6.27.2012

New Psy-Ind retail location


We are pleased to announce the new official retail outlet for all things Psychological Industries is at:

Discordia Culture Shop, the Retail arm of Discordia Merchandising which funds the production of many of our offerings.

Currently Discordia Culture Shop is taking submissions from Artists/Designers/Companies/etc.
Contact Discordia Culture Shop about stocking your independent art and merchandise, or even getting more of YOUR goods into production, email here: discordiacultureshop@gmail.com

6.26.2012

AWARE street slaps



AWARE campaign

Being a memetic ideology spreading device.
Black and White high-quality silk-screened vinyl stickers. 3x3 inches.

The AWARE Street Team sticker replacement policy applies to this sticker.

Place on the street and send photos to psyind@gmail.com we will mail you 2 for 1 replacements. 3 for 1 outside the U.S.

Available HERE

6.19.2012

'Psy-Ind Ladies' promo postcards...



These are some of the 5000 Promotional Postcards going out all over the world this Summer.

These Postcards will appear only at select locations including Independent Book and Music stores, Activist Centers, and Politically charged Cafes world-wide.

Any suggested locations can be emailed to PsyInd@gmail.com

A few Psy-Ind street sightings...





These 20x8.5 inch paper stickers were an experiment. Using standard A4 sticker paper and a spray gloss seal...

It seemed like a worthy project but the attempts were less successful than expected. The spray gloss yellowed over time though the A4 sticker pages did stay up as desired...






This sighting is even more amusing being that it was actually spotted on a University Campus...

Digital Freedom Project by Psy-Ind

OneMillionButtonsforDigitalFreedom.com is a Project by Psychological Industries to raise funds for the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Discover More about the EFF HERE







New Digitail Freedom sets coming this year.

Artistrs are welcome to contribute designs to the project.

Visit the Digital Freedom Project page HERE

DOWNLOADS

New Downloads section available HERE

Stencils and Public Service Announcement Posters. More to come.

6.18.2012

AWARE Street Team launch



AWARE Street Team packs

Level 01-Level 02

Place stickers in public, earn more stickers. Place any stickers, slap style, in public around Universities and other high traffic areas in large cities. Email the photos to us and we will send you double the stickers. Triple stickers for slaps placed outside the U.S.



These are the AWARE Style Variants


These are the uncut AWARE Style Quads which are only available in the Level 02 packs.


AWARE XL included in Level 01 and Level 02 packs.


Available Retail HERE

An open call for Sticker Trading will occur soon.

Psy-Ind Chrome Series Sticker Packs

“Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.” -Peter F. Drucker

Chrome stickers are EXTREMELY hard to photograph...

This series is very limited in numbers. Only 100 of each design in Chrome exist.

Statements ranging from Womens Rights to Privacy Issues and even Germ-Warfare of the Mind. Display in public spaces and watch as those around you expand their Reality Tunnels. Black silk-screened on Mirrored Chrome.



Chrome Series - Complete Sets

Available Retail HERE
Wholesale from DKETOYS

Chrome Series - 5 sticker packs 1-3

Feminista Set
-RESPECT
-Join the Matriarchy
-Women Take Over
-Did Someone Mention Housework?
-AWARE Square [3x3inches]

Take it to the Streets Set
-Welcome to Utopia
-Just Dont
-The Streets Belong to the People
-YUPPIE -Psy-Ind Logo [3x3inches]

Psychologica Memetica Set
-DJ Girl in Argyle
-ESCAPE
- Barcode Flag
-Science cannot remove the Terror of the Gods
-AWARE Square
-Battle Damaged [3x3inches]
-Psy-Ind Logo [3x3inches]

Available Retail HERE
Wholesale from DKETOYS soon...



AWARE - Battle Damage

NOTE: The Battle Damage design on Chrome is only available in the Psychological Memetica Set.

Tabloid Posters - Series 01

The following are the first series of 11x17 Hard Stock Digital Prints.

These prints are printed in the most respectable AND inexpensive format possible so that owning them can be as widely accessible to the public as possible.

RESPECT Girl - A Ideological Detournement of Revolutionary icons spreading RESPECT for the Ladies.


Available HERE

AWARE Girl Version 01 - A Memetic Ideology spreading Device for Free Thinking.


Available HERE

Argyle Girl - A Pin-Up print.


Available HERE

Digital Freedom Forever - A detournement of Guy Fawkes/Anonymous imagery.

Designed to raise awareness for Digital Freedoms in the Internet age.

100% of Net Proceeds from the sale of each poster will be donated to the Electronic Frontier Foundation because they 'Fight for the Users'.

Available HERE

6.17.2012

We got Blogged again...



http://surfaceareazine.com/main/?p=182

No suprise that we were blogged, we did buy adspace in the first Issue.

As of this posting the first issue is already sold out.

Stay tuned for Issue 02!

Psychological Industries Bloggged by THE Warren Ellis



This was a humble and all togeter unexpected moment when we checked the old MySpace page and noticed the hits for a single day numbering in the hudreds.

This was why...

http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=5729

Note the Original, rarely seen, version of the BY ANY MEMES NECESSARY design which was never put to print in any form.

6.13.2012

Button 5-packs series 01

Button 5-packs were introduced in 2010 along with Postcards, and the XL series stickers.

Featuring unique designs and variations of existing designs not available in any other format.

Series 02 scheduled for release Forth Quarter 2012.

