Random! Cartoons Logo

Here’s some biography on our Random! Cartoons logo winners. (To see all their entries just type their names in the search box on the right.)

Michael Lapinski writes: “Born and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey; I now live and work in Park Slope, Brooklyn. After getting my degree in Graphic Design from Rutgers University, my first job was painting cels for the old Jumbo Studios. Since then, I’ve served as a Lead Designer on Nickelodeon’s “Blue’s Clues” and more recently as Color Supervisor on “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” for Dancing Diablo Studio. At Diablo, I also had the opportunity to write, design, and direct the short “Home Sweet Home,” about a lost tree frog, for Sesame International. I’m currently doing more traditional design work (posters, packaging, logos) for theatre companies and musicians, and soon I’ll be art directing an animated interstitial created by Amy and Liza Steinberg for Noggin. I like the [Read more…]

May 1 is here, and, as promised, the winner of our Random! Cartoons logo competition.

Ladies and Gentlemen, meet Michael Lapinski.

Michael’s a New York based art director. We’ll put up a more detailed profile later in the week. Michael will be receiving the $1000 prize, and a credit on all of our Random! epsiodes. Congratulations.

The winning entry was inspired by one of Darron Moore’s entries. As Michael’s muse Darron’s got $300 coming to him. Congratulations.

What a great competition. And a difficult one for me to judge, I must say. Aside from all the controversy, there were 128 entries, most of them fantastic. As I think I wrote elsewhere, there were people I was biased towards (the folks on the Random crews), and people I was rooting for (some of our biggest fans were also among our most prolific entrants). In the end, I’m glad the winners were both people we didn’t [Read more…]