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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.

10/26/2026

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10/24/2026

For those who believe in doing less, but doing it well.

Your favorite disasters are ready to climb the walls! Calamityware plates are works of art, filled with flying monkeys, ...
10/22/2026

Your favorite disasters are ready to climb the walls!

Calamityware plates are works of art, filled with flying monkeys, giant robots, sea monsters, and other delightful threats to civilization. Seems a shame to keep them hidden in a cabinet.

Good news! We now carry plate hangers, so you can give your favorite dishes the wall space they deserve.

Create a gallery wall of impending disasters. Hang a single plate where unsuspecting visitors will discover it. Or turn an entire wall into a monument to questionable taste and excellent judgment.

Sometimes the best place for a disaster is right at eye level.

Shop now at Calamityware.com ➡️

10/21/2026

Who better to keep the darkness away than something lurking in it? Ghastly Guardians nightlights. Coming soon. 👀

10/20/2026

A “subtle” reminder that things could be worse 😏

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. 🎄

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