Tshirts are great. You can print on them, put them over your torso and they help keep you modest and warm. The only real issue with them is that they are not the best canvasses for the smaller details. Most of the icons designed for Chop Shop’s SciFi, Horror/Fantasy and Rock Music series of tees include a level of detail that is simply lost when printed on tshirt fibers. Enter the Science Fiction Collection.
A high quality screened poster featuring icons of 61 robots, 58 aliens and 30 various vehicles. Read More…
Pretty excellent inclusion of Chop Shop on the most recent episode of G4tv. While our own site remains our central focus, we do make our products available on both Etsy and SupermarketHQ to reach a larger audience.
It is hard to dedicate your heart to any one thing. The best we can do is divide our passions up among the things that really matter to us and that is exactly what Chop Shop’s new tshirt design intends to do. Please note that not all proportions may be accurate for all people… to compensate for this, we are considering making the Original Trilogy area larger in the next run of the design. Read More…
Admit it, deep down inside we (or at least I) all secretly want to explore the heavens untethered from the Earth and unlock all the mysteries of the universe. Perhaps that is why the beautiful info-graphic art of Michael Paukner is so appealing. His work focuses on many scientific themes such as space exploration, as seen in this poster of the Solar System as it is known today (above), to more conspiratorial “junk science” theories like numerology, the Doomsday Planet (follows the link) and that crazy Aztec calendar that ends in 2012. Read More…
When you combine equal parts photographer, mom, educator, storyteller and you mix in an infectious personality - you end up with the awesomely talented Me Ra Koh. She and her husband Brian have quickly developed a successful brand built upon empowering moms (and dads!) to take better photos. Check out the rebranded, redesigned merakoh.com.
We are consistently humbled with the quality of conversation that result from Me Ra’s workshops & stories. It’s always satisfying to work with clients who have a strong established fan base, even better is to support Me Ra’s quest of helping parents to better photograph their family - Me Ra Koh is a force for good.
Since these iconic tees started appearing in our shop and filling all our shelves, we always thought it would be most excellent to see them gridded up on large sheet and served up for a wall. Read More…
Tom and I will be speaking at the Type Directors Club, this Thursday (December 10th @ 6pm). It’s shaping up to be a pretty amusing, if not enlightening stack of stories & work. Don’t tell us if you are going to be there; nothing freaks me out more than knowing some faces within the faceless crowd.
Our presentation is in tandem with the TDC Holiday Party & Silent Auction. So if things go south, you can drink and silently bid. [thanks tina]
While recovering from a cold I, Thomas Romer, was able to produce for myself a series of sneezes. Sleeping nearby me was my wife of 8 years Maryalice. The fifth and final sneeze (and what followed) has been captured here for your enjoyment. Additionally, this remix has been provided by Sir Jon Francis of the very amusing Cheaply Made Dreamland. A blog of seriously absurd humor that could change your attitude about slacks.
Chopping Block first worked with Phish back around the late 90’s on a number of projects including (but not limited to) Farmhouse, Trampled by the Lamb, The It Festival, Phish 2.0 and later Phish 3.0. Depending on the nature of the project, Phish has always leaned heavily toward the absurd and often messing with conceptual approaches to user interaction. Farmhouse in particular is a fine example of this kind of work and won many awards and honors including most notably the Design category at the first ever Flash Forward festival. Read More…
For years now, we have been using and teaching a slightly more powerful approach to digitally coloring scanned sketches/drawings/artwork (art) in Adobe Photoshop. The de-facto technique for coloring scanned art in Photoshop is to switch the document color mode to ‘RGB Color,’ set the blending mode of the layer containing your artwork to ‘Multiply’, and create multiple layers containing color underneath your artwork. What if I told you that a few extra (simple) steps before you picked that first color could make you better, faster & stronger? And what if I gave you an Action to do it?
While there is essentially nothing wrong with the Multiply approach, it falls short with regards to flexibility, speed and creative potential. Read More…
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