The weekly badge review The features from Monday Aug. 25 to Saturday Aug. 30, no theme this week or let´s just say, the theme was "New finds, new releases". By the way: wotto, T-shirt designer and participant of the Allmightys "Future-Past-Perfect" competition was among the featured artists this week. 

We have closed the voting last night and we were happy to see so many of you casting your votes and scoring the designs of our now past Future-Past-Perfect competition.
We will keep up the suspense a little longer while we evaluate the score and the comments and think about printing these fantastic illustrations on our tees.

We will publish the final results on Monday, so keep your eyes peeled to the page...

Until then, have a great weekend :)

The submission period for the Future-Past-Perfect competition has ended and now there are only three days left to cast your votes and decide and tell us which are the best designs that were submitted.

So go and tell your friends, your family, your postman, your supermarket clerk and your dog to get online and score the designs :)

Vote Now!!

After weeks of print the shirts from our 'Pattern Battle' competition are finally here! They all turned out amazing and we absolutely love them! 'Slum' on black with blue details just looks great, the details of two black ink on AA's New Silver, 'City Pattern' and 'Oil', are incredible, the white-mint print of 'Forest?' on the brown shirt creates a brilliant contrast and the idea of barcode just sooo works, 'Lost Love' is a stunner and we rasterized the design to make sure the shades in the skull, gradients and the brushwork turned out like they should, and finally the 'Little Town' is smashing in detail and it's richness and variation in colour.

Check them all out in our store!!!





As always, our tees are printed on high quality American Apparel 100% cotton sweatshop-free tees and if you order four or more tees we ship them for free!

Also remember is that at Allmightys, every time you order you are also supporting the artist. All Allmightys designers recieve commissions from sales and not only that but some tees also include donations to charities! At Allmightys, everybody wins!

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The weekly badge review's theme of the week: Pirates 

We have just added Rocciuto's profile to the page of Allmightys designers. Make sure you check it out.

Davide is our recent Special Selection winner from the Pattern Battle competition.

Hi my name is Davide Ricciardiello "Rocciuto" for friends, i was born in Naples in the '72. I grew up amongst oil colors and the smell of turpentine. Both my parents are artists, and they have always been my inspiration and my
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The weekly badge review's theme of the week: Future-Past-Perfect 

This week we bring you YONIL, one of our first designers with currently six designs in store. We sent Yonil few qustions to see what makes him tick. Read more below and make sure you check out his profile here on Allmightys, flickr and his own recently updated website for more great work.

Here we go..



What inspires you Yonil?
Well, mostly i'm inspired by the music industry, bands, musicians - i breathe music and i always find joy in finding out about new bands that i like and expanding the spectrum i listen to. this is also what drew me to graphic designing and illustrating - i draw from early age but never did i consider it anything other than a hobby 'til i found the magic in cd packaging and bands t-shirts...the possibilities there are simply ENDLESS!
other than music i also find alot of ispiration from the streets and steet artists, although i (still) don't do graffiti myself, the certain style and visual language always attracts me. also skateboarding, punk movement, and also paint splatters :)
 
Who are you favourite artists and why?
hmmm...that's a tough question since i can't put my finger on a peticular artists on which i can say "he's my favorite". the web (god bless it) has so many amazing artists to offer which sometimes makes me scared knowing there are millions of great minds out there. how do we still get jobs hehe...
if i have to point out certain names i can pull out four names : Rene Magritte (in classic painting), Derek Hess, David Foldvari (in illustration) and Vince Frost (in graphic designing). seriously though, i feel like it's a forced list 'cause there are so many great artists that are sometimes even more inspiring than these four.

How do you produce your artworks and what mediums do you use?
I draw. i take a pen, and some black markers and i draw. the computer is always the 2nd or 3rd base in my work. i know it's a cliche and that graphic designers always say "don't let the computer control you" - but that's not really why i work like this.
I draw by hand because i like it better like that - i like rough lines, not super sharp/clean illustrator lines, i like scanning shit and use the filth thats on my scanner as a part of the work, i like the details, the messiness - i believe it add another level to the piece.
 
as for mediums, mostly printed stuff. all bunch of them :) but i do try being interactive and i love using flash with which i built my website, so i do my best.
 


What are the websites you visit regularly and where do you get your inspiration?
www.flickr.com
www.itsnicethat.com
www.designiskinky.net
www.typeneu.com
and allmightys obviously, and always wonder through other designers websites.
 
What do you do when you are not designing?
i sleep.
i eat.
i spend time with my girlfriend.
sometimes i'd go out for a beer. but that's kinda rare lately.

Do you think Allmightys has helped you become a better designer and how?
I definitely think allmightys has exapnded my horizons in so many levels. when i first joined a competition, an online competition, it was here in allmightys. i won 2nd and 3rd place which was kind of overwhelming for me, a student in the end of hes 1st year. since then, i allmightys helped me understand better ways to speak to people through a design, see what people like and work for the public and not for myself.
so pretty much allmightys was one of the first stone in the building i am still building.



Anything else you would like to add?
One thing: it doesn't have to be big, full of details or something that took ages to do in order to be great design - i still think most of the world's population doesn't understand that good design isn't measured by the length of it's making...

