With Assault in it’s infancy, we’ve decided that the time has come to execute the old punk rock motto, “Support your local scene.” We’re in the t-shirt business in Chicago, and there plenty of other local companies that are in one way or another associated with the apparel industry–here are some of our favorites.
If you’re anything like me, you don’t like Mondays….or any weekday for that matter. In honor of this super crappy day, I want to share the following video with you (along with some play by play highlights by yours truly).
Do you know why we sometimes find ourselves excitedly buying things we don’t really need? I came across this outline from a book by Dan Ariely called, “Predictably Irrational” that had some incredibly insightful information about people and why we at times seem to act completely irrational. It covers giving away things for free, putting high price points on products to create demand, and even the benefit of arousal!
A pretty cool summary as to how Mode Chicago came up with the concept for the Obama 08 Campaign
The Skull Propaganda T-Shirt was done using a combination of my normal photoshop techniques completely in Photoshop…
Looking to shortcut your t-shirt designs? We’ve decided to release a few of our custom Photoshop brushes to the public for use in your own design work!
Fernando Rodriguez designs a shirt for Assault just before starting his own design agency, EyeKandy.
Follow a long as I hack together a Wordpress theme with a few plugins that emulate ffffound, and its related images feature.