The Peanuts Treasury
Another awesome Peanuts collection to look out for. This is a big book chronicling all the years of Peanuts ephemera ... collectibles, stories, pull-out stuff (like greeting cards, etc.) There will be so much stuff for a Peanuts fan to read and check out.
I just designed this book cover two weeks ago, so I can't believe they have it online already!
You can read more about it (and see a sample page of the really cool interior, which I did NOT design) here.
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Uploaded on Sep 22, 2009
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Yes, I have a gift wrap room now!
First order of business for the new work tables: wrapping gifts for Bruce and Tim's kids. (Er ... Bruce and Tim aren't a couple. ha.) At first it bugged me that the two tables back-to-back don't perfectly cram together, but the little crack in the middle actually makes a nice reservoir for cutting paper! Seriously, though. i cannot wait to sew (and cut! and ... and!) on this baby. (So no ... it's not really a full-time gift wrap room ... this is actually the middle of my art studio.) ;-)
Incidentally, if you are ever giving a Snoopy Sno-Cone Machine to someone as a gift, use this paper. The box is the perfect size to make the pattern the exact same on both sides of the box (even where the paper overlaps!) I should have lined them up more carefully on the front, though because the bottlecaps can actually neatly even out on all of the panels if you're careful.)
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I Am Furious Shadow
Homer ruing the day the CB2 catalog ever came into our house.
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I Am Furious Green
Homer surprised(?) angry(?) scared(?) to find that he blends in to my new tables EXACTLY.
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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 Apollo 11 moon landing AND Snoopy's moon landing. 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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