2014 was a great year. Scratch that…the GREATEST year in the lunchboxbrain galaxy. The year got off to a great start with my Lost In Illustration (aka Eat, Drink and Bill Murray) print over at shirt.woot. It was well-received across the interwebz and I’m incredibly grateful for all the BFM love. The team at shirt.woot have seen fit to include Lost In Illustration as part of their year-end Let’s Party sale. If you missed out on getting this design on an apron, here’s your chance!
The year kept rolling strong with my latest Threadless tee, Abide. I was over the moon when I found that Abide had been selected to print as part of the Threadless Big Lebowski collection. Lebowski is, dare I say it, an iconic movie. To have one of my designs associated with that movie still blows my mind.
One of the truly awesome highlights of 2014, was the effort to help Nebraska-base designer Adam White in high fight against MS and paresthesia. A group of talented folks, mostly from the Threadless community, banded together to create the Help Adam White store. Adam receives 100% of the proceeds from that store. The good folks at Threadless followed suit by setting up a MADE collection for Adam. Again, 100% of the proceeds were donate to help Adam pay his medical bills. I was one of 30 artists who contributed work to Adam’s MADE shop. My design, Go Craze, was inspired by Adam’s unique style and his Craze One brand.
Here are a few other metric highlights from 2014:
- More than 3,000 downloads of my Friday Freebie design resources (3x my intended goal of 1,000 FF downloads)
- Folks from 112 countries visited lunchboxbrain.com this year. Big ups to my fellow Americans who represent 54% of all LBB visitors. ‘MURICA!
- Shout out to the Reddit crowd for the 1,000+ visits
I won’t bore you with details of my 2015 plans. Here’s what I’m focused on in a nutshell: make more rad stuff, more quality time with my family and friends, get fit, read some books, make even more rad stuff.
If you’ve read to this point, let me take this opportunity to say THANK YOU. I am very grateful for the kindness and words of encouragement that I’ve received from LBB supporters in 2014. I hope that 2015 brings you lots of joy, wisdom and pizza.