Three for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die, and five digital prints on card stock 5×7 for you to frame on your wall.
Five Prints to Rule Them All
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Chopping Block Space Age Print
Design of choppingblock.com circa 1998. Part of the Chopping Block series of “identity crisis” designs. This one borrows from graphic language dating back to the golden age of manned spaceflight.
All digital prints are produced and printed on archival Moab Rag Bright white and the weight is 190 GSM. The size is 11″x17″. The run will be limited to 100 copies and will be numbered as they are shipped.
History Became Myth Print Set
Icons became tshirts, tshirts became popular and things that should have been printed were not.
Now you can get the 5 icons from our “weScare” and “undeadWe” tshirts that were inspired by “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy in a set of 5″x7″ prints. See above for all five designs from top-left to bottom-left, “Fly You Fools”, “Shall Not Pass”, “The Precious”, “An Oath Fulfilled” and “Not by the Hand of Man”.
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New Print: Phish New Years 2004 Ticket Art
The ticket art for Phish???s 2004 New Years Eve Miami shows is now available as an 11″x17″ print from our Etsy shop. The tickets were for 4 separate shows culminating in the NYE show which seen at far right. Each ticket features some very bizarre alter-world version of Florida. Art ranges from an old man sun (left), old people silver-surfing (center left), squid Miami-Vice and the moon spitting out the new year.
All digital prints are produced and printed on archival Moab Rag Bright white and the weight is 190 GSM. The size is 11″x17″.Rock Icon Singles Now as 5″x7″ Prints
The one detriment to loading up one design with 30 musicians is what happens when someone on the tee is an act that some people might hate? There are also those who just like one band so far and above all others that the rest become merely a distraction.
We recently printed up a bunch of ???singles??? for a local exhibit in Beacon, NY and people immediately gravitated to the small 5×7 single prints specially produced for the exhibit. So we are posting the same items from the show in our new Glic??e 5×7 Prints section on chopshopstore.com. Each print comes with an appropriate mini-quote and are all printed on Moab Rag Bright white, weight is 190 GSM.
You can buy them each separately for $5 or as a complete set for $4 each (total price varies according to quantity in the given set).
Pictured above are the sets, ???Four Lads Print Set???, ???The Classic Rock Print Set??? and ???The Punk Rock Print Set???.
Robot Rock, Rocks on a Tee or as a Print
It so hard for Chop Shop to resist pop-culture references. Our best received designs thus far have been our “weRobot” and “rockStar” tees which contain about 80+ pop-icon references just between the two. So when we came across this image by Richard Miske on flickr, it was like the gods sending us a signal.
Naturally, if robots ruled the world in 1979 instead of 2020… we believe they still would have been inclined to grab the nearest axe and start smashing. You can get the tshirt now from chopshopstore so that when the robot overlords look you over they will know who’s side you are on. Listen as your new robotic overlord speaks, “Male humans go here and female humans go here” or secure your 2-dimensional art version here.
What makes this design even more referential than usual is that it pays homage to an album cover that pays homage to yet another album cover. Elvis’ debut album cover is seen above left and The Clash’s epic “London Calling” is to the right. The historic nature of both these records and the fact that there is this visual game shared between the two has led many others to follow the same example hoping just a bit of Elvis and The Clash might rub off on them. Considering some of the titles below… it seems like it just may work.
Now to get back to shameless self-promotion. We would be fools to not ask you to join our Chop Shop newsletter. Coupon codes and free tees are given out willfully and with reckless abandon.
What if Photoshop Filters were Super Powers?
A few months ago the tshirt version of “Filter Heroes” (drawn by Joshua Kemble) made its rounds in the blogosphere. After a healthy amount of buzz it occurred to us that a good amount of people who enjoyed this concept may have loved to pin it up on a wall, but perhaps lacked the designerd courage to pull it off as a fashion statement. It is for that audience that we now present the art print version of the same design as a 13×19 glicée print suitable for framing or pinning up in your Herman Miller Office System.
In addition to this re-release, we also dug up the original sketches of this concept from around 1999 by Amin Amat who interned with us at The Chopping Block before he became a legitimate force in the comic art world. That version of the concept was to portray each member of the company as a hero whose powers were to be defined by the Photoshop filter of their choice. The difference being that those powers were to be in the body copy only and did not alter the appearance of one member to the next. While that does spoil much of the fun, the original version was to be more of branding exercise than a spoof on Adobe software. They are here attached below and see the original studio blog post about the tshirt for more about the birth of the concept.
above: Matthew Richmond in his Chopping Block tights. Dig those Chopping Block logo glasses.
above: Thomas Romer in a classic comic hero pose.
above: What super-hero spoof would be complete without the Justice League type group shot flanked by at least one character that is entirely too massive to be taken seriously. Depicted from left to right is The Chopping Block as it was in 1999: Brian Romero, Thomas Romer, Mike Essl, Matthew Richmond and Rob Reed.
The Chopping Block Logos Print
Many moons ago, The Chopping Block had itself a self-imposed identity crisis. When the internet was in its infancy, everyone was making web sites that looked like the future. Anything cyber looking was thought to be the way to go and we went the opposite way; embracing various genres as they had been historically represented in print. Some of the graphic identities adopted were those of Nascar racing, golden age of Hollywood horror films, NASA during its Apollo years, The Boy Scouts of America and finally vintage orange crate labels from the mid-twentieth century. In that same spirit, we produced these 7 versions of our studio???s logo disguising itself in various forms for inclusion into the 2003 Cooper-Hewitt Triennial.
Now available as a digital print, you can get this bit of shameless self-promotion printed on archival Moab Rag Bright white 190 GSM. The size is 17″x11″.Retired They Might Be Giants Website as an Art Print
We are making our design for the official They Might Be Giants website available as a Gicl??e print now at chopshopstore.com. From about 1999 through 2007 the site was a strange shooting gallery that included an accordion, several targeted icons and the heads of presidents Lincoln, Roosevelt, Nixon and Taft. The site was designed by The Chopping Block and was one of the most recognized sites in our portfolio during those early years of dot com boom, scoring several prominent recognitions from organizations such as The One Show, Young Guns, ID Magazine, Communication Arts and Flash Forward. Sadly, the murmuring of the presidents cannot be reproduced in print.
Just for added fun, we are going to generate a random question for each print ordered on the plaque hovering above the accordion. Therefore, no two copies purchased will be the same. Printed on archival Moab Rag Bright white. Weight is 190 GSM.That???s One Nerdy Trio of Prints, Harry
A bunch of new prints suddenly appeared on chopshopstore.com and are even nerdier than a whole boat load of robot icons. Nerd Rider (left) is actually the original version of a tshirt that has mysteriously disappeared from our collection due to circumstances beyond anyone’s control. The Craftsman (center) was inspired by the video game World of Warcraft and the actual real-life appearance of most of the “warriors” that play the game. Finally, The Squid and the Robot (right) was inspired by the prevalence of of both squids and robots in tshirt designs during the year 2009.
All digital prints are produced and printed on archival Moab Rag Bright white and the weight is 190 GSM. The size of these particular 3 pieces is 13″x19″.
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