We have a winner!

We asked you to write about "the future as imagined in the past" in the form of a comment to this post....and the winner is:
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I figure it'll turn up. This is attempt #2. Let me know when you get this, because I've got to do some Christmas shopping soon. I can't trade in my gold bars for extra Christmas shopping cash since Nixon closed the gold window a few months ago, you know. Ha! I figured for the ceremonial first attempt, I'd write a grand message about how weird things would be decades into the future. So I wrote a message about how people will cook food with invisible micro rays and talk to each other with telephones the size of a stick of gum. What else - something about entire computers small enough to fit on top of your desk and everybody has one and uses it to talk to each other. Oh, and the Red Sox will win the world series. Twice! You know I love my Sox!

If I don't hear from you about this electronic mail, I'll call you like I did after the first try. I figure that message is off somewhere. Curling through circuits, the electrons still properly ordered, weaving its way through carpet static and car-door shocks. Someday it'll arrive on a machine that renders my crazy message to those living in the future itself. I know it can't have just disappeared down into this machine, as advanced as it is. It's out there somewhere. It'll turn up.
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by snip

We'll be getting in touch shortly for your two free t-shirt of choice from our store.

Many thanks to all that have submitted comment. We hoped for more but never the less those that submitted were absolutley wonderful. It is always hard to pick the winners here but as in the words of Gregory Widen there can be only one!

Make sure you check out current competition that inspired this mini-contest. We've had some fantastic entries so make sure you cast your votes. If you are the designing kind, then we are waiting for your submission! For more details, go here.

We have just added new designer profile: Rayi Christian Wicaksono aka mumolabs

Rayi is our recent Pattern Battle Special Selection with his Little Town. The t-shirt is currently in print and should be available in store within few weeks.
In the meantime, make sure you check out Rayi's profile and more of his work available on deviantart.

Somewhat in tune with a.mar.illo's excellent weekly badge review yesterday, I want to showyou guys this badge that has apparently been around in Berlin since Obama appeared here last Thursday (although I haven't seen one). I agree, it lacks the true design quality, but I thought I'd share it with you nevertheless...

Enjoy :)

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

A UK based artist working with typography, animation, vectors and web application. A small but exuisite portfolio of work. Well worth checking out.

Welcome to Allmightys Rob!

www.robmccarthy.co.uk

Brooklyn-based artist Leon Reid IV, also known as Darius Jones of the street-art team Darius and Downey will be making a special presentation at the ATM Gallery in Berlin this thursday, 24th july at 4.30pm.
Leon will be speaking about his 13 years of work on the street in places such as New York City, London and Berlin while addressing his involvement in the genres of pure graffiti, street-art and legal urban art. The presentation will include over 60 projected images. Signed copies of the new book "The Adventures Of Darius and Downey" will be sold after the presentation.
The entrance is free and the lecture takes place tomorrow, 24th July, at 4.30 pm at the ATM Gallery, Brunnenstr.24 in Berlin Mitte.

If you're around, have a look...

Giovanni Donadini, one of the designers here at Allmightys has recently updated his website with some fresh new content. Make sure you check it out:

www.haveyouever.it

Gionanni is our silver prize winner with his Heart Monsters design from Monsters & Mayhem Competition.

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

This week we bring you Miroslav Kostic. An artist and a "UFO freak" from Novi Sad, Serbia. Miroslav is out Silver Prize winner from our Mech Tech Competition with his White Robot.

We asked Miroslav few questions...read on. Enjoy..



What inspires you Miroslav?
I’m an internet addict so because off that I’m often inspired by the things I read or see on the web. When I was younger I watched too much cartoons, now I’m watching just a few but I’m still inspired by them and a memory of old ones that I kept in my brain still does a thing. I was never inspired by historically famous artist, I really appreciate them but not in the way to be truly touched by their art. I’m more like renaissance artist, trying to be better then others before me by using their knowledge and bringing it to a next level.

Who are you favorite artists and why?
My favorite artist is Gennady Tartakovsky, a guy who created cartoons like Dexter’s Laboratory, Samurai Jack and Clone Wars. I’m truly inspired by his art and ideas, he is the only artist I will like to meet. His style and stylizations are by my opinion best thing in animation that happend today. I’m really sorry because he has only few projects going on, he should be more appreciated and pushed forward.

How do you produce your artworks and what mediums do you use?
I produce most of my artwork for clients now, but I always have time to do something for myself. Currently I’m trying to bring to an end a long time struggle with my 27 minutes long animated movie. One night I came up with an idea for an animated film, that was four years ago and today I’m harassing guys that are doing music and sound effect to finish their job so we can make a premiere of the film. I did the rest of it from storyboard to editing and marketing, but I’m a real anti talent for music that part I left to them. My motto is: If you want something to be done, do it yourself.



