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Last Friday I took the day off of work so that I could participate in a Layer Tennis Qualifier match. Layer Tennis pits two designers/illustrators/what-have-you against each other in a battle of aesthetics and wit. One person kicks it off with an image and the opponent tears it apart. The two people go back and forth for a total of 10 rounds. My opponent was art director/web designer Phil Coffman and I kicked off the match with this bold statement
Check out the full match.

The rest of the weekend was a breeeeezzzee. My first weekend in a long time where I didn’t have any obligations. I did nothing but play video games and eat pizza.

I was also in two art shows—Monster Show Five at Domy Books in Austin, TX and a Monster art show here in Minneapolis at Pink Hobo.

My pieces for Monster Show Five – 9″x12″ ink and pastels

There’s Something In My Teeth

Time Is Money

My piece for Monster Art Show—9″x12″ Linocut

Peekaboo

I’ll post the process for creating a linocut once I get some time.

Well, great relaxing weekends don’t come for free. I’ve been at my day job almost 90 hours since Monday for a project with a heinous deadline. From Wednesday to Friday, I was awake for 56 hours with only 2.5 hours sleep jammed in there some where. And, here I am, still at the studio. Working on a Sunday. A Sunday that just happens to be my birthday

I’m going to be in an appropriately monster-sized art show hosted by Domy Books in Texas. Not one, but TWO great locations; Check out the artist list for Austin and Houston.

Here’s a sneak preview of one of the two pieces (one at each location) I’ll have at the show.

“New” is probably inappropriate since I’ve never actually had personal business cards. Can you believe I’ve been out of school for almost 5 years and have never had my own cards?

The design combines two things I love, typography and drawing characters, into a playful illustration.

I’m having them printed through Pinball Publishing

Every 3 months, I like to stop, take a breath, and look back at what I’ve accomplished. I do that by posting everything I’ve created in the past quarter to a project on behance.net. The first quarter 2010 did well and was featured on typographyserved.com. The second quarter 2010 did even better making it to the behance front page! I received a lot of kind words and some very cool projects.

Well I’ve posted the third quarter 2010 and I need your help to try to get to the front page again. Just visit the project page and click on the “Click to Appreciate” button at the bottom (only if you actually do appreciate the work of course).

Dear reader, before you go, I have but one more favor to ask of you. Would you vote for my latest Threadless submission?

Now, you might be asking yourself, “What do I get for all this appreciating and voting?” Well, let’s just say, I have something in store for my fans. Stay tuned!

ABOUT “ONE WAY OR ANOTHER”

We’ve teamed up with Society6 and Club Mumble to curate our second art show in support of Contributor. Building on the success of last year’s group show, “One Way Or Another” plays upon the personal nature of a skateboard. Things like how you grip your board, how loose your trucks are, and heck, how you know that the size of your wheels down to the slightest of millimeters will make the hugest difference. In the end, this little wooden toy seems to be made just for you.

Combining an open call at Society6 and a group of specially invited guests (curated by Andy Jenkins, Bob Kronbauer, Sandro Grison, Justin Cooper, Mike Giles & Annie Lam), we have selected over 40 artists/collectives from around the world to create original artwork on full-size blank maple decks. These specially made boards will be sold at our online shop, with all the proceeds going directly back to getting skateboards to kids across Canada.

What makes this project unique is that rather than people buying a already finished piece of artwork, their purchase will commission an artist/studio to make a board especially for them, so when it arrives, it’s an awesome surprise – kind of like a familiar chocolate with a hidden tasty centre!

ART SALE INFO

To see full listing of artists, please visit www.wearecontributors.com
* Sale continues from July 8 to August 15, 2010
Online shop can be accessed directly at wearcontributors.bigcartel.com

ARTIST LISTING

Alain Cheung, Allister Lee, Amber B Dianda, Andrew Schansberg, Anthony Smith, Aurelie Grand, Bob Haro, Bombo, Chad Vangaalen, Chris Piascik, Daniel Rossi, David Ko, Don Pendleton, Emilio Santoyo, Emory Allen, Evan Melnyk, Jason C Arnold, Jess Fogel, Joe Castro, Joe Van Wetering, Jordan Crane, Keith Scharwath, Kelly Litzenberger, Lydia Nichols, Maurizio Santucci, Max Erds, Michael Sieben, Mike Perry, Pete Panciera, Porous Walker, Randy Laybourne, Roger Allen, Rollout, Rory Doyle, Steph Walker, Steve Cabellero, Tim Barnard, Todd Francis, Todd St. John, Tony Larson, Travis Millard, Tyson Bodnarchuk, UPSO, Wade Mickley, Will Bryant

I don’t think I can properly convey how ecstatic I am to have my piece “Fight Dirty” published in Semi-Permanent 2010. In the years since I first submitted this piece to Semi-Permanent (and didn’t get in), I feel like I’ve grown leaps and bounds as an artist: it’s nice to know they agree with me.

You can pick up a copy of the Semi-Permanent 2010 book here.

Lettercult.com has released their list of The Best in Custom Letters 2009 and I’m proud to say I’m included! Three of my pieces made it in among work from some of my heroes. Check out the full list