GET EXCITED AND MAKE THINGS: a "Keep calm and carry on" alternative for the econopocalypse

Matt Jones has a fitting remix of the classic, Blitz-era "Keep calm and carry on" posters for the current econopocalype: a sign reading "GET EXCITED AND MAKE THINGS." Right on!

Don't keep calm and carry on. (via Warren Ellis)

Previously:

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tuscadero

I have a 13 year old boy in my house, that shirt would be entertainingly disruptive. Giggity!
padster123

Brilliant. I will print it out and stick it on the wall of my work. A new business, out of the ashes of a closed-down-by-big-fat-stupid-parent-company one. It’s definitely time to be starting new things.
Sewnagain

Instead of making things for sale on Etsy, my latest focus is in making things so I don’t spend money. It seems futile to hype myself up to keep going in a direction that clearly isn’t working.
mikey p

Thanks! It’s my new desktop background, and just what I needed.
mattdidthat

I couldn’t resist making one of my own.
hypeful

Definitely a more constructive suggestion than my “Now panic and freak out” t-shirt:

http://www.typetees.com/product/1466/Now_panic_and_freak_out
kengor

I guess those “Hang in There Baby” cat posters just ain’t hip enough for you trustfund pioneers, eh?
hundredsofthousands

man, there are dozens of comments on the Flickr site like: “yay! great image! now please make a shirt for me.”

looks like only the first half of the message got across…
ianm

Does constant learning, studying and writing papers count as ‘making things’? I am always excited about the former, but physical creation – not so much.

Either way – cheers to tinkerers and innovators – I am one of you but my media are words and ideas not nuts and bolts, but I feel a kinship nonetheless.