This Saturday Pen and Sword Political Pirates and Scope Urban Apparel were in the building at Rob Stull’s Signing at The Million Year Picnic, celebrating the release of the groundbreaking new book Black Comix. Pen and Sword is proud to work with Rob Stull and made the flyers for the event.
Pen and Sword Political Pirates‘ own Jacob Leidolf will be participating in Red Sun Press‘s annual “Critical Views” show, part of JP Open Studios. Come through and check it out, there will be a ton of great political art, all by local artists – the show will be open from 11AM to 6PM on Saturday and Sunday September 24th and 25th. Critical Views is a juried show in conjunction with Jamaica Plain Open Studios, September 25-26, 2010. This show will highlight emerging artists illustrating contemporary struggles for social justice, the environment, and economic & political change. RSVP via Facebook. Get Directions to Red Sun Press 94 Green Street, Boston, MA 02130 View Larger Map
After a lot of back and forth we decided to go ahead and launch politicalpirates.com version 4.1 – a cleaned up, slimmed down revamp of what we had up there. The old site suffered from cool, flashy yet useless elements on the intro and home page, unneeded ads and internal links in the top, a sidebar that in some browsers made the entire body content shift out of proper alignment (an issue previously resolved) and too many pages with not enough content. This revamp not only addressed these problems but updated several key parts of the website and reorganized information to be more easily found, with less clicks from the user. It also worked to incorporate the blog and twitter schemes. We are still in the process of fixing and cleaning things up but here are some things to look for: Twitter and Blog feeds on the homepage, new work in the galleries which have been remade with the new Pirobox V1.2 behind it, a new contact form with customized captcha security image using a font matching the site graphics, a better structure where most of the information is broken into tabs on the 5 main pages. As usual this site serves as a testing ground for new ideas, new tricks, new layouts and is constantly going to be edited, updated, changed and tweaked. Be on the lookout for modifications to the gallery system, new pieces in the portfolio, a reprogrammed version of the project request form and much much more!
Political Pirates 4.1 Read Post »
After a furious night of HTML tweeks, graphic edits and splicing and slicing of the blogger theme we have a working version of the PS blog. The blog is now accessible from our website and ready to serve as a home for news, articles, updates on our work and projects, art, downloads and freebies, links and thoughts. Keep an eye open as we revisit the Political Pirates Site design and update the blog to match. At least for now however we are up and ready to rock.
Political Pirates Blog – Up and Running Read Post »
With the advent of blogger pages and the coming redesign (and possible migration to blog form) of the political pirates website we finally got around to setting up a blog. Stay tuned for lots of design changes and some actual art, ideas etc as we get this thing off the ground.
Political Pirates Blog…Finally Read Post »
