You’d think that, being a creative, I would have been planning, sketching and designing out my Halloween costume both in exquisite detail and months in advance. Alas, my weekends have been filled with afternoon naps and end-of-summer bike rides and I am totally behind the Halloween eight ball. So, for all you fellow Halloween-stumped designers, here are some costume ideas:

1. Group costume! CMYK, or RGB, depending on how many in your group. For instance, if you happen by our Halloween Block Party later this month, you will find me as Cyan, LD as Yellow, HL as Black and MM as Magenta. (Word on the street is that LW is coming in all white as paper.) The lone wolf could always go as a solitary Pantone swatch.

2. Your favorite character from your favorite typeface. Stencil that baby right onto a cheap undershirt from Target and you’re set. Rockwell Bold Ampersand, Helvetica Neue Extended Capital R and Archer Bold Capital K, here I come. If you want to be really scary, I guess you could go as Comic Sans. Joint costumes for this are easy: quotation marks or serif & sans serif!

3. Sketchbook. Easier than the typography costume. Blank white t-shirt and plenty of sharpies for your fellow party-goers.

4. Glasses, a pressed oxford shirt, a smart blazer and endless charisma and you’re Michael Bierut.

5. Twitter! Speak only in bursts of 140 characters or less, example: “@laurendorion, plz pass beer, kthanx”

6. The really time-crunched web designer can always rely on that old stand-by, the pop-up window. No costume required, just hide behind stuff and then jump out.

Okay, now all y’all better take pictures of your design, technology and marketing-related costumes and tweet ‘em to us. We most certainly will return the favor.

 
(image courtesy of this dude's flickr)