Health Care Propaganda: Public Option Please

Friday, October 30th, 2009 | Pop Culture Notions, Power & Politics, Tonky Graphic Design, Tonky Limited Editions | No Comments

Just wrapped up some health care advocacy propaganda for PublicOptionPlease.com. I designed these in the spirit of those great WPA posters advocating everything from worker safety to supporting the war effort.

The contest winner gets a cold $1000 and national distribution. The contest is being judged by Arianna Huffington, Margaret Cho, Aaron Rose, Jesse Dylan, Robbie Conal, Marshall Ganz, and Arlene Holt Baker

Hopefully they like the work!

I am selling an extremely limited edition of each design.
20″ by 30″ – Archival Ink Jet Prints
$50 ea. ( framed – $105 )
<CLICK HERE>

Every penny of profit gets donated to PublicOptionPlease.com. So feel comfortable voting with your wallets.

Click the thumbnails to see larger images:

-Tonky

6 Year Old UFO Pilot Found Hiding in Box – HOAX ?

Thursday, October 15th, 2009 | Pop Culture Notions, Tonky Graphic Design | No Comments

Well,

All is well that ends well. Apparently 6 year old Falcon Heane has been found alive hiding in a box in the Heane family attic. When the craft landed and he wasn’t inside I was afraid he had fallen to his demise – however after NYtimes.com commenter nerds calculated the lift/buoyancy of a balloon that size, it was clear it couldn’t lift a whole kid.

It remains to be seen whether the youngster released the family’s experimental craft and hid out of shame or whether his weird parents stashed him away as part of a staged hoax to get publicity. Apparently the couple appeared on the reality TV Show “Wife Swap.”

Anyhow isn’t it amazing how desaturating the news footage dates the images and evokes Roswell and UFO imagery?

One thing can be for sure, little Falcon Heane’s game of hide and seek likely cost the world MILLIONS of hours of lost productivity as we watched the event unfold LIVE. I like seeing this sort of harmless spectacle rather than violence.

I for one have been honing my SketchUp skills and decided waste a couple of hours modeling the craft in 3D.

I might make a poster commemorating the drama.

-Tonky

NYC Sewer Cover – Wall Graphic

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 | Tonky Graphic Design, Tonky Limited Editions | No Comments

Team,

Something new, an NYC Sewer Cover Wall Sticker. Like all of our Wall Graphics, this can be applied to any flat (clean) (dry) surface. Could look cool in a bathtub.

Yes, some might call it a “manhole” but that is a gender biased term and also possibly construed by a vulgar mind as R-rated.

-Tonky

DREAMHOST’s Retro T-shirt Design Contest

Thursday, October 8th, 2009 | Tonky Graphic Design | 1 Comment

I’ve been on a design contest submission binge over here. Take a look at some submissions I whipped up for Dreamhost.com’s happy birthday retro t-shirt design contest. Winner gets free web-hosting for life!  – Deadline is Oct 11: Enter Here

They are a GREAT company – if you sign up please use promo code TONKY – $5 discount and I get store credit!
-Tonky

Park Slope Food Coop – T-shirt Contest Submission

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 | Tonky Graphic Design | No Comments

[ UPDATE 10.21.2009 ] Coop Members can vote online - http://foodcoop.com/contest_vote
If you are a member I’d really appreciate your vote. Thanks!

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And on a lighter note. My dear dear Park Slope Food Coop is hosting a design competition of its own.
I call this t-shirt design, Tonky’s Taxi Tractor.

You may know that PSFC requires its members to work monthly shifts for the right to shop there. In return, the price of groceries is MUCH cheaper due to the savings on labor and a MUCH higher quality produce, meat, and cheese selection than your average Key Foods ( or Whole Foods for that matter)

The winner receives 1 full year of shift credits. At roughly 3.5 hours per shift that equals 42 hours of free life returned to me if I win! Voting for members starts in October, spread the good word please!

-Tonky

WTC Fence – Design Competition Submission

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 | Contemporary Art, Pop Culture Notions, Power & Politics, Tonky Graphic Design | No Comments

This is a rendering from my submission to the design competition being hosted by The NYC Department of Transportation in collaboration with the Port Authority of NY & NJ to transform the currently drab construction fence that lines the WTC perimeter to something a little more amicable to tourists and local gentry.

Gound Zero is the more colloquial name for the World Trade Center construction site, no doubt the most politically charged patch of land in the country.

Project Statement:
The organic super graphic meanders through an underlying colorful grid along usable sections of fence. The viewer identifies with the flourish and in it sees their own navigation of the city. In this way, the composition reflects the vitality of the bourgeoning downtown commercial and residential neighborhood.

The rebuilding has proven slow due to infighting between powers that be: Larry Silverstein (leaser of the site) NY & NJ Port Authority (owner of the site), and victim’s families, to name a few.

The challenge it seems is to find a development solution that properly honors the lives of the victims and that also utilizes that highly valuable downtown real estate in a way that is best for the city’s future. Is the 1,776-foot Freedom Tower really the best we can come up with? ( USA founded in 1776, get it? )

Proposals due Oct. 5 – Get yours done now! $7500 design fee.
Submit Here

NEW! Animal Cell Diagram – Wall Decal

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009 | Tonky Graphic Design, Tonky Limited Editions | 1 Comment

Mammals,

I’ve just completed a new design, an Animal Cell Diagram wall decal!
L: $60 or s: $40

This would make a perfect gift for a budding young scientist or your weird creationism believing aunty.

What you see is a cross-section complete with nucleus, mitochondria, citoplasm, the golgi complex and more!

And in honor of the golgi complex, enjoy this very early recording of a very young Phish performing Golgi Apparatus.

Golgi, oh woe is me
you can’t even see the sea
Golgi Golgi Golgi Golgi Golgi Golgi

Song starts at 2:10

-Tonky