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A Beard Is a Party Down Below

Posted by Mongo

One of the things I wanted to do with this blog is give tips to both designers and entrepreneurs as well sell my own shirts. I've been a bit lax on the tips posts.

So, I'll combine a tip on how to design and profile a new design all at the same time.

One of the latest designs I came up with was an attempt to meld typography and pop culture aspects into one. Beards are a fun thing for geeks to discuss as in Epic Beard Man or Brett Keisel. Maybe it's a man thing or just a silly thing to love. In any case, beards are a party down below.

I started to think about the phrase attached to the mullet, "Business up front and party in the back." I thought about applying that idea to a beard and ran through my head, "Party down below." Of course, I wasn't the first person to say that phrase but not a lot of people applied to a shirt design.

Along with the phrase, I wanted something fun to use as the delivery method for the phrase. I began playing with different elements of how to design a beard with the phrase involved. What I settled on was that the phrase could be the beard. Then came the hard part; how do I draw that?

first attempt at Beard Party

I drew a common looking beard, nothing realistic and then tried to draw the letters into the available space. I played with different brushes and effects in Photoshop before realizing that it would be simple in Paint.Net, my go to paint program.

Better attempt using Outline Object tool

In order to achieve the effect, I simply used Microsoft Word's Word Art tool to draw the phrase in a curve above and below, using the available space of the beard. But I didn't like the overall effect. It didn't have texture or the appearance of a real beard. Then an idea struck me. If I was using the available space, anyway, why not just build on the words as the actual beard? Then, all I did was continually add Outline Object until the consistency was just about right. Lastly, I cut out a mouth area between the words.

A Beard Is a Party Down Below
by Mongo Angry! Mongo Smash!

There you have it. It's a very simple process that can be used to do a lot of different words as shapes.

Friday, June 10, 2011

Honey Badger Don't Care

Posted by Mongo

Oh, the honey badger. You are the animal kingdom’s equivalent to Angry Mongo. Why? You don’t give a shit.

Thanks to a popular video on YouTube, the honey badger is a meme of the moment. And what kind of pop culturist, stand on the shoulders of others, blogger/shirt designer would I be, if I didn’t take the opportunity to offer my two cents on the Honey Badger Don’t Care phenomenon. So, here you go.

Honey Badger Don't Care by Mongo Angry! Mongo Smash!
See more of Mongo's Nasty ass products with the Honey Badger design.

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Winning The Charlie Sheen Way

Posted by Mongo

I'm such a current event whore. My original post for jumping back into the blog for the shops was going to be devoted to the new look of Mongo and the Angry Mongograms I've been devoting time to. However, I have to jump on this now, because quite frankly, a lot of other people are.

Charlie Sheen, that freaking rock star on Mars who is only on a drug called, Charlie Sheen has been blitzing the media the past few weeks. Is he high? Maybe. Is he nuts? Probably. Is he shirt comedy gold? Rhymes with winning?

Now, some brands are choosing to just put Sheen's face on a tee with the word winning under his mug. That's fine, but I like to be different. I mean I have to compete with a bunch of other designers doing the same thing, so let's take a meme like Sheen and twist his bi-winning nuggets of advice into infinite winning. I have four designs, so far. One is inspired Sheen but not directly tied to him and the others are based on his out of this world rants during countless interviews. As the Ma-Sheen continues to churn I may prop up some more but I am going to lean towards making them universal and not just about Sheen. After all, he's bound crash and burn and once that happens, the meme cools off and so do the shirt sales. So, let's line up the awesome that is a Charlie Sheen meltdown. These are all availble through my Skreened store. Simply click the links under the images.