PEANUTS Comic-Con 2009 Exclusives
Okay ... Here they are. The Peanuts exclusive tees for Comic-Con 2009!
Men's Tee - Charlie Brown
Women's Tee - Woodstock
Unisex Tee - Snoopy
I'm not sure what the quantity is this year, but get 'em while they're hot!
(I also don't know what the real tee shapes are like ... These are a basic mockup shell that I use for design purposes ... Comic-Con seems to be using the same ones for their site so I kept them here as is.)
* A little backstory on these for my design friends since we're always talking about the evolution of products ... as with most projects, these went through MANY incarnations. Charlie Brown is pretty much as I originally designed (although my first pass had a much more depressed Charlie and he was sitting on a log which I thought was kinda funny) but the rest is pretty much as I'd envisioned. The Woodstock tee was this same basic design, but it was worn-out hippie colors (olive green, brown, etc.) on a mustard yellow shirt since this summer is the 40th anniversay of Woodstock (the festival), but I guess they couldn't get the yellow shirt color and then at some point it ended up being a neon design. Also before it ended up on black, this also had the same shadow concept as Charlie Brown (as did my Astro Snoopy... See next:)
The Snoopy shirt was supposed to be an astronaut Snoopy since this summer is also the 40th anniversary of both the moon landing AND Snoopy's stint as NASA's mascot. I first pitched some vintage-space-toy-packaging style astro-snoopy options (which we're going to save now for something else) but it was changed to a basic black tee with the "First Beagle on the Moon" strip on it, but that ended up conflicting with something else or something (again ... once it leaves my desk, I rarely see/hear what happens with projects) ;-) So here it ended up as another shirt that I designed for a different collection (A Warhol-inspired collection featuring Snoopy and Charlie Brown), although my original shirt was green and the snoopy/house at the bottom was also in pop art colors.
By the way, you can't tell here, but the tie-dye talk balloon for Woodstock actually also has hearts in it (that Sparky drew ... I didn't add 'em). They were easier to see with the mellow yellow color palette. Also, the Woodstock graphic coordinates with some designs I did that were carried by Limited Too recently. Woohoo!
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Faux Happiness
Karen swears she did not tell the guy to put quotes around the word Happy.
He also seems to have had some issues with steadiness ... it looks like he wrote over top Birthday. I guess he wasn't happy with the first one ;-)
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Birthday '09
I didn't notice while we were eating it that the sprinkles were dinosaurs.
No time for fancy staging ... we were too psyched to dig in.
P.S. This cake was way too sweet. 2/3rd of the inside was also chocolate icing ... hardly any cake!
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Look at me ... I'm Chip Kidd!
I just noticed today that you can now preorder the upcoming Peanuts 60th Anniversary book! It always cracks me up that the most prominent projects I work on are the ones where there's the least design work to do, but oh well. All my fun, super-designy/super-illustrated stuff ends up in Japan.
Anyway, you can now preorder this book from both Amazon and Barnes & Noble. I guess I should put my former employer there first, but Amazon has a really good deal on the price. I didn't do much of this project ... It was mostly designed and laid out by Andrews McMeel, but I did the slipcase (which is what you're seeing the front of here, although the actual inside book cover as it is now — because the book is still in production! — is similar to the slipcase). I'm also working on a few bits and bobs for the inside, but more on that when the book actually comes out. The cool thing, though, is the publisher has picked up the look of my 60th Anniversary design collection (for licensed product) to use throughout the book - fonts, palettes, etc. - so I guess in a way I did influence that a little too. ;-)
More about the 60th Anniversary when it gets closer.
P.S. Ha! I made the Chip Kidd joke, not thinking about the fact that the DC character covers are big images of Batman, etc. on the front. This final cover with CB & Snoopy was actually 1 of over 20 concepts I submitted. I guess simplicity rules!
(image picked up from the web)
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NOW SHOWING: Your Home Movies!
My new Flip Minos! Available in both Vintage (worn) and New versions, you can choose Light blue (shown), orange, pink, gray or red! 60 min. record time - also available in an HD model.
Check 'em out here!
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