Female Fight Club

A Year Later

By popular demand my Lightkatana Fight and Hail To The King designs are back on sale. Both were previously available for only 24 hours (teefury, ript, etc), last year, on a tuesday. But thanks to my broskis over at SnorgTees, they are now available for days, weeks, months, maybe even years, and perfect for this coming holiday gift gifting season.

It has been a busy fall. A gazillion projects done, with only a couple million more to go. I keep hearing in the news and political debates that we’re still in a recession, but I haven’t noticed the way my freelance clients have been swarming.

Found a tasty surprise at the market. Dannon, my favorite yogurt, who used my fonts a couple times last year in a few contest promo designs, decided they liked my Amperzand font so much they kept it for their regular packaging.

I don’t usually get the full experience of doing designs for bands. Example, worked on a bunch of merch for Blink-182’s summer/fall tour, but never made it to the actual shows to see the designs “in action”. But thankfully I finally get to.

Almost a year after I started working with Fete Music Olneyville on a few print designs, we’re finally moving ahead with doing full out promo work. The most recent, and most awesome, is the upcoming Mos Def show. Wicked excited to see the show, below is the gig poster I created for it.

Scum and Villainy

Just In Case

Brandy new merch just rolled in: custom iPhone cases.  Now available in my shop. As a trial I supplied designs to coincide with the biggest shirt sellers, and will will probably expand if the kids go crazy for them.

Wedding Shift

I don’t like giving greeting cards. Just feels weird to give someone something, that cost about $4, that you didn’t write, and know it’ll be tossed in a day. So for my buddy’s wedding I decided to give him an “alternative” card. I picked up a used book for $1, Love Birds of Fall by Henry Whatshisname, discarded the book jacket, and created a hand drawn “greeting” on the cover. Knowing this couple loves surprises, I also hollowed out a portion of the inside for their wedding present, and used some red paper to make an envelope for the check.

Past Sale Date

Work work work. The “busy” season has set in, and as my freelance clients prep for the holiday sales boom and winter music tours, I have been autopiloted into constant work. Wake up, work, go home, work, sleep, repeat. This cycle has made me completely blank on updating everyone on sales and new designs in advance. My bad. This month I had 3 designs (Check Exterminate, Our Blessed Voorhees, and Sherlock Is My Holmesboy) up for 24 hours each over at Ript Apparel, which you can now be found in my shop.

From Sketch To Print

Come On Irene

Irene was a terrible guest: blew into town, messed things up, and then headed north.  My apartment was unblemished by the storm, but the area around it got pretty roughed up.  Most the streets were blocked by either downed telephone poles or fallen trees.

My apartment neighbor and I took a walk to pull branches out of the roads.  We found a huge pine tree that was split down the middle.

The usual area I take my dog for run/walks looked like a T-rex had chased a jeep down it.  Signs, branches, benches… all were pulled from their original places and dropped nearby. 

Most of the New England is still without power, thanks to Irene and her branch throwing fiesta.  Traffic lights are street decorations now.  Repair crews and firefighters are doing awesome around the clock work, but there’s a lot.  We did get pretty lucky though, flooding was minimal, the surge was brief, and the pub never lost power.

Buffy the Riveter

Summer Type

By popular demand, my sugar skull trooper design is now available in multiple season-friendly colors. The top brass at snorg have decided to make it available in brown, navy, and kelly green. Perfect for rocking out your nerdness without clashing with the change of weather settings.

Awhile back, Hasbro comissioned me to make a font for one of their Iron Man toy lines, so I adapted my Aldo the Apache font with metal shine and sent it off. Although they purchased my time, they never decided to license the font, so now that the statue of limitations is up I’ve made it available to every one. Along with it I’ve posted 2 others that I created, Wicked Grit and Anchor Jack, used on a few gig posters I designed in the past.

Summer is usually the movie buff’s paradise, yet some of the flicks I found the best weren’t any of the ones I would have assumed. My Top 5 summer movies: Attack The Block, X-Men First Class, Page One, The Guard, and Super 8.

As summer comes to a close, I’m squeezing every bit of beach, hike, and run, I can before the bitter New England weather steals them away. We designers have a pretty stationary life given the current major tool of our trade is a finger needed to click a mouse. So once Saturday hits, I’m outside like a dog that hopped the fence. After 2 bruised ribs, 3 sprained fingers, a sprained ankle, and a pile of bloody knees, my team’s official kickball season ended with a 3-5 record. Fingers crossed we might make playoffs depending on the other records in the league.

Make Lemonade

A couple months ago, another designer and I collaborated on a tee sale that would mash-up pop culture rivalries with sports rivalries.  We each created a design, I merged Star Wars with Liverpool Football, and in contrast he merged Star Trek with Manchester United.  The whole event was a bomb, by my standards.  Both the facebook and forum caught fire with negative feedback.  It quickly became a classic case of “it seemed like a good idea at the time”.  About a week after the “sale of doom”, a merchandiser for Liverpool contacted me about designing some apparel them.  I fell on their radar for the simple reason my previous design was forwarded around between LFC fans.

Every negative situation has a hidden opportunity to make it better, but you’ll only find it if you don’t let the weight of all the lemons crush you.  

Gonzo the Extra Terrestrial