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Tender Loving Empire asked me to do a music-related shirt design for their new fall line of tees. TLE has a handmade aesthetic to a lot of the products for sale in their shop, and I’m a big fan of DIY music, both recording and instrumentation, so I wanted to take that concept into my design; with each “instrument” looking like a hand-sewn patch on the shirt. The patch below will be printed on the back of each shirt.

PLUG FOR A FRIEND: My roommate, Meghan Mitchell, just launched her very first Etsy shop! She has a handful of small etchings and gouache paintings up to kick things off, and all are under $10 right now! meginvasion.etsy.com

An illustration for the Portland Mercury to go with an article about Oregon’s roots in the whole “death panel” hubbub. I think this kinda looks like the creepiest Three Stooges episode ever.

We finally got some business cards made for Man’s Face Stuff. Three different designs, each with a different slogan on the front:

Styling proud moustaches the world over since 2009
Your great-grandfathers would be proud of you
and
The only thing that can make your moustache better

They’ve already gotten some use, given out to some fine moustachios around Portland.

Question for the bloggers: I’ve been feeling pretty spotty in my posting here lately; either I have something almost everyday, or I don’t post anything for like two weeks. I think I’m going to start posting specifically every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and try to keep to that schedule for a while. For those of you with similar sites, do you keep a posting schedule? If so, does it seem helpful to keep you on track?

The schedule will change to Monday-Friday when I start posting pages from the next Baby Otto in September.

An interview I did about my art work, comics, moustache wax, and other personal details just went up on Examiner.com this morning! You’ll have to read the rest of it over there!

Friday was the opening of the “Manor of Art” show at Milepost 5. I put quite a lot of work into painting my part of the room, so I was pleased as punch to see so many people attend the opening. At times there were almost a dozen people in my room alone, and considering there were 100+ more rooms in the show, well, you do the math… I think at least one of my pieces sold opening night, hopefully at least a few more before the show comes down at the end of the month.

Best comment of the opening: One guy referred to my work as “a modern take on a drug-crazed 1930’s brain,” which he meant, and I took, as a compliment.

This guy’s thinking about it, thinking…

I didn’t realize while I was painting how awesome it is that the red dude’s faces look like they are reacting to whomever is coming through the door.

When I get the chance, I think I want to seriously explore some of the iconography I use a lot, like the waves, lightning bolts, the blue and brown drips, etc. They’ve kinda been my fallback for the last two years, but I’ve never really tried to consciously start a piece with them in mind.

One more thing: I’ve just created a Facebook fan page for Man’s Face Stuff Moustache Wax. Join up if you’re a fan! This also means I’m now on Facebook if anyone wants to find me, yup.

Three of my favorite things!

This weekend, some friends and I returned for our second annual trip to Morton, Washington for the 67th Annual Loggers’ Jubilee. It was a blast last year, and this year did not disappoint either. I have a whole set of photos up on my Flickr.

Plus, I sneaky snuck this picture of one of the biggest, wildest moustaches I’ve ever seen.

Lastly, I’ve been meaning to plug my friend Joel’s new blog for a while. He runs his own coffee roastery called Courier Coffee Roasters. He and his employees roast the coffee and deliver it all around Portland by bicycle. He started the blog a few months ago, and even if you don’t live in Portland, it’s always an interesting look into the world of coffee, small business, bike repair, amongst other topics. Check it out here!

If you do live in Portland, click here for a list of the fine establishments that serve Courier Coffee.

After a long day of painting yesterday, I am pretty much completed with the mural/art installation thing I’ve been working on this last week. It’s been an incredibly rewarding experience, but I’m ready to be done, you know? I have to finish the red blob coming out of the window, and a few more pieces to hang, and then I’m done!

It’s also really nice to see pieces I completed a year or so ago and say a few weeks ago look so cohesive when viewed on the same wall.

Here’s the second part of my wall, which I just started two days ago and finished last night.

Better pics when I can take them during the day, or during the opening later this week. Thanks for following my process, I hope it’s been at least somewhat interesting.

I got a little more work done on the big wall over at Milepost 5 on Monday night. Here’s where I’m at right now. I’ll be hanging smaller pieces for sale in the big blue open area. I’ll be spending all day Tuesday painting and will hopefully finish things up.

That lightning bolt is all gold leaf, by the way.

One of the other artists painting the room with me dropped out, so I claimed a little more space and started in on this before I left on Monday night. I’m going to extend the water line from the other wall into the door. Not sure what’s going in the speech bubbles yet. Ideas?

Welcome to the wonderful world of perfect binding! I have been spending a lot of time using the new binder at the Independent Publishing Resource Center lately, so I thought I’d do an in-depth process post on what I’ve been up to.

It’s really incredibly simple to use. Once set up, those two red buttons do all the work. Read on if you’re interested.

This slider sets the amount of glue applied to the paper block.

This carriage clamps the paper in place and transports the paper across the glue and sets it on the cover.

Speaking of glue, here it is, an open well of glue, all melty and hot. The interior pages of your book slide over that roller to get coated with quick-drying hot glue.

This side of the binder is where your cover is applied. That dial gets adjusted depending on the thickness of your book. The lever is what presses your cover onto your glue-coated interior pages.

The cover-crimper table can be easily removed to reveal these fans. This comes in handy if you want to make notepads, or anything without a cover, as the fans will dry the glue as it gets carried over them.

OK, on to the actual binding process.

First, take your block of interior pages, in this case, a copy of FADGE.

Clamp your paper block into the carriage, aligned with that metal bar.

If it’s important that your cover is centered on the spine, as it is with FADGE, it’s easiest to mark the center of your spine on the inside of your cover. There’s a light pencil mark there in the center.

Align your pencil marks with the center of the black space on the cover crimper.

OK, now press the red button to send the carriage, and your paper, over the glue and onto your cover.

Hey, there it is!

Pull the lever firmly to set your cover in place; hold for about 10 seconds.

Unclamp the interior pages and open the carriage.

Pull your book out carefully.

You’re almost there!

Hey, it’s a book!

Now it just needs to be trimmed, that’s where the “perfect” comes in.

Beautiful, isn’t it. Paper chopping has never been easier.

Trim down the excess edges.

And that’s all there is too it! Perfection from the perfect binder.

Hope you had as much fun as I did. If you happen to live in the area of Portland, Oregon, and are even moderately interested in self-publishing, I would highly recommend becoming a member of the IPRC. The small membership fee is worth it for the community alone, not to mention the access to free paper, art and craft supplies, computers, cheap photocopiers, and their huge zine library.

As I mentioned last week, I’ve been volunteering at the Independent Publishing Resource Center and supervising the use of their new perfect binding machine. Along with the FADGE books, I’ve been doing some other experiments on the binder. Yesterday, I made these to-do list notepads because I’m a man that loves a good to-do list. Just a test really, I’ve been thinking of some other projects involving the notepad format.

If anyone’s curious about the binding process, I took a bunch of pictures last night, and I’m working up a process post for Monday.

Also, I may have a new favorite shirt. I just picked it up from the talented Frank Chimero. Frank just released three other new shirts, and has a ton of fantastic work on his site, check it out.