Join me (and a lot of other geeky artists and crafters) for the first annual League of Extraordinary Ladies Craftacularstravaganza!  Come support local indie crafters and buy gifts for yourself or your friends and family.

The show will be from 6 to 9pm at Meltdown Comics, 7522 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90046. (map)  Come by and check out my booth.  I’ll be selling and signing the following prints, posters and cards:

“At The Roburbia Cafe” Art Print:
Printed on acid-free archival paper, and limited to 250 prints. Each piece is signed and hand-numbered, $30.

Snapshots from Roburbia mini-prints and cards:
“Snow Day”, “Will There Be Cake?”, “A Day at the Beach” and ”Laundry Day”. $3-15.
  

The Guild Season 5 poster:
A 16-bit-inspired poster featuring the cast of the Guild, available for $12.

Blue Sun Travel Poster Set – Series 1:
WPA-style travel posters for the planets and locations from the movie Serenity, $29.95.

Team Unicorn:  For The Win! and Join the Team posters:
Both available for sale for $16.

The first piece in my Life in Roburbia retro-robot poster series is NOW AVAILABLE!

After years of teaming up with some of the best-loved franchises in geekdom (Firefly, Battlestar Galactica,Bad Robot, The Guild, etc.) and creating art based on their existing worlds and characters, I’ve finally forced myself to sit down and work on something completely original. Life in Roburbia is my imagining of mid-20th century, small-town America, back when it was populated entirely by robots. You remember that time, right? Of course you do.

The first piece, “At the Roburbia Cafe,” is 18″x24″, printed on acid-free archival paper, and will be limited to 250 prints. Each piece will be signed and hand-numbered.

Use the form below to order today using PayPal!

Since the day I brought my first iPhone home, I’ve been a huge fan of Apple’s smart phone. But while it has always had slick, modern design and cutting edge apps, it seemed to have a morality filter dating back to the 1950s. Specifically, my otherwise hip and modern iPhone seemed to think “hell” was the worst possible sort of word, and any time I typed it, surely I really meant to type “he’ll,” like a good boy, didn’t I?

Not so much, no.

But as soon as I heard that iOS 5 would include a Keyboard Shortcut feature, that would allow you to turn, for example, “OMW” to “On My Way!”, I had a thought: Would the feature allow me to automatically turn “hell” into “hell”, bypassing the autocorrect feature altogether?

Yes. Yes it does.

Hallelujah.

Here’s how to do it.

First, if you haven’t already upgraded to iOS 5, you’ll need to do that.

Step 1: Go to Settings and select General

Step 2: Tap “Keyboard”

Step 3: Tap “Add New Shortcut …” 

Step 4: Add “hell” as both the phrase and shortcut and press Save.

Step 5: Use your iPhone to type whatever the hell you want!

This should work for any other word the prim and proper iPhone was previously squeamish about letting you type!

Pre-orders for Life in Roburbia #1, “At the Roburbia Cafe“, end tonight at midnight PDT. Here’s a sneak peek at the sketch for the next print in the series, “Bot’s Life”!

Help me make the first one a success so I can get the second one printed! Pre-order your copy of “At the Roburbia Cafe” today!

I made my first video tutorial to explain my process for creating clipping masks in Photoshop. Hope you like it!

The first piece in my Life in Roburbia retro-robot poster series is now available for pre-order!

After years of teaming up with some of the best-loved franchises in geekdom (Firefly, Battlestar Galactica, Bad Robot, The Guild, etc.) and creating art based on their existing worlds and characters, I’ve finally forced myself to sit down and work on something completely original. Life in Roburbia is my imagining of mid-20th century, small-town America, back when it was populated entirely by robots. You remember that time, right? Of course you do.

The first piece, “At the Roburbia Cafe,” is 18″x24″, printed on acid-free archival paper, and will be limited to 250 prints. Each piece will be signed and hand-numbered. The piece will go on sale on October 17 for $30, but if you pre-order by October 10, you can get it for 20% off.

Use the form below to pre-order today using PayPal!

UPDATE! The piece (now titled, “At the Roburbia Cafe”) is now available for sale at Roburbia.com!

I just finished this piece, which I plan to make the first in a series about Life in Roburbia. I’ll be putting prints of it up for sale soon, but I’m looking to gauge interest. Would you buy a print of this piece? And would you want a large or a small print?

If you’re curious, here’s the original line art I did for the piece:

Below are samples of various retail packaging designs I’ve worked on over the past few years, including projects for Bad Robot, Battlestar Galactica, and more.

This year I have five things premiering at San Diego Comic-Con, and at least two signing events. Here’s all the info on those bits of coolness, as well as some exciting news about me being chosen as a featured Twitterer by UberSocial!

