Sorry Folks, We had to go Back to the Future!
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I know its been a real long time since we posted any news or any new work but we had to take a nice little end of the year trip back to the future with our good friends Marty and Doc. Basically we had a whole lot of stuff to get done and not enough time to do it in so bought a Delorean, contracted the help of a couple of friends and we are coming back swinging in 2010. As you may have noticed the store has been down for a week or so because we are overhauling our whole site to make it a better experience for both you the user and us the creator. We wanted to have a store that was built into our site and make it easier for us to upload new work. So good things are coming soon. Also we got a bunch of work in that time so we have a gang of stuff to show you when the new site goes live. So for now just stay tuned cause we will posting as frequent as we can till the new stuff is up! As always thanks for checking us out, TRON & Grease!
LUCERO POSTER – Printed & Ready to Ride
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Well Alright Folks, we finally wrangled this here poster to the ground, hog tied it down and screened it right into the rack! We got taken down it the first round and had to get saved by the rodeo clowns (Dog & Pony) cause our second screen was too small, but thanks to Sean we got another screened burned and lived to ride another 08 seconds. I gotta say, this is hands down one of the freshest posters we have ever done. Grease really brought the gunfire on this one. We actually got to print a couple of them on some left over Suede Tex and It really came out nice. It looks like an oversized Jean Label for real! Thanks to Dog and Pony once again for hooking us up with this opportunity and for bailing us out… We Owe You Big Time! Check out their poster for the show at Cafe Eleven in St. Augustine a couple of days Later! – Tron
View the Small Photo Set on Flickr or PURCHASE one for $20 (that’s about 600 Marlboro Miles)
SWEET N FLOUR – Logo & Stamp Packaging
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It’s Pretty Simple actually… My wife Marisa Makes Delicious Handmade Baked Goods, I love her very very much and we Definitely love the goods. So when the time came to make her a logo that would encompass everything about her, We put all our love into it. Grease took what I had started, Rounded the edges and dotted the lines (literally) & made what I thought was good better. And the final product came out awesome as you can see. A cute little curvy logo seal with bows, cupcakes and pies tucked neatly inside… Just like Marisa. You will be seeing much much more of this logo in the future, cause were just preheating the oven!
Visit www.sweetnflour.com to see pics and recipes of all Marisa’s wonderful Baked Goods!
LUCERO – Tallahassee Show Jean Label Poster
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Our good Friends over at the Dog & Pony Show, hooked us up with a sweet gig to do a LUCERO poster for the upcoming Tallahassee show date. We jumped at the opportunity and unlike usual, Grease and I immediately had about 5-6 Ideas to start with. I think that might have been the first time we have had to narrow it down from that many, maybe it’s because we live in the south or because we like the band, but this one stood out amongst them all. As soon as Grease said it I was down. We really wanted to do a poster that we could rock the type on and get across that very southern rock-n-roll feeling. So a Jean Label was the perfect Idea! And needless to say Grease SLAYED it. We will be printing the poster next week so if you aren’t at the Tallahassee show and really want one we will have them for sale in our store. -TRON
Click Here to view the bigger version of the Poster/Oversided Jean Label
Test-Tee’s Test-Tee’s 123… Grease’s Test-Tee
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Halftones, Zipatones, Dashes & Lines, that’s what fun designs are made of… well, that among other things. Just in case you’re wondering what details will & won’t hold up in your retro tee designs, this styley shirt gives you the numbers that work & keeps you dressing snappy in the mean time. Printed on 100% Ultra Cotton Ice Gray Gildan Tee’s
Shirt quantities are limited (like 20… total), so scoop’m up while you can!
PURCHASE ONE… OR TWO now in our Online Store for $20 Bones plus shipping.
You can also view the images in much larger size and detail in our Clothing and Apparel Flickr Set
Grease Getting It Done at the Day Job!
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We wanted to give a little late but much deserved props to Grease for his latest Packaging Design of the Bold City Brewery Logo, Bottles, Growler, and Tap Handles from the day job @TheRobinShepherdGroup, Nice Work Sir! These things got bounced around the net like crazy. First he submitted it to Lovely Package, then from there it got featured on The Dieline, Serious Eats, United Rotation, okaygreat & Notcot!
