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Classic Filters ––> Heroic Personification

Monday, 08.24.09 at 12:21 pm
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Chop Shop is excited to release its latest tee design, “Filter Heroes”. The original concept was actually hatched during The Chopping Block’s formative years in the late 90’s. At that time the studio repeatedly re-worked their company website to look like anything but a design studio’s website. The first versions included a Nascar site, a […]

CB Makes WWW for The COA and The DOD

Tuesday, 08.18.09 at 6:20 pm
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Not only do we design for rock bands like Phish and They Might Be Giants, but sometimes we also work for “The Man”. Our long-time client Council on Accreditation, utilized our powerful design & development team to deliver a website for The Department of Defense that’s goal was to, “expand the number of civilian quality […]

Everybody’s Gonna Be Happy

Thursday, 08.13.09 at 6:03 pm
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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 […]

Echos of Apollo and Ourselves

Tuesday, 07.21.09 at 1:18 pm
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Not as long ago as 40 years ago, but just a little over 10 years ago – The Chopping Block adopted the look of NASA for one of our online incarnations. More specific our adopted look embraced the era of Apollo in hopes that a little of that former astro-glory might rub off on our […]

Chop Shop: weScare

Wednesday, 07.08.09 at 6:32 pm
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Chop Shop is horrified to release the first of 3 collection tee designs that will feature MONSTERS. weScare features 59 icons of celebrated Fantasy and Horror creatures with several of them gnashing their terrible teeth. References are wide ranging from film, television, animation, video games, comic books, rock history, children’s literature, toys, gaming and one […]

Robot Haikus a Plenty

Thursday, 06.11.09 at 6:04 pm
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If you were ever curious about how many haikus you could get written just by offering some free t-shirts… we have the answer. Our tee design weRobot managed to inspire 862 different haikus written about robots on toplessrobot.com. One fellow named Glitchy Goblin actually went out of his way to pen 70 all by himself […]

Our Design All Over a Little League Team

Friday, 05.29.09 at 10:01 pm
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Something popped up in our mailboxes last week from numerous friends. Apparently They Might Be Giants has taken to sponsoring Little League teams and are using our “No!” tshirt designs as uniforms. Have to say its nice to see a design we executed pop up everywhere from supermarket shelves to a friend’s personal CD collection. […]

Connect the Dots

Friday, 05.15.09 at 10:58 am
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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.

Chop Shop: robotRock

Tuesday, 05.05.09 at 2:03 pm
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It so hard for Chop Shop to resist pop-culture references. Our best received designs thus far have been our “weRobot” and “rockStar” tees which contain about 80+ pop-icon references just between the two. So when we came across this image by Richard Miske on flickr, it was like the gods sending us a signal. Naturally, […]

Stop the Letter Presses!

Monday, 04.27.09 at 2:34 pm
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There is something I just love about Supermarkethq. I would never do anything to hurt Etsy’s feelings, but Supermarkethq is the newest kid on the block and we think its got legs. Big, long, lanky designer legs. One of the best things you can find there are various hand letter-pressed products (L2 Design Collective shown […]