Goodie Monster Snack Sheet

Update June 4, 2012: The next steps for the Goodie Monster are to find a home in a Portland area school, to make an impact at a local level directly with kids by providing a framework for eating healthily. Check out the Goodie Monster on Facebook, or contact Mark Jacobs for more information at mark@goodiemonster.com.
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My idea-partner Mark and I are currently fundraising money to make more Goodie Monsters, so we are offering rewards for people who support the project. This reward is a PDF snack sheet with the Goodie Monster’s path to snacking, some tips, a kale chip recipe, and info about snacks from around the world. Personally I don’t go a single hour without thinking about what my next snack is going to be. To back the effort, check out the campaign on Kickstarter.

Baked Kale Chips

Ingredients
1 bunch kale, washed and dried
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 teaspoon sea salt

Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C)
Remove leaves and tear into bite-size pieces
Toss with olive oil and salt on baking sheet
Bake until crisp (10 to 15 minutes)

You can also experiment with other root veggies like sweet potatoes, carrots, or beets, and sprinkle on your own spices.

Goodie Monster Snack Pouch

Update June 4, 2012: The next steps for the Goodie Monster are to find a home in a Portland area school, to make an impact at a local level directly with kids by providing a framework for eating healthily. Check out the Goodie Monster on Facebook, or contact Mark Jacobs for more information at mark@goodiemonster.com.
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As part of our efforts to raise money to create more Goodie Monsters, we are offering rewards for people who support the project. This reward is a hand-made snack pouch with custom printed fabric and filled with some of the Goodie Monster’s favorite treats. Check out the campaign on Kickstarter.

The Goodie Monster Snack Pouch measures approximately 4.5×7 inches and has a gray zipper, green back and custom monster mouth front. Thanks to Allisa Jacobs for crafting each snack pouch.

Goodie Monster Poster

Update June 4, 2012: The next steps for the Goodie Monster are to find a home in a Portland area school, to make an impact at a local level directly with kids by providing a framework for eating healthily. Check out the Goodie Monster on Facebook, or contact Mark Jacobs for more information at mark@goodiemonster.com.
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One of the rewards that we are offering as part of a Kickstarter campaign to make more Goodie Monsters is a poster. The Goodie Monster really loves to snack and has no problem telling the world all about it. Check out the project on Kickstarter and see some of the other great rewards we have for people who back the project.

Goodie Monster T-Shirt

Update June 4, 2012: The next steps for the Goodie Monster are to find a home in a Portland area school, to make an impact at a local level directly with kids by providing a framework for eating healthily. Check out the Goodie Monster on Facebook, or contact Mark Jacobs for more information at mark@goodiemonster.com.
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Mark Jacobs and I are in the midst of a Kickstarter effort to make more Goodie Monsters, so we are offering rewards for people who support the project. This reward is a gray American Apparel T-shirt with a hungry monster character on it. Locally screen-printed in Portland, Oregon, the shirt is available in Men’s, Women’s, and Toddler/Youth sizes.

Is he waiting for cherries and plums to fall from the sky into his gaping maw? Is he letting out a giant monster burp after having eaten too many fig bars? Is he merely bellowing his appreciation of healthy snacks? All of the above! To get a monster t-shirt and support us, check out the campaign on Kickstarter.

American Apparel gray t-shirt with Goodie Monster character screen printed on it.
Goodie Monster practicing the tried and true "baby bird" maneuver.
He must have practiced a lot of yoga to get into this position.
Goodie Monster says it with fuzzy type.

Goodie Monster Limited Edition Toy

Update June 4, 2012: The next steps for the Goodie Monster are to find a home in a Portland area school, to make an impact at a local level directly with kids by providing a framework for eating healthily. Check out the Goodie Monster on Facebook, or contact Mark Jacobs for more information at mark@goodiemonster.com.
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As part of our efforts to raise money to create more Goodie Monsters, we are offering rewards for people who back the effort. This reward is a 3″ custom designed miniature replica of the Goodie Monster with moveable arms, produced by Crazy Label. To get 1 of 100 toys produced and support the project, check out the campaign on Kickstarter.

Initial sketches for the Goodie Monster toy.
Toy prototype master skins from Crazylabel.
Colored toy prototype - a very hungry but not very intimidating Goodie Monster.
Colored toy prototype - if there are two Goodie Monsters, fist bumps happen.

Goodie Monster Kickstarter Campaign

Update June 4, 2012: The next steps for the Goodie Monster are to find a home in a Portland area school, to make an impact at a local level directly with kids by providing a framework for eating healthily. Check out the Goodie Monster on Facebook, or contact Mark Jacobs for more information at mark@goodiemonster.com.
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At long last, Mark Jacobs and I have been hard at work the last few months working on figuring out the next steps for the Goodie Monster. Now, we are ready to raise money to make more Goodie Monsters and share more healthy snacks with people. We’re really excited about this and hope that you are to, so check out our campaign on Kickstarter.

Goodie Monster Plans Afoot

Last year my friend Mark and I made the first ever Goodie Monster. Since then, we have been planning, scheming, dreaming, plotting, and strategizing our next move. The last few months have been full of big ideas for what the future might hold for the Goodie Monster.

The long and the short of it is, we want to make more Goodie Monsters that will serve happy and healthy snack food to passerbys, and we have been working on making that come to fruition. Here is a sneak peek of some of our thoughts that culminated in our soon-to-be-launched Kickstarter Campaign. Stay tuned!

Goodie Monster Wayfinding

Late in 2011 my friend Mark and I created the Goodie Monster, a vending machine that lives in Portland, Oregon. Placed in a Chinatown creative office building, he serves healthy snacks to building tenants and passerby’s. However, right outside the entrance to the Goldsmith building is the Church of Elvis. How was a fur-clad vending machine supposed to compete with such a spectacle? With a fuzzy come hither sign that lets people know there are tasty snacks waiting right inside. Come and get your Justin’s Nut Butters, people, and find your way using this fuzzy face to guide you.

Goodie Monster vending machine sign made out of green faux fur and a hungry monster mouth.
That's right - snacks are waiting for you inside! Just hop right in.

Monster Jeff

Monster Jeff is an enigma and constantly full of contradictions – he can’t even decide what shade of brown to be! To sum this monster up I would call him sweet yet bellowing. Not many make such an effort to get their point across that one of their eyes bulges out of their furry monster forehead.

Monster Jeff measures 5.5 x 7.5 inches and was made using 39 cent felt squares, stuffed animal eyes and faux fur fabric wrapped around the back/stand portion of IKEA’s Ribba picture frame. The stand was left over from my original monster portraits, which only used the frame portion.

Monster Jen

Monster Jen is one of my best friends, in part because she enjoys eating just as much (if not more) than I do. That’s why I gave her three mouths for all her food-recycling needs. Now she can eat, drink and talk all at once – a feat that has been sighted only occasionally in the human version.

Monster Jen measures 5.5 x 7.5 inches and was made using 39 cent felt squares, googly eyes and faux fur fabric wrapped around the back/stand portion of IKEA’s Ribba picture frame. The stand was left over from my original monster portraits, which only used the frame portion.