Shagwell3000 aka Shmalerie aka Valerie Shagday of Lychee33.com has been a beast over at OM Records,  crankin’ out all sorts of projects from print, web + more, for the illy roster at OM.  Here’s a peep at J.Boogie’s latest limited 12″ & a flyer from a recent event on the Sunset strip in LA.

Here’s some experiments in C4D with the toon shader.  I used to do a lot of tagging under the names: Reals, Rise & Reveal.  Following the link are some screencaptures of the evolution of the design.  We back on the Grind!

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Here’s a glimpse of the Jabbawockeez on their 4th of July performance in San Jose.  Motion by Stablished, Music by Fingerbangerz, Movement by Jabbawockeez.  Sight & Sound. Coming up: Fingerbangerz x Jabawockeez interview.

Depthcore is a leader in new school design, with handpicked members with various artistic disciplines.  Each release involves a new theme, and members wild’ out on their interpretation of the subject matter.  There’s definitely a ‘depthcore’ style that has been branded with the ‘design avante garde’ stature such as the likes of The KDU.  Designers belonging to these collectives are sought after, bitten, chomped and recycled.  In my opinion, belonging to these design collectives is a great network tool within the community and a great space for a dsigner to be stablished.

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Erik has been getting a gang of Love from Juxtapoz Magazine, and we think it’s the illest for him and his up and coming career.  View photos from his how here

Here’s a music video from Seth at Little Red Robot in SF, for the OG’s : (Slim Kid) Tre & Fatlip of the Pharcyde.  Never again will we ever get that ol’ Pharcyde feeling back, but its good to see their fam come back together to get shit done.
Props to Seth @ Little Red Robot for banging this out. He’s holding down one of the few boutique shops in SF doing Motion Graphics work. Check his steez out here:
Little Red Robot

There’s always gon’ be haters. But at least the good shit is more potent. Shepard Fairy

I would like to start this off the right way, I want cats to express themselves as they see fit… but come on now… I have seen my fair share of… how can I put this nicely… f**ked up Barack shirts out there and Im not saying this is or is not one of them, Im not here to judge. My only question is, is this type of movement and clear exploitation of Who Barack is and What Barack stands for helping or hurting???

Here’s some paintings I did over winter, and a mess around design to revive ‘em back into the public.  The fun thing about this project was that I built the boxes to paint on.  I think Don P has the fooage of it.  Higher res image after the jump.

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