Exciting stuff! We’ve got some new things for your walls + wears for sale in our shop. First, we’ve decided to print and sell some of our most popular posters from the last year (and some older than that), and will hopefully continue to make these series for sale each year. You can buy them individually, or the whole series at a discounted rate. This is what we’re really excited about, though…
It’s our first Recspec shirt! After being in business for 5 years, we’ve finally designed and made a shirt for ourselves. We’ve got one left after giving them out to our Recspec crew, but we more made them for promotion and just for the sake of having them. Yay! So if you’re an XL, snatch the last one up before its gone!
And that’s not all…
We also received a small stock of shirts of the shirts that we designed for Ume now for sale as well. They used a gold ink that is just beautiful and we couldn’t be happier with how they turned out. So yes, exciting stuff!
We look forward to seeing how Recspec will grow and evolve with us on this crazy journey of life, and are happy to share the adventures we have had and will have with you all. Thank you for all of the support from our friends and family — Recspec phase marriage: commence! (Well, not right away, but you get the idea.)
We’ve been awfully silent lately, but there’s a reason for that — we’ve undertaken one of our biggest projects yet — the opening of a restaurant! We’ve teamed up with our good friends at ND Austin (whom we have designed logos, websites, and other goodness for) to create Tamale Molly, a new eatery that will be serving food into the new smaller bar attached to ND, The North Door!
Here’s a poster we’ve created for our big Grand Opening party happening on Wednesday August 31st, so if you’re in the Austin area, please do come by! It’ll be free, have lots of surprises, and really really fun.
Naturally, we are also designing all of the collateral for our brand, opting for a vintage Mexican pin-up feel, but also bringing in the bright CMYK colours to balance the black and white out. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter for updates, and check out our menu on our website:Tamalemollyatx.com!
We’ll be posting a breakdown of all of the design elements for the brand soon, so keep an eye out and stay tuned.
Summer is here! And we’re working on a ton of great projects and new endeavors, but we’ve manage to fit in a couple of fun DJ nights next month between the craziness. We’d love to see you there!
The first is on Monday July 11th, where we’re playing with a few friends and co-horts for a sort of free-form DJ night at Beauty Bar. Come by and check out whatever music tickles our fancies, have a drink, and just hang out (facebook event). The lovely miss Honeybee is coming all the way from Houston to play with us as well — check out her awesome music site at Sucks My Brain Radio.
Then, on Saturday July 16th at The Volstead, we’ll be playing the best of the darker side of soul, funk, and country. Dark 50′s and 60′s pop, doo-wop, and other b-side gems. Music for gunmen and harlots (facebook event). We’re hoping to make this a semi-regular night, so please come out if you’re in the Austin area and journey to the Badlands with us.
Tonight is our monthly night at Rio Rita and our very own Mr. Kon Karne put together a hot little podcast as a preview for the night. Apologies for the radio silence on ye’ old blog – there are many new Recspec ventures and projects afoot that are currently in completion and thus taking up 99% of our time. We can’t wait to tell you about them! But until then, here are some steamy + sweltering jams.
Have we mentioned that its hot as hell in Texas? Literally. Like the surface of the sun.
The new Recspec.org website is now online! Please do check it out and peruse its depths. We’re quite proud of it and it has been in the works for a long time. Thank you to everyone that has helped with feedback and pointers along the way!
And for those of you in Austin, we’ll see you tonight at Rio Rita for the launch party. Come say Hi and we’ll give you a pair of our sweet shades and a cupcake for free. And a hug, if you want one.
Our monthly night with Insect Records, Kon Karne’s Butcher Shop with The Bear, is turning 2 this month! We’ve taken the opportunity for celebration to also launch our new website, which has been bubbling on the back burner for the last month or so, and is just about ready to be released upon the masses. If you’d like to celebrate with us, please join us next Friday at Rio Rita… poster + details below.
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Also be sure to listen to the newest podcast made for the occasion (by clicking here) mixed by both Butcher Bear and DJ Kon Karne. Its a real treat, and one of the best ones yet.
So if you’re local to Austin, we hope to see you next Friday, and if not, keep an eye out for the brand new Recspec.org launch! We’re can’t wait to show you what we’ve been up to. .
Here at Recspec HQ, we couldn’t be more happy and excited about the new year, and all the prospects + projects + plans buried deep within it. We hope that your 2011 is wonderful and bright, and that you send 2010 off with a BANG (in a safe, and controlled way, of course).
We have so many things to show you next year. We can’t wait. .
Sorry for the radio-silence on ye’old blog — we’ve just upgraded WordPress making the whole process that much easier (and prettier). We’ve also got a new website in the works, so once that goes live, you can expect a lot more bloggery (Is that a word? We like to think so.) So for some fun blog-filler, here are a few of our recent poster designs to feast your eyes upon. Keep an eye out here, as we’ll be announcing our new fun Halloween party that’s currently in the works in the next few weeks as well.
RECSPEC is an Austin, Texas based art and design studio founded by Laurel Barickman and David Milner. Besides design, we also specialize in video projections and production, show promotion, and DJing.
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This blog exists for updates, inspiration, and other random bits and pieces we find along the way. RECSPEC.ORG
