...a little something i just started working on.


A mock up for a Christmas gift i plan on making. Stay tuned.

This is a little golf towel mock-up that was supposed to happen a few months ago. Long story short, the printer who was supposed to do the embroidery dropped the ball.

So now its on hold until spring, when ill probably start golfing again.

Big ups to my dude Eang out in SoCal for the support.

Hope all you jerks had a nice relaxing turkey day, i know i did.


Pulled double duty and did the family thing, then went to the lady's house and had dinner #2 over there.


Btw, heres how your turkey is NOT supposed to look after youve deep fried it. (...wasnt my fault, my brother-in-law did it....again)




I was outside doin my thing while that debacle went down.





Anyway, ill post SOMETHING design related tomorrow, i promise. I have a few work-in-progress projects going on, but ill post those when theyre done.

And ill send out some stickers to those i spoke to about it last week. Maybe even some LRG stickers as well, since youve waited patiently.

More love, from NY this time.

Good lookin Roland.

...but this stuff has to stop somewhere. Someone is gonna die soon...and im worried it'll be me.


Monster BFC [you know what it stands for], and the new Red Bull 16oz.



Yes, that says 32oz. Not even a resealable cap, meaning they fully expect people to down this in one sitting.


Bonus pic: TWC support coming from Oregon. Good lookin out Nick.

Monograms are a bit of a bitch. I struggle with them sometimes, and im pretty sure i know why. I was taught, and trained to respect the typeface. Respect the design of it, and respect the person who designed it. Dont stretch, skew, alter or mess with the form of the letters. This applies probably 90% of the time, and is always in the back of my head when working with type.


However, typefaces werent designed to be molded into monograms. Monograms are illustrations that just happen to be composed of letters. When designing a monogram, you have to pretty much throw the rules of type out the window...and draw. This is hard for me to grasp sometimes. Im retarded, in many ways.


So i went to a buddys house last night to check out a book he has, from like 1946, that is composed 100% of monograms and hand lettering styles. This book is ridiculous, and is homies prized possession. I dont think he lets it leave his crib, much less his sight (and for good reason, i looked it up online today and its worth around $225, im sure he'll be happy to read this). The reason for my sudden interest is that i happen to be starting a logo job for a client that wants a monogram. So i took a bunch of pictures of the book, not necessarily the illest parts of the book, but def the parts that are pertinent to what im about to start on.


Anyway, here are some of the pics... Enjoy and appreciate, even if you arent a designer. Respect the fact that all of these were hand drawn back in the day, as early as the '20s.












Bonus pic of his dog Chopper.

EDIT: Pics of some of the stickers. Act now, jerks.

(For you dummies out there, these are cut-out vinyl decals, with a sheet of application tape over the top, hence the lack of vibrant color in this pic. Theyre dope, once you apply them.)

Im gonna be producing some of the stickers seen below on Fame's laptop.

Grenades and Gorillas, for now. Possibly some other logos as well. If you want a couple, hit me up with your name and addy. Colors will vary, but include black, red, white, and gold... For now.

oo206oo@gmail.com

Hit me with the pertinent info if youre interested. I make these by hand though, so if you dont act quick and for some reason theres a big demand, youre gonna be at my mercy as far as how long you'll wait.

So act quick.

Fame 1. Best laptop decoration in the game.

...but my fellow cigar smokers will.

Yall may be seeing this (in one form or another) in production, sooner than later. Probably on some crewneck sweatshirts. If i wore those weird smoking shirts, this would look right at home on the chest pocket.

This is an idea i had a few months back. I drew the character, scanned, vectored etc, did all the work on it, then just never came up with a composition that i liked. I worked on it for like a day and put it off to the side.

The point of this blog was to get me going more, design-wise (regardless of what the last couple "i was drunk this weekend" posts might suggest).

So F it, maybe yall will have some imput, opinions, ideas...whatever. Leave a comment, jerks.

Fame and i rolled out to The Winners Circle Friday night for a little launch party for a brand called Heavy Manners. Was a decent little turnout, and the brand seems decent. But we basically went to check out the finished product now that WC is done moving into their new location on Olive.


The only downfall, was that they ran out of beer. Luckily, there was a minimart up the block.



The store looked great. Im a big fan of the gold accents.


Dont ask me how, but before Fame and i hit up Chinatown for some food, we ended up at this dudes house. He may have been the HIGHEST person ive ever personally seen in real life. BUT, this sumbitch had a full bar. I mean FULL bar. I helped myself to a Sapphire and tonic (lime and all), and a couple of beers, then we headed out.

Nothing really exciting, but those laid back nights are the best sometimes.

Met Kurupt and Young Roscoe in a bar at the airport before we left for Cali. I now have Roscoe's cell, his wifey's cell, and a seperate voicemail number. Crazy. Chopped it up with them a long while about music. Nicest gangster rappers ive ever met. Look out for Kurupts new album on Cash Money next year, and a group album by 'scoe and the Young Assasins.


Roscoe told me to call him Thursday night to kick it. I did so, but realized we were over an hour apart from each other and the place he was kicking it at would be closed by then anyway. Plus, i wasnt driving, so me and the fellas stayed where we were and tied one on.








Good to see my folks Nixon and Spank. Had a blast.





I think this is me on the phone with Roscoe...or Ben Baller. Not sure.


Made the required stop at In-n-Out.









Back at my hotel room afterwards. I was pretty much done.


PS- Cali is still burning. This is across the street from the building i was in for the conference.






this is about all i got done during the worlds most boring conference.

Afterwards though, they took us on a cruise on one of John Waynes old yachts. I enjoyed some drink and some smoke. Hard to beat that. I also now have some funny old bastard sending me 2 cases of an energy drink thats hes developing called HED. I love head.