Archive for October, 2009

Akron Crafty Mart!

Monday, October 26th, 2009

We are pleased to announce that we will be one of the vendors at Akron’s new, annual, Crafty Mart. “The first ever and first annual Crafty Mart will have Handcrafted Accoutrement and Attainable Art made by local, independent artisans. People you know and love, things you need and gifts you want. There will be some food, some drink, some music provided by DJ Moose Malloy and a fabulous venue provided by Musica!” The event is on November 14th, so if you’re in the area, be sure and mark your calendars.

Beware of Safety

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

When a band gives us “children with instruments”, “Victorian architecture”, and “oak leaves” as sources of visual inspiration for illustration and design, we found ourselves momentarily thrown for a loop. We Bears have a long-standing appreciation of Art Nouveau-influenced organic interweaving within the illustrative work that we do, however, and we can’t help but be proud of this fusion of the aforementioned kids, architectural details, and fall foliage. Catch Beware of Safety on tour now and pick up your own copy of this shirt!

Twenty2wo Blog!

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

Adam Beneke over at Twenty2wo has always done nothing but support the Bears. He’s posted about us before, given us the cover spot of their magazine, and is still interested in doing features on our work online. Click HERE to see the recent post about the work that we did for the Dirty Birds and David McGhee. Thanks Adam!

Black Bear River CD Release – TONIGHT!

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

Tonight is the CD release show for David McGhee‘s “Black Bear River,” that we designed a few months ago. Here’s a poster I created for the show. When making the artwork for the CD, we thought it would be too obvious to actually include the bear, but with the poster, David was dying to see a bear incorporated into the artwork. And it doesn’t take too much convincing for me to use bear imagery.