RydeSafe Reflective Bike Decals: KICKSTARTER FUNDING SUCCESS !
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012 | Uncategorized | No Comments
Not to toot my own horn… but did you see our Kickstarter Project?
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tonky/rydesafe-reflective-bike-decals
Over 500 people pledged and in the process blew past our $3250 goal by 428%. YAY thank you!
We are currently in the process of holding up our end of the deal, i.e. sending out lots and lots of RydeSafe Reflective Bike Decals around the world. Over 1500 kits to be exact!
If you don’t know about Kickstarter, you should. Kickstarter is a funding platform that gets creative ideas made. And basically renders large financial institutions obsolete. It is now and the future and like all good things on the internet it is made better by your participation. So GO already!
all best,
-Tonky
More ( good ) RydeSafe PRESS
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012 | Uncategorized | No Comments
Don’t forget this post courtesy on Better Living Through Design! These things are really catching on.
www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com/personal/rydesafe-reflective-bike-decals.html
-Tonky
RydeSafe Reflective Bike Decals in the PRESS
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012 | Bike Related, Tonky Graphic Design, Tonky Hardgoods | No Comments
Just wanted to share some excitement over here about recent press on our new product RydeSafe Reflective Bike Decals.
and Bike Blog NYC
That were all kind enough to show some love. Go check these blogs out if they aren’t already on your daily internet to-do list.
Given the positive response to RydeSafe decals, I’m confident if we get enough of these on the road, we are bound to save some lives.
ok that’s all for now,
Tonky
RydeSafe Reflective Bike Decals by Tonky
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011 | Bike Related, Tonky Hardgoods | No Comments
Greetings!
Check out our line of reflective bike decals. They are plotter cut here in Brooklyn, USA from an engineering grade “conspicuity film.” Same material they use to wrap cop cars and fire trucks.
These 51 piece kits are available in 7 colors and will work wonders for your visibility in low light condition.
But don’t take my word for it, just watch the video already.
More info and available for purchase at: RydeSafe.com
RydeSafe. Be Seen.
Tonky
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Wood-Fired Pottery by Tonky
Wednesday, November 16th, 2011 | Tonky Hardgoods, edibles | No Comments
Hello hello hello,
Just unloaded a fresh batch of wood-fired pots from an anagama kiln in Peekskill, NY.
Sold a few pieces at last week’s Brooklyn Flea and the rest are posted over at my Etsy store:
Everything is fully functional, diswasher safe, microwave safe, and oven safe… all kinds of safe.
Just in time for the holidays. Go have a look, the photos turned out pretty..
Shown above a slab built sake set with Shino glaze. $55
-Tonky
SlowPig | Madison, WI | 10.30.2011
Monday, October 24th, 2011 | Events & Openings, Tonky Graphic Design, edibles | No Comments
Tonky Designs handled SlowPig’s branding and designed its promotional materials. ( logos, e-commerce website, t-shirts, posters/postcards and tickets printed at Brooklyn’s finest letterpress studio: Coeur Noir. )
After spending a few months working on contract as a designer at the National Football League this summer, I can’t say the SlowPig logo wasn’t at least partially inspired by the team logos that that stellar design team puts out. I CAN however say that The SlowPigs would make a very un-intimidating name for a football team.
SlowPig is a celebration of heritage pigs and the people who drive the movement. Just 5 days left to purchase tickets for this all-you-can-eat & all-you-can-drink gourmet extravaganza organized by Chef Dan Fox of the Madison Club. If you dine on swine and live within a day’s drive of Madison, WI, you should be there. I’ll be there; my mouth is already watering.
More info and tickets Click HERE
-Tonky
The Tarball Chronicles | Cover Design by Tonky
Monday, October 24th, 2011 | Tonky Graphic Design | No Comments
Take a gander at my most recent book cover design for Milkweed Editions. The Tarball Chronicles ($24) by David Gessner documents the author’s road trip to and around the gulf coast during the 2010 oil spill.
This was a challenging project and it took a while to zero in on a design that encapsulated Gessner’s work. You can see some of the rejected concepts below. Since Gessner asks his readers to look “beyond the oily pelican” that dominated news coverage I was tasked with designing a cover that was specific to the disaster while also not reading as cliche or “too similar” to every other image we associate with the rig explosion and subsequent months-long undersea gusher.
We settled on this collaged composition that features a monstrous BP cleanup worker with a pelican head ( courtesy of J.J Audubon) and framed out by filigrees appropriated from an early 20th century mardi gras ball invitation
thanks for looking,
-Tonky
