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TTP Repartee: Newest Thumbtack Press Artist Amy DeVoogd

Thursday, April 25th, 2013 | By: Ben

Amy DeVoogd, Bicycle Chicago-based illustrator Amy DeVoogd‘s work is all over the place, from newspapers and magazines to product packaging, advertising campaigns, and more. We’re thrilled to be working with her to offer high-quality prints on Thumbtack Press and her initial offering here shows why: Cities, fashion, bikes, bags, couples, energy, design, style – it’s city [...]


Introducing: El Gato Chimney

Friday, April 19th, 2013 | By: Ben

  El Gato Chimney, La Casa Della Polvere Surrealism isn’t dead and we can prove it. Remember when people thought surrealism had run its course, like it was some kind of fad? The bellbottoms of art?? Pffffffft. Please help us welcome El Gato Chimney to Thumbtack Press. His work is proof that surrealism is as [...]


Introducing David Cooper to Thumbtack Press

Monday, March 11th, 2013 | By: Ben

  David Cooper, For The Love of Listening One of the first things people notice when they see David Cooper’s work for the first time is the elongated figures that populate all his work, from basketball backboards to giant murals to canvases to ping pong paddles to illustrations to the prints of his work that just [...]


Introducing Enzo Peres-Labourdette to Thumbtack Press

Tuesday, March 5th, 2013 | By: Ben

  Enzo Peres-Labourdette, The Crane   Big welcome to Enzo Peres-Labourdette, the newest addition to Thumbtack Press. A fabulous Dutch fashion illustrator, Enzo’s been making a name for himself through pieces that feel like they’re set in a bedazzled Upper East Side jungle of gilded patterns, like a bizarro Versailles Hall of Mirrors. But Enzo’s [...]


Welcome to Thumbtack Press Stefano Zattera!

Monday, January 21st, 2013 | By: Ben

 Stefano Zattera, Lunatic Asylum In all the time Stefano Zattera has been producing paintings, drawings, sculptures, novels, comics, illustrations, and doing graphic design, he’s been nothing short of ultra productive. We’re very excited to welcome him to Thumbtack Press and to have the opportunity to offer prints of some of his huge stock of work.   [...]


More On Newest TTPer Chris Uphues

Tuesday, December 4th, 2012 | By: Ben

Chris Uphues, Crystal Mountain After much hinting and early celebration, we officially welcome Chris Uphues to Thumbtack Press! As he writes in his artist statement, “His work is concerned with an idiosyncratic visual vocabulary embracing toys, folk art, popular and anonymous objects, comics, video games, black light posters, Bosh, the japanese toy designer Popy, islamic [...]


A Closer Look at Newest TTP'er Alan Flinn

Thursday, November 1st, 2012 | By: Ben

Alan Flinn, Truck Newest addition to the Thumbtack Press troop Alan Flinn has been working as an illustrator for over 25 years doing freelance, and it shows. He manages to shift a bunch of different themes into his work, but in a clear style with super color and straightforward content.  Technical details, lines, hands – Alan’s got [...]


Memory: A Skeleton and a Stock Market Crash Edition

Monday, October 29th, 2012 | By: Ben

Mike Egan, Remember Us When We Leave Weird thing, memory. Wake up one morning and think October 29th seems like an important date, spend a couple minutes thinking, then realize it’s the anniversary of the Stock Market Crash that lead to the Great Depression. Cool. Can’t believe we haven’t had any Mike Egan on the [...]


To Review: Brian McCarty and Jasper Rietman

Tuesday, September 25th, 2012 | By: Ben

  Brian McCarty, Free Range Furilla As if you haven’t heard enough from us of late about the two newest TTP artists, Brian McCarty and Jasper Rietman, here’s one more. We’re piling it on because of the great response we’ve gotten, and because we think they’re interesting when taken side-by-side. Because on the one hand, you [...]


Jasper Rietman's Narratives

Monday, September 24th, 2012 | By: Ben

Jasper Rietman, Tool Thumbtack’s newest artist, Jasper Rietman, clearly has an interest in (and skill for) storytelling. Where he shines is his ability to make the duration of a story that happens over time really become something that the eye can see all at once, in an image, and that your brain can have that I get it [...]