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Talk about a serious road trip… John and Eric Jackson are about a month into a 15,000 mile journey, driving from Alaska to the southern tip of Chile. Along the way they’ll be snowboarding, surfing and fishing with some of the world’s gnarliset action sports stars, all while raising money for charity.
Click the view now button to watch the Premier Episode of the appropriately titled “Brothers On the Run” which will document their trip over the next 6 months. New episodes will premier every other week… Enjoy!
Our good friends over t Elm & Oak are throwing an epic party at Bluebird Theatre for Cinco De Mayo. Free Tacos, amazing musical performances and a lot of fun! See you there!!!
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Tonight over 1,000 people will be putting up 10,000 posters all around Denver. This same thing will be happening all around the world!!! What has been widely known as “Cover The Night” will be a massive campaign to promote peace and raise awareness to bring down the most horrific war criminal in the world, Joseph Kony.
Ink Monstr was honored to be the official print partner for Colorado Kony 2012. Also, our very own Nick Hughes designed this powerful poster.
Join us tonight to help put up posters and spread awareness.
When: 4/20/2012 (TONIGHT)
Where: Commons Park (1550 Platte Street, Denver, CO 80202)
Time: 6pm
Bring: a roll of tape, trash bag, and energy.
For more information CLICK HERE, or you can also review the official KONY 2012 website.
Last fall, Sales and Marketing Manager, Rustin Coburn, got a new 2012 Jetta, and wanted to do something very unique to showcase Ink Monstr’s vehicle wrapping skills, as well as its in-house design talents. So he began working with lead designer Nick Hughes on a one-of-kind art piece that could translate into a vehicle wrap.
For over a month, on Hughes’ spare time, he started sketching and creating a dark midnight landscape of mountains and forests, with an underground scene connecting the whole story. When it was finally completed the team started printing color samples until everything looked perfect. The owner of Ink Monstr, Reed Silberman, decided to take on the application of the vinyl himself. The extra attention to detail from both Hughes and Silberman really paid off, and the finished product is a beautiful one of a kind vehicle wrap that was 100% done in-house at Ink Monstr. Dark and subtle in the nighttime hours, while it is vibrant and bursting with color in the sunlight.
Photos by DAVE LEHL
Ink Monstr is proud to announce that our very own designer Nicholas Hughes is teaming up with the GirlGrabbers for a one of a kind event in Denver on Friday April 27th, 2012. The event “Chicks Only” will feature a solo art exhibition by Nick and serve as the GirlGrabber’s album release party.
“Chicks Only” will culminate 6 months of work from both Nick and the GirlGrabbers. This group of artists consists of some of the best talent Denver has to offer. We’ve been lucky enough to sneak a few peaks at Nick’s latest work and couldn’t be more excited to see it all come together with some amazing new music.
The event is FREE to the public so come join us for “Chicks Only”on Friday April 27th, 2012 at Beauty Bar (608 E 13th Ave, Denver, CO 80203). Doors open at 8PM with Happy Hour from 8-10PM featuring $10 Manicure and Martini!
Check out the video above to hear from the artists themselves in part 2 of the pre event interviews. For full details check out the event page! Presented by lg. group with Souls In Action Entertainment.
Last Years “A STICKY SITUATION” artshow was a very fun and unique event. Hopefully you have checked out the link or will now…
In an effort to give all the up-and-coming artists a chance to be involved, we are doing a 5 month Sticker Design Competition to find 1 to 3 talented creatives to participate in this years Sticker Artshow, a chance to win a big cash price, and a lot of new exposure.
Details…. FACEBOOK EVENT….
A Sticky Situation Artist Series Contest
Participate in a monthly competition for your chance to be apart of the annual “A Sticky Situation Art Show” in September and win cash and product prizes!!
Rules:
- Must submit original artwork in high rez digital format (.psd,.ai, or .eps)
- Submit to: art@inkmonstr.com
- Deadline: 15th of each month
- Inspiration: Should be based around monsters, ink, or the Ink Monstr brand.
- One submission per month allowed.
- All submissions will be posted in a monthly album on Ink Monstr Facebook Page.
- Voting: whoever receives the most likes and/or comments on your artwork image will win that month. So tell all your friends and share the links (all your social media and blogs)!!!
- Winner will be submitted to participate in the championship round, and will also win a package of Ink Monstr merchandise.
- Monthly winners will then compete in a championship round in August to be featured in the annual “A Sticky Situation Art Show” held in September.
Good luck!
Have fun and be creative
The Ink Monstr Family
303.200.0676
art@inkmonstr.com
info@inkmonstr.com
Ink Monstr is proud to be a part of this years AIGA-AiC’s Snowboard Design Competition and Silent Auction benefiting The Denver Art Society! We had a lot of fun this week wrapping the the top 15 designs on snowboard decks for the event. Come join us for some food, drinks and fun while supporting a great cause.
