Harvest Derby

This shirt received an Honorable Mention after this week's voting and will be in the following Double-Take Derby 7.

And on the B-Side, is Goodjoe (Write-Up)

Recently Gigi, a co-writer for The B-Side, went to the Art and Soul festival in Oakland, CA and spied Nathan and Jourdan selling their tried and true brand: Goodjoe. It seems she was taken with my design: All That Jazz but waited until their exodus from the festival to snag one for $10. To know there are other people wearing my shirt makes me all warm inside. Even better when people write about how much they love the shirt. Perhaps it's a good thing I grabbed a pint of ice cream to cool me down this humid evening.

Will Goodjoe Make Some Time for Tea? (Goodjoe.com)

Architecture Derby

Goodjoe.com: More Than Just a Good Joe. (Print #4)

It's the beginning of August and I can't help but notice that it's been like fall in Wisconsin for the last month. Today, even more so. I, personally, am not opposed to this since it allows for great outdoor concert weather. You know the concerts I'm talking about: taking a blanket, sitting out in the park with friends, and listening to great music, be it someone local or a famous group you've been dying to see. While I can say I have missed out on a great deal of music experiences such as this, this summer makes me pine for these concerts all the more.

So why the talk of concerts when there isn't one that I'm going to? Because I possibly have the next best thing at the moment: A design printing that shows that love for music that everyone should have. The guys* at Goodjoe.com have decided that All That Jazz will finally be printed. The tri-color piece will be offered for one week in a large variety of colors: asphalt, metal, baby blue, turquoise, pink, cranberry, gold, brown and military green/army, with the primary color being asphalt. Lots of options for anyone's taste.

While you are over at Goodjoe to snag the shirt, which goes on $10 pre-sale Monday August 3rd (then goes to $18 after August 10th), check out the foundation I suggested to the Goodjoe Bucket: The Fender Music Foundation. I found it fitting considering the shirt's theme. $1 from each shirt will be put in the Goodjoe Bucket and sent to the Foundation to continue helping both children and adults with everything from music education and awareness to a creative outlet and personal healing through the power of music.

Want to help further? You're in luck. The Fender Music Foundation also has a 'Causes on Facebook' page where you can join and donate to help spread music everywhere. You don't have to donate right away if you want to join the facebook community over there. They welcome raising awareness. Not inclined to do that? That's okay, just telling friends and family where they can purchase the shirt will raise money as well for the Foundation as well. And while you're at Goodjoe, remember you can help any number of organizations just by purchasing any of their shirts, and you are welcome to suggest organizations, give suggestions for other designs or create your own design with a positive message. Who knows... perhaps yours will be the next to print at Goodjoe!




*Special thanks goes to Nathan and Jourdan of Goodjoe for working with me to get everything from just pushing me to put the design up there to modifying code at the site to allow for all the shirt previews.

On The Precipice...

I know... I can hardly contain myself! But I will.

Stay tuned. ;)

Double-Take Derby #6

Here we go, ladies and gents! The mystery owl has come back in style in the double-take derby. He's searching for your votes, so please toss it one today!






Be sure to watch for this design. Shirt.Woot

Covert Derby Group: Contest #3: Invasion Derby

So I had attempted to come up with a half dozen different ideas for this special derby put on by the owners of Compete-tee-tion/TeeMagnet and Singularitee: Geekfactor12 (or MJ00) and AdderXYU. The long and short of it, even though I wanted to stay away from the traditional alien theme, I came back to it, because things like cats being overrun to the hilt with mice and such just didn't seem to pan out quite like I had hoped. My distaste for anything ant-like kept me from pursuing a picnic theme. And even my alien characters creeping INTO Area 51 to get their ship from a hanger didn't come across well. So what do I do when my design just isn't up to snuff? I ignore it, leave it for four days and come back in a tizzy with a whole new perspective on it, remembering I have a cut off date.

Instead of focusing on my alien characters, I zoomed out of the picture and created an amusing and charming scene... with a touch of carnage in the background. I hope others agree that Invasion of Love is just that. It's a comedy of errors/romance comedy feel about it. The little ship falls in love with the street lamp, it's similar shape and glowing light drawing it in like a moth to a flame. It classically confuses it for another alien ship while others from the armada, small and large alike, are wreaking havoc on the metropolis in the distance.

I hope you all enjoy it, and I'd like to thank everyone who critiqued it in it's assorted stages so I could make it flow as well as possible.

Tattoo Derby

Jazz May Have a New Home (Goodjoe.com)

After debating for a bit here, I decided to pull the shirt from teextile and try it at Goodjoe.com instead. It happens, and I probably should have listened to Nathan when he first ooh'd and ahh'd over it. I'll learn in time. I have it up there in a few different colors: one with the original white hair and face, and one with black hair and face. Vote for them when they upload, please. They should be up soon. I'm sure that Nathan will be elated to see them at Goodjoe.com finally.

*update: Jourdan sent me a message telling me that they won't be separated, I'll be able to load them all on to one vote block. So I also submitted the cranberry version as well for viewing. It's all the same file, just a matter of the inks being changed, depending on the shirt color.

Taking Flight, Little Star? (Teextile.com)

I decided that since I pulled my jazz piece at Teextile.com, I should try something else over there instead. I figured it may be time to see how 'He Wanted To Fly So Badly' could do. Whimsical, and fun take on parasailing, I'm hoping he gets some well deserved love over there. Especially with 'Funky Colors Week' coming up in August. Click the picture at the bottom to see a larger view. Or just click on the 'vote' right below :)

Pressure Derby