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.

kid robot / adult swim make dann angry.

well, kid robot has made a deal with adult swim to make some mini vinyl figures.

you can check them all out here.

why does this merger of pure awesomeness make me angry?

let's start with the fact that i am very excited at the chance to own a little figure of toki wartooth and william murderface (pictured below) from one of my favorite adult swim shows, metalocalypse.


but these toys are blind packed.

what's blind packed you say?

it means that all the toys possible are shoved into windowless boxes, and when you buy them, you get a random figure.

i wouldn't mind most of the figures offered, there are only a few i would consider throwaways. but when i specifically want 2 figures, i have to buy a entire case to make certain i get both. or i'll have to resort to ebay after they're released for an auction selling the particular figures for far too much.

so i may drop a few bones in hopes to get one or both of the figures i desire. i wish these had shown up before my birthday, i would just ask every family member for one and increase my chances 10-fold.

el tigre's soft side.

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



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.

dann figurine!

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



i love this widdle guy!

update!

i made the whole family:

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:



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:

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



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.

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.