Books

Just wanted to summarize where we are.

Life

Tony’s job at an animation studio ended on Friday after almost 3 years, he thought up a 2 minute animation test to work on so that’ll keep him from getting rusty. Mia is about to finish bartending school. Plus we’re engaged now, so we gotta plan a small wedding, it’s in few months.

Books

Finally, we have time to move on these.  We’re learning inDesign so we can A) design our next two books with it and B) put out digital iBooks and kindle versions. We’ll be out and about promoting our first book in 2 weeks,  the digital version should be out in about 3.  Aside from the Obama books, there’s 1 book planned that will be a compilation of short stories we’ve tossed around between the two of us.

Art

This is finally getting the proper focus, we changed our branding from Art & Culture Apparel to “dfrnt Art & Apparel”.  Art comes first at dfrnt, yea I know, we started with books up there, but come on there’s over 100 drawings in those, that’s gotta be art.  Thought, uniqueness, and appeal are our primary focus.  That’s how we approach our apparel designs, prints, and books.  We’ll be in at least 2 art shows soon, possibly 4.  We’re finishing up our first series of traditional work, and starting on our second.  We’ll also be visiting elementary school classrooms and giving little workshops to inspire kids to get into art, the first visit is next month. Let’s see, those Pin and Spool comic strips, we have a few more thought out so just gotta ink em up and post em.  There’s at least two new properties we’ve dusted off recently to join Pin & Spool, they’ll be realized as comic strips as well, very soon, one may even be animated afterwards, it’s a ridiculously simple concept so it would easily translate to animation that wouldn’t take long to do. So that’s 3 official character focused comic strips, finally there’s a fourth property we’ll be developing and posting on this blog as well, it will be a video one. More on that soon.

Apparel

There’s so much we’re doing we decided we needed to focus on the art first for credibility’s sake, the books second to get the dfrnt name out to a bigger audience, and apparel third.  The clothing industry is a beast, you need to be prepared seasons ahead and it’s really time consuming.  Moving on we will only put out a new design when it’s an awesome one. You will only be able to get our stuff from our site or outdoor events we attend, and it will be made in limited numbers so act while it’s there.  Don’t worry, we do have one of those awesome designs coming soon.

Business

We’ll be sending in the proper documents to the copyright office to protect all our work, and finally, learning and using quickbooks instead of spreadsheets.

Ok, tired of typing.  There’s a lot going on as you can see, you should see the To Do list i’m working on.  We’re not sure when we’ll have time like this to focus on our dfrnt work so we’re not going to waste a minute.  Check back frequently and tell your friends, you’re about to witness an artistic explosion.

-dfrnt

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