New “My Heart is Divided” Tshirt Sorts It All Out

Thursday, 01.28.10 at 3:03 pm
Written by Tom, Comments

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 [...]

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Speaking at Type Directors Club December 10th

Wednesday, 12.09.09 at 2:34 pm
Written by Matthew, Comments

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 [...]

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Lent Space: You know, for art

Thursday, 10.08.09 at 1:24 pm
Written by Marissa, Comments

Every morning for several months, I get out of the Canal Street 1 stop and I walked past a fenced in area between Canal and Grand. I was curious about what was brewing behind those closed fences but I could never quite get a good look. Then a few weeks ago the fences [...]

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The Thing With The Flash CS5 to iPhone

Monday, 10.05.09 at 4:36 pm
Written by Matthew, Comments

We will not be posting about Adobe’s announcement that Flash Professional CS5 will allow developers to build applications for iPhone and iPod touch, instead we are supporting CreativePro’s even more awesome post.
See how I did that.

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Chop: Fall Flash Classes at SVA

Wednesday, 09.16.09 at 5:53 pm
Written by Matthew, Comments

Fall is here and you know what that means, back to school time. This fall, Tim and I will both be teaching at School of Visual Arts. Tim will be teaching Basic and Advanced Flash Weekend workshop classes and I (Matthew) will be teaching an Advanced Flash Independent Project Actionscript class.
The Independent projects class is [...]

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Everybody’s Gonna Be Happy

Thursday, 08.13.09 at 6:03 pm
Written by Tom, Comments (1)

For one whole year, happiness guru Gretchen Rubin pursued a set of resolutions: to get more sleep, quit nagging her husband, sing in the morning to her daughters, stick to an exercise program, start a blog, imitate a spiritual master and keep a one-sentence journal. That experiment became a blog which in turn became a [...]

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Robot Stuff on Etsy: Part 5 (wedding edition)

Tuesday, 08.04.09 at 12:46 pm
Written by Marissa, Comments (6)

Today is a wonderful day the block. Leo, one of our own, got himself hitched and we couldn’t be more thrilled.
So you can imagine my excitement when I came across this on etsy. This adorable painting clocks in at a miniscule 2½” × 3½” but it is really quite beautiful even at such [...]

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Waist deep and no life guard is on duty

Monday, 07.20.09 at 4:58 pm
Written by Tim, Comments

When faced with the task of finding an image for a comp, I usually head on over to Flickr.  The problem is that I inevitably get side-tracked by all the shiny, shiny pictures. So it’s time to focus on specific pools of photos.  Today, I came across 2 really great ones, Masters of the Words and Tattoos [...]

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Robot Stuff on Etsy: Part 4

Wednesday, 06.17.09 at 5:53 pm
Written by Marissa, Comments

Every once in a while I’ll come by some product that I must email out to the entire studio and beg them to get it for the office.  I think I may have just stumbled upon such a product.  Behold, Lime Robot Love Soap by LoveLeeSoaps.
The soap is made from glyerin and shea butter and [...]

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Connect the Dots

Friday, 05.15.09 at 10:58 am
Written by Tom, Comments

Just in case you didn’t have enough to do at work today or you are scanning the classifieds in your parent’s basement… we thought we would share some of our connect-the-dots activities with you.

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