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Inspiration 103 – T-World Presents Next
Check out this video from T-World Magazine. T-World Magazine is the worlds only totally devoted T-shirt culture magazine. Created and driven by Eddie Zammit, T-World will be holding an exhibition featuring doco’s / T-shirt creators and designers profiles / 1500 Tees from designers around the world and also releasing the first hard cover volume of the magazine. This video raises the question to designers around the world ‘What is the future of T-shirts and where do you think it is going?’
Check out http://www.t-world.com.au/ for more info.
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Tagged ben brown, ben frost, colm o connor, colmoconnor, eddie zammit, future of t shirt, inspiration, nervous passenger, next, screen print, screen printing, street wear, t world magazine, taken clothing, taken limited, tees, tony arcabascio, tworld magazine, we buy your kids, well dressed vandals
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Inspiration 102 – Luke Wessman
If you’re not familiar with Luke Wessman, make sure you check this out. Luke is by far my favourite tattoo artist at the moment, he is currently based in New York but is also part owner of Luckys Tattoo Parlor, San Diego. His work is solid, crisp and clean, and his style, attitude and outlook on life are all summed up in the video below, Self Made… says it all really. Wouldn’t mind swapping a bit of work with this guy!
Be sure to check out http://lukewessman.com for more of his work, it’s well worth a look!
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Tagged colm o connor, colmoconnor, inspiration, love hate, luckys tattoo parlor, Luke wessman, Miami ink, ny ink, san diego, self made, tattoo artist, tattooist, Wooster street social club
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Blog I.D. and Logo Sketches
As part of the BSc(hons) Design (Vis Com) course I’m doing in Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland, we’ve to set up a blog where we will upload our work. Before we do that, we’ve to design a logo/I.D. that we will use for our online presence, here’s the first few sketches and ideas I’ve put together, they’re in the very early stages so they still need alot of work.
On another note, I just got my exam results for semester 1 of year 2, first class honours all round!!
Posted in Art Related
Tagged blog, blog i.d., college, colm o connor, colmoconnor, constructive criticism, custom type, design, feedback, i.d. package, id, id package, illustrator, logo, notebook, notebook sketches, rough work, sketches, typography, working drawings
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Prints For Sale
I got some more prints done up, they vary in size but the larger ones are just over A3 and are on top quality 200gsm paper, €30 each including post and packaging! Contact me directly if you’re interested at hi@colmoconnor.com.
Click the image to see the available prints.
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Tagged airbrush prints, audrey hepburn, bettie page, bob marley, colm o connor, colmoconnor, heath ledger, jimi hendrix, lemmy, marilyn Monroe, prints for sale, the joker
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Inspiration 101 – Benny Gold
Decided to put an Inspiration category on the blog and here’s the first post. The video is about Benny Gold before he moved into his first retail space. Absolutely love this guys instantly classic designs and outlook on life.
Check out http://bennygold.com/ for more of his work and online shop. Mozilla seems to be the better option for viewing, some links were missing on the shop page in i.e.
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Tagged benny gold, colm o connor, colmoconnor, inspiration, san fran, san francisco, sf, skate board, skateboard, stay gold
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Concrete Wave Magazine 10th Anniversary Issue
This is the print version of the Concrete Wave Magazine “passport program” at the Vans Warped Tour 2011. Check out the full story by clicking the image!
Posted in Art Related
Tagged 10th anniversary issue, charity, colm o connor, colmoconnor, Concrete wave magazine, Invisible children, longboard, non profit organisation, passport program, vans warped tour 2011
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Hand Lettering
This is just a little notebook sketch that I did. I wanted to try out a bit of hand lettering for a while now, and after a conversation with probably the most small minded person I have ever met at the weekend, I thought that this would be a good start. It’s roughly A5 in size, sketched using a pencil with fonts on screen for reference, and then finished in pen.
Posted in Art Related, Tattoo Apprenticeship Blog
Tagged colm o connor, colmoconnor, hand lettering, hand rendered, notebook sketch, statement, tattoos do not make me a scum bag, typographical poster, typography
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