The Fabric Lab Pop Up Store
My wife Tran and I have been busy the past couple weeks building out a new space that will house our first pop up store. Having taken a few months off since closing down the permanent storefront we wanted this space to more accurately reflect our individual design aesthetic and personalities. The permanent storefront ended up becoming a quite repetitive and stale environment for us. The pop up model will allow us to pair what we offer with the space it’s being offered in. As a result the soft goods and accessories housed in this iteration of The Fabric Lab are the result of a curative process that ensured everything throughout is cohesive and presented in a more thoughtful way than we’ve been able to accomplish with past versions of the store.
I’m writing this post under the influence of excitement, anticipation, and a wee bit of exhaustion… I’m equally proud to announce the completion and simultaneously the opening of the new but temporary The Fabric Lab.
Please join us on June 12th as we open up the space to the public for the first time and celebrate our new home on Colfax in Denver. Postman will be plugging in and cranking out tuneage throughout the day, Tran and I will be in full effect with pregnant bellies up in your face. We are looking forward to sharing the fruits of our labor and the toils of our friends with you. The Fabric Lab Pop Up Store is tentatively scheduled to run through the end of September. Regular business hours will be 10PM TO 9PM DAILY.
The Fabric Lab Pop Up Store at Mod Livin’ : Opening Reception : June 12th :
5327 Colfax Avenue Denver, CO : 12PM – 6PM
Create Denver / 15 Min. Pop Up Store Preview
Above is a few snaps of the Create Denver Week Pop-Up store build-out in progress courtesy of Samuel Schimek with 15 Min. Sam concepted and conceived the idea of a pop-up store that is filled with artwork, clothing, jewelry, paper products, and other items that have all been designed and developed by Denver artists and creatives… I’ll be in the space this afternoon trying to help with the final push before the doors open for a week starting tomorrow. The Store opens April 10th and is open until April 17th running in conjunction with Create Denver week… business hours will be
11am – 7pm daily!
Create Denver Week Pop-Up Store : 1600 Glenarm Denver, CO : Open Daily between 04/10/10 – 04/17/10 : 11AM – 7PM
ELM&OAK X LifterBaron Collabo
ELM&OAK just added their spring line of merch to the site. Their store has 12 new items on a super limited run, 3 of which were designed by yours truly (Perfect, Destroy, Rebuild / Space Mickey / Local Hero). Stop by to take a closer peek and grab something while you can. I think there were under 50 of each item printed. Hand sewn tags printed on American Apparel.
Duplicate of a Duplicate Sneak Peek
After a period of considerable debate and frustration, I present to you, a sneak peek of my pieces for Duplicate of a Duplicate coming up next week at Black Sheep in NC. I’m probably making it all sound way worse than it was, but being so used to doing brief based work and having a finite solution to most of the projects I have, I struggled a bit trying to pump these out. I have a bad habit of redoing drawings and fiddling with colorways way too much for these sorts of art projects, plus I’m always trying to one up myself for some damn reason… BUT I think I’ve finally gotten a good grasp on an aesthetic I like and a good process with this set, that I’ll be able to work and evolve from here on out!
Duplicate of a Duplicate is January 15th at Black Sheep in Charlotte, NC. Participating artists/illustrators/designers include: 123Klan, Adam Garcia, Mr Penfold, Black Marmalade, Matt Cipov, Neuarmy, Big Foot, Jon Contino, Dave Franzese and a handful more talented people…
Stay posted for pics and additional information. If you are in NC and can make it to this show, please hit me back with any photos and / or glorious stories about the event.
Mike Swoop – New Love
Apparel projects, logos, art shows, illustrations and CD packaging… The list is growing as my third official month as full time freelancer kicks into gear. In that time, I’ve had the opportunity to work with a large variety of friends, clients and collaborators on a bundle of really great projects. One of the most recently completed, is the packaging design for Mike Swoop’s upcoming release “New Love.” Along with the packaging, I put together a handful of sticker designs, shirts and promo materials based on the identity system I built for the release. It was a refreshing change of pace from being somewhat limited in the variety mediums I get to work on a single project. Check back on BWLT of my site for info and additional photos of this project and others that are in the midst of being wrapped up.
Pink Hobo Monster Show Tonight!
Hello humans, please make note that Pink Hobo is having it’s Halloween Party/ Monster Print show tonight with special guests including my Diamond Eater as well as funktastic creations by TheWorkSteady, Grim Sun Industries, Mike Davis, Jennifer Davis, Amy Jo and like a zillion other talented people. Please swing by and grab some stuff so we don’t die from starvation. Plus we all like it when our monsters find homes.
Who: Myself + 30 more people
What: Pink Hobo Halloween Party/ Monster Print Show
Where: Pink Hobo Gallery – 507 E Hennepin Ave, NE Minneapolis
When: Opens Oct 31 2009 7PM
Fifth Element Sign
One of the finishing touches to any identity project or space redesign would be a sign. Saying that, I would like to share the new Fifth Element identity and sign for the shop on 24th & Hennepin here in Minneapolis. The sign went up a few weeks back and the space is being slowly being finished as the last few fixtures are being rolled in.
Aside from the identity redesign and space build out, they will be carrying the look/feel over to the online store as well. Which if rumor serves me right, is being hammered away on as we speak. For a quick peek at my proposed version of the site please swing over to the Lifter Baron site and check it out for yourself.
New Lifter Baron Site is LIVE!
It’s up and running… Probably a couple things here and there so don’t piss yourselves if something winks back. I spent far too much time in too small a period to not assume I will make adjustments and add more things. Regardless of my weary ramblings, please take a look and pass it on. Thank you my dear readers…
Get it here: LIFTERBARON.COM
New Lifter Baron Font
The font has yet to be completed but will be available for download along with other tasty treats as soon as the new Lifter Baron site goes live (hopefully this week). I have plans of doing the numerals as well as standard punctuation in a bundle. Keep your eyes peeled for info on the launch of my new site as well as the date for download on this and more.
DOOMTREE Site Redesign
DOOMTREE‘s new site just went live last night and already seems to be getting a good response! I (Lifter Baron) had the chance to work with DOOMTREE in collaboration with Sevnthsin over the past couple months to work out some great additions and adaptations to their previous site as well as help the crew pro up their image a bit. They are using a handful of social apps and services to share info and promote shows, releases and merch. Underneath the clean aesthetic, we tied in all of those social media tools to easily update fans with minute to minute information and refreshes. We also built a mobile site and downloadable widget to get that content wherever you might be to make sharing simple. Flexibility and adaptation was the key factor in this whole project; and with time and use, the site will grow and evolve into an uber dynamic sharing tool for the group and their fans.
Lifter Baron X AshiDashi
Here’s a quick peek at a tasty little collabo between super fantastic sock server, AshiDashi, and the Villain. Look out for updates on this and other delicious side projects and diabolical dealings coming up. Muahahahahah!!!
My Como
I just recently returned home from a short break in Lake Como, Italy and thought I’d share a few shots I took along the way.
I Made This #002
Just thought I’d share this card I made yesterday for my friend whose baby just turned the big zero one! The first one’s the hardest…
I Made This #001
“I Made This” is a new category BWLT is adding to the mix in order to give all of us a place to put the random sketches, illustrations and experiments that generally never see the light of day as well as create some original content for the blog. Some of it may be portfolio worthy, others may just be completely random. Either way, we like to share so here it is, shameless sharing for all of your viewing pleasure. Hopefully some of it’s inspiring and don’t forget to ffffound it if you like it!
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