Posts by tom:

weVolve is a Barrel Monkey Made of Monkeys

Thursday, 09.16.10 at 9:40 pm
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The Chop Shop iconic series of designs continues — and is going ape. Okay, so maybe “ape” is taxonomically too specific. Let’s just say the design features a bunch of chimpanzees, monkeys, gorillas and even a few human-ape hybrids to please the sci-fi crowd. That is a total of celebrated simians from various sources of film, television, […]

How Could We Not Post This?

Thursday, 09.16.10 at 10:43 am
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CHOP (preview) from Peter Buchanan-Smith on Vimeo. Via notcot.org.

Three New Designs From Reed and Piascik

Thursday, 07.15.10 at 10:06 pm
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We have added a few new designs from two good friends of the Shop over the past few months. Jpegasus is by Jamie Reed who also was the mastermind behind last year’s best-selling Dapper Men design. Mustache was inspired by humorist Jon Francis at Cheaply Made Dreamland in an off-hand comment which we decided to turn […]

Unearth the Work: What Is Lupus?

Tuesday, 06.22.10 at 9:53 am
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Ideally, nobody should ever have to hear sentences like: “Lupus is chronic, inflammatory disease that affects the immune system.” Yet roughly 1.5 million people in the United States, including an estimated 10,000 children have unfortunately had to confront the challenge of dealing with having Lupus. To better help the world to understand this collection of […]

Dilbert Gets an Official Logo

Thursday, 04.15.10 at 7:25 am
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Finally, the original icon of office humor will finally have an official logo for all his TPS reports. Working in cooperation with the creator Scott Adams and United Media, The Chopping Block developed the new look for the legendary comic to help establish a brand beyond the well known characters of the strip. As if […]

Design Life Tee, True Dat!

Tuesday, 04.13.10 at 6:35 pm
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Design life is more than a tshirt design. Its a way of life. Know what I’m sayin’? I mean, its a tshirt that’ll put some hair on your chest… Know what I’m sayin’? The kernel of this idea came from a bowling team full of Chopping Block folks. The team name was the “Burly Bowling […]

Let Us Illustrate This Problem for You

Tuesday, 04.06.10 at 12:18 pm
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We have been working closely with Climate Central to help illustrate the actual data they get back from NASA and the US Navy on climate change. Climate Central is a nonprofit science and media organization created to provide clear and objective information about climate change and its potential risks. The illustrations are an attempt at […]

Build a Well with T-shirts?

Sunday, 03.28.10 at 5:20 pm
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As graduates fresh out of college, the members of wellDone traveled to Africa during the Summer of 2005, during which they observed the critical need for safe drinking water in communities throughout rural Ghana. Wanting to make a difference they launched WellDone with one goal: funding, constructing, and the long-term managing of six wells in […]

That’s One Nerdy Trio of Prints, Harry!!!

Wednesday, 02.17.10 at 5:40 pm
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A bunch of new prints suddenly appeared on chopshopstore.com and are even nerdier than a whole boat load of robot icons. Nerd Rider (left) is actually the original version of a tshirt that has mysteriously disappeared from our collection due to circumstances beyond anyone’s control. The Craftsman (center) was inspired by the video game World […]

I Have So Much Teux Deux

Tuesday, 02.09.10 at 5:34 pm
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We live in a world chock full of ToDo list apps.  The problem with most of these tools is that they all tend to be too complex and suffer low adoption rates because of it.  To that end, Teux Deux offers a solution so simple that I’m amazed it took so long for someone to […]