Create the next Docs

Just when I thought Dr Martins had officially gone out of style for good... here they are again. Don't get me wrong, I spent a solid 3 years of my life in Docs (steel toes at that) but seriously, they are still around? Anyway, Docs are trying to make a comeback with this design competition for their user generated FREEDM line. Anyone is free to submit a design. You can use the interesting drawing tools provided on their website (including spray paint and a lighter) or you can download a template to bring into your design program or medium of choice. Two of the entered designs will make it into production. One will be chosen by the people (...insert forceful upward punch into the air here...), and one will be chosen by a panel of insiders.

Custom 52

Custom 52 is kind of like Treadless, but for playing cards. Anyone can submit a graphic design for a card's face. The card number and suit is up to you, but the design you submit has to reflect that choice. Submitted designs are voted on by fellow visitors to the site. The winning designs are made into a purchasable deck.

TasteBook

Online recipes have taken over the world of cooking. The problem with them is that they end up as a stack of print outs mixed in with your old recipe cards. TasteBook is slightly time consuming, but brilliant solution to this problem. TasteBook is a customized cookbook that you put together using a combination of online and personal recipes. The cookbook exists as a collection online and as a very professionally printed book. Recipes can be gathered from Gourmet or Bon Appetit websites or entered from your own collection. Then, using an iTunes style interface, you sort the recipes into categories or sections of your cookbook. You can share your recipes online or get others to share their collections with you. For $34.95 you can print out a customized cookbook of up to 100 pages. All 100 pages do not need to be printed at once. They can be printed over time and added to the binder style book later on. A very well thought out idea. (Found through Springwise).

Design your own Bedding

Inmod allows you to create your own style of bedding using their Design Studio. Just choose the type of fabric, pattern, and colors to suit your room and your customized design will be hand embroidered and shipped out to you in 4-6 weeks.

Pulp Star Customizable Fiction

"A hard-boiled private dick and a beautiful dame team up to investigate the death of her sister. In this treacherous whodunit, the question of suicide or murder plunges an exclamation point into the heart of every breathless pulse!"

... and the characters are customized by you! Pulp Star provides pulp fiction books which are fully personalized to your specifications. You get to name and describe the physical traits of the characters (including hair color, body type, nickame, etc.) and your personalized book is printed specially for you. You can even opt for a customized cover to match your characters.