The final voting for our ‘Pattern Battle’ competition ended on Friday night and again a big thanks goes out to all you designers out there who took part!
We received some amazing work and have reached an all time high score on submitted designs :)
Well done to everyone!!
The variety of work on this topic was impressive as was the execution of most of the submitted designs. We feel the winning designs of the competition reflect that perfectly! So, without further ado, here are the winners:

Prize Winners (Printed)
1. Slum by darruda (Daniel Ramone) (Com: 2.00 EUR per shirt sold)
2. Oil by knikola (Com: 1.50 EUR per shirt sold)
3. Lost Love by jeremiahwasafreerider (Com: 1.00 EUR per shirt sold)

Special Selection (Printed)
(Commission: 1.00 EUR per shirt sold)
1. Pencil Doodle by HipPriest
2. Forest? by Rocciuto
3. City Pattern by Tees
4. Little Town by mumolabs

Special Mention (not printed, but designs you/we loved)
(order by score)
1. Rockstar by timmynorman
2. Music War! by borko
3. Megalopolis by a.mar.illo
4. Fishswirl by sybec
5. Bombs n Hearts by jeremiahwasafreerider
5. Speed Pattern by about_us/members/index.htm?designerid=4180garygeorgec
6. Tangram by ONAR

Congratulations to you all!!!

To read more about the competition and the winners, see out past competitions page.

The weekly badge review for Monday June 23 to Saturday June 28 featuring fantastic artists and designers such as one of my favourite illustrators: Pietari Posti from Finland, based in Barcelona. 

Our "Pattern Battle" competition has just ended and we wanted to let you know that we are now in the process of evaluating the scores. Please bear with us, a lot to go through. We will announce the winners on Monday, probably sometime in the morning.

We would like to thank you all for submitting so many design (165 in total). Thank you, your friends and guests for taking time to cast votes.

What can you expect on monday:
1. Gold Prize (Free Tee + Allmightys' €2.00 per sold Tee commission)
2. Silver Prize (Free Tee + Allmightys' €1.50 per sold Tee commission)
3. Bronze Prize (Free Tee + Allmightys' €1.00 per sold Tee commission)
+
Special Selections (2 or more) (Free Tee + Allmightys' €1.00 per sold Tee commission)

So until Monday, have a great weekend all!

For today's Friday Animation we bring you a cool little film by Ivan Maximov. This lovingly made cartoon animation is full of weird characters and beautiful backdrops.

watch it here...

Joint Custody Project is a collaboration art project where 22 artists start a piece of art, then anonymously change it with someone else, while receiving one themselves. They continue on the one they received for a few days, and swap again. At the end, all pieces are exhibited at a show where the artists themselves see the pieces for the first time as a finished item. I think the idea is cool, and after Los Angeles, the project has been running in Berlin too. If you are in Berlin tomorrow night, check out the opening at the Raab Galerie at Fasanenstrasse 27 from 7 p.m.

Read more here... 

We asked Gary, our Special Selection prize winner with his "Nature and Technology" tee design, about his work and where he gets his inspiration. Gary has submitted the largest number of designs to Allmightys. A  great variety and his style is always evident...lots of detail, colour and richness.

Enjoy..



What inspires you Gary?
I get inspired, when I watch movies and animations with great video effects and have social relevance. People around me also inspire me a lot.

Who are you favorite artists and why?
I have lots of favorite artists, some of the notable names are Escher- I like his impossible figures, and optical illusions, Rembrandt- his style in playing with light and shadow is great, and Alex Ross who changed the comic industry with his stunning realistic drawings.

How do you produce your artworks and what mediums do you use?
My artworks start from concept sketches in my head, then draw what I imagine using pen and ink. While drawing, I just let my imagination draw continuously, I use pen because when I make mistake, I don’t erase it, instead I make it into another design. I also use Adobe  Illustrator in making vector designs, and Adobe Photoshop in making graphic designs. Flash is what I use in making animations and also in making vector drawings.



