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

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

Just wanted to share some excitement over here about recent press on our new product RydeSafe Reflective Bike Decals.

Design-Milk

The Awesomer

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

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

RydeSafe Reflective Bike Decals by TONKY from Tonky Designs on Vimeo.

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:

etsy.com/shop/TonkyDesigns

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

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

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

Talib Kweli at Occupy Wall Street from Eddie Pages on Vimeo.

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FOR iPhone, iPad, etc:

Talib Kweli at Occupy Wall Street from Eddie Pages on Vimeo.

enjoy,
-Tonky

See more of his work: behance.net/joefenton
Buy a print: joe-fenton-art.myshopify.com/

The Lullaby – 2011 – By Joe Fenton from Joe Fenton on Vimeo.

Have a look at these customer pics of my wood fired ceramics in their natural environments
( Thanks Ward and Jimmy! )

I have some studio style shots of the rest of the work and will post soon. I like these better in a way since they shows the work IN USE, which is the most rewarding part of making hand-made pots.

Notice the toasty colors and exciting glaze effects. These pots are glazed, but not decorated, which means all the variation and exciting details result from the exposure to days and days of intense temperate and wood ash. Each firing is a surprise.

-Tonky