The Art & Design Blog of Charlie Wagers

Today we launched the new website for Good Life Tattoos & Piercings. Steve-bear and I collaborated to bring a full website, complete with artist portfolios, and a complete back-end CMS system, so the artists can update their portfolios whenever they want. These guys are definitely one of the best shops in Ohio, so be sure to check out their stuff.

I just dropped by Akron’s Annual Art in the Square, and found Kim (and her adorable dog), who is selling the new shirts that Cheryl and I created for the event. Cheryl did the illustration, and I handled the text/layout. Adam at Revival did the printing. Also, several of my friends are vendors, so I snapped a photo of some cards I recently made for Traci, which are alongside the cards I made for Brian.

Here’s a new shirt I just sent out for Arrah and the Ferns, to be sold on their upcoming tour, in support of their new record. I’ve been drawing a lot more lately, a lot of sketchbook doodling. So for this shirt I made some hand-drawn type, and little extra hand-made bits. I really appreciate the use of non-computer generated art within the graphic design medium; I think that’s a key characteristic of my work. That, and it’s just nice to step away from the computer for a while.

KidRobot just posted a press release on their Kronikle blog about this months Lovely Lowbrow Toy Show. The release featured my piece, alongside pieces by other artists in the show; Julia Bunn, Jeff Lamm, Jamie Suvak, Joshua Davis, Kate Budd, Sh!t Heap, and Jaron Tager. Also including the type-treatment I created for the show. So thrilled to see my piece up on this site.

I just got these LP’s in the mail via the label, and the tour copies from the band when they passed through town last week. And i wanted to post the details up here, to show how well Pirates Press did of manufacturing these records. Specs include: Spot Color printed Poly Jacket, Die-Cut Outer Sleeve, Full-color Inside Sleeve, and three different colors of vinyl (all shown below).