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iPad Mini

Now this is my kind of holiday…for my kids to celebrate anyway. And, if yours are like mine they are always coming home from daycare, pre-school or a playdate with an extra special stamp or praise from another parent because they were rockstars at cleaning up. Seriously! Why is that they are always so motivated to pick up after themselves everywhere else BUT in their own home?

As I started preparing for this “holiday” it got me thinking about chores and job charts. A few months ago my husband and I decided our three year old was ready for her first chore. Since she isn’t motivated by anything sweet, and she’s too young to earn an allowance, we went with stickers for rewards. I created a job chart out of glitter glue and colorful marker and assigned her first job: placing her pajamas into the laundry hamper in the morning and then her clothes at the end of the day. To our delight (okay, I’ll be honest we were slightly shocked) she started off strong and was really excited to complete her tasks and get her stickers. I guess ballerinas have more power than I initially thought! She still does a pretty good job after several months with a little coaxing every now and then. Next up, to clear her dishes from the dinner table. Though, I’m not going to lie, this one gives me a little bit of anxiety for I fear the added mess on the kitchen floor from falling food. But, I’ll just have to get over it in the spirit of teaching responsibility!

In celebration of Clean Up Your Room Day and to help make it easier to jump-start chores in your household we’ve created an official Duck Duck Moose downloadable job chart. Happy Cleaning!

Fun Times with “Fast Food”:
Yet another lesson in how a small idea can snowball into something (much) larger and more fun.

I have to admit, I spend an inordinate amount of time gawking at cute food on Pinterest so it didn’t surprise me when a simple brainstorm on launching our new app, More Trucks, turned into a smattering of vegetables, cheese and baguettes. Whenever you involve four designers, one animator and a sound guy in any project it tends to get bigger, messier and so much more fun.

We created cars, trucks, and stop lights out of the vegetables, cheese and baguettes and then carted them outside to take some pictures. Pictures quickly turned into stop motion animation and the rest was history. Check out “The Dangers of Fast Food” starring Grandpa Gouda and Rudy the Racing Radish.

Want to make your own fast food at home?

Download our printable recipe cards and show us your “Fast Food” ​creations on our Facebook .

It’s that time again! This week’s Illustration Friday theme is “Sunday Driver”. Download free iPad and iPhone backgrounds made by our illustrators below.

For iPad
For iPad Mini
For iPhone
For iPhone5


For iPad
For iPhone
For iPhone5


For iPad
For iPhone
For iPhone5


For iPad
For iPhone
For iPhone5
Sunday Driver

She’s a sunday driver
I’m stuck behind her

You drive too slow
Please let me go

You left your turn signal on
For way too long

and I want,
to go,
around
Let me go honey

We are working hard on new apps, but we are dreaming of mochi! Who doesn’t love mochi? It’s sweet, it’s sticky and it comes in an array of delightful colors. To celebrate our love of mochi we made you some mochi backgrounds for iPhone, iPad and iPhone5. Click on the links below to download.

For iPad
For iPhone
For iPhone5

For iPad
For iPhone
For iPhone5

For iPad
For iPhone
For iPhone5

For iPad
For iPhone
For iPhone5

For iPad
For iPhone
For iPhone5

Other mochi we love:

Anything shaped like Hello Kitty (especially mochi)

Hello Kitty mochi molds (get them here on eBay)

Mochi recipe from veganyumyum

Black sesame pops recipe with mochi filling (oh yeah!) from 6 Bittersweets blog

These cute moshi plushes:

Friday, for starters. :)

Zeitgeist:
The defining spirit or mood of a particular period of history as shown by the ideas and beliefs of the time.

Johnny

Queeny

Sally

This week’s theme: Canoodle

Queeny

Mr Cockroach finds comfort chilling on a pea-pod canoe on a bowl of hot pea noodle.
Sally

Dave

Johnny

This week’s theme: Pantaloons

Johnny

Dave

Queeny

Sally

Mummified
In honor of our favorite holiday :)

Queeny
Something mildly healthy this way comes



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Foibles:
1: the part of a sword or foil blade between the middle and point
2: a minor flaw or shortcoming in character or behavior

Johnny



Dave
Despite his toughness, the biker couldn’t hide his foibles.

Queeny

Sally
If you are a Corgi, you shouldn’t get tie-on shoes.

Queeny

This week my Illustration Friday image is inspired by my household doggy, Luna, and my cat that I don’t have. Neither will receive any royalties.




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Dave

This is the Duck Duck version of Illustration Friday. The theme/word this week is peristeronic.

pe·ris·te·ron·ic adjective
Definition of PERISTERONIC : of or relating to pigeons


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