Keeling Group

I'm wrapping up the last few days of a long ass trip around the Southeast corner of the globe. Aside from enjoying the food, nature, history, and lack of snow, I've also been taking tons of photos of signs and other visually-inspiring imagery. Here are some things that caught my eye in Phnom Penh and Siem Reap, Cambodia, and Luang Prabang, Laos. I was getting a lot of funny looks snapping a photo of this emblem on the side of a trash can just outside Phnom Penh's Central Market. Totally worth it. Neverending typography, traffic, and other visual mayhem on the streets of PP. Stacks on stacks of colorful, handmade scarves in just about any market you go to. Sign painting craftsmanship at the Choeung Ek Khmer Rouge genocide museum. This beautifully simplified illustration of Cambodia's unofficial national monument is the logo for Cambodia's unofficial national beer. Nobody watched me...

Before my recent trip to Singapore, I asked a few friends for suggestions of where to go, what to see, and, of course, where to eat. The recommendation that jumped out at me was a toy museum. This instantly caught my attention, and when I realized it was paces away from what some call the best Dim Sum in Singapore, I pretty much had to go. The MINT Museum of Toys is a five story-tall building packed with a thoughtfully-curated and beautifully-arranged collection of rare toys from all over the world, dating back as far as the 1930s. If you've managed to read this far into the blog post, then I highly recommend the museum to you. Plenty of robots. Yup. TONS of robots. Gorgeous packaging for these Buck Rogers toys. FLASH! ... AAAH-AAAAAAAAAH! ... THE SAVIOR OF THE UNIVERSE! FLASH! ... AAAH-AAAAAAAAAH! ... HE'LL SAVE EVERY ONE OF US!...

Our van is full of bathing suits and rare posters and we're headed to Austin for SXSW! I will not be shipping any orders March 13th-March 18th. The online store will be open, just be forwarned that nothing will be shipped until I return from my poolside heaven in rock show land.

Our crew is loadin' up the van and heading south ... by southwest ... for SXSW! If you'll be in Austin for the annual festival, come see us, hear us, and eat tacos with us! FLATSTOCK 38 Our crew will be packing up various vehicles with our screenprinted concert posters, fine art prints, t-shirts, and sticker packs to unleash them at Flatstock 38. If you've never been to Flatstock, imagine a gigantic room filled with dozens of the world's best rock poster artists and printers displaying and selling hundreds of their best prints. Now imagine it even bigger and cooler than whatever you were just imagining and you're getting closer. It all goes down at the Austin Convention Center: Thursday, March 14: 2:00 - 6:00pm Friday, March 15: 11:00am - 6:00pm Saturday, March 16: 11:00 - 6:00pm Admission is FREE and all are welcome! No wristbands, badges, or RSVP necessary....

Our crew is loadin' up the van and heading south ... by southwest ... for SXSW! If you'll be in Austin for the annual festival, come see us, hear us, and eat tacos with us! FLATSTOCK 38 Our crew will be packing up various vehicles with our screenprinted concert posters, fine art prints, t-shirts, and sticker packs to unleash them at Flatstock 38. If you've never been to Flatstock, imagine a gigantic room filled with dozens of the world's best rock poster artists and printers displaying and selling hundreds of their best prints. Now imagine it even bigger and cooler than whatever you were just imagining and you're getting closer. It all goes down at the Austin Convention Center: Thursday, March 14: 2:00 - 6:00pm Friday, March 15: 11:00am - 6:00pm Saturday, March 16: 11:00 - 6:00pm Admission is FREE and all are welcome! No wristbands, badges, or RSVP necessary....

I recently competed in the Red Bull Thre3style DJ competition and placed third in the Midwest Regionals. This makes me eligible to advance to the US finals, but I'll need your help! Listen to my mix below and please vote for me right here! It takes just a few seconds. MIKE 2600 - USA - 2013 RED BULL THRE3STYLE - MIDWEST REGIONAL by Red Bull Thre3style on Mixcloud

I recently competed in the Red Bull Thre3style DJ competition and placed third in the Midwest Regionals. This makes me eligible to advance to the US finals, but I'll need your help! Listen to my mix below and please vote for me right here! It takes just a few seconds. MIKE 2600 - USA - 2013 RED BULL THRE3STYLE - MIDWEST REGIONAL by Red Bull Thre3style on Mixcloud

Since we opened Sign Related in January, we've had a large number of gallery visitors coming by to check out the show and also ask us a lot of questions regarding the making of all the fantastic work. We decided the best solution would be to let the artists speak for themselves! We are having a special artist talk with Sign Related's Peyton Scott Russell, Ben Janssens, Dan ""Dusty"" Madsen, and Matt Thompson. This will be a chance to hear the artists discuss their craft, how they work with a wide range of materials and explore the connection between the work they make by day and the art they create on their own time. You'll also be able to ask all sorts of burning questions like ""How do you make all the different colors of neon?"" and ""What sort of tricks makes your hand lettering so clean and perfect?"" The...