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You can find more of YONIL's work at these sites:
www.yonil.com
flickr.com/photos/yonilcom/

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Here's an update on our current competition Future-Past-Perfect.
We're a little more than half way now and the submissions keep coming in. It's a very diverse range of designs, as designers respond to the idea of past and present, reality and utopia. If you haven't, check out and score the submitted designs here...

Remember, the deadline for submitting designs is 25th August 2008, 23.00 GMT.
After this point, as usual, we have one more week of voting. The deadline for this is 29th August 2008, 23.00 GMT.

Keep the good work coming and cast your votes, so the best designs will be printed :)

Staying on the topic of the Wall, today I found a neat project that was founded and is run by Tamiko Thiel and Teresa Reuter. These two have launched the "Virtual Wall", a digital reconstruction of a segment of the Berlin Wall. The project area lies between Kreuzberg and Mitte. The aim is a 3D interactive digital installation that will show the development of the Wall and it's surroundings in this area through time. Views will be from he East and the West side, so the user can freely chose from which angle he or she wishes to take a look at this dividing structure. The installation will premiere in the Museum for Communication in Berlin on August 13, 2008 and will be exhibited from August 14 to September 7, 2008.

I'm intrigued... check out their page here 

The Mauerpark in Berlin is a green area that used to be enclosed by the Wall and was nothing more than a disused piece of wasteland. Since the reunification, the area has established itself as an outdoors space for the inhabitants of Prenzlauer Berg and northern Mitte. Since 1994 the area is officially called the "Mauerpark".
The park and the nearby Sunday market is frequented by many, among them lots of tourists, especially in the summer months. Allmightys have started selling shirts here on the market on Sundays as well ;)
The nearby wall is second only to the actual remains of the Wall concerning the amount and quality of graffiti. Hundreds of sprayers and street artists are having the time of their lives here.

check out some shots...

The Weekly Badge Review's theme of the week: Obama - Thanks to Kon of Allmightys for the inspiration:) 

We have just added new designer profile of Daniel Ramone, our most recent Gold Prize winner with his submission "Slum". Check it out here.

I was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and since then, I have never stopped drawing. I graduated in design at the Pontifical Catholic University in 2004, and decided to create my own brand of shirts, called PictoGrama, which paved the way for other works that arose in my career. Today I work as a freelancer..more

I came accross Tim Fishlock via It's Nice That. Some really nice work and georgeous typefaces.

...As Make stop trading back in 2005, Tim pursues his passion for graphic design andillustration working on ad campaigns, producs for Paul Smith, moving image andcomputer games projects, magazine design and a whole host of self-initiated designs.

Check out it: www.timfishlock.com

Good collection of Photoshop shortcuts for all of you out there. What would we all do without our beloved PS, eh?!

It is proven that by using software shortcuts can boost up productivity. Here are 30 secret Photoshop shortcuts that I’ve learned from years of experience. Well, what I mean by "secret" is that these shortcuts are not documented in the menus.

Image > Hide other layers
Hold down Opt + click on the visibility icon will hide all other layers.

See more @ webdesignerwall.com

Just got an email from Yonil:

"
so after some time working on it, here it is. YONIL.com V.1.2 !
the basics are pretty much the same. gave it a little makeover..
 
http://www.yonil.com/
 
hope you like :)
"

Make sure you check it out ..some really nice new content added.

Yonil is our 5 time winner with Trash Roots, The BIRDS and The BEEZ, You are HIRED good sir!, Knightwear, The King Is Dead and our anniversary tee The Pencil Man.

Mini interview with Yonil is coming this week!

The weekly badge review's theme of the week: Collage 

This week we bring you a little interview with Sven Palmowski aka a.mar.illo, our three time winner and a regular contributor to Allmightys' blog with his Weekly Badge Review.



What inspires you Sven?
Many, many things, can be a medieval print or some industrial ruins, whatever...

Who are you favourite artists and why?
There are really many of them, so these are just a few from the illustration sector:
Camilla Engman from Sweden, Jeffrey Decoster and John Casey both from California I think...Erkut Terliksiz from Turkey, Pietari Posti, finnish illustrator based in Barcelona... and, and, and...and why? They are cool, that's why;)

How do you produce your artworks and what mediums do you use?
I always start with a pencil sketch, convert it into a clean pen drawing using a selfmade "lightbox" sometimes, I scan it and add colours, corrections or effects in Photoshop, connected to a simple and small wacom pad (the cheapest on the market because I use it as mouse so it has to be renewable without great expenses;)



What are the websites you visit regularly and where do you get your inspiration?
Just a few examples:
http://www.hoboeye.com/
http://www.blanketmagazine.com/
http://www.skineart.com/
http://www.designboom.com/eng/
http://thesartorialist.blogspot.com/
FAESTHETIC run a nice blog, but they are currently down:(

What do you do when you are not designing?
Go to the playground or to the beach with my son:)






Do you think Allmightys has helped you become a better designer and how?
It even made my a better person, haha... No, seriously, it is just a very cosy place to be for a designer. It's like family: At Allmightys a design doesn't get lost in a huge mass of designs, that´s a good thing.

Anything else you would like to add?
Thanks for asking me all that, now I'm hungry.

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To read more about a.mar.illo, visit his profile here.
You can also see a lot more of a.mar.illo's work on his website here.

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