MainStreetBrigade.org has teamed up with Funny or Die to put a muzzle on the snouts of corrupt Wall Street Bankers with the founding of the CFPA.

I snort laughed when George Bush 1.0  mistakenly calls President Obama Borat… then Barbar.

CAST:

Fred Armisen: Barack H. Obama
Will Ferrell: George Bush II
Darrell Hammond:  William Jefferson Clinton
Dana Carvey:  George Bush I
Jim Carrey:  Ronald Reagan
Chevy Chase:  Gerald Ford
Dan Aykroyd:  Jimmy Carter

Enjoy:

Loving the work and new portfolio site by Brooklyn based artist, designer, illustrator and all-around-dude Mark McCormick.

Mark is Senior Designer at CRUNCH Gyms and so you’ve likely seen his work across every aspect of that brand’s collateral. Cool icons for web, murals, print, you name it.

The melted snowman on treadmill above makes me yearn for Spring (dare I say Summer?)

Take a minute to look through the great concert posters, personal projects, and other goodies at his website: http://markmccormickdesigns.roxer.com

Also he’s participating in “Thing a Day” at his other website. Good for a daily intertube fix:
http://nakedfowl.posterous.com/

-Tonky

Hello all,

We will be exhibiting our wall stickers, limited editions, and custom design services next week at the NYIGF (New York International Gift Fair).

The fair will serve as a launch platform for a number of never-seen-before new products and designs and hope you will consider stopping by to have a look

Tonky Designs can be found at booth #3901 in the “Accent on Design” section.

If you plan on attending, we would love to meet you so please RSVP by Jan 30 to receive free goodies ($35 Value) as thanks for your support and attention.

Please email us: info [at] TonkyDesigns.com with RSVP in the subject line.

See you there,
-Tonky

Welcome,

There is a delicious show in the gallery at the airport (Truax Field) in Madison, WI that features photographs and rapid prototypes (3D objects “printed” layer by layer) by scientists from UW-Madison’s various research departments in collaboration with Tandem Press.

The exhibition text surveys the history of medical illustration and explains how “as early as 13,000BC, drawings of body parts aided Egyptians during the mummification process.”

The fancy colored 3d objects shown above and in the gallery below (click image to see larger) are upscale versions of such tiny molecules as DNA and RNA and also molecular motors that will some day propel themselves through our body to perform repairs and deliver drugs  like chemo to affected regions.

The grey electron microscope image of a tree-looking tendril is a “trichome” on a mustard plant leaf. These structures are what make a leaf feel “fuzzy”

The crystalline image shows nanorods – a material being developed for use in solar cells.

This show is stimulating beyond the aesthetic joys these images provide because we are reminded that we live in the future. These scientist are inventing tiny robots that will repair fatal aneurysms and new materials that will allow us to harvest sunlight for energy and thus avoid wars cause by lust for the buried sunlight that is crude oil.

-Tonky

Perfect packing snow in Prospect Park BKLYN today. We made a 7′ tall snow rabbit to bid adieu to 2009. See you in the future.

-Tonky

-Tonky

Just in time for the gift giving season we’re rolling out with a few designs made from 100% designer wool felt. Really excited to get these together in advance of NY International Gift Fair which Tonky Design will be showing at this Winter 2010.  Thanks for looking (and buying?)

-Tonky

Felt Sunny Side Egg Placemats ( 2pc. Set )

Silkscreened Die-Cut Felt – $32

Felt Martini Olive Coasters ( 4pc. Set )

Silkscreened Die-Cut Felt – $20

Alphabet Necklace

Sterling Silver & Laser Cut Felt – $75

Alphabet Wall Hanging & Table Mat

Laser-Cut Felt – $85

Hello,

Here is some new stuff to looks at, this time for the kiddies (or the young at heart). Stickers for your bathtub!

We are trying to keep prices down as low as possible for the holidays, so enjoy!
(Also note: FREE Shipping.)

-Tonky

Rubber Ducky Bathtub Stickies – 12-Pack – $24

Goldfish Bathtub Stickies - 12-Pack – $24

Variety Pack Bathtub Stickies – 8-Pack – $34

More coming soon.

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

Well,

Twenty years later The Simpsons are still at it. I had a lot of fun watching The Treehouse of Horrors XX this Sunday. Link to thorough review.

Every skit was a hoot, but my favorite “Don’t Have a Cow Mankind” featured a tainted Krusty Burgers made from cows exclusively fed with ground beef. They show a hilarious diagram illustrating a ground up cow fed to another cow. <BARF>

So, everyone that tries the new burger turns to a zombie and what ensues is a slapstick horror film spoof. Homer becomes a zombie and craves brains but the family decides not to kill him and commands him to behave. He begrudgingly complies Homer zombie style. AHHHAHAHA

Bart eats a burger and stays human. Everyone is cured when they eat from a giant cauldron of soup “the chosen one” Bart bathes in.

I acknowledge these “screen grabs” are a little low tech. They remind of the photos a young autistic boy would bring in for developing at the photo lab I worked at in high school. Every roll contained pictures of the television screen and in most cases the show ALF.

Anyhow, I wanted to show this cool bit of text that flash for only a second before the Zombie segment.
“Don’t Have a Cow Mankind” . Seriously! Everyone just chill out.

-Tonky