Get Lost + F(o)und!

We're looking forward to this event on Thursday night (Oct. 6th). Perennial is a really cool local organization and I'm honored to have done the posters 'n tickets 'n stuff for their first big party/fundraiser.

The event will have the usual music and drinks but will feature special a DIY rebuilding/redesigning challenge and other neat upcycling-type activities.

These were my sketches:

We settled on this idea, a sorta county-fair/science-fair theme focussing on the exhibits and process-oriented activities.

I also designed (and silkscreened) some teaser postcards:

These were printed on random bit of chipboard packaging we collected:

I also made some traditional postcards (front and back)...

... as well as the little tickets required for entrance to the event (you have to buy those to see 'em!). Get your tickets here! Hope to see lots of you there! I'll buy you a Perennial Ale. 

Dumpin' Knowledge

Kevin H, Leon Beyond and I have 2 new books available for sale now!

Volume 4 of the collected Amazing Facts & Beyond is called BRAIN DUMP and was compiled and designed by yours truly.

I also screenprinted the covers in day-glo brain pink and dump green. Go buy it for $5 now!


Volume 5 was handled by Kevin and is called FACTUAL HEALING. Go buy it for $5 now!

These are truly Amazing Books... & Beyond.

Fashion Icons

It's Fashion Week in St. Louis and I drew this menagerie of industry icons to be printed on tote bags for the opening of my wife Leslie's new store. Did I leave anybody out???

Field Guide to Fried Eggs

Put together for you by our pal Leon Beyond this week.

Sling-A-Monkey!

Did you play this game I helped make with kids.woot! last week? It's fun! Here's some of the stuff I drew:

Back to School! at shirt.woot

I drew a bunch of stuff for shirt.woot this week for their big Back to School Sale.

Also, my ol' chestnut the Stay Sharp! shirt I drew way back in 2009 is back in print for the week.

You can buy it here.

For the first time ever shirt.woot is also selling tote bags (but no lunchboxes) this week:

Here were my sketches for the frontpage art for the sale:

We didn't end up using this sweet Trapper Keeper, but I still like it:

Be sure to check out Leon Beyond's special retro-guide to Back to School supplies here!

How Coffee Works / US Patent #597.7311.143

This was a print project near and dear to my caffeine-riddled heart. 3-colors (black, white & fluorescent pink) on 18"x24" chipboard.

I got asked to participated in a coffee/espresso themed print show at Foam here in St. Louis, and how could I pass that up? I had an idea that was a continuation of this weird thing I made as part of a Devo t-shirt design contest last year:

It would get int the nuts 'n bolts of "HOW COFFEE WORKS", externally & internally...

...from the bush to the brain.

I gathered a bunch of reference, did a bunch of sketches, took apart my old Mr. Coffee, and started drawing all the pieces in Illustrator.

I was having a hard time squeezing all my usual junk -- flames, bulging eyeballs, cross-sections of brains & beans -- into an 18" x 24" rectangle...

...and liked the simplicity of the "coffee helmet" guy by himself, so I made the painful decision to eliminate all my usual junk and so something much simpler for a change. Thanks to my wife bolstering my courage (and giving me the 'US Patent# joke):

While posting this picture I just realized that I mix most of my silkscreen inks in old coffee cans. And I don't rinse them out very well, so you can be assured that some coffee grounds made their way into each and every print.

If you're interested, I believe they've still got a bunch of these for sale for $30 down at Foam (at the corner of Cherokee & Jefferson), otherwise catch up with me later. You'll be able to find me; just smell for the coffee breath.

Pungent Stench Manumaleuna

 Notes taken while creating a new character and participating in an OD&D campaign over the weekend.