Oil Slick Dunny 8-Inch
Strike it rich with this eye-popping, super limited Dunny from French artist Skwak. Sporting a maniacal grin and clutching two cans of liquid fortune, Oil Slick Dunny is covered nearly head to toe in a healthy splattering of the crude stuff. Just don’t let him drink your milkshake.
At only 500 of each edition made, Oil Slick Dunny drops tomorrow at Hero. The “gold” edition of Oil Slick Dunny will be available only at Kidrobot stores and select retailers including Hero. The black “oil” edition will be available exclusively at kidrobot.com.
Valentine's Day is on Sunday, but there is still time to come by the Hero Boutique and pick up some stuff for your lover.
Gloomy Bear Zipper Pull Series
1-Inch
by Mori Chack
Mori Chack's malevolent icon returns in an assortment of 1-inch zipper pulls.
Some are bloody, some are not, all are ferocious.
Attach Gloomy to your hoodies, jackets, and backpacks.
This 23 piece series is blind assortment.
We have a limited supply available at this special price so get yours fast. Offer valid from Monday December 28 at 12 pm EST until Monday January 4 at 11:59 am EST, or while supplies last. Each and every poster in the Great Ten Dollar Poster Sale is available online and at the Hero Boutique in Buffalo, NY.
This is the last Ten Dollar Poster in the series!! Thanks for the support and for making this a successful series!!
The Buffalo First Coupon Books are available now at Hero! The books are $15 and they make a great holiday gift. Hero along with dozens of other local businesses are featured in the book, with wonderful savings to make shopping local even easier!
The coupon books feature a free local guide, hundreds of local/green tips, and beautiful full-page photos of Buffalo's best.
We have a limited supply available at this special price so get yours fast. Offer valid from Monday December 14 at 12 pm EST until Monday December 21 at 11:59 am EST, or while supplies last. Each and every poster in the Great Ten Dollar Poster Sale is available online and at the Hero Boutique in Buffalo, NY.
Enter to win the Vannen Winter Exclusive Watch designed by internationally renowned artist Christopher Bettig. The watch incorporates traditional holiday colors in such an intricate and alluring way that the watch is completely wearable beyond the month of December. Chris also designed the "snow globe" packaging - a clear poly-bag filled with non-toxic artificial snow and decorated with snowflakes.
There are only 100 of these festive limited edition timepieces in existence and each one comes with a two-color silkscreen print designed, printed, signed and numbered by Chris.
Make any purchase of $20 or more at the Hero Boutique from Monday, December 14 to Monday, December 21 and you will be entered to win the Winter Exclusive Watch. One winner will be chosen at random on Monday, December 21 at 6pm and you will be contacted immediately to claim your prize, so you can wear it to all of your holiday festivities.
Made from vintage molds, these designs are anywhere from 40 - 150 years old. These beauties are available at Hero now and are the perfect gift for the vintage loving lady in your life, or they make for a wonderful guilt free reward to yourself for all your hard work this year. Oh and the best part? They start at just $20
2010 Calendar Silkscreen Print
"Good Day Sunshine"
A stylish and fun way to keep track of what day it is in 2010! No matter what the weather is doing outside, it will always be sunny inside.
Buy this print and we guarantee 2010 will be the BEST and sunniest year yet!
The traditional Sunday - Saturday calendar at the bottom of the print is laid out so that it can easily be cut off, if you want to keep the print hanging without the calendar after 2010 is over.
This is a 16" x 20" three color silkscreen print, printed with non-toxic water based ink, and printed on Springhill Index in Ivory 140# index. Limited edition of just 75 prints, each print is numbered and signed.
If you get a chance to see The Swell Season on this tour, definitely do. Their new album, Strict Joy, is great and they are one of the best live shows I have ever been to. I suppose while I am plugging and sounding like a super fan, if you haven't seen the movie Once yet, rent it ASAP. Part of the inspiration for this movie, was the result of soundtrack The Swell Season created for Jan Hrebejk's movie, Beauty In Trouble. 'Once', is a low-budget Irish indie film that turned out to be one of the most successful independent features of 2007. The pair not only wrote the songs for the movie but they both starred in it as well.
It's pretty safe to say that no single company has ever inspired me more than Apple Computer. I have read (maybe) ten books in my life and Steve Jobs' biography makes that very short list. The first time I walked into an Apple store two things occurred to me; one, if there is a heaven this must be what it looks like, bright white, open and beautiful. The second thing that I immediately realized is, this place isn't just built for selling computers, but it was also built to sell their brand, the lifestyle and most importantly the human experience.
Three and half years ago Hero called a 250 square foot office on Main Street, "home". We were busting at the seams there, using a hallway for our poster inventory and printing our posters in a friend's basement, miles away. People would walk by and bang on my window, and proceed to yell to me that they wanted to come in, to purchase a poster. Although it was cool to sell our posters using the same system as a meth dealer, it was time for a change.
We needed more space, but we also needed more money for said space. It was time to get even more creative than we were already trying to be, but instead of being creative with a "Built To Spill" poster, we needed to be creative with our entire business. In times like those, I have to take a step back and look at everything I love and admire, and everything that inspires me, to see how I can apply it to my personal situation. I immediately thought about the Apple Store and thought, "WHAT IF?". The design industry for the most part is a closed door world, hidden away on the third floor of some office building. What if we took it to the street and opened the door? What if we invited other creatives or fans of creativity, into a space and offered them a chance to experience all things design? What If we applied what we had always loved about Apple and started to "Think Different" about our own little business?
Three years later, we're on the street level and we have had an open door that entire time. People have been able to come in, look over the four-foot counter that separates our store from the design studio, to see what we're designing. They have been able to look in the back and see us screen printing our current project, they've been able to look at the walls to see the posters we've created over the past 4 years and they have been inspired from shelves and shelves of designer toys from artists all over the world. It is 700 square feet of all things design and creative, all happening in real time, right in front of your eyes. Three years later, in our hometown of Buffalo, more people than ever know who we are and we realize we are selling so much more than our posters, toys and design services. Just like our inspiration, Apple, we are selling ourselves, our brand and our own personal human experience.
The second best thing about this entire experience, which came as a surprise to me, has been the people. Many of our customers have become some of our best friends. After all, we help their loved ones pick out their gifts for birthdays, Christmas, and other special events in their lives. We have spent many of our favorite nights in Buffalo with these people in our tiny little store, drinking, eating and listening to good music, all while celebrating our common bond, a love for design. Some come in every other month, some a couple times a month and a few every single week. They don't always buy something, but for us it's not just always about making money, it's about getting out of our chairs, putting the project or client on hold, and just shooting the shit with a good friend. The people, our customers and friends, have made this business enjoyable to us and they make going to work even more exciting than it already is.
What has been the BEST thing about this entire experience for me, you ask? It is doing what I love for a living, with my favorite person, who is both my partner in life and in business, all while our dog is laying at our feet. I may not be a wealthy man and my bank account can prove that, but I am a happy man and my laugh lines are a badge of honor. This little store has supported my dreams while others are still dreaming.
Thank you for three great years! Let's make it thirty more!
Mark Brickey
Husband, Designer, Printer, Store Owner, Businessman, Friend, Dog Owner & Community College Drop Out
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