Fangoria Feature

Ben Smith from Fangoria.com's blog has a great article on Grendel's Den Design Studio, which you can read here.

I personally wanted to thank Ben for the feature. I greatly appreciate it.

Gary A. Braunbeck Portrait

The author that I was creating a portrait for is one of my all time favorites - Gary A. Braunbeck. The piece is finally completed and you can check it out in the GDDS Gallery.

There's also some new promotional material designs in the GDDS Print Section.

Work In Progress

I rarely show one of my art pieces before they're finished, but I am so damned happy with the progress of this one thus far that I have to show it off. This is an author's portrait, sans author right now since I don't want to let the cat out of the bag as to who it's for. I will give you a hint though - They're an award-winning author. Ha! Like that really narrows it down, right.

Upcoming Group Show / New Art and Design

I'll be participating in the group showing OBSCURA / Catwalk Tragedy, a two day event taking place on Friday May 1st and Saturday May 2nd at the The Trocadero Theatre here in Philadelphia. There will be various performances including Live Not on Evil and Rigor Mortis Review and a few photography book releases. I'll be there for the first night OBSCURA so be sure to come out and support local Philly creativity.

I've uploaded a couple of new things: A new print design for the upcoming event Power Strip Festival, which takes place July 10th and 11th at the The Trocadero Theatre. There's also new a new piece of artwork entitled "FINAL CUT", which is also available as a print!

National Haunters Convention This Weekend

This Friday and Saturday I will be participating at the National Haunters Convention, which will be held at the Valley Forge Convention Center. You can catch GDDS at booth 1105 so be sure to stop by. I'm also running a seminar "Building Your Online Presence", which will take place on Friday at 9:00AM.

ISP Outage

Verizon, my Internet Service Provider, is experiencing outages throughout the Philadelphia region today and doesn't expect to have things back to normal until 1:00 PM (EST) today. This means that my online access will be sporadic until Verizon has this issue fixed later today.

Ravencon Cancellation

Unfortunately I've had to cancel my appearance at next month's Ravencon. Even though I won't be there I highly suggest that you check it out. It's one of the better SciFi cons on the East Coast in my opinion.

Two New Projects Added To GDDS

I just added two new projects to the site:

The website design for VignetteNoir.com, which was created for the very talented artist Calyn Williams.

The promotional design for 2009 Philly Zombie Crawl, which is organized by the zombielicious PhillyZombieCrawl.com.

Be sure to check them both out!

New Site Design for Grendel's Den Design Studio

I decided that this site needed a major makeover, so here we go, a nice and new design for Grendel's Den Design Studio. It's more business focused so it will be easier for you to find information on all of the services that are offered. And the overall back-end is more streamlined so things should run faster. Please take a look around and if you happen to find anything wonky please let me know.

Away from Office Today (3/4)

One's chances of being selected for jury duty are vastly higher than winning the lottery. Guess which one I got? I will be serving jury duty for the city of Philadelphia today, Wednesday, March 4th. I will not be available via any means until later tonight. If you need anything you can email me at dave@grendelsden.net and I will get back to you as soon as I can.

Wicked Faire This Weekend

Grendel's Den Design Studio will be attending this weekend's Wicked Faire. Our table will be located in Salon F / G, so please stop on by and say hello. For those not in the know, Wicked Faire is a large three day event that is part Ren Faire, part Alternative Music festival, part scifi con - it's an event for all things nerdy.

Wicked Faire takes place at the Hanover Marriott in Whippany, New Jersey. The event runs from Friday at 2:00pm to Sunday 5:00pm.

The Hanover Marriott
1401 Route 10 E
Whippany, NJ
Go here for a Google map and to get directions.

WICKED WINTER - Dead of Winter Art Show (2/6/09)

WICKED WINTER, Dead of Winter Art Show

Show Dates - February 6th to 28th
Opening Friday February 6th, starting at 5pm
With live performance from The Young Werewolves (8pm)

The Artists:
D.E. Christman
Asia DeVinyl
Steve Ellis
Ric Frane
Bombshell Mandy
Kristen Margiotta
Wendy M.

