This was my Christmas gift to Lauren this year! An Industrial Chic, Steampunk esque Chess set. I found the board on Etsy, and built the pieces out of nuts and bolts from the hardware store. I got one side rusted using Patina Blue solution, which I found from this sweet tutorial.

If you want to make your own, or you want a set, drop me a line!

Gluten-free put a bird on it artisan, photo booth irony cred 3 wolf moon pitchfork master cleanse. Iphone farm-to-table before they sold out, homo portland 8-bit vice banh mi whatever. Cardigan banh mi trust fund, american apparel mcsweeney’s gluten-free retro DIY homo. Gentrify vegan you probably haven’t heard of them lomo. Four loko marfa keffiyeh sartorial +1, hoodie readymade mlkshk seitan homo tumblr gentrify wayfarers portland. Letterpress stumptown lo-fi, sustainable brooklyn PBR banh mi. Cardigan helvetica retro sartorial jean shorts.

I’m not sure about you, but I know where I’ll be getting my next FPO copy. Check out Hipster Ipsum!

Yep, I’m finally getting these bad boys together. Thanks to the awesome people at AIR for helping me with the screening process! The one on the right is the original screen, and the guy on the left is my first attempt at “weathering” the piece. Below are some different versions, as I worked with some variations of tea, coffee, paint, and wine to get my desired effect for the weathering. The final pieces will be 11 x 16, hand signed and numbered editions of 24. Let me know if you want one!

As you can tell by these crazy, ridiculous,

awesome

fonts, my first time with

Typekit

went rather well.

Last week, a friend of mine introduced me to Typekit. I was pretty floored. This is a HUGE step in the right direction for web design. Now that all major browsers can take advantage of the ability to link to a font, developers will have the ability to solve complex design issues while maintaining accessibility standards (without using flash, like SIFR does). I’m sure we will see more global solutions like this one for solving the legal problems with linking users to fonts they haven’t purchased in the near future.

Typekit also works with IE6, which is an honest to goodness miracle.

Start the reactor. Free Mars…

Yes, I finally got my Tyler Stout Posters in the mail this week. This guy’s work is amazing. It has a vector look to it, but also takes me back to contour line drawings in art school. Also, his color choices are how you say, choice. Check out his artwork here.

The left poster is Total Recall, and the right is Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior. These two movies are up there on my list of glorious glitter from the 80s and early 90s, in my opinion the Renaissance of cheesy movies. Both of these guys are limited edition, hand numbered Alamo prints. Really excited to finally get a couple of these, as these guys put together some amazing work.

My buddy Justin came to me a couple months back, and told me that he was starting an ultimate frisbee team in my home town of Ligonier. He asked if i would put a logo together for the team, in exchange for a jersey. I happily obliged, and proceeded to put together the logo you see below, based on the civil war fort located in Ligonier.

Now, for the bad. Below, you can see the final jersey. Not too shabby right? Well, apparently the printer saw fit to toy with my final eps file, completely jacking up the kerning on the work Fortress. Wherever you are captain dumbass, thanks for that novel idea.

Outside of that, the final jerseys are pretty cool. Some sweat control fabric that’s dang comfy, and you can’t go wrong with Steelers colors

My Reverse Jams, limited edition designed my the students at CMU came today.

w00t!

I’m pretty sure Marian Hossa won’t be buying State Farm insurance any time soon.

Sunset on the 606

Finally, I dusted off my copy of photoshop and put something together for Design By Humans. I’ve been wanting to for a while, but as many people know, wanting and doing are very different things.

This shirt is based off of the building I lived in in college, and the idea that that lifestyle eventually comes to an end. Currently its just a submission. The way DBH works is based on the idea of one big ongoing tshirt design contest. The designs are done by the community, and voted on by the community. So get out and vote for mine!

_Rob