Tilteed's Tiny Treasures

Most of you know I work for Tilteed.com - a T-shirt shop based out of Portland, Oregon and bringing you new tees every 72 hours. Shop owner, Patrick Treadway decided to 'sweeten the pot', we should also have freebies to give to the fans when they make a purchase. The idea became: Recreate the Tilteed logo in your own style. The first four were created by tee greats: A.mar.illo, Wotto, BootsBoots and Againstbound. They were well received by all and many people loved the designs. After we passed out a large amount of those, Patrick ran a double set: four buttons with the manipulated logo by four new artists and four random tees turned buttons. This second batch had one of my creations in it: "Tentacular Tilteed" a sea-inspired button with the company logo. Here are some pictures of all the buttons and the artwork, up close and personal.

Oooh You're So Sticky (StandOut Stickers.com)

I'd been waiting like a kid in a candy shop. That is to say, if said kid had to wait for nearly a year to get her freebie stickers from a promotional deal at StandOutStickers.com. I can't hate on them... the stickers were free! But alas, sitting at the door every day, waiting for that little package to come was far more than I could bear. Then one day, not realizing I hadn't worshiped the postal service gods (maybe I should have been praying to postal saints... are there any??), it came. One crisp, white package with my name on it. And within? Stickers created by me, printed by SOS.com, and hopefully coveted by you guys. Maybe I'll run a contest. What do you say?

I Love Baseball, But You've Gotta Go... (Custom work)

So Patrick, the owner of Tilteed.com, comes to me last week, "I need a logo for a softball team that has a weird name." No problem, right? Take a look at what I came up with and see if you can figure out the humor in this Oregon team's name.

That's One Baaaaaad As Hell Design

I've been talking with James of Bad As Hell Clothing off and on over the last couple years and come to know him pretty well. Seems he's looking to recreate the 'logo' on the site. He feels the exploding skull just doesn't relay the name of the company well enough. We've talked on and off about it and he's come back to the idea of a sheep in some form (since the site's initials are B.A.H. or the sound a sheep makes). He's gotten a couple ideas, but I decided to go irreverent with my idea for him. For those unfamiliar with the iconic imagery I've used, it's a play on the Lamb of God. We'll see down the road if he uses it for the logo or on a t-shirt, or both.

TeeFury: Furyous Omnibus

Well, I told you all it would come! ;) Teefury's shirt with their many artists' interpretations of the logo is here for only 24 hrs!!! Get it now for only $9!




P.S.: Can you find mine? Here's a list of all the artists:

1. Aaron Gilmore
2. Adam Burton
3. AJ Dimaructo
4. Alan Bernard Yong
5. Alex Davy
6. Aliadonty
7. Alicique W.
8. Andrew Miller
9. Angel Bahiia
10. April Patrick
11. April Sharp
12. Astrid Granados
13. Brandon Spahn
14. Brennan Schloo
15. Cash
16. Chris Koelle
17. Craig Watkins
18. David Van Buskirk
19. Derek Filley
20. Drew Hoffman
21. ETHERBRIAN
22. M. Brady Clark
23. Gregorius Lush Heinrich
24. Hannah Bear
25. J3Conceprts
26. Jamie Marshall
27. Jason Pursian
28. JB Panos
29. Jeremy Anderson
30. Jimiyo
31. Jimmy Bryant
32. Joe Baron
33. Jon Turner
34. Jonathen Hanson
35. Josh Earcut
36. Kelly Sultzer
37. Kris Stepp
38. Kyle Thompson
39. Laura Went
40. Lucas Alcantara
41. Martyn Castens
42. Matei Liviu
43. Mathijs Vissers
44. Matt G.
45. Maxime Francout
46. Mike Karlos
47. Mitch Stewart
48. MJ
49. Patch
50. Recycledwax
51. RikkiB
52. Robbie Lee
53. Sean Husbands
54. Shawn Conn
55. Sheyra Keley
56. Sokowa
57. Stephen Go
58. Sven Palmowski
59. Tasha Chapman
60. Bryce Driesenga
61. bluchez
62. Ameee
63. Joe Angelillo
64. Jaden Kale
65. The JCW
66. Tom Burns
67. Tyler Co
68. Victor Moral
69. Yvonne Gonzalez
70. Zack Davenport
71. Warholbot
72. Ian Taylor

TeeFury: 100th Shirt Concept

So I waded through a multitude of emails Monday, only to stumble across one from Layne Hunter, owner and figure head of TeeFury.com. Here's what the email said:

So sorry for the short notice, but 100th shirt is going to be produced on Wed. and the community suggested a cool collab idea - have everyone contribute their own TeeFury bird -
We have to have these in by tomorrow - and frankly if we get 10 then we would be very excited ;) I have attached the teefury bird (illustrator CS2) - do what you can - if you dont have time then dont worry about it ;) Thanks again to everyone for your support and participation in TeeFury!

Everyone needs to keep their art to Black and White - we will place all the birds on the design - we will take care of placing your birds on the tee.

Please email your submissions to me ...

I figured what the heck. And after a little brainstorming, I came up with a piece, and sent it in to Layne this evening. He seemed rather excited to get mine, so I was pretty psyched. The shirt will only be available for 24 hrs at TeeFury.com (from Wednesday 12am EST - 11:59pm EST) So now will be the time to buy! And when the shirt comes out Tuesday evening at midnight EST (Wednesday morning), look for this little guy:

La Crosse Mardi Gras 2009 Logo Released

This will be the overall logo for www.LaCrosseMardiGras.com and the 2009 Mardi Gras Celebration (updates to the webpage will be made later this week (hopefully) Committee will be deciding any tweaks this evening.



Website is up:

La Crosse Mardi Gras Celebration 2008 Logo

This year's celebration has been dubbed: Boogie on the Bayou. I had to do a little convincing on this design since people found 'dancing in a canoe' to be odd. I had to explain the purpose of the pirogue and how it's a flat bottom boat, allowing them to dance ON the bayou, not ON the shore of the bayou. Until fall of 2008, this can be found at www.LaCrosseMardiGras.com
Shown here is the final button and billboard choice the committee went with.