What are the websites you visit regularly and where do you get your 
inspiration?
Deviantart.com is my regular place, I also upload every single thing worth uploading to Coroflot.com. Deviantart is my prime inspiration place, this is a place where supertalented people upload their art, if you want to know what is going on in art today, this is the place. It is also full of wanabe artist and that is great because all of them are watching TV and searching trough web and living their lives in different places of the world and after all of that they sit and do a drawing or take a photo or make a collage or write a poem and they all upload it to a same place which became something like a vortex of ideas. I think that is amazing. I’m not working for Deviantart.com!

What do you do when you are not designing?
When I’m not designing I work on my UFO website. UFO’s are always been my passion. I’m not a UFO freak, I like to think of myself as of UFO investigator (that is pathetic!). No it is not, there is a phenomenon that exists and it is not fully investigated. I started a website that is a collection of UFO sightings over Serbia, so the people who had a real experience can share it with others. Beside of being Fox Mulder I like to go to the concerts, drink with friends, roller-skating and making barbeque.



Do you think Allmightys has helped you become a better designer and how?
Yes, I think it did. I gained more self confidence after wining a contest at Allmightys. I figured out that there are people all over the world that appreciate my art, and if you look on Google Earth, well that place is pretty big. So it is cool to be introduced to audience that big.

END

You can find Miroslav on these sites:
www.coroflot.com/mickeykostic/
mickeyns.deviantart.com/
mickeykostic.carbonmade.com/

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I'd like to take the chance to publish a few photos that were sent to me by Rob of staynice, one of the guys organizing this year's 'Sweatshop' T-Shirt graphic design exhibition. The actual exhibition, which ran in correspondence with the Breda Graphic Design Festival, closed at the end of June. According to Rob, the show was a big success and companies from all over the globe had their stuff on display. Needless to say, Allmightys was there too with a few shirts on display ;)

I think the guys did a brilliant job with the organization, design and display of the whole thing. I was really impressed and hope this won't be the only time we can show your work on our shirts in Holland or elsewhere!!

Here is some very nice work by our member Thomas Dang. Great designs for google and addidas as well as a collection of some really interesting identity work and illustrations.

More: mydangwork.com

Win Two Free T-Shirts of Your Choice!

To celebrate the launch of our new competition, we are launching a mini contest for our members and visitors to win two free t-shirts from our store. Our new competition is themed “Future-Past-Perfect” and we would like to hear from you what do you think about the future in the past. Whatever it is we want to know!

How to Enter

Simply write about "the future as imagined in the past" in the form of a comment to this post. Please write at least one sentence, thats all you have to do! The contest begins now and one winner will be chosen by Allmightys Team and announced Monday, July 28th of 2008.

Contest Prizes

Two free t-shirts of your choice from our store!

Schedule

Contest Begins: Monday, July 14th of 2008

Contest Ends: Monday, July 28th of 2008

Additional Comments and Rules

Please provide a valid email so you can be contacted if you win

We reserve the right to not approve any comments we deem inappropriate

Minimum Age Limit: 16+

Winner can pick any tee from the store

Only one comment per user allowed.

Package and postage included and international shipping available.

Update 29.07.2008: Comments now closed.

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

I am one of those people who find it extremely hard to actually own a pen. I have tried too many times but always ended up loosing them. For some reason I have this great gift in loosing pens within a day. This has proved somewhat frustrating especially as some of these pens were quite wonderful. In the last years, I accepted this fact and resorted to cheap and cheerful '100 in a pack' pens. I would get the box, use it, not caring whether I left it on a train or chucked in the bin by accident.
Recently, I invested in a pack of Faber Castells that range from thin to thick. With an old Muji pencil case from about 15 years ago, I am committed to make these last. Looking at it at it now, there is one missing, but I am sure I left it in the office ..(hehe).

Now, back to the issue of Lammy...they have launched this new set of "noto" from the Japanese star designer Naoto Fukasawa. They are absolutely wonderful ..simple, yet gorgeous. They also come in few colours ...I think I'll be picking up one of each.

Enjoy.. lamy.com

In May, the Bitfilm Festival '08 took place in Germany. For today's Animation Friday, we want to bring you this very cool film about a man traveling to see his wife. Not such an extraordinary occurrence as such, but the realization of this film with just the everyday stick-man symbolism that we all know so well makes it a wonderful little piece to watch.

Catch it here...

