May The Fourth Be With You!

Happy National Star Wars Day from Squaredy Cats (with apologies to George Lucas)! We always wanted to make some Star Wars Squaredy Cats, and now we found the perfect excuse. Maybe we'll add some more to our "Fandom" collection down the line, but for now, here's the personification of Star Wars, Darth Vader himself (with apologies to David Prowse, James Earl Jones, Sebastian Shaw, Hayden Christensen and Jake Lloyd)!

Happy birthday, Dr. Seuss!!!

We learned from our friends at Catsparella from their post today that it's Dr. Seuss' birthday! So, to celebrate, we made a Squaredy Cat in the hat ;)

Happy birthday Dr. Seuss! This is for you!

We missed National Answer Your Cat's Questions Day

Seriously. It's really a holiday. Did you answer your cats questions on January 22nd? Did your cat even ask you a question? Perhaps, "What are you squared of?"

buG•bUg•Bug your store!

Squaredy Cats are buggin'! It's time to start a buzz. We're going to have plush Squaredy Cats in the stores soon! If you want your store to sell them it's time to start bugging them! Tell them GUND is making them, and they should order some. Bug away! ;)

Here's a sneak peak at 4 of the 9 plush Squaredy Cats to be in stores later this year.

Buggin' Out!

Squaredy bug, squaredy bug, fly away home.

This Squaredy Cat was amongst a group we designed especially to show [plush company] for the possibility to have them make plush from our Squaredy Cats. We'd already expanded our original ideas to incorporate more costumes on the cats. This wasn't the first, but it was among the early group that opened doors for us to achieve cuter and cuter cats as we move along. You'll get to see more down the line, and we can't wait to show them to you!
The lady bug costume we designed for this cat in two dimensions didn't translate well to the 3D version, so if this one ever gets made it will have a little bit of a different look. Let us know what you think, and please send us your ideas! We love to hear from you!

Everyone has a secret

At least once in their life everyone has either been secretly admired or was a secret admirer. We chose the very graphic question mark and black cat to resemble one of those "your picture here" style graphics. We think this one will make a nice card. What do you think?

Somebody call a chimney sweep ;)

Warm wishes for Christmas, but not too warm! Don't get too close to the fireplace. Have a merry Christmas. Do something nice for someone you don't know.

not squared of bad luck

Originally, this one was designed with a different kind of humor in mind. We were exploring how far of a stretch there could be between the humor of the phrase and the image. The original phrase for this one was "not squared of malls," but it didn't really make sense to anyone. The idea was that it was a cat "dressed in black" not interested in anything trendy. It was too much of a separation, and never worked.
It made so much sense when we had a V-8 moment. Black cats are supposed to be bad luck for those whose paths they cross. So, it made sense they themselves wouldn't be afraid of bad luck.
Ironically, the chipped ear is an indication he's run across some bad luck at some point. The hole on the edge of the ear was an idea from an old family cat named Spooky, but the ironic scar was funny enough to leave as is when we changed the caption.

And, now this one is a sticker! 

not squared of hairballs

This little guy was the second Squaredy Cat ever designed. He was modeled after our own cat, BigFoot, may he rest in peace and chase tinfoil balls forever.