Kong’s Ryan Burkhart was recently invited to UNT in Denton to produce a limited edition of prints with visual artist, Scott Ingram. The residency was one week long and yielded 2 finished editions of prints. Ryan and Scott gave a public talk about the collaboration and production of the prints. They also were excited to [...]
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Visiting P.R.I.N.T. at UNT
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Araguaney Screenprinting Video
Araguaney Screenprinting (Serigrafía) from M-lon on Vimeo. Check out this wonderful video of our recent collaboration of Miguel Gonzalez – M-Lon!
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Araguaney collaboration with M-Lon
M-Lon is the pseudonym of Miguel Gonzalez, an artist, illustrator and designer from Caracas, Venezuela. M-Lon is currently living in Austin, working on a new series of paintings and prints at Kong. Araguaney is the national tree of Venezuela and when you see the beautiful, full yellow trees spotting the green landscape, you understand why. M-Lon began working [...]
New Bigsbys Designs
Kong recently completed a new round of designs and shirts for The Bigsbys. All shirts are high quality ring spun cotton and printed with waterbased eco-friendly inks.
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Always Root for the Underdog Posters
Winning isn’t nearly as sweet when you’re supposed to win in the first place. Whether it is in sports or everyday life, there is no doubt about it – upset victories rule. The first in a series based around good lessons for life, there is more great stuff on the way. Image size 11×17 inches; [...]
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Alan Learns How to Screenprint
Over the last few weeks I have had the pleasure of teaching a one-on-one beginning screenprinting class to Alan Defibaugh, a talented independent designer and illustrator who works here in Austin. Alan approached me with a notebook filled with amazing sketches, as well as an iPad of digital work that transcribed his whimsical doodles into [...]
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Charlotte Startup Weekend T-Shirts and Posters
KONG has been working on a great project with the organizer of Charlotte Startup Weekend, Jim Van Fleet. If you’re not familiar, Startup Weekend recruits a highly motivated group of developers, business managers, startup enthusiasts, marketing gurus, graphic artists and more to a 54 hour event that builds communities, companies and projects. The participants that attend [...]
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The Home Chore Limited Edition Screenprints
KONG recently completed a new limited edition series of prints with Austin based designer, Alejandro Ramirez. Commissioned by the Ampersand Studio and featured at the debut exhibition of the House Gallery, Ramirez created these clever prints as simple reminders of domestic daily must do’s. Ramirez says, The Home Chore print idea came to me when I [...]
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New Screenprinted Kong Cards
New screenprinted cards for KONGers Bruce and Ryan. With the overhaul we’ve recently completed with our new website and logo, we thought new cool calling cards were in order.
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Custom Shirt Design – Dirty Thirty in W. Texas
We recently worked up some designs for our client who was celebrating her thirtieth birthday. Her plans for celebration were to drive to Marfa, TX with family and friends to see the sites and the wonderful art that has blossomed in the W. Texas desert. The concept of the shirt was to play off Ed [...]