AWARE Girl


Street Art set


Girl Power set


EVOLVE set


Retail HERE
Wholesale Here: http://www.dketoys.com/

POSTCARDS

Postcard Series 01




Retail HERE

A small number of Psy-Ind Postcards were also grouped into pairs with Stickers HERE



-Yuppie/AWARE




-Any Memes/Digital Freedom




-Tasty Jam/Old School




-Few Will Ever/Can You Dig It


All packs Are available Wholesale From: http://www.dketoys.com/

XL Sticker Series 01

Digital Freedom Forever

Developed intentionally from source material dealing with freedom and human rights. Detourning the imagery into a message about Digital Rights while skating the line of legality is the point here.

And sorry Warner Brothers, but no, you cant Pwn Guy Fawkes. Good luck trying to sue every single member of Anonymous...


A Few More Years of this New Medium

A new design message dealing with the medium of Television. This design is inspired by material from the Book of the SubGenius, hence the pipe smoking cameo of one JR Bob Dobbs. Props to Ivan Stang for awakening millions of brains to stark reality.


Revolution of the Mind

The cover of our Zine by the same name.


Few Will Ever


By Any Memes Necessary


Girl Needs a Gun 2.0

A redesign as a 9x3 inch bumper sticker.


All are available HERE
And Wholesale here: http://www.dketoys.com/

6.09.2012

The Fear - Aug 19 2009

We accept what is given and what is given is the Fear. Fear and the knowledge that the power to over come the Fear is to either buy something or wait for a greater force to come save us from the Fear.
We all sit and wait for some other greater force than us to solve our problems, in church in state in schools and in homes, we sit and wait for god, government non profits, corporations etc to save us from disaster.

We must stop accepting the Fears distributed by the Fear-mongers. Eliminate all forms of coercion from our daily routines, advertising, corporate media, etc. Once we start thinking our own thoughts, dreaming our own dreams and living our own lives, we will be mentally free to create our own forms of culture, our own forms society, and take back control of the future of the human race from the Fear-mongers.

Capitalism is accepted as the unavailable perfection of human activity. God's existence will be happily discussed by most people, yet capitalism is unquestionable. Our society equates consumption habits with sanity. To question the nature of the conditions of consumer society is bring ones sanity into doubt. For if one was to question consumer society one must also be calling into question the validity of capitalism. Surely if one does not believe that a consumer society is a state of perfection where all humans dine at the same table of prosperity one must be insane.

Intellectual Property and Copyright restrictions will stifle innovation and creativity. As we all know any nation that disrespects these limitations to human activity will develop a society more advanced than one that respects these limitations. Patents now apply to our food supply and even our genetic codes. Growing your own food may be Copyright Infringement and grounds to have your home taken from you in court. Designer Genetic IP Nazis may confiscate your natural-born children for Gene Bootlegging.

The distribution of knowledge is the means of social control by which all humans are slaves. In cultural servitude we toil for hierarchical rank, struggling to obtain status in a system we know to be anathema to any realized conceptualization of freedom one can imagine.

The dissemination of cultures anathema to human freedom and innovations are a plague upon the human race. Advertising, branding, think tanks, PR, corporate news and other forms of coercion for profit are in the business of carving out our futures. And that future is one lived in fear and ignorance, dependent upon the system to provide scarcity and opportunity side by side, and provide a way for most humans to continue shopping for solutions until the end of time. To resign to reside in a 'capitalist utopia' and accept the 'end of history'.

This is the cultural destiny that has been chosen for us by nothing more than a oblivious bureaucratic machinery that has no one at the controls. There is no evil mastermind at the helm, there is only us and button pushing Fear-mongers fighting for hierarchy in a badly wired machine. There is no Conspiracy only Commerce. We are the problem.

Zines: Revolution of the Mind / Truth Equals Virus

Revolution of the Mind is a nod to the zines of the early 90s and a selection of Psychological Industries designs along side quotes from various sources about memetics and media propaganda in general.

Only 50 were printed around 2009 and made available only through Discordia Culture Shop, the retail side of Discordia Merchandising, online at Etsy.com



Truth Equals Virus is a Zine directed at youth in general and features articles adapted for the mini-zine format. Ranging from GPS tracking devices in school uniforms to the cultural take over of skateboarding by corporations like NIKE. DIY wheatpasting recipes and tear out public service announcment posters included.

Truth Equals Virus is something we wish we had found during high school years to help us get through it, so we provided it to others.


Also available only through Discordia Culture Shop Etsy.com

OLD SCHOOL / Drama School

OLD SCHOOL was a design based on a myspace friends picture. She had seem the design and was happy about it. A half year later the design was slated to be part of the Series 03 sticker run. At that point said friend was informed of the stickers and we were planning to give her a stack of them as thanks.

This is where the fun starts...


A series of odd event occurred starting with a strange phone call in the middle of the night by someone drunk belligerent and claiming to be taping the call for use in court. The photographer claimed that we had trampled his good name and that we were simply jealous of all the women he had seduced during photo shoots.

We found the situation amusing at the time. It was the continuous refusal to take us to court combined with the continuous late night drunken triads at 3am that got kinda weird. And the reposting of our designs by this individual online without our consent would have made an even more substantial case for copyright infringement, but alas, you can't counter sue if no one sues you first...

Granted we did have great conversations about the nature of transformative and derivative works.

It was after blowing off this persons demands that we turn over everything featuring the design to him that we instead tossed the stickers and postcards into the promotional pile and gave them away and placed them all over the city for the whole town to enjoy.

Although we did find a large number of the postcards had been torn down and tossed in the ditch in front of our private residence. And the individual continued to harass and troll us and other online associates for years afterwards...

Some people just don't know how to take a compliment.

The campaign was revised without a hitch and OLD SCHOOL 2.0 survives on postcards and limited edition posters planned for the near future.