JOYENGINE: cause sharing is cool

It’s official.  LOOFT, DOO, and GROOND have traveled around the world and made it into the hands of some of our favorite artists.  They’ll be returning in a couple weeks to get ready for their debut at the Plastic Chapel on September 13th.  We hope to see you all there!!!

Kurt just showed up with our recontextualized, laser-etched rendition of the Bill of Rights… the final focal component of our Manifest Hope Gallery piece.  Homey killed it.  Shit’s tight.  We’re stoked.  Nice work Kurt!!!  Arghhhhhhh, we Can’t wait to see all the art down there.  According to reports from Lefavor (who’s nearly finished with his 7 huge, yep that’s 7 pieces - all roughly 4′ x 5′) - it’s pretty fuckin’ amazing.

…makin’ headway on our piece for Manifest Hope at Andenken.  Some sanding, a few more coats of catalyzed urethane, some machine work (Kluver on the mill) and then the laser.

The deadline for submissions into INDYINK’s Plastisol Free For All is comin’ up quick… August 21st.  All t-shirt design submissions will voted on by the public at La Rumba on September 7th.  The top ten finalists will win cash and have their tees printed.  Get the details here.

The 3rd shipment, 2nd domestic, of SOFT&FURRY™ toys left the studio today.  We’re stoked to get these suckers off so Travis, RYC, Toothjuice, and Grant can get after it.  An additional 20 toys have been completed and prep’d for drop-off at the Plastic Chapel so all our arty pals in Denver can stop by and pick ‘em up!!!

“We’re not going to settle for what the world is, we’re going to strive for what it might be.” — Barack Obama.  And on thing that definitely will be - is one helluva frikin’ awesome art exhibition at Andenken Gallery (2990 Larimer Street) running Monday August 25 though Thursday August 28th.

The Manifest Hope Gallery exhibition celebrates arts pivotal role in creating cultural momentum and shines a spotlight on artists across the nation who use their voices to amplify and motivate the Obama campaign.  The gallery exhibition highlights 5 central themes of the progressive grass-roots movement: Hope, Change, Progress, Unity, and Patriotism.

While we’re super-stoked that this event is coming to Denver’s very own Andenken, we’re even more stoked to be participating in it and representing Colorado’s progressive art front alongside Scot Lefavor, Evan Hecox,  Josh Holland and Shannon Bonatakis, Mike Moore of tres birds, and Rick Griffith of Matter Studio.  The list of participating artists for the show is unbelievable, we’re truly honored and humbled to be involved.  Mark your calendars.  You don’t wanna miss this one!!!

The latest list of contributing artists includes:
Aaron Martin // Adrian Sanchez // Alexis McKenzie // Amy Martin // Amy Rice // Andy Howell // Alex Pardee // Cathie Bleck // Casey Ryder // Chanel Kennebrew // Chris Pastras // Chris Yates // Cydney Payton // Dan Monick // Date Farmers // David Choe // David Lanham // Deroy Peraza // Diederick Kraaijeveld // Eddie // Elizabeth Rosen // Emek // Evan Hecox // Frank Chimero // Franke // Gary Baseman // HVW8 // Irene Hardwicke Olivieri // Jason Alberto // Justin Alberto Garcia // Jason Giglio // Jeff Zimmerman // Jesselisa Moretti // Jude Buffum // Julie Adler // Justin Bua // Kate Luscher //Kay Tuttle // Keith Negley // Kofie // Leontine Greenberg // Lisa Anne Auerbach // Lisa Congdon // Lukas Ketner // MAC //Max Ginsburg // Maya Hayuk // Mear One // Mel Kadel // Melanie Reim // Morning Breath // Munk One // Nick Dewar // Pete Yahnke // Philip John Lumbang // Ray Noland aka CRO // Rebecca Berdel // Retna // Rick Griffith // Ron English // Ron Keas // Sam Flores // Sarah Hoskins // Scot Lefavor // Shannon Bonatakis and Josh Holland // Shepard Fairey // Cypher13 // Todd Lockwood // Tom Slaughter // Mike Moore (Tres Birds) // Van Taylor Monroe // Zara Gonzalez // Zina Saunders // Zoltron // Aaron Axelrod // Thomas Brodhal // Ginger Che // Catia Chien // Christopher Cox // Grotesk // Damon Locks // Zach McDonald // Tres Birds // Adrian Tucker // Arellano Harvath // Antar Dayal // Vincent Comparetto

51 toys have been delivered for customization.  9 more ship tomorrow.   Then we hit up the homies and distribute locally.  100 handmade custom toys, fully customized at the Plastic Chapel on September 13th, 2008.  Gonna be hot… Damn, did that Shitty kill that logo!!!

We’ve been doing a lot of work with Limited Addiction Gallery lately, including all the JUX ads and flyers.  It’s pretty great compiling all the awesome art month to month.

Matt Curry and Robert Hardgrave are showing this month. The show opens this Saturday, September 16th at 7pm and the artists will be in attendance.  You can check out the work on the LAG site.  And be sure to stop by and see it in person!

Matt Curry

Robert Hardgrave

It’s official.  The Magnet Mafia has their own studio/gallery and shop.  Rad!  The Mafia’s first magnet workshop in their new space will be held tonight from 6-10pm.  The studio is located on the SE corner of 31st and Blake Street, in Denver.  Invite your friends, stop by, kick it, and make some magnets with the mafia.

More coming soon…

Although I tend to post mostly art related things, personal scribbles and illustrations, most of my time professionally is spent designing consumer product. From Footwear and apparel, to packs and equipment, I create some of the stuff you buy at the local snowboard shop or get at REI. The bummer of it all is though, that I am always working on it 16 months before it hits the streets. Because of this, I have to wait a while to show much of my work to the public. Bummer.

While recently doing a little portfolio update, I realized I should post some of it, even if it is not super current. If there is interest, I’ll continue with more posts documenting the process of making “things” for mass production, as well as giving some insight as to how all this stuff that fills our closets with actually gets made. I have been fortunate enough to be involved in all aspects of the process, and think it may be of interest. Here’s a few concept renderings I did for Converse for the basketball and cross training lines. I’ll get more process stuff going next week as time permits…

Olle Hemmendorff for Nike.