After a recent fiasco with someone selling products featuring my Keyboard Cat illustration (they’ve since taken down the products and offered monetary compensation) and numerous requests on my Youtube page for a T-Shirt, I’ve set up a shop at MySoti where you can purchase a shirt of my design.
Play Him Off, Keyboard Cat! is a website that catalogs many of the “Keyboard Cat” videos that can be found on the internet. If you’re unfamiliar, these videos typically follow a ridiculously embarrassing, depressing, or otherwise awkward video with a cat “playing it off” on the piano. I suggest you watch this one first and then check out some of the others on the site. I recently teamed up with chip musician Doctor Octoroc to create an 8-bit version of the popular internet meme. Let me know what you think, and if you have any ideas for a future video.
EDIT: The video has since been featured on numerous blogs and podcasts, including G4 TV’s Attack of the Show. Thanks to everyone who made the video so popular!
The logo I designed for chip-musician Doctor Octoroc will be featured in PRINT’s Regional Design Annual. This was a really fun project to work on. Doc and I spent many hours playing old NES games for typographic inspiration, but the real challenge was coming up with a clever way to take advantage of the shared letters between the two words in his stage name. In the end the best solution was simply to allow them to share the letters and use color to make the abbreviated “Dr.” pop out so the eye reads “Dr./Doctor” then bounces back to the “O” and reads Octoroc.
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