SIGNINGS

Want to get your Serenity Travel posters signed? Or maybe one of the new Team Unicorn posters I have premiering at the Con? Here’s where and when I’ll be signing:

• Thursday, 3 pm, California Browncoats Booth (#A7/A8): They’ll have lots of my previous stuff for sale at the booth, too.
• Sunday, 11 am, Team Unicorn Booth (Offsite @ NerdHQ, 379 4th Ave.): Check out the premiere of my first two posters for Team Unicorn, and get them signed while you’re at it!

NEW ART PREMIERING THIS YEAR

NOTE: Some of the pieces haven’t been announced yet, so I’ll update the mystery images as soon as I’m given permission. Stay tuned!

• Poster for THE NERD MACHINE
• Official Season Five Poster for THE GUILD
• Two Posters for TEAM UNICORN
• “Robonerdicorn” T-shirt for THE NERD MACHINE and TEAM UNICORN

Poster for THE NERD MACHINE

This was the surprise project for The Nerd Machine. They asked me to create a poster that Zachary Levi could give away during his signing, commemorating the very first NerdHQ at Comic-Con. It was a very last minute project, which was done in two and a half days!

Official Season Five Poster for THE GUILD

A 16-bit-inspired poster featuring the cast of the Guild. Available for sale for $10 at The Guild’s booth, #4201, throughout the convention, and online beginning next week.

Two Posters for TEAM UNICORN

For The Win! and Join the Team, both available for sale at Team Unicorn’s booth at Nerd HQ (an offsite location, at Jolt’n Joe’s, 379 4th Ave.), and at the California Browncoats Booth (A7/A8) throughout the convention.

Robonerdicorn T-Shirt for THE NERD MACHINE and TEAM UNICORN

The Robonerdicorn T-shirt is a collaboration between The Nerd Machine and Team Unicorn. Available at Nerd HQ (an offsite location, at Jolt’n Joe’s, 379 4th Ave.), throughout the convention.

Note: This is just a mockup. Check out the Team Unicorn booth to see actual colors and shirt styles!

TWITTER NEWS

I’ve been approached by the editors at UberSocial to be part of their Comic-Con coverage this year. If you use the UberSocial or Twidroyd mobile Twitter apps, you can subscribe to their UberGuide to Comic-Con, which has a bunch of topic “channels”, featuring twitter accounts hand-selected by their editors, to help you sort through the tsunami of tweets coming out of the con. I’ll be listed in the “Creative Folks” channel. I’ll also be featured in all the channels when I use the #giveaway hashtag to announce where/when you can find one of my Twitter nametag giveaways.

Follow me on Twitter!

Are you finding my site for the first time because of something you found at Comic-Con? Thanks for visiting! You can check out some of the other cool stuff I’ve done, such as the Serenity Travel Posters, the Battlestar Galactica Propaganda Posters, the Inevitable Betrayal T-shirt and more, by visiting my portfolio. Looking for my Twitter nametag giveaway? You can find it here.

For months, I struggled to figure out what I was going to give away at San Diego Comic-Con this year to promote my graphic design business. Comic-Con is, after all, my target audience, since I specialize in designing things for my fellow geeks (the BSG Propaganda Posters, the Inevitable Betrayal T-shirt, etc.). But everything I came up with — mini portfolio booklets, postcards, buttons — felt destined to get lost in the shuffle of a thousand pieces of swag at the bottom of a giant WB bag. I needed something that would really catch people’s attention, and, if I was really lucky, not get thrown away at the end of con.

Then, a few weeks ago, my roommate and I were having a discussion about how hard it can be to put a real-world name and face to your Twitter followers when you meet them in real life, and how great it would be if you could have a Twitter name tag. She suggested that might make a pretty cool giveaway at con, and I agreed. The more I worked on it, the more I fell in love with the idea.

This, then, is what I will be giving out at Comic-Con this year:

Pretty neat, huh?

Where Can I Find One?!

I’m hoping that’s a question a lot of people will be asking. I ordered a ton of them, and I’m going to be working over the next few days to find a few booths willing to give them a home. Here’s the current list of locations where you’ll be able to find them:

• The Guild [Booth #4201]
• The California Browncoats [Booth #A07/A08]
• Team Unicorn [Offsite at NerdHQ]
• The 501st Legion and The Rebel Legion [Booth #MZ17]
• Quantum Mechnanix [Booth #2944]
• Shout Factory [Booth #4248]
• Super Siblings [Table P2 - Small Press]
• On my person, as I wander the con.

Of course, these are all busy booths with their own signing and event schedules, so keep in mind that the cards may not be out on the table at all times. But with a bunch of locations, you should have no problem picking one up!

Want to have them at your booth, too? Drop me a line. I’d love to give you some to hand out, too!

Other Cool Stuff

I’ve got a TON of other stuff premiering at this year’s show. It’s honestly a bit overwhelming. I’ll be talking about them just as soon as the folks I created them for do. (Don’t want to get ahead of their own publicity plans!) But stay tuned, and follow me @lexigeek on Twitter for the very latest.

Hope to see you in San Diego!