Monday, April 14, 2008

el tigre's soft side.

my birthday gift from my wife and daughter arrived in the mail.

kitty.

booyah, grandma. booyah.

i'm not a wrasslin' fan by any respect (my babysitter told me it was fake in 91' hasn't been the same since) but how could i pass up a chance for an emerald kitty cover that makes me look brutish at the same time. i think i'm just in love with the paradox.

Monday, April 7, 2008

dann figurine!

after finding this blog on threadless. i nabbed the outline to create my own boxy dann figurine.

boxy dann figurine

i love this widdle guy!

update!

i made the whole family:

the matthews family.

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

designer's block (cont.)

still unable to decipher the rubiks cube of designer's block, i am now submitting another oldie but goodie to threadless:

guitree - Threadless, Best T-shirts Ever

i had run this through design by hümans a while back, and had a decent enough response, but decided to pull it to try my hand at threadless again.

this video has really been hitting home with what we're dealing with at work lately:

Thursday, March 13, 2008

designer's block.

i've been trying to come up with something new for threadless for some time now. and after a considerable amount of block time, i decided to push this old design through. it had existed in threadless' work in progress area for some time

wahnbriefe - Threadless, Best T-shirts Ever

i've been revisiting a lot of my older designs lately and trying to redo them, actually, i'm trying to get them right, they never seem to end up on screen how they begin in my head.

Monday, March 10, 2008

rock obama.

i was commissioned to do a punk rock obama shirt a while ago (as foretold here) and i finally got my shirts in the mail and also checked on line and it's up for sale.

rock obama.

Friday, February 22, 2008

i am an addict

i have a history of being a habitual collector.

it started after i got into the beast wars transformers cartoon long after watching cartoons was socially acceptable, and let me state it here; anyone who says beast wars wasn't real transformers or dismisses it has either never seen it or is a complete idiot. beast wars saved the line and had the best story lines to date.

at any rate, i started buying toys, and now, over 10 years later, I have 9 tubs at home filled with transformers from all generations and our tiny bedroom walls look like a toy store stocked with packaged transformers.

after my wife and i got a dvd player late in the game, i started my viewing with clerks, and tht snowballed into a 300+ dvd collection.

yesterday morning, i stopped into a gas station and happened upon some mountain dew bottles that i had seen on the national ad. turns out they're kinda cool, kitschy and trendy in a good way.

i love bottles.

i have found that i will collect anything and everything. i blame it all on being a straight edge punk rock teenager (not the vegan bastardization that was amended in the 90's) and to this day i don't drink smoke or do drugs. it seems, instead, i collect arbitrary things. i suppose the beer would have cost me more over the years anyways.

regardless, like a college kid, i now have a collection of bottles started. though mine aren't lined up above my bed, i have them mixed in amongst the transformers and family guy figures adorning my work desk.

Thursday, February 7, 2008

logo hits the big time.

the first professional logo i created (chronicled here) has finally hit the big time.

i am so pleased to see something i created in such a grand scale (another step closer to a billboard).

this sign is about 8 feet wide to give some scope to it. todd signs of duluth created it based off our collective specs. painted pvc for the logo, a sanded texture for the background and the "family/cosmetic" copy at the bottom is struck out of the sandy texture.

lake dental logo real big like.

me so happy.