Talleyville Frame Shoppe & Gallery
3625 Silverside Rd.
Wilmington, DE 19810
(302) 478-1163

Happy Holidays

Everyone have a happy holiday, whatever that holiday is you celebrate. Thank you all for making this year a memorable one and here's to a swank new year to come.

Two New Websites

There's two new websites that have gone live:

DJKiltboy.com - Philadelphia DJ that specializes in Dark Alternative music.

DaveGhoul.com - My professional DJ and event promotions site. I perform under the name Dave Ghoul.

So if you need a spooktacular DJ for you clubnight or event, check them out.

Scheduled Server Maintenance Tonight

Just a heads-up that the GDDS server will be undergoing a scheduled maintenance tonight at 11:00 PM EST.

The server will stay online during this time however all GDDS websites will be unavailable for an estimated 30-45 minutes. During this time an unbranded, generic "Under Maintenance" page will be displayed instead of the website content. Once finished all GDDS websites will be back online.

2008 Philcon Progam Schedule

Below is the schedule for panels I'll be participating in during Philcon, which takes place this upcoming Friday, Saturday and Sunday.


Fri 8:00 PM in Plaza III (Three) (1 hour)
DIGITAL TOOLS FOR ARTISTS (102)

[Panelists: D.E. Christman (mod), Alan Beck, Sally Wiener Grotta, John Picacio]

Technical stuff we love to use to creating our art.


Sat 2:00 PM in Plaza III (Three) (1 hour)
SCARY PICTURES! WHAT IS THE ALLURE OF HORROR ART? (105)

[Panelists: D.E. Christman (mod), Joseph L. Bellofatto, Jr., Alan Beck, Diane Weinstein]

Why artists want to make horror art, and why people love it


Sat 3:00 PM in Plaza III (Three) (1 hour)
WHY HORROR IS NOT DEAD (71)

[Panelists: Dina Leacock (mod), D.E. Christman, Sara Harvey, Jennifer Williams]

Despite the naysayers and the disappearance of the category in some bookstores, it's still out there. Why?


Sat 9:00 PM in Plaza IV (Four) (1 hour)
THE BIG, BAD ZOMBIE PANEL (141)

[Panelists: D.E. Christman (mod), Tony Finan, Jennifer Williams, Matt Black]

BRAAAAAAAINS!


Sun 11:00 AM in Plaza III (Three) (1 hour)
BEYOND ILLUSTRATION: ALTERNATIVE WAYS TO SELL ART. (106)

[Panelists: D.E. Christman (mod), Emily Kwait, Ruth Lampi, Heidi Hooper, Ray Ridenour]

Prints, T-shirts, Collectibles, Web Comics, Subscriptions, other ways to sell your images beyond book cover illustration

Happy Halloween Everyone

Happy Halloween to everyone out there! Here's to a spooktacular day!

New Logo Designs

I just added a bunch of new logos, all of which you can find in the Portfolio section of the site.

Digital Ferret Art / Music Event - Sept. 26th

SalonCon Next Weekend

After much nagging from many of my beloved fans (you know who you are, ya lovable scamps), I made a last ditch effort to get my sorry ass into the vendor's room for next weekend's SalonCon... which panned out. Yes lords and ladies (or in my case hooligans and harlots) Grendel's Den Design Studio will be attending SalonCon, spooking the joint up.

For those of you not in the know, SalonCon is a gathering of folks who do what we oldsters call 'Steampunk'. Lots of you young'ns like to call it 'Neo-Victorian' or yeah, Steampunk. Right. In any case it's a pretty swank affair at a pretty swank price (25 shells if you nab them online by tomorrow, 35 bucks at the door). Check out the website for the shindig's schedule, which include a performance from Abeny Park.

See you there!