New Fishing Fury Business Cards!

I got these printed on a rush order for the Toronto Sportsmen’s Convention, I wasn’t expecting too much since it was last minute, but Digital Propaganda came through big time. I didn’t even know they were on glossy stock!

Fishing Fury font is an original drawing created by our friend and tattoo artist Alie K.. Thanks Alie!!

Two Dollar Tattoo Project

Some of you may recall our friend Philip Barbosa from one of our epic fishing expeditions in La Paz, Mexico, where he out fished even me! And though you won’t recognize the person who did his tattoo, it’s actually Alie K., Phil’s girlfriend and creator of the new Fishing Fury logo.

Recently Phil, with the help of a few great artists, created the tattoo art project Two Dollar Tattoo. Here’s a description:

All artists participating will be expected to create unique works of tattoo art executed with only a single needle (as in single-needle configuration, No cheating using a round or a mag for any of the tattoo!). Line-work, shading, colour…all must be executed with the same needle! The size of the final product will be expected to fill the space of a “toonie”, a Canadian two-dollar coin (approximately 28mm or 1 1/8” in diameter). The artist should utilize all of the space within the circle since in this case its not just size that matters. The Two Dollar Tattoo Project is expected to be both a game of camaraderie as well as a professional courtesy for artists and industry people. The only monetary exchange for the tattoo is to be a shiny Canadian $2 coin, which can be used for sizing of the drawing and final stencil, and MUST be utilized as proof of compliance with the set parameters.

Of course Phil’s not one to create without participation, and so he got his own Two Dollar Tattoo of Ebisu – one of the seven gods of fortune, but more specifically the god of fishermen.

via Two Dollar Tattoo

Fishing Fury Opens Registration

That’s right we’ve decided to open up registration again, and with that a lot of features we’ve had waiting in the background for weeks now.

By registering for an account you’ll be able to subscribe to email updates and get notifications when new posts are made, very useful for Contests and Name That Fish posts. You’ll also enjoy moderation free comments, no more waiting for us to approve them, and localized comment avatars! Gravatars should still work, if you have one. We even have a few features for contributors.

It’s also time to start moving forward with things like stickers and t-shirts. I don’t want to give too much away but I will show you some artwork that will be on both stickers and t-shirts. Check out this cool Fishing Fury script by my good friend and tattoo artist Alie K..

Seriously though, there is a huge stack of work to be done around here and exciting things for the future. 2009 will definitely be our largest growth period so far.