I don’t know if its just me or designers in general, but I have a never ending urge for a change of scenery. And its since the office has looked the same since we moved in last year, I felt a change was due. Truth be told, I rearranged it a couple of weeks ago …

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Your browser sucks. Kick it in the junk with a driftMechaniks Firefox Persona made by yours truly. Just upgrade to Firefox 3.6 to reep the radness.

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I could probably use the excuse of waiting till the first of the year for this goal, but why wait. The new goal is to start posting a new creative idea every weekday for a year. It can be a photograph, video, sketches, concept, design…. whatever. …

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I had a few extra pieces of vinyl left over from the Slide Style windshield banner and my sketchbook just looked too plain. So yes, even my sketchbooks get vinyl wrapped.

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As much as I love the desk that Amanda got me, I have drastically out grown it. So I took over her desk and utilized the fold-out table we used to use at drift events. It’ll do until I can get a nicer, larger desk; perhaps one from IKEA.

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Here’s a quick peek at the SEMA backdrop I designed for XS Power. Keep in there’s still plastic wrap around it to protect it during transport. If you are going to be at SEMA, but sure to stop by the booth and shake our hand.

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The old chrisRhoad.com design just wasn’t cutting it anymore. Additionally, a lot of people (who apparently are still stuck in the ice age) still use Internet Explorer (looking at you MartyMartyMarty). And well, the old site design wouldn’t load in Internet Explorer.

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There is so much history and memories is this collage, that I can’t even begin to explain. This image alone depics why driftMechaniks are “Elite As Fuk”.

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It was 2am. We were half drunk. And feeling a little creative.

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In addition to the new dM site and forum, Andy has been busy sprusing up the Slide Style site as well. It looks damn good. Be sure to check it out. There’s some rad shirts and stickers on there. I would LOVE buy a couple of the decks he’s got on there.

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Just realized I didn’t uplod this pic yet. Just before the DMGGMASD event, I printed out all 115 flyers that were designed and wrapped the hood of the 86 with as many as I could. This is how it turned out.
However, they’ve endured about 5 months of mother nature’s fury, so they’re a little faded …

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Playing around with a few new Photoshop brushes.

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