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Happy Holidays from the University of the Arts (and me) E-card

digi — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 04:50:17 +0000

Here we are… less than a week away from the big day: CHRISTMAS! But I’ve been in the spirit for a while now. You see, a few months ago, I was contacted by Lauren Villanueva, Director of Alumni and Parent Relations. She was looking for some alumni to create an Holiday E-card for the school to send out. I tapped one of my former classmates, Gary Hanna of Psynema fame, and together, we produced the following. I’d like to wish all 3 of my daily readers the happiest of holidays! Be safe… and drink egg nog!

Indian Peafowl • Pavo Cristatus Illustration for Wedding Invitation

digi — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:51:46 +0000

Vector Illustration of a peacock for a wedding invitation

A couple very close to us is getting married at Marsha Brown in New Hope, PA this November. They asked me to make the invitations, and so I did. The prevailing theme when sitting down and talking to them was the inclusion of a peacock. I created an “inked” black vector illustration and then used some vector watercolor brushes to color it. The back of the RSVP also utilizes the peacock, but it is a more comic or POP. You can find it after the jump.

Vector Illustration black ink over photo with extreme Gaussian Blur

Internet Treasures: Oct. 14, 2011

digi — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:05:32 +0000

A plucking of fallen internet links that I find interesting, which means… you know… you will too… I guess.

One of the many disturbing images from Dead of Night

I give you the COCO CAM, streaming live all day today, Friday October 14th for 8 hours straight. [link]
designphiladelphia runs from oct. 13-23, 2011. HEY, that’s right now! Also, in partnership with my alma mater, UArts.
IPSUM…? I hardly know-um. Hipster. Bacon. Samuel L.. via barsmoney
NME Online Magazine 150 BEST TRACKS OF THE PAST 15 YEARS. Number 1 is a personal favorite of mine. [link]
New York Comic Con is this weekend. Is there a super hero named “The Bed-Bug” ? [link]
Reviews are in for Batman: Arkham City. Man I need a PS3. IGN, Joystiq, Game Life, Kotaku
Wrestlers? Smashing Pumpkins? Hey, its October, so it fits. [link]
AMC is the rightful home of The Walking Dead, and you can catch the premiere of season 2 this Sunday. Miss season 1? Its streaming on Netflix!
In preparation for Halloween, I’ve been watching a lot of classic, black and white horror movies on tcm: The Thing From Another World, The Uninvited, and Dead of Night

9/11 10 Year Anniversary: “Alfred Qaeda and Friends” Super Coloring & Activity Book

digi — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 20:52:53 +0000

Alfred Qaeda and Friends Super Coloring & Activity Book created by Martin Slamon

It was created at a time when people would say “Too Soon.” It is 10 years later, and some still say its too soon. I made it at a time when I was angry. I was angry at the President, at Al Qaeda, at the greed of the United States, their response to the attacks and much more. Sure I might have missed glorifying the good and the positive to come from the attacks. Perhaps I was a little off with my prediction about Afghanistan (the war the American people support) and I didn’t see Iraq coming. But on the whole, I’m proud of this work and I believe it stands up to this day. Expect the conclusion of the book to be scanned and uploaded by the end of the weekend. For now, I give you “Alfred Qaeda and Friends” Super Coloring & Activity Book, with 9/11 Fun!

digi-Flyer: Ambler Restaurant Week 2011

digi — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 04:45:15 +0000

Ambler Restaurant Week, July 10-15, & Art Stroll, July 16. Join us for a taste of Ambler’s finest during Restaurant Week! Participating restaurants will be offering various dinner specials and prix fixes throughout the week. There will be artists displaying their work throughout town, live music, and extended retail hours on select nights during Restaurant Week. Immediately following Restaurant Week, Saturday, July 16, there will be a grand Art Stroll from 11-5pm with live music and retail excitement!

Details can be found on the Ambler Main Street website. We look forward to seeing you and a friend in Ambler!

Illustrated Ambler: Gearing Up For Restaurant Week

digi — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 13:35:04 +0000

6 Illustrations of popular places in Ambler, PA.

A few weeks back I was contacted by Gene McGonagle, owner and operator of Ambler Flower Shop. He was looking for a new take on the directory and map that gets circulated in the Enterprise paper. We met up and discussed some things and I left with the task of creating some “illustrated” takes on six prominent businesses in downtown Ambler, PA. They are, in no particular order, the Ambler Theater, Ambler Savings Bank, K.C’s Alley & Bridget’s Steakhouse, Finn McCool’s Tavern, Act II Playhouse and Deck’s Hardware. The illustrations were handed off to his people who popped them into their proper places and highlighted some other businesses in the area, and just in time for Restaurant Week! After the JUMP, a closer look at the illustrations with their real life counterparts.

