Lunacium Speed: Gear For Gearheads

The clothing line is closer to reality in spite of major set backs in finances and sourcing. To help things move forward I will be using Printfection initially and then hopefully move to production and distribution via better priced source. Printfection's prices are higher than I would want the shirts to sell for but it lets me maintain my commitment to quality and durable t shirt blanks. Gildan Ultra and American Apparel shirt blanks with direct to garment printing along with access to their entire color pallet. This will help me maintain the integrity of the Lunacium brand, collect some market research (ie what shirt designs sell and on what colors and what blanks) and get the clothing out there sooner.

The account is setup as is the store and the products are entered but the store front hasn't been styled yet. I'm hoping to get to that this weekend through next week. After that I will start pushing the brand out via online marketing options, car show/event attendance, and of course word of mouth.

-Jake

oops

So apparently the testing I did on the new gallery didn't actually survive to the live site. A friend pointed out some issues he saw in FireFox and I hadn't even bothered to test in IE, I knew it was probably broken to start with!

So, I have just spent several hours going through and figuring out the problem and it all came down to a single line of code. The reason why the body {background} would break the whole gallery is beyond me but I ended up having to target FireFox and IE uniquely with a background-color while Chrome can actually display the gallery the way I intended it. Whew.

Anyway, the gallery skin is where the changes reside so in the future, as long as I keep the skin files intact, I can skip all this hoopla and just make updates!

-Jake

PS: Please let me know if anyone see anything broken in any of the main three browsers, thanks!

been to long...

Ok, so the first big news is some MASSIVE updates to the portfolio page. Lots of new content there including the shirts for the sub brand Lunacium Speed that I've been working on. Some new stuff and some old stuff and some big stuff like car wraps too. Take a look.

On the Lunacium Speed front, I've had a little set back on the financial side and I won't make my launch date of the 4th of July weekend but I hope to still get the line off the ground mid summer. Watch for updates.

-Jake

Shirts are out for bidding!

Lunacium: Speed  is one step closer to reality! I've contacted some companies to get bids on my shirt design to officially launch my line of shirts. Here is a list of the shirts that will be part of my initial launch, six designs in all.

Design 1 'Wire Wings'
    Placement: Back (with a 4" square logo on the front, centered on the chest.)
    http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk224/panelrodder/Design%20Projects/Lunacium%20Speed%20Gear/v4.png

Design 2 - 'Motor Running'
    Placement: Front
    http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk224/panelrodder/Design%20Projects/Lunacium%20Speed%20Gear/v1-4.png

Design 3 - 'Twins, Basil'
    Placement: Front
    http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk224/panelrodder/Design%20Projects/Lunacium%20Speed%20Gear/v1-6.png

Design 4 - 'BJ'
    Placement: Front
    http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk224/panelrodder/Design%20Projects/Lunacium%20Speed%20Gear/v1-7.jpg

Design 5 - 'Cardiac'
    Placement Front
    http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk224/panelrodder/Design%20Projects/Lunacium%20Speed%20Gear/v3-2.png

Design 6 - 'Wrench & Repeat'
    Placement: Front
    http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk224/panelrodder/Design%20Projects/Lunacium%20Speed%20Gear/v1-1.png

The shirts will be available as black printing on white shirts and possibly with red and blue shirts being part of the initial launch as well depending on pricing. All the designs are intended to include printed care tags on the inside back of the collar and sewn on hem tags on the bottom hem line.

-Jake

Time for a new shirt design, and here it is:

I have been working with RawData's, www.therawdata.com, CTO on the visuals for the next generation of our MoARC, Mobile Audio Recognition Client, application for the Android mobile OS while simultaneously working on the visuals for our survey app, I'm calling it QQs for Quick Question Surveys. Both apps will have nearly the same splash screen with only the app name swapped out. Here are my initial mockups for both.

Again, these are nothing more than the simple splash screens shown only while the program loads and both will go to unique landing pages that help the users into the apps and its' features. Those screens are forth coming.

Also, in VERY big news... at least for me... I am designing a promotional iOS app for the NBA team the Utah Jazz! My good friend will be doing the coding and development based on my designs! As I make progress on this I will be posting mockups here as well.

-Jake

Some new shirt designs:

Titled 'Wire Wings'

Titled 'Skullburator'

Titled 'Oil Bag'

WrenchFist

Did up another tshirt design recently. While browsing the web one day I found a shirt that had a new style that I liked a lot so I wanted to try it and this is what I came up with.

What do you think? Would you wear it??

-Jake

Wire Wings t-shirt teaser

I've been working on a tshirt design for a long time and I've finally made the jump to starting the digital work on it. Here is a teaser of the base work that has been done so far. I'm calling it the 'Wire Wings' for now.

Hope you like it! More to come on this for sure.

-Jake

RawData Web Project

As promised, though a couple days slow, here is a link to the RawData website which went live earlier this week.

http://therawdata.com/

There are some holes in the site as far as database integration but that is not what I was responsible for. There is also some bigger functionality stuff that will be revised in the near future but for now here it is!

-Jake

(Here is a screen shot of the home page.)

Quick update, I've been cramming on the previously posted RawData website. The site design was completed awhile back and then we started development but had to fire the development company when they didn't actually do anything do anything after multiple weeks. Now I'm taking a more active role by doing the front end coding as well as the original design. When the site goes live look for a link.

-Jake

Photochopped Larry

Been working on figuring out and learning a new technique for 'photochopping' a car.

Here is the base photo:

Here is stage one in progress:

And here it is currently:

I plan to white out the grill and headlight bezels and see what I think. Then I will flatten it all, add some noise, and try putting it on a different background.

-Jake

Been awhile and needed a new skull

here is my newest skull design:

I originally did this design a few years back I recently wanted to do a more Adobe Illustrator friendly version so I put this together. Shortly I hope to actually put this in Illustrator and do a digital version.

-Jake

Hotrod Wagon that is Hotrod done

Awhile back this itch crept up on me to build a hotrod wagon for my 1 1/2 old son. He has a little plastic wagon that he liked to be pulled around in but he is already wayyyy to big for it.

This is what I started with:

And this is what I built:

My son really likes to ride around in the wagon. Here is a pic of him just last night after we had taken three different walks around the neighborhood!

The wagon was over built to handle the future terror that he will rain down upon it so its a bit heavy for him right now, here is a pic of him attempting to move it on grass!

And apparently he got the urge to look like Kareem Abdul Jabbar while riding and busted out my protective eye wear.

Had to throw this out there but I promise I'll get back to other design stuff!

-Jake