And of course twitter ate it up. I just love it because it’s a mix of my two favorite things (and obviously Greases’ Too) Beer and Screen Printed Graphics. We also wanna give Jacquie Wojcik Props for her Awesome Names that she came up with that gave Grease the Fuel to Fire! Mad Manatee Is my Fav so far but I’ve gotten to see some news that are Pretty Rad Too so stay Tuned. Keep it Tronolicious… TRON
Feel free to check it out on anyone one of those place above or on Sheperd’s Site www.trsg.net.
Save “My Name is Earl” Poster Camaign
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So for the last couple of days, I have been working on a Series of posters about men with epic Mustache’s. And It just so happened that while I was working on Earl ( Jason Lee ) I saw on twitter that “My Name Is Earl” my favorite show, had been canceled via @WilfridDierkes aka MNIE show creator Greg Garcia. Needless to say I was Pissed! After more investigation, I found out that ABC or FOX might be interested in the show and that they had created a twitter petition @earltwitition which is quit possibly the first of its kind. So being the huge fan I am, I took which was the weirdest coincidence ever, and turned it into a SAVE EARL poster to try and help. If you watch the show its all about Earl’s list of things he has done wrong in his life and is trying to fix one by one. Which is why I chose to present the illustration on Yellow Crumpled up paper. Turned out pretty good I think on such short notice. For once I was ahead of the eight ball and I’m not gonna let it get away. So here it is, DOWNLOAD IT, Print copies and post it around the office and most importantly the web. Greg Garcia (Show Creator) is sending every tweet and re-tweet to NBC, ABC, and FOX in hopes of turning the tide. And hopefully, he will be stoked when he see’s the direct message from twitter with the link to this poster in it… cross your fingers and hope he is stoked. Over and Out… TRON.
Twitter Links: @WilfridDierkes | @earltwitition | @EthanSuplee | @Alyssa_Milano
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE HIGHER RES IMAGE TO PRINT AND POST AROUND
74 Soundsystem 12″ Vinyl Sleeve layout
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Our Good Friend Freddy from 74 Soundsystem came to us to put a little HTD love on his “We Love Bass” version of the iconic “I Love NY” graphic and here is what we came up with. Since everyone dug the Icon Collage we used on the Skull poster, we figured we would try it out again on the heart portion of this, and yeah it’s super simple, but it’s also clean. And thats how we like it! If anyone has ever screen printed on vinyl sleeves or knows where to get some nice plain white ones. Hit Us Up! Well keep you posted on the production on this one. Oh Yeah, sorry for lack of posts lately, I got married! more on that later. TRON
In The Meanwhile, Check out the 74 Soundsystem on their myspace page and rock some BASS!
Honey Nuts & Oaths Wedding Invites
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I Got Married!!! And yes it was to a Awesome/Beautiful Woman who has put up with my shit for 8 years now. So Needless to say, I’m Officially off the market now. Im stoked about the future of my new life with my lady and the many other projects we have just waiting to be unveiled. As for the design… Grease laid down a “smooth as butter” Storybook illustration from the story I had written with the help of J-Wo, so my country grammar was right. This thing was twelve pages in all with additional RSVP, Accommodations, & Itinerary. So take a look and let us know what you think. This is not the first one Grease has done, so we will be adding a Packaging / Print Section to the Garage Work section real soon along with some other new stuff.
If you want to take a closer look at these, Page By Page check out the whole set on our HTD flickr account.
DEADWOOD Deck Set by Grease for IB3
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Check out these new set of decks by Grease Himself entitled DEADWOOD for the IM BOARD 3 Skateboard Art show. Yeah these are another couple of Beasty prints from the people over at Zazzle.com. They came back a little darker than we had anticipated but they still looked great nonetheless and looked even better hanging up at the show. If you didn’t get a chance to go, visit eyeswideawake.com for links to all the photo sets (Set 1, Set 2, Set 3, Set 4) and a couple of videos. It was a wild show, Chad had a full on Redbull street course, DJ’s and a whole crew of Breakers throwin down. It’s gonna be hard to top the show next year. I did a couple of decks as well but they were last minute Ideas that were just stenciled straight on the Decks. But I had an excuse for the slackery because I designed and printed the show poster which I must say was a pretty cool concept. I really didn’t get the execution I originally had in mind nor was I able to print the posters in multiple colors but they did come out awesome! More on that later, for now check out the rest of the photos from the DEADWOOD Set and start wishin you had mad skills like Grease. TRON OUT!
Check out the Deadwood Flickr Set for more rad photos and angles of these big chinned bastards!