The Ambler Theater

Act II Playhouse

Finn McCool's Tavern

Bridget's Steakhouse & K.C.'s Alley

Deck's Hardware

Ambler Savings Bank

Header Unveiling: GOING TO THE SHORE N.J.

digi — Thu, 26 May 2011 21:18:29 +0000

Michael Campitelli's header for "Going to THE SHORE N.J." created by digi

I work exclusively for the flying Campitelli Bros. Not really, but they are two champions of my work on the internet. After doing some fun stuff for the700level.com for Enrico, I was contacted by Michael to create a header for his informatory blog: Going to the Shore N.J. I’m not exactly crystal on this, but I think he asked me to work on this last summer and he hoped to debut the site just before the official start of this summer, so I’ve been sitting on this for awhile. His inspiration for the header, which became my recreation, is the Bruce Springstein classic album and album cover for “Greetings from Asbury Park N.J.” Let me know what you think. After the JUMP, some former 700level headers and a look at the original album cover.

"Spectrum" the700level.com header

Above is the “Spectrum” themed the700level.com header that graced the site for a good stretch of time. At first it was met with a lot of “gay” from the commentors, not that there’s anything wrong with that. But the eventual feedback was positive. The header features Brad Lidge (who looks like Myers )for your Philadelphia Phillies, Scott Hartnell (who I reversed for direction purposes and was called out by a fan for) from your Philadelphia Flyers, Desean Jackson from your Philadelphia Eagles, and I’m pretty sure sweet Lou Williams from your 76ers. The Hartnell dropping to one knee shot is comical in light of this great post by Broad Street Hockey.

Brian Dawkins the700level.com Eagles Playoff Banner

Here we have an Eagles playoff banner I created for the700level when the birds were taking on the Arizona Cardinals in the National League Championship game. You know the outcome of that game, so this banner was very, very short lived. But all told, I really think Brian Dawkins is powerful enough to smash a header, even at his current age.

Even before the eventual destruction of the Spectrum, the700level.com started using daily photo-headers and now has a brand new re-design.

Original art from Bruce Springstein's "Greetings from Asbury Park N.J."

From the Archives: The orig. digidigidigi design (Apple/the Son of Man)

digi — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 20:56:48 +0000

Original header for digidigidigi blogspot.

A couple years ago… I was looking to start my own website to showcase some of my artistic work in conjunction with my blog. Rather than it be a plain-jane portfolio web-site, I wanted it to have some sort of bad-ass personality and identity. Magritte is one of my favorite artists… and his painting, “The Son of Man” was the inspiration for my “characters.” In place of the organic apple was the highly recognizable Macintosh Apple logo from 1976. The premise, if you could even call it that, was that each color from the apple was a different member of this gang, ala Reservoir Dogs, a film I’ve still yet ot see in its entirety. They were some sort of super-natural or maybe just digital bank robbers who dressed in bowler hats and could never be identified thanks to the apples obscuring their faces. Another theme was the use of red, green and blue as the primary robbers to symbolize the RGB color mode. At the time, I never took into consideration that I couldn’t use another company’s logo to be the face of my own freelance company. After the jump, various iterations of the designs from the digi-archives. Mayhaps you’ll see these men again in some form or another…

original digidigidigi site interface design.

close up of Apple Son of Man (red) holding a firearm.

action illustration featuring the green Apple.

Dan from Liberties Parcel takes his inspiration to a perlor bead relm.

animated gif of the mysterious Yellow Apple Son of Man...

Yards Brewery presents “A Very Kehoe Christmas…”

digi — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 04:24:19 +0000

A Very Kehoe Christmas t-shirt for the 2010 YARDS holiday party

On an ordinary weekday morning, whilst I was wallowing in my unemployment during the bitter month of December… an IM came to me from heaven. It read “HARK… for born unto you this day is a project in the city of Philadelphia.” The boys down @ Liberties Parcel Inc. had been commissioned by the powers that be @ YARDS on Delaware Ave to come up with some sort of t-shirt design for the brewery’s holiday party. My direction was vague, except that the design involve the owner of YARDS, Tom Kehoe. After the break, pics of the shirt in action… and double your Kehoe.

YARDS owner Tom Kehoe in the flesh, and fabric form with the boys from Liberties Parcels Inc.

YARDS holiday party 2010

CLICK CLICK CLICK… BOOM.

digi — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 05:29:39 +0000