{"id":26498,"date":"2014-07-10T18:16:49","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T01:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/designbreakonline.com\/?p=26498"},"modified":"2020-03-12T18:45:07","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T01:45:07","slug":"student-break-tom-melnick-gloomie-a-doll-for-the-depressed-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/designbreakonline.com\/student-break-tom-melnick-gloomie-a-doll-for-the-depressed-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Break: Tom Melnick | Gloomie. A Doll For The Depressed You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m having such a hard time keeping all the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/designbreakonline.com\/tag\/2014-graduates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2014 Graduate posts<\/a>\u00a0to myself before the Graduate Shows actually starts.<br \/>\nOh well, who cares.<br \/>\nLet me introduce you to one of my new favorite illustrated discoveries, Miss\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/skeletom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tom Melnick<\/a>.<br \/>\nTom is a brand new graduate of the Communication Design Department at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shenkar.ac.il\/english\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shenkar College<\/a>\u00a0and she is one heck of a maker. Not only is she a brilliant illustrator, she also has some mad handmade skills. And like a true star, in her\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.414075132066731.1073741830.132350460239201&amp;type=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gloomies<\/a>\u00a0project, she mixes them all.<br \/>\n\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/skeletom\/14408790570\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gloomies<\/a>\u00a0are decorative toys for depressed and bummed people. The dolls express a few kinds of bad feelings that people experience sometimes like: heartbreak, anger, stress, sadness and exhaustion.<br \/>\nThe Gloomies aren\u2019t meant to help you feel better, they are cynical and pessimistic, and as a result their characterizing sentence is an anti-inspirational quote.\u201d<br \/>\nFYI, the plastic dolls were 3D printed and then hand-colored.<br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\nYou can get in touch with Tom at: tomelnick {at} gmail {dot} com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m having such a hard time keeping all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[510,33,9],"tags":[733,676,34,322,850],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/designbreakonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26498"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/designbreakonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/designbreakonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designbreakonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designbreakonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/designbreakonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designbreakonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/designbreakonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designbreakonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designbreakonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}