Posted in Admin » Me on July 30, 2009 at 9:42 AM
Inprnt just updated the back end of their site with some new features and better organization. The coolest bit they've added is this great zoom features on artwork. Now when you click to enlarge a print, you can zoom in... Continue reading »
Last week I launched The Anything Machine Project. The idea behind it is simple: to highlight ingenious things I come across in my feed reading. We live in a world where every bit of ingenuity or invention is dissected... Continue reading »
Posted in Work » Illustration on July 25, 2009 at 9:54 PM
Later this year I hope to launch a pretty ambitious project in conjunction with InPrnt. As part of it, I've decided to redo some of my existing Swim paintings as illustrations. Here's the original painting: She's Got The Whole... Continue reading »
Posted in Obsession » Comics on July 22, 2009 at 2:11 PM
From a talk Warren Ellis gave at Dundee University: "When done right, comics are a cognitive whetstone, providing two or three or more different but entangled streams of information in a single panel. Processing what you’re being shown, along with... Continue reading »
Posted in Work » Card Cheat on July 17, 2009 at 12:00 PM
With huge chunks of development work behind us, Marc and I are going full steam ahead and finishing up The Card Cheat pitch. I'm lettering the book with Hedge Backwards from Comicraft. One of my favorites fonts, the letterforms really... Continue reading »
Posted in Work » Illustration on July 15, 2009 at 2:30 PM
The widgets I did illustration work for a few months ago have launched over at Reading Rockets. They came out pretty sharp and were fun to do.... Continue reading »
Posted in Work » Illustration on July 14, 2009 at 7:20 AM
Hyper the Phenomenal! "Don-Vin, also known as Hyper the Phenomenal, is ray gun wielding spaceman. He has a girlfriend named Winifred and is enemies with a woman named Dolores. He does not posses any known superpowers." Warren Ellis posts... Continue reading »
Posted in Obsession » Design on July 11, 2009 at 11:51 PM
This is a quote from David Pelham in Penguin by Design, a great history of Penguin Cover design and development history. He's talking what we wanted a cover to do. There must be two triggers — an initial trigger which... Continue reading »