Say hello to Lena, an artist from Rustavi in Georgia. Influenced by nomadic tradition and he family heritage from Romania to Central Asia and Ukraine to South Caucasus and Middle East. From wonderful illustrations to creative textiles and jewellery. She currently lives and works in Israel.

Head over to babayagada.com to see more work.

"Pattern Battle" is in the bag and the new t-shirt design competition is now on!!

The theme is: Future-Past-Perfect

Description:
"...refers to a time that is in the future, relative to another point in the past, but is in the past relative to a point in its future."

We would like you to think of the future as imagined in the past and how and what we expected to be has become somewhat different. Think future in relation to the past, think memories, challenges, imagination, expectation, disappointment and the future that lies ahead of us. What have we learnt and what should we expect?

Dates:
Competition announced: Monday 7th July 2008
Submission Deadline: Monday 25th August 2008, 23.00 GMT
Voting Ends: Friday 29th August 2008, 23.00 GMT

Competition banner artwork by Yonil

1 EUR from each T-Shirt sold from this competition will be donated to Greenpeace.


Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning organisation that acts to change attitudes and behaviour, to protect and conserve the environment and to promote peace by: Catalysing an energy revolution, Defending our oceans, Protecting the world’s ancient forests, Working for disarmament and peace, Creating a toxic free future and Campaining for sustainable agriculture.

So, all you talented designers out there, have a go and give us your best! :)

more info here...

The weekly badge review's theme of the week: Black and White 

Today we bring you Joe Gonzalez. A little interview and few words from one of our first designers. Joe has few tees in Allmightys store. First one is the "Drying Up", a special selection from our second ever competition Mother Nature then it's "Hanging with the crowd" from Monsters & Mayhem Competition, "A Few Good Men" from Mech Tech Competition and the more recent "We Need Help" from the I Am Thinking.. Competition.

Enjoy..



What inspires you Joe?
My family, surrondings, and fear, the last thing is more like what motivates me.
I find inspiration in the small things the way the light catches the trees on a sunny day, how the clouds seem to play with the sun light at dusk. I love to be stuck at a train and watch all of the graffetti go by and take note of the color combinations that are used by writers from god knows where. Inspiration comes at any
time and anywhere, what's exciting is what you do with it at the time.

Who are you favourite artists and why?
I really like Joshua Davis, his work is inspiring and extremely complex but the process that he uses to creat it is beauty of it. I once heard him speak at a conference and he is a real person and designer with brutal honesty that I can appreciate.

How do you produce your artworks and what mediums do you use?
A good old pencil to start with for my design work. I almost always start with pencil and paper, I make a dummy if its a complex piece and go from there. I sometimes will used scanned objects or patterns, but mainly I tend to lean toward the stick and pulp. Then my computer finishes it off.



What are the websites you visit regularly and where do you get your 
inspiration?
Allmightys.com of course...my site miralcetwentyone.org to make sure its working and the server is not down. Allema.com for the same reason. MySpace.com for old highschool friends, thefwa.com to see the latest and greatest websites. Youtube.com to check out people singing my favorite songs (I secretly wish I could sing), adweek.com to stay up-to-date with industry news or to catch an article that I have might of thrown away. Google.com, for everything. And yahoo.com for email.

What do you do when you are not designing?
Spend time with my two sons and wonderful wife. Cut my lawn and spend time outside. Play basketball. Cut hair(one day I'll have my own barber shop) and cook.

Do you think Allmightys has helped you become a better designer and how?
I think so, I am more aware as a designer, its exposed me to many different points of views, styles, people and thier talents. I feel that the community has really grown with time and each of us have tried to do our part to help make allmightys what it is today with the best of our abilities. Seeing what can be done with one idea or topic is great, it makes you think about things in a different way. I think the competitions do that nicely.



Anything else you would like to add?
I would like to add that I am greatful to be apart of great community that has come along way, the exposure and promotion that everyone at allmightys has been
benefical to me in more ways then one. I just hope that it will continue to grow and get better.

End.

Fore more info about Joe visit his profile here on Allmightys.
Also, make sure you check out his miralcetwentyone.org and his blog miracletwentyoneblog.blogspot.com

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http://miracletwentyoneblog.blogspot.com/

For today's Friday Animation, check out this very short but very funny animation :)

Also, happy 4th of July to all our American users from all of us at Allmightys!

We have just added a new designer profile of Tang Yau Hoong aka Tees, our most recent Special Selection winner with his "City Pattern".

Here is a little extract:
My work has been inspired by almost everything I've seen and known. From friends and family to nature and animals, history to pop culture, traditional art  to digital art, and sounds to images...

To read more about Tees and see his work, head over to his Designer Profile.