Stitch Wars

The Woogie by A. Pants
I hope it is okay I show this picture, if not I will take it down immediately. I just wanted to point out a show going on in Florida at bear and bird gallery. Stitch Wars! Featuring all sorts of great hand made art based on your favorite movie series and mine, Star Wars.

Anna, our Spockcation host that took Spock to the most awesome Tiki party ever, brought this to my attention, and added that she has four entries in the show. Plus, another of Spock's host which everyone will see photos from her in the future has a piece in the show as well.

Here are the links to the Flickr Photo Set and the bear and bird gallery so you can check out some more of this really cool show. Make sure to look for A. Pants and Sarah J. Pierce to see the art submitted by our own Spock hosts, and enjoy!

Charles and Ray Eames Stamps

So I come home last Friday and my wife surprises me with a set of stamps, but not just any set, a set of Charles and Ray Eames! I didn't even know they were getting a stamp set, super sweet!

I would have considered Charles and Ray Eames an industrial design team, but they also did paintings, sculpture, film, furniture, architecture, and graphic design. Some really amazing stuff. You know what I dig about these commemorative stamp sets is on the back there are little blurbs about the image on the front, not that you couldn't learn about this stuff in a book about the Eames, but it gives the masses a little history about design!

My wife has listened to me talk over and over about wanting to get an Eames Lounge and Ottoman, so she spied these at work and purchased me a sheet for the office. Thing is she new these were coming out for months and kept quite, she knew if I found out these were coming she would have to hear me go on an on about the stamps as well.

So cool, she does listen to all the stupid stuff I talk about, well the non toy stuff anyway...

Shout Out to Dusty Abell

This past weekend I got a little surprise, a new reader! When I started this blog it was mainly so I could play around taking pictures and try to put some thoughts down. I really never thought anyone would read it. More just for fun, but it's cool that I have started to see more and more comments, really cool to find out that illustrators and designers share the same passion for toys, Saturday morning cartoons, B movies, and I could go on and on. Plus make some friends!

So I thought it was pretty sweet that an illustrator that I have seen before and am a fan of his stuff, dropped me a nice note in the comments of a recent post with some links to his work that he thought I would enjoy. Too late I've seen your stuff Dusty, it's great! I thought I was the only one that remembered Ark II!

So click here or the pic of Joe at the top of this post to check out his work! Oh and don't forget to check out Bounty Hunter below!

StudioHowell Sketchbook

I have decided to separate my artwork blog from the Eclectorama Blog. To date this blog has focused on memorabilia and toys and I thought it would be nice to feature my illustrations and designs in their own space.

I'm not sure how often I will update it, but it will be a good way to get just the artwork filtered out.

Enjoy!

Batman Carnival Capers Sign

As a follow up to yesterday's post here is the Batman Carnival Capers Signage that was produced for amusement trade shows back in 1996-1997, by the now defunct Play By Play Toys and Novelties.

The actual dimensions are 2' x 4' and the "poster" itself is a high output print mounted on foamcore with a high gloss laminate coating (so please excuse the glare from the flash).

This lived in my son's room when he was younger and when he decided to get rid of a few posters, I moved it to the back of the office door for safe keeping.

Enjoy!