LUCERO Florida Tour Poster by TRON!
Posted by TRON | Filed under HTD News, Illustration, Posters And Prints
For most people, getting to do one poster for one of you favorite bands would be enough for a lifetime. And we thought it would be too, but when we heard Lucero’s new album “Women & Work” and saw they were coming back for another Florida run… well, we just couldn’t resist. The new album is so amazing, we were blown away when we found out that we were asked to do a poster for the whole Florida Tour, not just one date. And after listening to the album with commentary from frontman Ben Nichols and getting a little more info about each track, I quickly grabbed a pencil and paper and a poster Idea was born.
On the title track, Ben says “One Shot of Women… One Shot of Work” referring to shots of some kind of delicious liquor. Well, we just modified that a bit and thought Dueling Pistols might convey that same idea in a little more southern fashion. Balancing your Women and Work while traveling great distances across America between both can feel a lot like a good ole fashion gun fight at times. And back then when it wasn’t working out (it never does) and neither side would concede, someone usually ended up on a wanted poster.
Much Thanks to Bart for making this happen and if your at one theses Floria Show Dates, make sure and pick one up as they are going to be a limited run that probably won’t last through the tour. If they do, we will have some up on our store as well! Stay tuned for some printed previews and if you can’t wait for us to post them here you can follow us on instagram/halftonedef for live updates and shenanigans! – TRON
The Everywhere Project – Tampa
Posted by TRON | Filed under HTD News, Illustration, Print / Packaging
Here’s a fun one Grease just finished up for Adrian Walsh’s Everywhere Project. Adrian has rounded up a heap of rad designers to spotlight different areas around the globe via luggage tags. If you haven’t taken a look yet, we definitely recommend checking out the site. Lot’s of great stuff up there already, and still many tags left to come. Big thanks to Adrian for for putting together such a fun collective, and for letting Grease have a crack at the Tampa tag!
On a side note, when Adrian is not taking time out to organize rad collectives, he is knocking out some pretty damn impressive design work. After you’re done checking out the Everywhere Project, swing over to Adrian’s personal site & be ready to be impressed. Solid work. – TRON
Visit been-everywhere.com to see some rad luggage tag design by some seriously talented designers!
Don’t Panic Magazine – Poster Pack
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Grease recently had the chance to do a bit of work for the Don’t Panic Magazine poster pack a while back.
“I had a heap ton of fun working on the project, but i’m not sure if the piece ever made it to the press. Either way, I love working in one color and it was completely worth the exercise.” – Grease (kendrick kidd)
If you happen to live in the UK & see this puppy floating around, please hit us up. We will gladly pay shipping if you can send a few copies our way! – TRON!
dribbble Time Out with Kendrick Kidd (aka Grease)
Posted by TRON | Filed under Featured, HTD News
Our very own Grease E. Monkey “aka Kendrick Kidd” was featured today on dribbble’s TIME OUT Interview section of their blog. It’s a pretty quick one but still worth the read. Much Thanks goes out to dribbble.com, we are both huge fans of the site! – Thanks TRON. Click here to read the entire interview with graphics!
P.S. – You can visit our seperate profiles at dribbble.com/kendrickkidd and dribbble.com/tron but be warned, Grease is somewhat of a dribbble celebrity, I am mostly just on there for body guard/bouncer purposes.
Springing The Blue’s – Pick Of Destiny!
Posted by TRON | Filed under HTD News, Illustration
So we recently got asked to make a t-shirt design that was for a local blues festival with the info in the shape of a guitar pick… which we did. But as it turns out, when it looks this nice on an actual pick you just gotta make it happen. We will keep you posted on where you might possibly be able to get your chord picking fingers on one of these sweet hand lettered, slap yo momma blue, picks of destiny! – TRON
Visit www.springingtheblues.com for more info, festival lineups, and performance schedules.
Grease steps into the TYPE FIGHT ring!
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:: DECISION UPDATE::
In possibly the closest fight ever, Kendrick squeaks past Mike to win by THREE votes, 363 to 360.
FIGHT… FIGHT… a type and a type! If the left W don’t win we all jump in. Haha. There’s nothing like a good ole school yard brawl to get the adrenaline flowin. Halftone Def’s very own Grease E. Monkey, aka Kendrick Kidd, aka THE BANANA HAMMER just squared off against a very fierce Mike Rogers in this weeks typography bout over at TYPEFIGHT.COM. This is gonna be a serious battle as Grease went with the “Float like a butterfly sting like bee” whimsical W that is full of tendrils, texture and flare. But his competitor Mike is coming with a bold as can be, one hit, one punch, hay maker swing that could land him the win or take him out early if he misses his swing because Grease is fast as lightning and his appose-able thumbs pack an extra punch. Although from the looks of it, I think Mr Rogers might be fighting a little on the dirty side taking an half-toned page straight out of our playbook and sending a hit right below the belt!
