Collaborations with GS Graphic Studio

I thought it was about time I gave a shout out to my longtime partner and brother for all intensive purposes, Emanuel, (Manny) D'Argenio, the man behind GS Graphic Studio. Tonight we collaborated, and executed in just about an hour, the piece you see above, a customized vinyl sticker application for my iPhone case that Manny and I dreamed up and designed on the spot using my concept and his computer design skills.
Manny did the work on illustrator like the wizard he is and then proceeded to cut the vinyl using his high tech cutting machine, and then do the skill work to custom apply it to my iPhone case. Enjoy a few pics below of the process, and while your at it, click here, or continue on to the bottom of this entry to see another one of our recent collaborations of fine T-shirts based on photos I took around Ahmadnagar, India, that I'm sure you'll enjoy:





Step 1. Get yourself a new iPhone as well as a sleek, blank, hard shell white case to protect it:



Step 2. Find yourself a highly skilled graphic designer with a high-tech vinyl cutter and the skills to use it. Its optimal to find one with his shirt off and <3.5% body fat.
Step 3. Layout the components of your sick concept so that people on the internet can see what your working with, in this case, Meher Baba's face vectorized in black and put on top of the word LOVE in orange, with the LO stacked on top of the VE.


Step 4. Shazam!



Step 5. Call everyone you might see in the upcoming week to warn them to wear helmets should they run into you. We wouldn't want anyone passing out and injuring themselves in shock at the sight of something so fresh...

As you can see, Manny is a skilled artisan of the modern world.

Another recent collaboration between Manny and I happened as kind of a wonderful surprise to me. I had a collection of street signs and wall paintings from my recent travels in India, particularly around Ahmadnagar, India, that I wanted to turn into T-shirts somehow. I sent them to Manny, just to show him what I had, and he turned around and prepared them as T-shirt designs with his amazing graphic skill magic. So please take a look, and order a bunch! They are ready to be printed a la cart.

You order, we print!

Here are a couple of the designs below to whet your appetite, but please check out the whole line at Manny's site: GS Graphics Studio. And do some shopping. :)


I found this painting on the side of a temple/gymnasium. Everything in India is sacred, including getting buff. Inside this particular gym everything was painted orange and there was a big statue to Hanuman, the half-man/half-monkey god of strength in Hinduism. And of course, there was this amazing wall mural outside. :) Manny did I beautiful job of isolating it on this T-shirt. Buy this T-shirt, or See more T-shirts here.


Long-time followers, or even just plain admirers of Meher Baba may be familiar with this symbol, the "Mastery in Servitude" symbol. I was lucky enough to get a snap of this hand painted rendition of the mastery in servitude symbol on one of the signs pointing the way to Meher Baba's tomb. I say lucky because the signs were replaced with flashy new computer cut vinyl signs right before I left, one more hand painted sign lost in India. So sad! I gotta get back and photo them all before their gone forever!! Buy this T-shirt, or See more T-shirts here.

Well, that's all I'm gonna give you for now, you'll have to pop over to Manny's site to see the rest of the T-shirts. Which is easy enough, just click here. Until next time. JB.