New art for sale!

Hello folks! Luis here! I just updated my Society 6 page with a poster I did for a buddy's real bachelor party. Pretty swank if I do say so myself.You can find the shop here: http://society6.com/Muddybeats

There you will also find the art to two of our Threadless designs which were printed as tees. All at their NEW, LOWER price!! Thanks for the continued support!

Happy Friday!!

Good morning folks! Another week has come and gone. We're thankful of our clients and the work we've had and as a sign of our gratitude [digital] coffee and [digital] bagels are on us! Feel free to indulge! The cream cheese is made of rainbows and angels' wings so it actually burns calories. Have a safe and enjoyable weekend all!

Fun Target Bedding

Mel here dropping in to share some bedding I was able to work on last year that has finally hit store shelves this season! When you are asked to design bedding and the content is pretty much "use dots & stripes that appeals to mass market" you have to rely heavily on placement, fabrics and color to make it feel fun! And that's what (I hope) happened here :)

Los Luchadores Maravillosos

 Hello! Luis here - The Chicago Comic Con is fast approaching and we're scrambling to create some new pieces for the visitors this year. We'll being some old favs from last year, but people want the new. We'll be posting some other projects soon, but until then here's the latest pieces. For as long as I'll live, I'll always remember my summer vacations as a kid to Mexico where we'd visit our family. Long car rides to Acapulco without air conditioning, is something I won't soon forget, but more unforgettable were the many, many times my uncle would take us all to LUCHA LIBRE at the local arena. It was AMAZING! The flips, the characters, the toys and most of all, the masks! I had a personal collection of my favorite luchador masks (El Ultimo Dragon was numero uno!). For this personal project, I thought it'd be cool to interpret some of my favorite super heroes as luchadores. The masks are totally lo-fi and what you'd expect to see from the luchadores back then. I took the liberty and creative freedom with the names as well. I imagined my mother saying Captain America's real name Steve Rogers as Estevan Royers (her Gs aren't always there). What do you folks think of the aged paper textures? Keep? Thanks and enjoy!

 

  

 

We got printed!!

One of the things we love to do around here is design tees. Especially when it's for our demographic. Threadless has been a great outlet for our creativity in our spare time and our second selected tee just went on sale!! Check it out here or click the photos below:

We're also going to do a version more suitable for printing. Check for that soon over at Society 6. Thanks for all who voted!

Hooray for nerds!

We came across this cool nerdy site yesterday, Geek Rest, and lo and behold...they had posted some of our work we had done for Wizard World 2011! A lot of our work is whimsical and very stylized, but on this grouping we wanted to explore some simpler designs. There's also a Spongebob piece we did which they didn't include. Check it out: www.geekrest.com/2012/03/stylized-superhero-designs-by-idea-monster/.

Anyways, we are prepping  for Wizard World 2012 and we're putting our heads together to see what kind of fun, new surprises we can cook up for all of the awesome people we'll meet this year!! We'll recap for sure! Stay tuned. Different Bat Time, Same Bat Channel!! POW!!! BAM!!!

Monsters at the Museum

One of our favorite parts of a project is the research phase (depending on the day though. Brainstorming sometimes takes the cake). There's just something about keeping an open mind, hitting the road and searching for inspiration. The greatest pay-off is when you get an idea that leads you in a totally, yet better, direction than where you thought you were headed.

One of our recent projects called for the following:

• new and innovative design
• target audience were pre-tween kids
• interactive elements of play

The rest was up to us! We love when a client tells us, "We don't know exactly what we want, but we know we need to be innovative and push it further than where we are now." It takes a lot to identify you're doing well today, but you don't want to be in anyone's rear-view mirror tomorrow.

So forward we looked and pushed. We did our standard competitive and benchmark analysis and searched the internet for amazingness, but felt we were still missing something. We like to pull inspiration from unexpected places, so we headed to The Museum of Science and Industry here in Chicago. We played the role of observers as we watched families with their kids interact with the displays and noticed what they gravitated towards and how they reacted. We took note of shapes, materials, function and how technology either played a main or supporting role in the exhibit.

After all was said and done, we left feeling energized (and a little enlightened as well) and ready to rock! Unfortunately we can't show the end result since the project is still in development, but we and our client are extremely happy with where we landed. :) Till next time folks!

Super Awesome!!

Hey folks! Long time, no update. Sorry about that. We've, thankfully, been busy at work but we had the opportunity to work with the good folks at Steal This Art on this piece. Unfortunately the art is a limited run and is only available for 24 hours then it will merely be a thing of legend and myth. In case you missed it there, here she is in all of her glory. Enjoy!

Is that a Ninja Turtle?

A sneak peek at something we are cooking up for Wizard World Chicago. Cool illustration mixed with... sewing?!

Happy Valentine's Day!!

Don't let a bad idea knock you down today.