The Infectious Blog

Attention San Franciscans and anyone who will be in our fair city before August 18th! Fabric8, the indie design boutique and gallery located at3318 22nd Street here in SF, has expanded it’s space and is currently hosting a show which features the works of our very own Erik Otto, Reuben Rude and Blaine Fontana. We hopped on over last Saturday night for the stellar opening reception with our good friend and catalog artist, Junko Mizuno to it check out. In the back Erik, Reuben and Blaine’s pieces hung beautifully on the newly painted white walls, co-mingling with the works of other great artists like Kelly Tunstall and Brett Amory. In the storefront gallery, a group show entitled “Creature Features” honored monsters and other worldly creatures. Oddly enough, having to pee led to the biggest treat of all – Erik Otto’s beautiful installation that dangled above a clawfoot tub that has been turned into a fish pond.

Erik Otto

Reuben Rude

We all had a blast and highly recommend checking it out. Much love to Fabric8 and their amazing new gallery space!

On another note, we’re going for round two tonight at 111 Minna‘s Sketch Tuesdays. Our main man, Dennis McNulty, will be among the artists at the long table sketching away. If you’re around tonight, come join us!

Greetings all,

Sending out a friendly heads-up to all our lovely Infectious Artists. Today we’re launching a brand new creative design challenge People and Robots: Best Friends Forever sponsored by our friends over at Mozilla Firefox. We’re looking for designs that capture the spirit of humans and robots living in harmony.

Please note that submissions don’t need to feature the Firefox logo and don’t need to be composited (unless you really want to). They do need to feature some robot and human BFF action; think “I’m programmed for etiquette, not destruction” rather than “Hasta la vista baby”. The first place winner receives $1000 cash. Second place gets a Roomba (it’s the closest we could get to WALL-E). And all winners will receive 5% royalties, $100 of Infectious products, and some Firefox schwag.

P.S.  If you’re going to be down at San Diego Comic-Con this year, follow us on Twitter. We’ll be touring the halls and handing out free high-fives all day Friday.

"Love is like the sea, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it's different with every shore." Vinyl, UV inks on Rives BFK paper. 46 x 36 in.

Join the entire Infectious crew tonight at the Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art gallery at 49 Geary Street from 6-10 pm. One of our own, Dennis “White Lightning” McNulty, will be exhibiting his amazing artwork in a solo show entitled 1981 Pervert.

This exhibition, inspired by his childhood discovery and fascination with the patterns, palettes, and compositions of the pinup illustrations, car ads, and images of menswear featured in his father’s collection of Playboy,  consists of 7 large scale pieces, 4 small pieces, and a 12 ft. 3-D wall installation. Learn more about the show here.

Come and help us toast our lovable and talented Dennis.