Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Speculative Spirits: Apparel Inspired by Liquor + Fiction

We just launched our new Kickstarter project Speculative Spirits: Apparel Inspired by Liquor + Fiction:
 


We're creating a t-shirt and necktie collection featuring illustrated liquor label designs with a science fiction and fantasy twist. We'll looking forward to another fun Kickstarter campaign and we hope you'll join us!



Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Book Releases

The Android's Astrological Companion and The Zodiac of Teeth are now available in our Binary Winter Press shop and Cody's art shop. Our heartfelt thanks to everyone who supported our Kickstarter project, we couldn't have made these beautiful books without you!





Monday, November 17, 2014

Literary Neckties for Stylish Book Lovers

Our latest book tie designs, inspired by some of our favorite classic science fiction and mystery novels. These make fantastic gifts for book lovers, science fiction fans, stylish sleuths and, of course, dashing time travelers.


Our Sherlock Holmes Necktie, featuring a perspicacious quote from The Hound of the Baskervilles.




Inspired by Jules Verne's classic novel, our Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea necktie pays tribute to the hidden worlds and extraordinary wonders of the sea.



Inspired by the timeless classic by H.G. Wells.

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

The Android's Astrological Companion


Our Kickstarter for The Android's Astrological Companion is now live! 



It's a hybrid art book and short fiction anthology featuring illustrations and stories about android girls inspired by the zodiac.  The book is illustrated by Cody and features stories by Megan O'Keefe (Writers of the Future Volume 30), Brendan Cahill (Transformers, Sable & Fortune), Kelly Thompson (The Girl Who Would Be King, Storykiller), Joseph Hewitt, and of course, Cody and myself.  Join us for the live event on Kickstarter!

Monday, August 11, 2014

New Book Project

We've got a shiny new book project in the works.  Here are some work in progress shots of the art:




We're super excited, we hope you are too!

Thursday, August 7, 2014

Con Adventures

With San Diego Comic-Con wrapped up, we're half way done with this year's Thunderdome, I mean, con season! Here are few highlights from our 2014 shows so far:

Our booth set-up at Phoenix Comicon

An Iron Giant walks among us at Denver Comic Con




I am Lego-Groot! (San Diego Comic-Con)




The SF Bazaar Tent at Maker Faire

Finding a little magic at Pike Place after Emerald City Comicon

We've had a blast and we're excited to see what the rest of year brings!

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Shiny Things

We're super excited to introduce Wave 1 of the Cody Vrosh Art Pendant Collection:


                         


Pretties for you, we hope you like them!  Now available in Cody's Etsy Art Shop.

Friday, November 8, 2013

Holy Kittens! The holidays are here!

We're gearing up for the holidays and just added a bunch of new designs to the shop!












 Seahorse Roboticus Necktie, now in copper and sea blue ink!

We're excited about this latest batch of designs!  We'll also be releasing Cody's new art book Coffee Creatures later this month! Stay tuned!

Thursday, November 7, 2013

Brick and Mortar

We've added some fantastic retail partners this past season!

One of our favorite things to do on vacation to check out local science museums.  Seriously, aside from comic book conventions and craft shows, science museums are where you are most likely to find us, nerding out and playing with all the things. So we are absolutely thrilled to announce that our Octo-Pi Mathematics and Penguin Science T-shirts are now available at the Science Museum of Minnesota


A small selection of our neckties can now also be found at Comics Unlimited in Westminster, CA. We first met them at Wondercon this year when they were running a fundraiser for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, which helps protect the First Amendment rights of comics art creators, publishers and retailers.  They are a great local comic shop, doing their part to help the comics community!

Comics Unlimited

And for those of you in Portland, our Unicorn vs. Dinosaur t-shirts are now available at ZimZim, a cool quirky boutique filled with artisan and handmade goodies.


We love small businesses (being one ourselves), so if you find yourself in any of these neighborhoods, please pop-in and check out them out!

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Robotic Seahorses and Squirrelly Elegance

September Salutations!  We have a couple of new ties designs up in the shop!
 

Seahorses are magnificent creatures.  The scientific name for their genus "Hippocampus" comes from the Ancient Greek "hippos" meaning "horse" and "kampos" meaning "sea monster".  We like to picture the Seahorse Roboticus as tiny mechanical sea monsters floating gently along the clockwork mechanikelp.


There's nothing worse than being invited to a fancy dinner party in the forest and realizing you have nothing to wear. And you just know that afterwards, the rabbit and the owl are going to want to go out to that club in the hollowed-out oak tree and you certainly don't want to be under-dressed. Now you can impress them with your squirrelly elegance in our Squirrel Damask Necktie.

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

San Diego Comic-Con


We'll be at San Diego Comic-Con this week.  If you're attending the show, please come by and say hello!   

Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Nikola Tesla Day

Today is Tesla's 157th birthday!  I first learned about Nikola Tesla when I was 19 years old, not from school, but from this:


Suffice it to say, my interest was piqued.  Soon after, I read Margaret Cheney's biography "Tesla: Man Out of Time" and became fascinated with the gentleman engineer, his visionary work and crazypants OCD.  So today, we're wearing our Tesla Stardust tees and singing our own geek karaoke remix in salute to the rock star scientist who quite literally made the world a brighter place.  


Tesla played with sparks, jamming good with coils and lightning
and signals from Mars
He built with both hands but made it too far
Became the Wizard man, then we were Tesla's fans

Tesla really shined, gray blue eyes and dapper hairdo
Like some cat from Smiljan,
He could shock 'em with current, he could blind 'em with flash
He came on so brilliant man, well heeled but wouldn't shake hands

But where was his death ray
when Edison tried to steal our volts
No A/C power to light us
So bankers messed with his plans and wireless energy was canned

Tesla lived out of time, giving us a better future
The world was too crass
He was the nazz, with a mind sharp as glass
He took it all too far, but boy could he play with sparks

With only love for his pigeons,
Tesla got lost into his mind
Like an electric messiah
Though the years have killed the man, his genius still stands

Oh yeah...

Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Tigers, Books and Birds!

Hello hello!  We've got some new goodies up in the shop!


Our "Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright" design is based on Cody's painting "Tigers" from his art show "To All the Creatures Within Us".  Here's the original piece:
And our new tie design "In Libris Libertas" is perfect for lovers of books and words:


Through the fluttering birds, the pages read:  "In Libris Libertas En Legere Veritas" (Latin for "In Books Freedom, In Reading Truth").

Friday, May 17, 2013

The Coffee Creatures are Coming!



Cody has just launched a Kickstarter project for his new coffee art book "Coffee Creatures"!  The campaign runs until June 15, check it out!