So take a time out and go to your corner and visit www.typefight.com to vote for Grease or I’m coming to your house to dump this bucket of mouth guard spit from Grease’s corner all over your head. – TRON
HDS x BandWagon 2012 – Savannah, GA
Posted by TRON | Filed under Art Shows and Openings, Featured, HTD News
Yes, the rumors are true… Halftone Def will be live in person at the Second Annual Band Wagon Poster Show & Record Fair in Savannah GA March 3rd & 4th. And no, after seeing the heavy ass lineup of print makers that will be in attendance we are sure that there were no rumors about us being there, haha. But, in the event you feel like donating to us instead of the homeless guy out back, we will at least give you a poster in exchange! That’s right, aside from the having some of our latest posters up for sale, we have also reprinted a couple of favorites in some rare color variations that if all goes well, will only be available at bandwagon. Unless we don’t sell any of them in which I will be outback with homeless Johnny trying to edge him out for the best spot on the curb. Heck, we might even play a game or two of “Try To Move Me Bro!” where we get asked to leave because we are stinking up the place in which case I will refuse to move.
This year is gonna be amazing, seriously… Aesthetic Apparatus (who?), Draplin and his big ole north western yapper, Methane, Us & Them, Carolina Combo The Half & Half, Fellow Florida boys Lure & Two Arms, Bandito, Dwitt, Burlesque, Morning Breath (No Fn Way), I mean c’mon. This is just getting ridiculous. Anywho, props to the bandwagon peeps for putting this together, we can’t wait to get up there!
One more thing, if you see Grease at our booth/cage be ready to duck, he will throw poop at you! -TRON!
Visit attendbandwagon.com to learn more about the event and times and other important show stuff!
One Hot Minute With Grease… Interview!
Posted by TRON | Filed under Featured, HTD News
Conor O’Driscoll (designer, writer and Mac nerd from Cork, Ireland) of OneMinuteWith.com recently sat down with Grease (aka Kendrick Kidd for a quick interview about design and life as a monkey in general.
So grab yourself a banana and swing on over for a quick minute and check it out! – TRON
Ps. If you got 5 minutes to spare, make sure you check out Mikey Burton & Draplin’s interviews as well!
The Ampersand Collection X GREASE / HDS
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A couple of months ago, Grease Himself was asked to be a part of Hi55′s Ampersand Collection. As big fans of the work those guys have put out, HDS jumped at the chance to be a part of this first rad collection along side this talented cast of designers Ryan Brinkerhoff, Riley Cran, Scott Hill, Anthony Lane, Drew Melton, Chris Sandlin, Sergey Shapiro, and Michael Tabie.
After much doing, Ross Moody of 55 hi’s has just released The Ampersand Collection. Ten, 9×9 original screen prints of ampersands from Ten different designers around the globe. Limited Quantities Available.
Big thanks to Ross for putting the project together & for hand screening all the prints! It’s a huge task to take on, but the result is looking impressive! If you haven’t already, please take a few seconds out of your day to check out the project… and if you’re feeling sassy, pick up a pack or two of the limited addition prints!
Freedom of Speechles Print – Occupy / SOPA
Posted by TRON | Filed under HTD News, Posters And Prints
We designed this poster a little while back for a political themed art show we did here in Jacksonville during the 2008 election called “Partisan The Sea“. The idea behind the poster was to remind people of our first amendment right in the long large wake of the 911 tragedies. To not feel silenced out of fear of prosecution or just fear in general. I was lucky enough that none of my grandfathers died fighting for that right but a lot of others did, and we can never forget that. It is one of the founding principles that make this country great.
We originally only made 25 prints for the show and I had no plans of ever printing a second edition of these but due to recent events we just had to. After watching all of the Occupy footage of non-violent protesters being pepper sprayed and the current Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) issue, we felt that a reminder never hurts. The 2nd ed. is printed with dark grey instead of dark blue and is an edition of 50. The prints will be in our online store here in the next couple of days for pretty cheap and we are also going to give some away via twitter @halftonedef so stay tuned. Freedom of Speech is one of our most valuable assets as Americans and we can never ever forget that or let them take it away. – TRON “Freedom Ain’t Free” BURGUNDY
:: UPDATE :: Starting today, simply re-tweet our message and between now and Friday the 20th we’ll pick 5 winners at random to be announced on Monday January the 23rd. HELL YEAH AMERICA!!!
