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…
Since All Hallow’s Eve is just around the corner we thought we would complete our Horror and Fantasy series of designs. 146 icons make up the trio of tshirt designs now available as a discounted set at chopshopstore.com. Read More…
Ever wish you could master everything related to digital photography? There is a place for that. This week, the graduating class of the MPS Digital Photography department at the School of Visual Arts will be exhibiting their work in NYC. I am grateful for the opportunity to be involved in the program, and I am consistently impressed & humbled by the rockstar work that the students produce.
If you are in NYC this week, the exhibition “Surface Tension” is a must see. Sixteen forces for photographic greatness, with unparalleled creative and technical skills, tell their stories via digital prints like you have never seen before. See you at the opening on Wednesday!
Exhibition: October 21 – November, 14
Reception: Wednesday, October 21, 6pm-8pm
SVA Gallery: 209 East 23rd Street, New York, NY 10010
Online Gallery: surface-tension-exhibit.com
We just put the final nail in the coffin of our Horror/Fantasy collection with our newest offering “undeadWe”; it packs in 51 zombies, ghosts, mummies, spirits and other boo-tiful members of the living dead. References range from television, film, video games, popular music, animation, literature, legend and another one from the breakfast table. Read More…
One thing I love almost as much as robots and hand crafted stuff is wine. That’s why my inner lush was giddy with delight over this wonderful Robot Wine Rack that I found on Etsy.
The wine rack from paperdollwoodshop is made of wood (also a big Chopping Block passion) and painted to bright beautiful blue. Custom colors are available upon request. It has moveable arms and comes with an inexplicable removable mustache. It holds 4 bottles of wine (wine not included) and some light assembly is required. At $39.99 it’s a bit steeper in price than most of the stuff I recommend, but I have a feeling it’s worth it.
The only thing that outlives vampires is our obsession with them. In 1922, the film Nosferatu introduced our fanged friends to film and almost 90 years later, vampires are sucking more than ever.
weBite is the second in our series of horror/fantasy designs, following weScare (a collection of 59 monsters). It features vampires from film, sitcoms, anime, cartoons, children’s entertainment, video games, comics, comedy and even the breakfast table. All ominously arranged into the form of an outstretched bat. Read More…
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