threadless_sub_design

this will be up in a day or two. link to be provided:



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threadless

yup I'm up and running! pop over and give me a crit and support your boy once I drop some designs! some color comps for the in_and_out tee:





lay down a crit:
http://www.threadless.com/critique/79542/In_and_out

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Drunk_Naked_and_Classy

Reveal of final lineart for the DNC shirt. I'm still toying with color placement at the moment. I'm thinking of doing an off registered print for this one. I need some fresh eyes so I'll take care of that in the AM.









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Smash_top_2.0

Final designs for Smash Top Steve and Slim. Now to go back and fix the other two designs. Thoughts and comments as always are appreciated.











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Smash_top_steve_and_slim

Wip of tee design 3. Bumping around a bit to keep my mind fresh. With all these designs coming together this quick, I'm thinking of branding them moving forward. I'll be finishing a few things on these last three then making an official lockup. More to come:







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Dead_zone_drinkers

Bit of a break from the Tony Lupo tee. I'm not set 100% with the type choice for that tee so I wanted to take a step back and focus on something new. Since I'll be hand screen printing these shirts I wanted to get a few designs done before I have to make 500 trips back and forth to kinkos and commercial screen printing. Anyway, here is the newest in the line.







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Lupo_2

A bit of vector art. A few tweaks then time to print!









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Orion_ink_test

Rain in New England this morning...big suprise there...good reason to park it at my computer and get some sketching done! Quick ink and halftone sketch for Orion. I'm thinking about screen printing the novel when it's done so I'm going with three colors max. It's starting to get there. More posts this weekend for sure!



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Orion_progress

Hola!

So a bit of work on Orion, i'm liking the overall design and style but I need to fix a few details on him. I want to keep this novel fun so I'm moving away from the super complex robot designs to something a bit more loose. I'm thinking a 3 color execution for the book so it'll be very graphic driven. I'll be posting more info in the next few days as well as a description of the characters.



I may have a few more done today so keep your eyes open!

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EVA_1.0

EDIT: WIP colors





colors to follow...



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Tag_the_system

This is pretty much a continuation of my post yesterday. This should be the last post of graffiti from Tokyo. Enjoy!












On a side note, I almost bought this bike. Vintage was the name of the game in Harajuku. It was insane seeing all this classic Americana inspired fashion and design in this area. It's really awesome how inspired the Japanese culture is with what we would consider to be typical. I never thought for one minute that I would go into a shop and see a pair of vintage adidas kicks from the 70's selling for $700. I didn't expect to see that let alone somebody actually contemplating the buy. But that's really what is cool about the fashion scene in Tokyo. Little shops like that can strive and actually make a prophet. Try doing something like that here and you'll be lucky to see your business last 6 months. It makes me want to go to the nearest thrift store, buy up the whole lot and start a new life in Japan...

Anyway, the inspiration continues. A quick preview of coming attractions.

Graphics and Bikes_tokyo part 2

It's funny how a whole country can be completely immersed in design. I was looking through my pictures again today and noticed that 60% of them were of graphics alone. I could blame that on the fact that I'm a designer by trade but I have a hard time believing that I'm the only one who does that. From the motorcycle graphics to back alley graffiti it seemed that design was considered across the board. Good thing too because now I have tons of ideas for upcoming paintings and sculptures based off of these new found treasures.










Gotta take the good with the bad though I guess. This week at work was torrential. I guess that's the price you pay for taking 2 weeks off. I did manage to get another mock up of a potential poster or color scheme for paintings. I've been studying a few artists recently and I'm starting to like some of the directions that these are moving in. I still have some work to do on them like addressing better typography/detailing but hey it's a start!




I'm not even though a quarter of my pics from Japan yet let alone the shots of Seoul that I took. I'll get to those soon. Enjoy!

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