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Mascots & Mugs in stores

Good words about Mascots & Mugs from Carlos "Mare 139" Rodriguez:

"... Mascots and Mugs digs deeper than most and covers a lot of historical moments and also has interviews with the people who played a role. Not to discount anyone's efforts on the shelf, there is plenty of room as one can see, but there are a lot of hard bound books that serve as nothing more than scrap books of painted walls. Also as one publisher points out, they are by and large terribly designed to the point where the works are not coherent. I agree, I have hated most graff publications for the weak remedial layouts that fail to highlight the quality and details of a well painted production."

Read Carlos' full post on 12oz. Prophet

Mascots and Mugs is released, Book Signing

Grab your hottest sidekick and come to a signing of Testify Book's latest masterpiece:
Mascots and Mugs:
The Characters and Cartoons of Subway Graffiti
by David Villorente anbd Todd James
Introduction by Jonathan Lethem
Designed by Chris Capuozzo

Come have a drink on us and celebrate some real shit:

Monday December 10th
6-8pm
auto.
805 Washington St. (between Horatio and Gansevoort)
Take the A, C E or 1,2,3 to 14th St., or the L to 8th Ave.

Limited edition Mascots and Mugs T-shirt with the first 30 books sold, featuring classic artwork from Blade, Tack, Doc and Daze.

Pictured above is Chris with the authors, Todd "Reas" James & David "Chino" Villorente.

Published by Testify Books

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Chris is interviewed by Steven Heller

Interviewed for the book "Becoming a Digital Designer" about being part of creating early animation on the web, teaching interactive design, and about bad design on the web.

Images of Chris's designs for SavagePencil.com and NationalGeographicKids.com sites are included in the interview.

"Becoming a Digital Designer" on Steven Heller's site

Intergalactico designs T-shirts for Stussy

Intergalactico designed three t-shirts for the Stussy Fall 07 line. The shirts feature Chris' original illustrations, typography, character design. Currently developing more designs for Spring '08.

See the shirts

Stussy is a streetware label with over 60 stores internationally that has represented and inspired an international group of musicians, skaters, DJs and artists with similar tastes, which helped to shape the brand into an international streetwear label.

Crazygon is published

CrazyGon™ is Chris Capuozzo's first book and continues his exploration into both mass-produced and unique 20th Century psychedelia. Feast your mind upon searing images designed to guide one into distant cosmic realms.

Get your copy today!

Edition of 50.

This is what Gary Panter has to say about CrazyGon™:

"We are in a fix. Only by great acts of imagination might we get our collective ass out of this one. This moment calls for artifacts which will kick the human imagination into overdrive. Beware: the object you hold in your hands may kick your mind into warp speed: might put a motor in you!!!!! For shamanistic usage only. Don't fuck around with this, kid! It'll take your arm off. Back off, Chuck."