August 30, 2008 | Posted By: Chris
Filed Under Friends + Family, Like + Love
Friend and brother. Philosopher and comedian. Web developer extraordinaire and gifted musician.
Ben Kammer has recently launched a site for his piano music.
There are a few tracks up there currently.
Listen for yourself.
August 28, 2008 | Posted By: Chris
Filed Under Chris, Our Artwork
Playing around with some different full-color versions of the tee design. Check back soon.
For now here’s a bit in progress…
August 28, 2008 | Posted By: Chris
Filed Under Chris, Our Artwork
August 26, 2008 | Posted By: Chris
Filed Under Chris, Our Artwork
Design By Humans: T-shirt Art: Time Lapse from Christopher Koelle on Vimeo.
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The final drawing process in Photoshop. Fast-forward about 20x.
Music by Christopher Willits from the album Surf Boundaries
Download the original hi-res movie at Vimeo
August 23, 2008 | Posted By: Chris
Filed Under Chris, Our Artwork
I’m working on editing and exporting the time-lapse video captures of the final drawing process in Photoshop. Check back soon.
And here’s a straight up black + white + gray version. I’ve always been a big fan of grayscale.
August 22, 2008 | Posted By: Chris
Filed Under Annie, Chris, Our Artwork
Where would we be without t-shirts?! Just look at all the wonderful things you can do in a tee!! Play sports, listen to music, make music, make art, pounce like a cat, accidentally kick someone with cleats on, intentionally yell at someone on your cell phone, levitate in a void… the list goes on! This design, titled “FOR THE LOVE OF TEES!!!” is a celebration of the T-shirt, incorporating full-size all-over front and back printing. Color variations are endless—the blue-ish coloring here is just one possibility. 
Annie and I (mostly I) worked on this double / front + back design over the past week or so (whew!) and is now up for voting at Design By Humans! It’s a winner-take-all contest (as in, winner takes $10K), and we’d sorta kinda like your votes. Three rounds of your votes, to be exact… Here are the contest details:
Contest Selection Process: The DBH staff will announce the top 10 semifinalists on September 8, 2008 at DesignByHumans.com. Semifinalists will be chosen based on a variety of factors including originality, creativity, ingenuity, votes, and the artist’s efforts to promote their design.
Top 10 Semifinalists - Sept 8th - Sept 14th (Midnight, PDT) Once the top 10 semifinalists have been announced on September 8th, all of the votes received by these 10 designs up to that point will be reset to zero. The 10 semifinalists will then compete against one another for an additional week to see which 5 designs will continue on to the final week of voting. The 5 finalists will be chosen solely on vote count!!
Top 5 Finalists - Sept 15th - Sept 21st (Midnight, PDT) The top 5 finalists will again have all of their votes reset to zero and will then go head-to-head for one final week of voting. Winner Announced - Sept 22nd The design with the most votes at the end of the Top 5 Finals week will be declared the winner and will be awarded $10,000 cash! The winning design will be produced in 3 color options (on 3 different shirt colors) and sold in the DBH store the following week. Sooo…………
Show the Koelles some love—vote for our design and help spread the word about us!
- VOTE! - POST on your blog / Facebook / wherever about our t-shirt design up for voting and include a link to our design’s voting page
- Email us with the link to your post
- Each and every blogger who emails us the link to their Koelle-post will be entered in a drawing to be one of 50 (yeah, fifty) randomly chosen to win free signed + numbered art prints of the design (both front + back artwork)! - If our shirt wins the grand $10K prize, we’ll also randomly pick another 25 (yar, twenty-five) bloggers to receive the winning shirt free! We will notify all winners by email. So, please vote for us (3 times!) and help spread the word, and you just may end up with some free and fancy Koelle artwork and some uber-cool expensive t-shirts! And a really big thank you from us.
P.S. If our design wins, note that it will be printed in 3 different color versions (3 different color tees, different color inks). I’ll post a few more color variations here, so if you really dig one or the other, email us and let us know. Soon I’ll be posting time-lapse video captures of the final drawing process from start to finish! In the meantime, here are a few more images of the my initial / in progress sketches, and some pics showing size, placement and details:
August 20, 2008 | Posted By: Chris
Filed Under Annie, For Sale, Our Artwork
Some snapshots of one of Annie’s latest paintings…we’ll post some final pics soon. There’s more to this piece than these pics show.
August 20, 2008 | Posted By: Annie
Filed Under Annie, Chris, Life
Welcome to the new official blog for all things Koelle!
Chris’s work, Annie’s work, family fun, our likes and loves—they’ll all be posted here for our friends, family, and fans to keep up to date with the Koelle family happenings.
So bookmark us and check back often. There’s lots of awesomeness in the works.
