Look over there! In the right sidebar. We’ve launched a hotline + voicemail system where you fine readers can call in and speak your mind.  Because sadly, the internet doesn’t allow for inflection. Every Friday, we’ll post the week’s messages in the player and create + post a new topic for the coming week for you folks to respond to. There are a handful of messages already in the player, so you can get a taste of the things to come. Real human voices! Yessss.
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To get this party started, we’re hosting our biggest giveaway yet! With fifteen total winners. We’ve teamed up with some of our favorite artists who’ve donated their goods to kick this thing off!

Here’s the deal: Call us at 1-866-556-9432 and be sure to leave your first name and last initial. Comment on this post with the same info (so we can find you when you win!) Entries are open until next Sunday night (7/5) at 11:59pm. We’ll choose our 15 winners randomly and announce them the following Monday (7/6).  This week’s topic?  Let’s keep it simple: Which one of the 15 prizes do you want to get your hands on?

Onto the goodies…

On the left:  Atlanta designer Mark Weaver donated the Lynx print we blogged about a few weeks ago. A personal favorite.  On the right:  The ever popular “Things I Like” design from Richard Perez is a poster for the first time ever.  18×24, 4-color screenprint.  You can snag it now before it’s available for purchase!

$10 towards a t-shirt, a print, a tote bag, a journal (or anything else) from the Barehanded Press store!

Awesome jewelry pack from Plastique in LA. Three rings + two necklaces. An $80 value!!

Jardin de Ninos (Stefan Joch + Andreas Putz) have donated four (!) of these oversized, screenprinted posters, each in a different colorway.  One per winner.

A GrandArray pillow set from our friend Hannah Stouffer. Bottom line, someone’s gonna have a hot couch.

Readers choice: Sycamore Street Press is giving away one of these two new posters, not yet available in their store!

Flytrap Studios has donated this great set of four cotton table napkins. A different silk screened design on each!

These 2 good lookin’, motivational posters (minus the kitsch, plus good taste) from Right Brain Terrain are going to brighten someone’s workspace. One per winner.

A (pretty) $5 gift certificate for the item of your choosing from the wonderful Two Brunettes shop.

Local hero/photographer Tim Lytvinenko is giving away this print set. Ten 4×6 photographs!

Good luck, everyone!  And a big thanks to all of the artists that kindly donated their goods!

Everything in Portland designer Gavin Potenza’s portfolio is great but this burst of color in his original stamp designs really caught my eye.  

Today is Take Your Dog To Work Day! Mingus & Asa are here today to celebrate. I think we have the luckiest pups since they always get to come to work with us! You can read about Dottie’s day on phetched or you can check out some cute pictures of our doggies on our flickr.

I love Peregrine Honig’s series of paintings titled “Exposed” featuring stuffed animals coupled with pop culture news headlines. Her work largely deals with issues of being a girl, and then a woman, in contemporary society. What I love about her work, and why I think it succeeds in it’s intent, is how deceptively simple it is. It’s incredibly accessible, but exhibits an incredible amount of complexion and depth upon further examination. PLUS… it’s often very funny.

See more of her work after the jump…

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We just got our first fluorescent job ever back from the printer!

It’s a brochure for the Health Policy Certificate Program at Duke. Using a fluorescent ink is tough because you can’t know for sure how it’s going to look until it’s printed, but luckily our clients were really great and put their trust in us. And the piece turned out great! These photos don’t really do justice to how bright the fluorescent is, but you can use your imagination.

New paintings from Alex Lukas.

…will rock your face off. That’s what her drawings did to me anyway. Then, upon further digging, I find a sculpture installation she did based on her drawings. How cool is this!?

Typographic + geometric illustrations from Cody Hoyt.

The relatively young type foundry Fontfabric™ is giving away the regular & bold weights of their newest font ZAG. If you want the awesome ball serifs, though, you’re gonna have to shell out $19. Get some!!

I love the murals, paintings, woodcuts, screenprints, street art and block prints of the enigmatic TIKA.  Check him out!