This website is about any and everything that sparks the creative genius in all of us. By profession I am a Graphic Designer, and enjoy all aspects of design. From traditional to urban from resin to vinyl, these are all great mediums and deserve to be explored. On top of that everything from music to movies from guns to graffiti.
Do you think you have what it takes? Do you have the skills to 'pay the bills'? Well if you think you are the man/woman at painting up vinyl figures Super7 has a challenge for you! This Friday, November 11th at Noon PST, you can buy both the unpainted 'Mummy Boy' for $50 and 'Pocket Mummy Boy' for $25... paint them up, and if chosen one winner for each will be chosen by Super7 for a future production release during their 11th Anniversary month long celebration in May 2012. But wait there is more... even if you don't win, all entries submitted will be exhibited and for sale at their Mummy Boy Custom Paint Contest Show on Saturday, January 28th, 2012, at the Super7 Store... AWESOME!!! For more details visit their site HERE, and may the best paint job win!
Hey all you whippersnappers... looking for something to do this weekend and are in or around the central California area, well look no further because the folks over at Dragatomi have teamed up with the super talented Julie West to host "Plush-O-Rama"! This show will feature none other than plush pieces from a super group of talented individuals including: 64Colors, Adrianna Bamber, Anna Chambers, Chikuwaemil, Colorblok, Crowded Teeth, Remind Studios, Rex Crowle, Scott Tolleson, Shawnimals, Shojontomo, SpankyStokes, Gary Ham, Helena Garcia, Jeremiah Ketner, Julie West, Kit Lane, Lana Crooks, Steff Bomb, SuperDeux, Tamar Moshkovitz, Go-Tam, Tracey Meek, and Travis Lampe! One of the things that stands out about this show is that the majority of the pieces will be original handmade pieces, so no custom plush platform toys... mostly one-off's making for some truly spectacular work. This show is opening this Saturday, November 12th from 7pm-10pm and will run until December 3rd. Keep those eyes peeled for teasers of what the show will hold, including the exclusive reveal of our SS.com 12" tall plush 'Stroll' figure!
Throughout the month of November Paul over at Monster Workshop will be offering a 10% discount to all their Facebook Fans... this discount includes custom pieces too! Just be sure to get your orders in before their cut off dates (AUS/USA/Canada-Nov 25th, Europe-Dec 2nd,UK-Dec 9th) to ensure that your order gets to you for Christmas. So how do you do activate this discount, simply become a fan of the Stitches and Glue Facebook page HERE then visit the event entitled '10% off this month' listed on their wall. There you will find the code to enter in the discount code box on the shopping cart page when placing your order... oh and if you aren't on Facebook, contact Paul directly as he does not want to discriminate :-)
UK based artist Hugh Rose just recently completed a new custom vinyl piece and it's on, what seems to be, everyone's favorite customizing platform... a Coarse Toys "Jaws" figure! Titled 'Psychopomp' this amazingly detailed piece is based on the Egyptian god Anubis, who legend says taught the process of embalming to mankind. The piece was a commission for a KR Board member and deals with the theme of the moment of death and the psychedelic migration of consciousness away from the physical body. One thing Hugh tells us is that this is one of the first pieces he has sculpted on, and is happy with the result... and why not, this is simply amazing!
You read it right folks, Jon Knox has just put up 3 new tee's in his online store and with each one comes its own unique design/style! You can pick from "1984", "Billie", or "Cammie" all of which feature Jon's awesome illustrated characters! Head on over HERE now and pick one, or all three up!
It's already been 2 days since Designer-Con 2011 has wrapped up and boy do I miss it! One of the many things that I do every year is think that I can get away from the booth to take photos and do "regular" con coverage... and seeing as we did giveaways every other hour this year unlike every hour in the past years, I thought I could swing this... I was wrong! I pretty much had very little time to make it around to any booths, and for those of you running booths know what I am talking about... so I have finally come to terms with this and the photos and recap for the convention will just have to suffice. I did however have a FANTASTIC time, and I would say that all of the artists that were represented at our booth would feel the same way.
The convention was the biggest it has ever been... a constant flow of traffic, and ton of sales... which is a must for our scene to keep moving on, one thing I do hope for in the future for this convention is that it moves towards a preview night or into two full days... I think it's time! Just like the past years, we had giveaways at 11am, 1pm, 3pm, and 5pm and we handed out some AMAZING stuff this year donated by so many awesome companies including DKE, Super7 Time Bandits, Tenacious Toys, Plaseebo, Kidrobot, Fugitive Toys, Round 5, Nemo, Bad Applez Inc., Lift, Lulubell Toys, Grody Shogun, Kuso Vinyl, TSURT, Artransmitte, ESC Toys, Art Attack Toys, Dragatomi, La Muerta, Smash Tokyo Toys, TYO Toys, iCovers4u, Toy2R, JazzyDan, Blacklist Studios and many others... and all the people who stuck around till the end... I salute you, thanks for making this con super special!
At our booth we also had on display customs by a ton of artist including: 2BitHack, Nebulon5, Jay222, DrilOne, Nathan Hamill, Motorbot, Eckotyper, Ardabus Rubber, Josh"f+"Pearce, Leecifer, ValleyDweller, Plastic Booty and many others! We also brought back our life-sized SS.com mascot to the event, and please post up photos on Facebook and tag us in there :-) Please be sure to hit the jump for a full photo run down of our booth, and watch the video above which shows off the world's biggest "blind-box" time, as well as Scott Wilkowski's "Infected" resin showcase! Thanks again to all who came out... and I am already planning for next go around!!!!
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