The opening reception will take place on tonight from 6 to 9 PM at Oak Tavern (1414 Market Street) where the top 5 boards will be announced. The silent auction will be held at the Denver Pavillions from March 17th to the 23rd from 12-6 PM daily. For full details click here.
Westword (arguably the best magazine in Denver) holds a huge annual art and music festival known as Artopia. For the last four years, they have hired Ink Monstr’s Rustin Coburn to produce their fashion show performance. Starting last year, Coburn brought in the talented Abella Bala to co-produce the show and together they helped Westword turn the fashion show into a huge performance that has pulled in over 1,200 people each of the last two years. The venue chosen for this fashion experience is the three story City Hall, on 11th and Broadway in Denver.
Each year, Rustin Coburn and Abella Bala bring in a film crew to produce a video that tells the story of the shows theme and is used as the introduction into the fashion performance. This year, they joined forces with the talented Focus 4 Design to bring you the DARK CITY GLOW.
Check out the video and enjoy!
The SixEleven Productions crew are hands down some of the hardest working and nicest fellows we know. We’re stoked that they’ve made it to round 2 of Nike’s “The Chosen” video contest and now they need your help to win. The top 3 crews will be flown to Austria for a chance to live like a Nike Pro!!!
Click here to watch their video and throw them a vote! You get one vote a day until March 5th… well what are you waiting for? Get to voting!
303 Magazine has an annual award ceremony to celebrate the people and places that make each year in Denver great.
The 303 Award for the Fashion Industry is given to people and/or entities that have contributed to progressing and improving the local Denver industry the most. This year, Ink Monstr’s very own Rustin Coburn, along with Holli Gibson were the winners!
Rustin and Holli were recognized for their hard work in building the Denver Design Incubator, a local non-profit business school for fashion designers. For more info on the Denver Design Incubator go HERE!
Congratulations Rustin!!!
While reorganizing some portfolio pics the other day we stumbled upon this little gem. The letter came from a kiddo named McKinnley requesting some Honey Badger stickers last fall. Of course we were more than happy to oblige the little shredder ‘s request and send some stickers via the good ol USPS.
Want some Ink Monstr stickers? Send us a super cute letter & a pre-stamped envelope like this one and you might just get lucky!
Our very talented designer, Nick Hughes, was asked by Pabst Blue Ribbon to design a Bowling Pin for the Marion Street Tattoo art show in Denver Colorado.
So what better way to showcase Nick’s amazing talents, combined with Ink Monstr’s wrapping capabilities, then to design something in Illustrator, print it onto vinyl, and then wrap it?
Nick did an amazing job with this design. Reed Silberman did the honors of wrapping the bowling pin. Turned out pretty good I think !!!
Black Book Gallery recently announced their first show of 2012, and the exhibition opened this last Friday (Feb 3rd).
Lindsay St. Antoine is featured in here first solo show, and the feedback thus far as been very good. Show will be up until Feb. 27th.
For details on her show please check out Black Book’s website HERE.
Black Book Gallery is one of Denver’s most active contemporary art hubs, quickly establishing itself as a familiar stop to many local, national and international artists. Monthly shows exhibit emerging to established career artists based mostly in urban and DIY-influenced art, although Black Book Gallery also works as an outlet to include other contemporary styles as well.
If you were at Ink Monstr’s “FREE 4 ALL Vol. 2″ on Friday night then you know just how crazy and epic of an evening it was. If you weren’t…. well try and come earlier next year, as the 1,200 venue (Exdo’s The Hall) was packed by 10pm. With an all-star cast of sponsors including; Red Bull, Smith, 42 Below, Bacardi, Progresh, Pabst, Voluerz, Avery Brewing, CLVR, and 611 Productions we had the perfect collaboration to make a super epic event for the SIA 2012 weekend.
Free to enter and free to drink all night, the place became a massive party very quickly. Opening performances by DJ Low Key, Whygee, BrickAbrak, and Gypdahip got the crowd amped up and excited. After a little bit of craziness getting him there, Redman walked onto the stage and burned the place down. So much energy on stage! An amazing performance and a crazy-amazing night.
Check out the special event video, filmed and edited by 611 Productions.
Then CLVR , utilized their brand new technology to make the entire thing interactive for viewers.
Just look for when the HAND symbol pops up… and you can click the video and interact.
Enjoy!!!
SIA 2012 is upon us in Denver, and you are probably still figuring out which parties and extra-curricular activities to attend.
Oh so many choices, and yet it is pretty simple…
While there are a lot of amazing events this week, there are really only three that you need to worry about.
And we at Ink Monstr are very happy to share the love and give you all the info you need to have fun through the whole weekend.
- Thursday, Jan. 26th :: SNOWDOWN (located at City Hall)
- Friday, Jan. 27th :: FREE 4 ALL Vol. 2 (located at Exdo, The Hall)
- Saturday, Jan. 28th :: SHOE SHINE (located at Summit Music Hall)
Have fun and let us know if you have any questions.
See you there!!!
