Labor Day is rolling in fast and I’m starting to get that nervous, excited feeling about our little Bumbershoot adventure. I created a couple new shirt designs and hopefully they’ll do well in Seattle.

The turtle design was inspired by a visit I took to the Monterey Bay Aquarium a few years back. I’m pretty sure that sea turtles can fly and just choose to do so underwater.

The fire hydrant design is a natural extension of my shuttered fire hydrant obsession. I think they look like little armored men standing around on street corners, sentries posted to observe and report on the human condition. They’re everywhere and when you really start to look for them it feels a bit like you’re being followed.

I feel like the process of vectorizing my sketches in Illustrator sort of has a dehumanizing effect. It smooths out some of my signature imperfections and I can’t quite feel the same magic that’s in my blobbly little sketches. It’s like running something from a typewriter through an optical character recognition program, the letters are all the same but the feel of the printed page is more sterile. I probably just need to get better at using the program so I can preserve what I like and draw out even more.

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