This month ultra-cool advertising agency Tribal DDB asked Thunderdog to help them celebrate their 10 years in business with a series of art projects. The result was an enormous painting by Tristan Eaton, a series of laser cut, spray painted posters and a time-lapse video showing 40 hours of painting in 4 minutes! The painting is now a permanent fixture in the Tribal DDB lobby!

Tristan's concept and approach to the project:

My goal was to celebrate Tribal DDB's triumphant 10 years in business through allegory and metaphor. Paying homage to the late illustrator Frank Frazetta, I decided to anthropomorphize the accomplishments and abilities of the agency into a majestic, mythical beast ascending an ever-growing branch of time and challenge. A notch in the tree reveals 10 rings / years of growth. I chose three animals to symbolically represent the core ideals that Tribal DDB embodies and aspires to:

OCTOPUS: Creator, versatile, resourceful

HUMMING BIRD: Timeless messenger, optimistic, adaptable

GAZELLE: Free Spirit, Aware, Agile, Graceful

The painting was executed on 49 square panels of birch formed into a grid reminiscent of the Tribal DDB logo. The imagery was created using wheat pasted paper, spray paint, acrylic paint and ink. I also created a signed and numbered limited edition poster for all Tribal DDB employees. The poster serves as a crest to represent this mythical beast and its triumphant journey. The treatment of graphics are reminiscent of a timeless coat of arms used for shields in battle and for pride of legacy. The poster is spray-painted through a laser cut stencil, allowing each poster to be unique with varying fields of color. Each poster features a legend explaining what our mythical beast represents as well as a field for individual numbering and artist signature.

It's been a long time coming, but Thunderdog has finally helped Tristan launch his own personal site. Why .net? Well, some douchebag in Japan bought tristaneaton.com. But we'll get it back!

This is a simple, early version of his site. There's a lot more to come (exhibitions, interviews etc.), but for now we've launched a full store featuring Tristan's work and a fun gallery of random art. There is a huge variety of paintings, drawings, prints and custom work up for sale for a limited time! A lot of this work was only available for a limited time at galleries over seas, so by popular demand we've made his art a little more accessible for you guys.

Check him out: www.tristaneaton.net

Also featured on the site is a great time-lapse video of Tristan's mural at Welling Court for ADHOC Gallery. 9 hours in total, squeezed down to 2 minutes!

Check it out: HERE

This is the moment we've been waiting for. The long awaited drop of our first keychains is right now! Head over to the Thunderdog store to pick these babies up!

The MINI-MUTTS stand 1.5 inches tall and are made of injection molded ABS plastic, featuring extremely intricate, multi-color pad printing. They come with a cool Thunderdog plastic strap and keychain and are packaged in an awesome Thundermutt head shaped blister pack.

We are so proud of these suckers - we know you'll love em' too!

BUY EM' HERE

Check out what else Mike Burnett is up to HERE

Finally, we got around to updating our bad ass iPhone app B-BOT. We've added about 75 new items to play with including colored eyes, curly hair, new bodies and a ton of other cool crap. Also in B-BOT 1.2 you can now upload your B-BOTs to Email, Facebook and Twitter DIRECTLY from the app! How cool is that?

If you already purchased the app, the update is free - if not, it's only 2 bucks you cheap bastard! The update is available for both iPhone & iPad versions.

BUY IT ON iTunes

Enjoy.

Tristan was asked to contribute to an awesome mural project organized by ADHOC GALLERY this past weekend. Other artists included: Ron English, Cey Adams, CR, Cern, Mr. Kiji, Lady Pink, TooFly, Cycle, Michael DeFeo and many more. We also video taped the whole process, so keep an eye out for the video post coming soon. Tristan's piece consisted of a wheat-pasted background with a white wash, then hand painted line art using all KRINK INK!

Ron English & Veng:

TrustoCorp:

Cey Adams:

Cern & SP One:

CR: