Strand Tote Bag Design Contest

Dear Illustration and Cartooning Alumni,

The School of Visual Arts, Strand Book Store, Drawn & Quarterly and Fantagraphics invite emerging artists from around the world to submit their designs for the next Strand tote bag. Join the highly recognized group of previous tote artists: Art Spiegelman, Adrian Tomine and Seth and R. Sikoryak. The winning illustration and artist’s name will appear on the bags as well as in marketing/promotional materials.

For contest submission details and a full list of prizes visit strandbooks.com/totebagcontest.

Office of Career Development
School of Visual Arts

it's been too long.

i haven't been arting for too many reasons. but I wanted to drop a note here about this site i have recently learned of:

The Grid System is an incredibly useful and interesting site about grids. grids make the world go, as any comics artist would know first hand.

i think seeing the philosophy behind their use in other fields is pretty valuable. also directly applicable to all the web stuff today's cartoonist/illustrator is pretty much obligated to do.

happy holidays, and may all your type adhere to a baseline grid.

Design By Humans shirt

I did this illustration the other day and figured I'd give it a shot as a t-shirt design over at Design By Humans. Check it out and if you like it, please vote for it. If you don't like it, vote for it anyways (I've got student loans to pay!). Here is the direct link: http://www.designbyhumans.com/vote/detail/25972

James Bond

Penguin Books updated the James Bond novels with new cover designs featuring the art of Michael Gillette, proving that books should be judged by their covers after all. If you bought any of these, I think you'd be obligated to store them cover-out on your bookshelf.

More trash for you

here's my entry for the supertrash show:



the original, for the curious:

A stolen moment...

thought i'd use my pirated wifi to pass along these two items of (possible) interest.

Free downloads of the Best Figure Drawing Books Ever according to Process Junkie.

Layer Tennis. click the volleys to see the match.

Ink-o-caster

my latest silkscreen project:

Guy Burwell goes insane!

i've been a fan of guy burwell for a while, but his stuff lately has been crazy good:

i've been remiss, but also...

computer lab in the west side building printshop has an awesome collection of fonts...

i, too, have an awesome collection of fonts. coincidence?

here's a silkscreen i did the other day:

Computer Art article on making screen print effects with photoshop

also, I consolidated the labels into a more manageable amount.

Computer Generated Art

This site has some really cool Flash generated stuff. A lot of the scripts are Open Source and available for download. Most of this stuff is beyond my comprehension of ActionScript, but it's really cool to see what can be done with it.

Flash Illustration

I just posted something on my website that was built in Flash and randomly regenerates. I've been talking about this quite a bit lately, so here's an example of the principles in action. Theres still some tweaking to do, but I'm pretty happy with it. Click SPACEBAR to regenerate. Click on some of the objects to move around and SHIFT+CLICK to delete objects.

LOGO DEATH FIGHT PART 1 - The Prelude To Brand Identity

here are 4 ideas for the logo. consider the challenge begun. Dropped in a layout mockup as well. not sure how flexible blogger is, but something along these lines would be pretty cool.