With the Thriller and Bad albums still playing in the studio, it seemed only right that we mention Michael Jackson on TC. As complicated a personality as he was, there’s no denying the impact his music had on pretty much the whole world, especially if, like us, you grew up in the 80s! Sam Gilbey produced the illustration above and summed it up perfectly…

“Together with Quincy Jones and others, he really did create some of the greatest popular music the world has ever heard. And because you can’t separate out his eccentricities from his music, I also wanted to sum up the enigmatic presence which made him so fascinating. Rest in peace Michael, and thank you.”

You can see larger versions of the piece and Sam’s original post, over on his blog. Now go listen to Billie Jean or something!

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A day late with the post here so apologies for that, but here we are with info on the 3rd xmas box we’ve put together!

First in there this time is illustrator Jonathan Edwards, who sent us a bunch of cool cards as well as a Gocco print made with his own fair hands. Then we have TC xmas stalwart, the ever-brilliant Sam Gilbey, who chipped in with a lovely set of art postcards (with his previously-featured Flight of The Conchords work in!). Lunartik joined in the fun with loads of plug stickers, patches and magnets. As a real treat for you all, Luke Feldman, aka Skaffs, posted over a hand-painted piece of magnet art magic! From good ol’ Barcelona, character designer Charuca very kindly donated an awesome signed vinyl toy and t-shirt. UK illustrator Phil Corbett added in his funky Kitten Parasites book and some cards. TC regular and Edinburgh’s finest illustrator, Mr Boy Fitz Hammond chipped in with his Sound of Colour tee. Meni Tzima, aka Yupyland, sent us some signed printed and hand-drawn stickers all the way from Greece. And last but by no means least, EAMO sent us some some designer stubby-holders (bet you don’t have one of them!), all the way from Oz (pretty much the other side of the world)!

These boxes just keep getting bigger!! To get your mitts on it just go to…

The TC xmas project 2008 micro-site!!!!

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Sam Gilbey is an designer/illustrator who has worked for a whole range of big clients, including Motorola, The British Museum and Preloaded. He’s also partial to a bit of journalism and his articles have appeared in Digital Creative Arts, Computer Arts Projects and .Net Magazine, as well as being music editor on the popular portal Pixelsurgeon. How does he fit it all in? We thought we’d find out…

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