Being a big supporter of Nintendo for most of my life, it’s no big surprise that I fell under the spell of Animal Crossing. I clocked many hours playing the original Game Cube version, and am currently harvesting my peaches on the newest installment, Animal Crossing: City Folk for the Wii.

I got the idea this weekend to design some shirts for my little dork to wear as he ran around town planting flowers and talking to animals. And what better shirts to wear then ones sporting the logos of designers who’s work I enjoy? Super nerdy, I know :)

Please pardon the quality of these shots, it’s the best I could do getting a capture from my television.

The Signalnoise logo

Joshua Davis‘ owl logo

Scott Hansen’s Dual shirt

The Obey Giant logo

That being said, if anyone reading is also into the game, feel free to drop me an email with your friend code, character name and town name. I’d love to swing by your town and will be sure to add these shirts to your shop for you and your neighbors to wear :)

I was asked by Evgeny Kiselev to contribute to the 2009 designer calendar entitled Sweet Content, so I finished off this piece I call Gasoline Morning. I’ve been working on the crystalline facets of this piece for a little while now, experimenting with some geometric shapes taking aim at mimicing a diamond cut.

The calendar will feature some amazing talent such as Peter Jaworoski (The Hejz), Malota, Merdanchik, and many more, showcasing six russian artists and six international artists. I can’t wait to have this hanging on my wall.

Check out the promo page for Sweet Content right here.

Time for some metal. This piece is influenced by some of my favorite metal acts spanning many sub-genres of the sound.

Metal has had it’s ups and downs in terms of design over the years, but I love the ambient brooding nature some bands are taking their work over the past few years. The style is pretty prevalent on labels such as Hydrahead and Ipecac, and I first started noticing it with bands like Pelican, Isis, The Red Sparowes and Boris.

The use of natural elements, such as landscapes, ocean, trees, mountains, etc mixed with brooding architecture and form perfectly captures the essence of this new breed of sound.

Here are a few shots from the Fo Sho Poster Show and Silent Auction which took place at the Gallery of Design at Arizona State University on Monday, November 17th. The show was organized by fourth year students and judging by the turnout and sheer effort that went into the event, it was a resounding success.

The show featured some amazing work from Aesthetic Apparatus, Alex Trochut, Chuck Anderson, Invisible Creature, ISO50, James Jean, You Work for Them and many others. A couple of my own pieces were shown as well.

Congratulations to the fourth year Visual Communication Design students at Arizona State University for putting on such a great show, and big ups to Jake Schroeder for sending these photos along.

I’m happy to announce that the latest installment of Computer Arts magazine, issue 156 has been released and features the tutorial I wrote entitled ‘Creating the New Retro’. This tutorial walks through the process behind creating the image above, minus text and logos, and explains the techniques used to produce the layered colored line aesthetic in 15 steps. Check it out in the Technique section of the mag.

The issue is also being shipped with a free 2009 calendar which features some amazing artists such as Guilherme Marconi, Evgeny Kiselev, Jon Burgerman and many others. I can’t wait to get this on my office wall.

Watch for issue 156 of Computer Arts to hit newsstands worldwide in the coming weeks.