Throw Pillows Handmade From Your Instagram Photos - Stitchtagram.

Instagram, the free photo sharing app that lets you transform your images with various filters, has been all over the news lately given Facebook has purchased the popular app for $1 billion dollars.

That said, it's no wonder various creative folks will be coming up with ways to turn those images into keepsakes and products. Stitchtagram is one of the first of those concepts.




With Stitchtagram, your Instagram photos are digitally printed on a 15" square linen-cotton canvas pillow, hand sewn in Washington, DC.




The 15 inch pillows come complete with a soft and fluffy removable insert and a dark navy back with an envelope-style closure.




You can design your own layout using as many or as few images as you wish on their site, but beware, they are very pricey. (note: Those with computer and design skills could simply make their own montage on Photoshop and upload their images to Zazzle, Cafe Press or many other sites that offer pillows for a far lower price - only they won't be bleed images and the colors of the backing fabric are usually limited to black.)




Whose behind Stitchagram?
Stitchtagram is the brainchild of brother/sister team Doug and Rachel Pfeffer.

Doug Pfeffer makes stuff on the internet, including this. Find him on Twitter at @pfeffunit, or see more of his work here.

Rachel is the jeweler behind Rachel Pfeffer Designs. When she's not designing/packing/shipping/carting around pillows and fabric, she's soldering in her DC apartment.

All of Stitchtagram's products are sewn and assembled in Washington, DC and the internet bits have been hand crafted in Boston, MA.

For the next 20 hours (from the time this post was written), discounted coupons for either two or one Stitchtagram pillow are available from Fab with my invite link: http://fab.com/y06r4g 



Start designing your pillows at Stitchtagram here.

Elastic Co. Releases The Google 2010 Pillow.

Each year, Elastic Co. creates a throw pillow that features some of the top Google search terms of the year.

The natural army duck cotton canvas has the text printed in black silkscreen and the pillow is filled with 10% Down and 90% Feathers. It also features the Elasticco stamp on the back.


Buy the $65 Google 2010 pillow.


Google pillows from previous years:
2005:

2006:

2007:

2008:

2009:


All the above pillows can be purchased at the Elastic Co. etsy store.

More Geeky Icon Pillows, These From Throwboy

You may have read my post on the fun computer and social media pillows from both Craftsquatch and My Suite Stuff. Now another designer, Roberto Hoyos of Throwboy, has thrown his hat...er, pillows, into the ring.

Like the other two companies, these pillows are hand crafted of fleece with polyester stuffing.

The collection includes Chat pillows- text shorthand blurbs as well like LOL, WTF and TTYL.



And mac computer OS icons:


And the requisite RSS Feed pillow:


They even have Halloween versions of Mac Finder icon pillows! Available until Oct. 31


Meet Throwboy and their mac computer and software icon pillows:



From Throwboy's "About Us" Page: Roberto was at work. Brandon was at a Christmas party. Kaelin was, young. "Brandon." Roberto said in that dry, you-don't-know-what-I'm-thinking way he always talks. "You do designing, right?" "Umm. Yeah, Roberto, I do." Brandon replied, hesitant. They'd never so much as texted one another, much less talked on the phone. "Let's meet at Shari's. I've got something I want to talk to you about." After forcing a signature of nondisclosure upon Brandon and Kaelin, his dreams of pillow dominancy were unfolded before their eyes. An empire of geeky, soft and peppy pillows sewn with care in happily familiar shapes.

Roberto, the grandson of a Peruvian Seamstress, birthed his Icon pillows years earlier to impress a female of his same Nerd Clan. And thanks to the modern technology which they embraced, the internet caught wind and surfer's interests were perked. Almost a year after the bland dinner at Shari's, this website emerged in all of it's groovy goodness.
 
See the post on Craftsquatch and My Suite Stuff pillows here. Buy your Throwboy pillows here.

Craftsquatch Geeky Pillows & My Suite Stuff Adobe CS Pillows

A place to rest your nerdy head.
The ultimate throw pillows for the tech-set, social networker or web designer!! Cute and well made as well as reasonably priced, these 12" square soft fleece pillows use the icons that represent many of the popular social networks such as; Twitter, the Twitter Fail Whale, DIGG, Facebook Friendfeed, Facebook, Tumblr, Myspace, Flickr, the RSS feed icon, Reddit and more.



And for your design-y friends the Adobe icons from their Creative suite are also available:


You can buy sets, like this "twitter" set too:


According to Craftsquatch's shop on Etsy, the pillows are 100% handmade and you need to allow 7-10 days for your item to be shipped because they're made to order. He will even ship internationally.

He (Justin) will also make a custom order with your Icon or Logo, for more info about custom orders, contact him directly through his etsy store here.


buy Craftsquatch pilows here.

Craftsquatch is not the only one making Adobe Creative suite pillows, My Suite Stuff also offers 12" square fleece pillows based on the Adobe program icons, only the lettering is white:




buy My Suite Stuff pillows here