The Brass Knuckles Challenge

BDx13 - 5-10-2005 at 04:17 PM

While 2004 was a strong warm-up, 2005 looks to be shaping up as "The Year of the Brass Knuckles Graphic". (Kinda reminds me of all the dotcoms using swooshes back in the late 90s.) Be it in logos, shirt designs or CD layouts, the brass knuckles really seem to be the tough icon du jour. Obviously, there's nothing wrong with it's popularity, but as a designer, I find these kind of trends interesting.

Let's see just how many we can come up with! I'll even start things off with an obvious one...

defstarsteve - 5-10-2005 at 04:31 PM

I print so many brass knuckles...
so many distressed (scratchy), college athletic style, handwritting script or bloody fonts...

attention all designers
whatever happed to spiked bats, chains, and spray paint logos..
please refer to the movie the warriors for all designs for the next 12 months
thank you they guys who has to stare at this shit all day every day

gavin - 5-10-2005 at 04:35 PM

WARRRIORSS...COME OUT TO PLLLAAAAYYYYEEEEE

Jason the Magnificent - 5-10-2005 at 08:26 PM

actually, knucks are on the wain, before that it was zombies and before that still...blood splatter.

I think theres an in crowd as far as design goes that kind of creates and recycles style elements in hardcore and then theres a fringe group of older guy bands who really dont pay attention (sadly for a musical aspect, not design) to alot of the newer bands so things get used that really may seem like theyre following along with the trend but in actuality they don't even have a clue it was a trend.

Early 90's skinhead graffiti artwork needs to come back ala gut instinct, just cause...etc etc.

ENDERA.x - 5-10-2005 at 08:44 PM

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Originally posted by defstarsteve
I print so many brass knuckles...
so many distressed (scratchy), college athletic style, handwritting script or bloody fonts...

attention all designers
whatever happed to spiked bats, chains, and spray paint logos..
please refer to the movie the warriors for all designs for the next 12 months
thank you they guys who has to stare at this shit all day every day

haha i hear that ^ so true

heres a long quick message of not alot...

and while my style is the grungy dirty feel which is really the only way to go with rock-related design work, i can be stickin in abstract modern or really 3d industrial art on a hardcore bands cd album haha that stuff is for electronic music like rave shit. so im really into seein the eaten away terror logo style shiz all the time, im not complaining though.

i loved the spiked bats, the thornz record - cartel records thugcore illustrations, nyhc, tatoo art, the chains the spraypaint the graffitti and I still do and I still try to impletment whereever I can.

brass knuckles are ridiculously popular and frankly is fuckin lame. stupid atrocity designs i think it is use them for their small logo just to be trendy and cool, dont they design emo shit for emo bands or something? hello what the fuck! and theres the big clothing line i forget the name but i think by that dude in good charlotte that listens to hardcore and hes got a shirt with brass knucks on it, the dude is in the Fat Albert movie, im sorry but eye makeup, fashion hair just dont mix with brass knuckles... another thing most of the kids reppin the knucks dont have knucks themselves, i understand bands have it on their merch sometimes and thats fine though. and of course the all appropriate toughguy bands can duely sport the weapon of choice.

in canada knuckles are illegal, so is so much more fun to have them. peronsally, noting that no local cops browse the thorp board, I deal them up here.

we should start seein hammers and pick axe's or something on more art haha.

defstarsteve - 5-10-2005 at 10:18 PM

if I'm not mistake I just saw a hmamer print this week...
now which band on thorp was that again...

RomanticViolence - 5-11-2005 at 10:50 PM

Hmmm... a post about brass knuckles and Gabe hasn't anything to say?... stange

GabeTexasGAMC - 5-12-2005 at 02:18 AM

hahaha im just getting on it.

I actually tried to stay away from BKs in all the work i do.
I find it annoying how pwoplw who dont own a pair, have never held a pair, and are just plain wuss, have that kind of shit on their bands art.
I have a sweet pair of plastic ones that are legal pretty much anywhere...

Ive been trying to stay wayfrom th blood splatter too. as long as its grungey but not red, im cool with that.

thedog - 5-12-2005 at 04:01 AM

you can buy plastic and glass ones on ebay,
for real ones you could try a company called budk, but look for brass paper weights.

GabeTexasGAMC - 5-12-2005 at 04:44 AM

http://www.brassknucklescompany.com/

ENDERA.x - 5-12-2005 at 08:57 AM

no no http://www.brassknuckles.us/ is where to get em!

JUICE MAYNE MSHC - 5-12-2005 at 09:13 PM

both of those sites are wack...check out http://www.mrknuckles.com

thedog - 5-13-2005 at 03:55 AM

their stuff is cool, but their prices are a little high.

GabeTexasGAMC - 5-13-2005 at 08:32 AM

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Originally posted by thedog
their stuff is cool, but their prices are a little high.

ENDERA.x - 5-17-2005 at 07:34 AM

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Originally posted by JUICE MAYNE MSHC
both of those sites are wack...check out http://www.mrknuckles.com

how so!

I'd say your site is wack

"ALL ITEMS THAT WE CURRENTLY OFFER ARE FOR NOVELTY PURPOSES ONLY " bahahah croc.

and they don't ship Internationally I bet!

Hey does anyone on the board own a gun?

serenity - 5-17-2005 at 08:49 AM

(her necklace)

edit : two more

BDx13 - 5-17-2005 at 09:15 AM

THANK YOU, serenity, for picking up the ball with this one! Come on, I know there are more. Post em, people!

defstarsteve - 5-17-2005 at 10:35 AM

we did a desing for shattered realm last year...
and some unknown band this weekend...
just make them stop

JUICE MAYNE MSHC - 5-17-2005 at 08:09 PM

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Originally posted by ENDERA.x

Quote:

Originally posted by JUICE MAYNE MSHC
both of those sites are wack...check out http://www.mrknuckles.com

sorry you live in Canada, bro. I own 3 guns. I used to have 3 or 4 more but they were stolen when my house got robbed when I was 12.

Discipline - 5-17-2005 at 08:58 PM

You can get ggod bk's cheap on ebay. Just look under belt buckles.