What are the websites you visit regularly and where do you get your inspiration?
I regularly visit gaming websites like gamespot (www.gamespot.com/) where I get updates on latest games. I also visit The FWA: Favourite Website Awards (thefwa.com/) where there are lots of good web designs. I get my inspirations from everything around me, including people, events, nature and other stuff.

What do you do when you are not designing?
When I’m not designing, I play PC games and Nintendo DS. I also get inspirations and ideas from the games I play.



Do you think Allmightys has helped you become a better designer and how?
Yeah! Allmightys make my brains wheedle out artistic designs that make me a better designer. :) I also learn from the tips on forum discussions like color halftone filter that makes doing graphic design easy.

Anything else you would like to add?
Today, with lots of graphic softwares available, making graphic design is easier.

End.

You can read more about Gary by visiting his profile.
To purchase "Nature and Technology" by Gary visit the product page.
To see all of Gary's submissions, go here.

This evening the submission period for our 'Pattern Battle' competition comes to an end and we can happily say that we've reached a new submission record- thanks to you talented designers out there :)
Now is the time to get your friends and colleagues, your parents and your pets, your imaginary friends and the passer-bys on the street to vote for the designs.

There are 4 more days left to vote, so hit it :)

The weekly badge review: All the posts from Monday June 16 to Saturday June 29 featuring some new details from fantastic button projects such as a effektive and BATTERIEnext.

Instead of our usual Friday Animation, today we bring you a short film about Paul 'Moose' Curtis, a reverse graffiti artist. Reverse graffiti? Yes, he cleans walls and thus exposes lines that make up his work. Clever actually...

watch it here...

The name says it all: Hairwash-Project is a project by the Russian KunstGroup. They took pictures of people before and after having their hair washed... The links are kyrillic to me ;) but the collective image forms a very human pattern, especially if seen in it's entirety.

check it out here...

There is now a little over 5 days left to submit designs for our current "Pattern Battle" competition. The response has been best yet and with over 110 submissions there is a lot to score. We've really had a great variety of ideas and it's great to see all the different approaches to the theme.
We think this may be the hardest competition to select the winners just because the sheer variety of them. This is why we need you! We need you to vote and comment as many designs as you can so we can decide which designs should win. If you like particular design and you really want to see it printed then get your friends and your grandma to vote too! The great designs need your votes!

Submissions close this coming Monday (23rd June) at 23.00 GMT. We then have few more days to collect as many votes and comments as possible. The voting will then close on Friday (27th) again at 23.00 GMT and we have the weekend to go over all your votes and comments. The winners will be announced on Monday 30th June.

As always, we then move onto printing the designs as soon as possible. Every winning designer will receive a copy of their design and commissions from each and every sale.

5 days and counting! Get those submissions in!

We are also currently in the process of preparing our next competition. We are going through the list of themes we have noted and some of you suggested and hope to finalise it any day now. We also need to pick a charity that needs our help. If you have ideas, then please let us know. We are always looking for charities that can benefit from our regular donations.

With every new competition, comes a new Mini Contest. This is when we give away few t-shirts to our regular blog readers. All we ask in return is a comment in the blog. More about this as the new competition launches so if you fancy some free tees then make sure you keep you regularly check out the blog.

There are also quite a few exciting other things brewing in Allmightys factory. We can't reveal anything yet but rest assured its very, very, cool.

All in all, as always, exciting times are ahead. Love having you on board.
Long live T-Shirts!! :)

If you like our recent gold prize winner "Paranoid Park" by RoyalGlamsters then you should definetly check out the poster available at yayart.net.

Titled "Hooly World" of the poster is inspired by the word of “Hooly”, word that
Because “Hooly World”, It’s the universe of sweet creatures (the Hooly or Hoolies) taken in the whirl of Life, but always happy. However, I like the idea that viewers could see many others things like teddy bears swimming in noodles...

If you haven't grabbed the Tee yet, then head now to the store and pick up a gorgeous brown version for boys or white for girls. They are a wonder to look at.

