The Chop Shop Etsy Store on G4

Friday, 01.29.10 at 12:21 am
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Game Trailers – E3 2010 – AOTS Exclusive 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.

Egads… That’s a Whole Lot of Scary Celebrities

Sunday, 12.13.09 at 12:34 am
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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.

Speaking at Type Directors Club December 10th

Wednesday, 12.09.09 at 2:34 pm
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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 […]

Photoshop: Prep & Color Scanned Drawings

Monday, 10.26.09 at 12:48 pm
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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 […]

The Chop Shop 144 Icons of Horror and Fantasy

Thursday, 10.22.09 at 6:28 pm
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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.

51 Icons of The Undead Tshirt

Tuesday, 10.20.09 at 11:55 am
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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.

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 […]