Watch out for worm, guys

Our second Gilamon T, "Die!! Worm Monster! Die!!" is premiering at Urban Creature's Gallery. It is drawn by Sau Lim and hand printed by the three of us. This is our first DIY T and its very RARE! Tears, sweats and weekends were sacrificed for this baby.

The Creatures are here!!!

Those of you who are up in the Northern part of Malaysia do take note, this month marks the launch of Urban-cr3atures Gallery. It will be launched on the 24th of September 2005 to invited guests and open to public on 25th September onwards. It is opened daily from 3pm to 8pm and the exhibition will last for a month.

We will have 3 posters up for this exhibition, which has a theme of urban-cr3atures: 21st century fr3ak show.

Crossover with Urban-cr3atures

During last June, we had the privilege to participate in the Beautiful Junk exhibition in Penang. Now, in conjunction with the launch of Urban-cr3atures, Beautiful Junk's organiser Chun Woei, also Urban-cr3atures' creative director has invited us to take part in an exhibition in its new gallery. These are the our poster.
We also managed to have Urban-cr3atures' creative director Chun Woei to give us an introduction to this set-up:
"Urban-cr3atures was born out of the passion to create new design, trend and dare to be different. We are an audio visual design collective who help to promote new talents globally. Urban-cr3atures are refer to an unknown or unfamiliar kind, as we keep coming up and experimenting with weird approach and the ability to invent and develop original ideas."
"Now we r fortunate enough to get a nest for us to stay in. This amazingly average size nest is going to b our design lab & gallery. To hold our first exhibition, we r inviting fellow designers and creative ppl to join us to share our opinion n ideas all around. The theme of the exhibition is urban-cr3atures: 21st century fr3ak show. Lets the monster unleashed.
Come join us"
The gallery will be launched on the 24th of September 2005 to invited guests and open to public on 25th September onwards. It is opened daily from 3pm to 8pm and the exhibition will last for a month.
Urban-cr3atures are :: Chun Woei(Creative Director) + Hooi Lee(Senior Designer) + Kah Lai(Senior Designer) + Vivian(Marketing + Finance Director) + Wei Ming(Graphic Designer)
Urban-cr3atures :: audio visual design lab + gallery
www.urban-cr3atures.com (will be up by mid September)

98-3-23A, Prima Tanjung, 10470, Jalan Fettes, Tanjung Tokong, Penang, Malaysia
phone: +6 04 890 8188 fax: +6 04 890 9189

The Never Ending Tales

Mike is recently busy working on his Gengkey's Characters Artbook, inclusive of 100 character design from his famous Gengkey series, all compiled in one book. Schedule to published at the end of this year. Due to his greedy behaviour, 100 characters wasn't enough for him,
he wanted more. So Mike comes out with this half year plan for another series of character design, which he named--The Never Ending Tales. It'll be featured in exclusively in our website! So please visit us from time to time (every month actually) to check out those cute but evil looking character pin-ups at our gallery section.

Imagine by IFS

Recently, we were invited to be included in an artbook by Singaporian based Imaginary Friends Studio(IFS). This 128-page books collects the works from more than 20 artists around Asian region. We are very honoured to be part of the very first IFS production. Thanks to Edmund and gang for having us and not to mention coming out with this book within such short period of time. Respect! For more information and to buy a copy(only 2000 copies were printed), click here.

Gilamon T @ Beautiful J

Beautiful Junk was successfully held on the 11th June, 2005. Venue were changed from The Fort to Dewan Seri Pinang due to the weather, but it didn't stop people from around the country to visit this one day festival of art and noise. More than 30 artists/designers contributed exclusive artwork for this event. Top musicians like Pete Teo, Damn Dirty Ape(DDA), Seven Colar T-shirt, as well as new comers like Mumsters, Ugly Man made some beautiful noise during that day.
We didn't do too badly ourselves as Gilamon launched 2 T-shirts and our ashcan #1.
One T was our own production and the other was a collaboration with Radioactive. The fine folks of Radioactive did a tremendous job in printing our design in embossed felt ink. You all can still buy the T from Radioactive outlets. Our ashcan #1 and the previous #0 was available for sale as well. We want to thank those who showed their support by buying our Ts and ashcans, especially those who bought both! The Gilamons also want to thank Chun Woei and the rest of the gang who organised this event. Good work, my friend. Lets do it again next year.

Exclusive Preview from Billy Tan

Here is an exclusive look at Billy Tan's(Marvel Knight Spider-Man, X-23) creator own project, Ghost Kid. The synopsis, as provided by MunKao(series co-creator and Billy's brother) goes like this:
Garlic grabbing, Latin spewing, holy water in a vial. None of that please. Ghostkid ain't your father's exorcist. More likely to befriend a ghost then destroy it. Jack(Ghostkid) runs an exorcism agency with his psychic granny, Ida in LA which has both exorcised and adopted many stray spirits and demons including a runaway demon princess and a 6 legged lizard who have both become Jack's best buds.
Jack helps keep the city "clean" with his sling bag of enchanted artifacts such as Chinese yellow charms, Mountain Dew that has been blessed and little holy firecrackers.
His methods are definitely representative of the cosmopolitan city he lives in complete with its idiosyncrasies.
Sounds good? Keep a look out @this site for more info soon!