wake me up when october begins.

t-minus 12 days until the family moves into the new house.

i've been working on a lot of favors and a collab that have been swept into an oft forgotten corner of my mind. i apologize if you are one of these 4 or so people. i'm trying my darndest to remain creative with a house full of boxes.

threadless recently reprinted "picket." so if you missed your chance to nab "picket.", try, try again.

i recently sold a currently "secret" design to culture twist so i'm having my first design printed overseas.

i want to give a quick thank you to robbie lee. he helped me get my foot in the door at shirt.woot and eased my trepidation when i recently entered a deal with culture twist. i seem to trail him by a few days at various shirt sites, and he was recently printed at design by hümans, so i'm knocking on wood, crossing my fingers and throwing table salt over my shoulder in hopes that i finally get a print there.

i recently vectorized an earlier sketch of mickey being torn asunder:


and made a logo for my uncle's construction company:


there's another design you've already seen in these blogs that will be printed somewhere on the internet sometime soon as well. as a matter of course, this is also a secret. the world of t-shirt design is very secretive, mysterious, and treacherous, friends.

kids show characters and death in france!

i recently updated my website with more designs.

if you follow me on flickr then you have already seen these:






king friday, mickey mouse, skulls, atari and paris. nothing is safe!

finally over my designer's block!

i had an idea last night and finally sat down and saw it through.

i have to get up at 6 am with my wife so we can take her to work and i can drop my daughter off at the sitter's before i go to work, but i stuck to designing and didn't get to bed will 1am (which isn't historically an oddity for me really.)

i currently have the design in the critique section of threadless but i'm certain i'll enter this into the contest soon.

here's a look at the design, titled, "multinationalism.":


click here and let me know what you think.
update:

it's awaiting approval now, i pushed it through to enter the contest after a couple tweaks.


update 2:

as you may have found if you clicked anything in the above update, the submission was declined. the design carries too much legal risk for threadless to even consider printing, so it wasn't allowed in the competition. i'm very bummed. i really wanted to see this go through the motions. i want this thing as a big poster in silver ink with a spot varnish!

i also want enough money to do all that without worrying about rationing the ramen.

sigh.