Continuing our mini interviews, this week we bring you Simon Clark aka SiClark.
Simon is an amaizing UK based illustrator/animator with some trully wonderful and unique style to his work. Make sure you also check out his website for more examples and wonderful animations.
SiClark won Special Selection in our "Mother Nature" competition back in April 2007 with his unique "Bad Planet" submission.



What inspires you Simon?

This is always a hard question to answer, mainly because I find it hard to articulate how I get inspiration. For lack of a better term it just comes to me. It can come from watching a film, hearing a certain piece of music or seeing a colour combination on a random building, any small thing like that will start the cogs in my mind and out comes an idea. I'm obsessed with trees, buildings and texture. This is because I grew up in the country and now live in London and find it impossible to do simple things as I always get fixated with detail.

Who are you favourite artists and why?

In terms of fine art I would have to say the Chapman Brothers as a lot of their work seems quite obsessive which I can relate to and most importantly, it makes me laugh whenever I go to one of their exhibitions. With regards to illustration I have a lot of artists that I admire but my mind is more visually orientated so I'm useless at remembering names. Tom Gauld and Sam Webber stick in my mind though.



How do you produce your artworks and what mediums do you use?

Pretty much everything in my work is created by hand and made seperately. All these elements are then whacked into Photoshop and arranged and ocassionally coloured. I always use pen and ink and then use any kind of material to get the effect or texture that I am after.

What are the websites you visit regularly and where do you get your inspiration?

I don't really use the web for inspiration I'm afraid.



What do you do when you are not designing?

I'm obsessed with my work so when I'm not creating anything I'm usually thinking about what I'm going to do next. I spend most of my free time going to gigs.

Do you think Allmightys has helped you become a better designer and how?

I've only done one t-shirt design for Allmightys so I can't really make that claim, if I did more then I'm sure it would help.

End.

Visit SiClark's website for more information and work: www.si-clark.co.uk

You can read more about SiClark by visiting his profile.
To purchase "Bad Planet" by SiClark visit the product page.

Its been a little wait but 5 brand new tees from our recent joint competition with Popdeck.com have just been added to the store!

The new additions are:
Paranoid Park by RoyalGlamsters
Coffeeeee! by sepra4life
The City Letraset by ALIADOTONY
Wild Set by Nikola Kostic
Don't Break My Beat by nunosk8






As always these 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! This includes international orders too so whereever you are in the world there has never been a better time to order!

Another very important thing to 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!

Popdeck is also currently in the process of printing the winning entry by RoyalGlamsters and it should be in their store soon. If you like our gold winner then make sure you also pick up the board...they look amazing on the wall too if you are not the skater kind.

The Weekly Badge Review proudly presents: Blanket magazine from Brisbane, Australia and its brandnew online shop with button badges! 

Last week we added a bunch of georgeous wallpapers from our Mech Tech Competition. Besides them being whooping 2560x1600 pixels (suitable for any size screen), this time around we have also included iPhone wallpapers sized to fit perfectly that georgeous iPhone screen.

Next week "I Am Thinking.." winners are coming to your desktop.

Enjoy..

Here's an interesting and funny theory about the first moon landing portrayed in a very nice rendered animation.
Something for all the conspiracy theorists out there ;)

watch it here...

How cool would it be if you could take your photos that you have on Flickr and "place" them three-dimensionally into a map like Google Earth.
The Interactive Media Division at the University of Southern California are working on such an ambitious project. They have called it "Viewfinder". Once fully developed, Viewfinder aims to provide the possibility to superimpose your images into a 3D map and even overlay historic images over their present day locations.

You can watch their progress report here...

Brian is an artist from Bandung City, in west Java, Indonesia. His wonderful design "Mother Vomit Earth" was selected as a Special Selection back in April 2007 from the Mother Nature competition.



We asked Brian a few questions recently...we hope you enjoy this mini interview.

What inspires you Brian?
Many things, my God's life, my life, my wife, my soon to be born son, all sorts of music, all sorts of things that happen (specially in Indonesia, it's a weird but very challenging environment here...), Other peoples works, artists around me.



