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Calamityware Products based on the creatures found in Don's sketchbook. This page is where you'll find news about creating, producing, and using Calamityware.

Calamityware began when graphic designer, Don Moyer, inherited a traditional blue Willow-pattern plate and felt a urge to redraw it...and add a pterodactyl. Modern audiences are bored by tranquility and prefer the diversion of monsters, explosions, and car chases. As Don drew a series of plates, each spiced up with its own calamity, people who saw these drawings on Flickr asked for real plates. Soon a Kickstarter project was born and whimsical drawings became a growing collection of fine-quality porcelain plates.

Do Octopi Dream of Dry Towels? 🐙 Philosophers have pondered the meaning of life, the universe, and whether an octopus ev...
10/18/2026

Do Octopi Dream of Dry Towels? 🐙 Philosophers have pondered the meaning of life, the universe, and whether an octopus even knows it’s wet. Some of them (the octopi, not the philosophers) have taken matters into their own tentacles and started carrying umbrellas—just in case.

You can bring this level of existential preparedness to your bathroom with these philosophically superior towels. Made from 100% cotton and woven on a jacquard loom, they’re not your grandma’s lumpy terrycloth nightmares. These towels are flat, refined, and ready to dry you off with an efficiency that would make even the most overthinking octopus proud. Plus, they’re reversible, so the creatures can cavort backwards. Why? Because we can.

Set includes two big bath towels (30” x 58”) and two hand towels (14” x 24”). No umbrellas required.

Get yours before the octopi start hoarding them.

10/15/2026

We make no promises

A little holiday mischief is underway in Maryland!Our new Things Could Be Worse ornaments are getting their finishing to...
10/14/2026

A little holiday mischief is underway in Maryland!

Our new Things Could Be Worse ornaments are getting their finishing touches, and we thought you’d enjoy a peek behind the scenes.

Soon they’ll be hanging on Christmas trees, quietly reminding everyone that things could, in fact, be much worse. 🎄

10/13/2026

We could all use a break 🍌

10/12/2026

The word of the day

Sunday plans: Sit in a chair, avoid responsibilities, and stare into the distance while the world falls apart around you...
10/11/2026

Sunday plans: Sit in a chair, avoid responsibilities, and stare into the distance while the world falls apart around you.

Bonus points if you remembered an umbrella.

10/09/2026

A little weird? You’ll fit right in. Extremely weird? Even better.

Normal is terribly overrated anyway.

10/08/2026

Sparkle today ✨

Just in time for handing out candy to tiny strangers making demands at your front door: the Creature Cauldron has arrive...
10/07/2026

Just in time for handing out candy to tiny strangers making demands at your front door: the Creature Cauldron has arrived. 🎃

This cavernous porcelain bowl is covered with ten different monsters, with a feisty feline tyrannosaur lurking inside to keep an eye on anyone brave enough to reach in.

At 8.25” wide and 5” tall, there’s plenty of room for Halloween candy, popcorn, party snacks, or cold noodles that absolutely, definitely aren’t brains.

Fill accordingly. Reach in at your own risk.

The new Creature Cauldron is available now at Calamityware.com.

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