JOYENGINE: cause sharing is cool

We just wrapped up MileHi’s brand package, including identity, album art for their EP “Hits And Misses,” and a mini site to highlight the new album. Jeff and JJ were great to work with and really embraced our less is more approach. We’re excited to see where they go from here.

Here’s a quick description on the group.

“MileHi is an Electronic music group formed by Jeff Cormack and JJ Thomas in May of 2009.  Their sound has been described as psychedelic club pop, electrorock, and melodic electropop.  The first ep titled “Hits and Misses” was written and recorded in a 2 month period at their home studio in Colorado and then mixed and mastered at Coupe Studios for release in August of 2009.”

You can download their EP over at www.milehisound.com

Tomorrow night Joshua Hirsch, Big Spaceship’s Minister of Technology, will be speaking at the Denver Art Museum as part of AIGA Colorado speaker series.

The Denver Egotist recently interviewed Mr. Hirsch, jog over to their site for a sneak peek into Joshua’s brain patterns. I’m trying to make it out to hear the lecture, hoping to break bread or get a group hug going pre-show?!

Joshua Hirsch speaks tomorrow night : Wednesday, August 5, 2009, 6:00pm – 8:30pm : Denver Art Museum : Frederic C. Hamiliton Building, Sharpe Auditorium READ THE REST »

“An ancient artifact, hidden away, long ago… with inconceivable powers… Good vs. Evil… Who will live?  Who will die?”  This – is the film, The Chi Stone – and it’s the Summer of 2001.  Enjoy.

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To see what our team sinsei and pal Ricky is up to these days, visit ryugrpahix.com or justincline.com.

Our ultra-crafty homies over at Denver’s Legwork Studio just wrapped up a hot new site for old school skate brand of infamous urethane shredding lore – Vision Street Wear.  The site boasts some super rad features including some real fresh video integration.  I gotta say, I particularly like the inclusion of the “Vision Crew.”  The Vision Crew is “made up of some of the newest, freshest, most creative thinkers and creators out there,” and includes another good friend and fellow Colorado artist/designer, Christopher Cox of Changethethought. Cruise the site, it’s inspirational and really well done.

I really hate to see this sort of thing, and I take no pleasure in singling anyone out. But prominent artists I admire very much seem to be getting sloppy and calling their hard work into question lately. Let this be a lesson to young artists that “homage” or “borrowing” (or whatever you call it once you’re caught) can and will be found out. It’s a small world after all.

Having worked in the t-shirt industry I can tell you that stealing is the norm there. Property is lifted and slapped on a new tee with a single click of the mouse. Ideas are taken, slightly changed, and repackaged in seconds. This mentality suits the cutthroat, anonymous, quick-turn t-shirt industry, but seems far more indefensible in the art realm. Artists work so hard to build their names and careers, it’s really unfortunate when we’re forced to put their accomplishments under scrutiny, or when others use their property to prop up their own lack of skill.

I considered not posting about this, but opening up dialogue on the subject is better than saying nothing. Tracers should be afraid of damage to their perhaps undeserved reputations as well. There needs to be more awareness of this growing problem, as google and livetrace continue to turn any asshole with a computer into an “artist”. Where’s the line? How do we change this mentality and educate people? Can anything even be done? I’d like to know.

The Fabric Lab & crew are repping full force this Friday at the Untitled #23 “Old School” event taking place on the 2nd Level of the Denver Art Museum in Duncan Pavilion. Style Wars is a fashion battle pairing local fashion designers against each other, battling it out to create a high fashion ready-to-wear piece in 25 minutes! Each designer is supplied with 1 model, 1 assistant, 1 rack of materials stocked with fabric, recycled garments, raw materials, and everyday objects.

There will also be a DJ battle (The Postman vs. DJ Wigdan Giddy) & “Old School’ inspired art show featuring new works from: Robbie Maestas, Zshanna Kristoff, Deadly Daisy, Chuckie Martinez, Adam Sikorski, Josh Wills, Markham Maes, Snowblinded, Andrew Hoffman, Emerson Collective, Mike Graves , Chris Nguyen & more!

PEEP THE GRANDE FLYER & OTHER JUICY DEETS RIGHT HERE!!!
Dust off them shell toes or lace up your Pumas, back spins and fingers waves are a must!

The Fabric Lab presents “Style Wars” at The Denver Art Museum Untitled #23 “Old School” : Friday, July 31 : 6–10 pm : 100 W 14th Avenue Pkwy. Denver, CO

Josh Holland is the man. But you probably knew that, and now all the Midfinger Mag readers know too as he was just featured in issue no. 7. Here are some select spreads:

Super amped to swing by Andenken gallery here in Denver and check out this show in person… can’t wait to see Mr. Pardee’s work up close, I want to taste it! August 7th/8th shaping up to be a stimulating weekend!

August 7th : Alex Pardee : Frolicking Nightmares : 2990 Larimer St. Denver, CO : Awesome!

Here is a little something I put together today while doing a type experiment for an upcoming SuperOrdinary project. The font isn’t entirely complete but I wanted to share the character set and see what you guys thought. I’ll be adding numerals and standard punctuation. For now, I have this much broken down into a solid fill, a two color and a halftone shaded version, all of which, will surely be available for download once the new Lifter Baron site goes live. Stay tuned for more info on this yet to be titled typeface as well as a date for its availability.

Found this pretty cool site called Vintage Velos…always a fan of the classico.

Just received my copy of Business Cards 3: Designs on Saying Hello by Michael Dorrian and Liz Farrelly. Check out the old school hotness of my graduating id system in all it’s glory!! You can buy the book here and check out previous versions here and here.