Who are you favourite artists and why?
Internationally i love baseman, jarvis, jeremyville, phuek, kidrobot, phunk and the list go on. Nationally i love that 4 guys from mode-four, oink! illustration and many more...

How do you produce your artworks and what mediums do you use?
I usually use computers, but the first things is always a sketch on paper, and afterwards it could end up on digital print, canvases, wood or plain papers.

What are the websites you visit regularly and where do you get your inspiration?
fotografer.net, deviantart.com, vinylabuse and loads and loads of browsing...even don't remember it all. And of course flickr.com .

What do you do when you are not designing?
I'm kinda running a ministry at my church, but it is also an art and design division. So besides designing I design haha. Usual kinna stuff is on my daily program too lah. Like go to movies, eating and blablabla...



Do you think Allmightys has helped you become a better designer and how?
First of all, allmightys introduced me to contests like designing. so it's a start for me. And you what, when i search my name on google, my name pops up, and it's from your site hahahaha.

Anything else you would like to add?
Love arts like you love yourself. And it will produce many good things on your life. Don't forget to search 'breeanzz' at flickr. Many thanks to you guys at almightys. See ya soon.

End.

You can read more about Brian by visiting his profile.
To purchase "Mother Vomit" by Brian visit the product page.

In terms of street art, here's a very original idea: Dan Bergeron shoots portraits of the residents of Regent Park, Toronto, and superimposes them on the buildings in the area.
As many of these are torn down and rebuilt, the idea is "to make the residents literally become part of the physical landscape".
The aim is to make aware and challenge the decision of the displacement of Regent Park's inhabitants as they are kicked out of their homes in order to make way for new projects...

read more here...

The Weekly Badge Review's theme of the week: Robots 

Darkroastedblend has a great article over on their blog about Navy's attempt to use patterns to camouflage their naval force...inspired by the work of Modernists.

Here is a little extract from the text accompanying lots of images:
The Allies only turned to modern art out of desperation. German U-boats were sinking enormous amounts of shipping and there was no really effective defense against them. It is axiomatic that if you can't stop the people who are shooting at you, you should make it very hard for them to find you. Thus, camouflage.

Read on..

Instead of the usual Friday Animation, today we want to give you an update on the 'Out and About' Tees.
The printers have been very busy and the shirts will hit the store next week. I have made frequent trips to the printers and have watched how, one by one,  your cool designs materialize on the fabric. I have to say it is a process that I love watching time and time again! The designs are looking very cool and we can't wait to present them to you in the store!!

So, keep your eyes peeled to the page :)

Drawing Day is a worldwide drawing event encouraging everyone to drop everything and draw for the sake of art. The internet is an open canvas. Help drawingday.org create 1 million drawings online this day and boost online art communities.

All you have to do is submit drawings at any of the art communities listed on their website on June 7 . Communities include: Facebook, Flickr, DevianArt, MySpace,YouTube, Amateur Illustrator and RateMyDrawings. Go here for the full list and links to groups for each site.

Happy Drawing Day All!!

We all know about googlemaps....but did you know that only recently google has added wikipedia entries to map searches?
Also, there is a bunch of content you can now see on the maps including youtube videos, photos, weather, picasa albums and a whole lot more.
Where before we would search google maps when we wanted to find a particularplace, now its a tool for exploration, reference and learning.

Go mapping...

I recently came across 'The Musalman', the oldest Urdu daily newspaper in India and probably the only handwritten newspaper in the world. The paper was established in 1927 and is published in Chennai. Copies of this paper are shipped as far as Calcutta and Mumbay.
Four professional calligraphers spend three hours every day on each page.
I think it's a great feat concerning the precision and dedication needed for this task.
I also think calligraphy as such goes really well with our current competition :)

read more here...

Isaac is a Spanish designer from Barcelona with some truly exquisite + massive body of work.

His words:
I do not believe in the limitations and if in the wills, I acquired based on a lot of patience the to feel that all was possible, passing for the motivation until forging a solid attitude without cracks before future difficulties.

See Isaac's Portfolio Here and you can also check out his blog Here.

The Weekly Badge Review's theme of the week: Patterns, what else!