Features a listing of the three chief weapons which are fear and surprise…and ruthless efficiency…. and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope…. The *four*…no… *Amongst* the weapons…. Amongst the weaponry listed…are such elements as fear, surprise…. I’ll try this again later.
Now available in the colors of the undead; 51 celebrated icons of the living dead, including zombies, mummies, spirits, ghosts and various other forms of re-animated dead stuff! Featuring one new icon from the original tshirt design.
Print is digital Epson on 13″x15″ Moab Entrada archival white.
If you are like me and like bands that are bigger than Jesus, play live spontaneous shows on rooftops, like to cross streets in perfect line formation and are at least 75% the Eggmen — well, then you will have to love this update of our best-selling tshirt now available as a giclée print from Chop Shop. Printed on digital Epson paper 13″x15″ Moab Entrada archival white. Comes in 4 color variations.
Just like the tshirt there are 62 icons that relate to fab history and 23 icons that symbolize specific songs. The idea of adding a new color was inspired by this one-of-a-kind framed version that features a vintage copy of “Strawberry Fields” flaoting above the center of the design.
The best selling tee of 2010 is now in print. 23 historic missions of various nations that travelled beyond Earth orbit to explore our solar system. The missions are loosely arranged according to their most notable destinations.
New larger scale print on 19″ x 25″ French, Speckltone 80lb. Inks are tinted with metallic.
And new to Chop Shop is this collection of famous females. Over 100 iconic hair-dos from historic women of the past and present. Also by HumanShapedRobot for ChopShop printed on 80# French Speckletone Natural paper.
Look for it also as a tshirt for men and women later this month.
The everyman’s t-shirt guide to looking dapper is now a screen print. 141 dudes sporting a right gentlemanly combination of hair, beard or mustache with a good majority scoring all 3. This best selling tee design now in a 19″ x 25″ screen print on 100# French Sno-Cone Blue paper. Designed and printed by HumanShapedRobot for ChopShop.
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.
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.
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″.
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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