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Design By Humans Feature
09/13/21
I'm this week's featured artist on Design By Humans!
Shark Week!
07/10/15
Various shots of my shark designs were tweeted out by Design By Humans for shark week!
Captain Pancake!
06/02/15
"Captain Pancake" was featured in a Redbubble Mailer.
The Sleepy Donut
03/25/15
My print "The Sleepy Donut" was featured on the redbubble found section on the redubble home page!
Party hard!
03/21/15
My illustration of the Andrew WK donut was featured by the artist himself on his twitter and instagram!
Pancakes!
![Pancake Bot feature on Paste Magazine | Nick Volkert My illustration Pancake Bot featured on Paste Magazine](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnickvolkert.sirv.com%2Fpress%2Fpancakes.jpg&w=1200&q=75)
Pancake Bot feature on Paste Magazine
03/03/15
My illustration of "The Pancake Bot" was featured on Paste Magazine.
Texas Chainsaw Tee Featured!
01/19/15
My tee design "The Texas Chainsaw Astronaut: New Moon" is featured by a Buzzfeed staffer in their video series.
The Circusbot featured on redbubble
12/30/14
Circusbot was featured on the "Found" section of the Redbubble home page.
Two Coffee Designs Featured on the Redbubble Blog!
09/30/14
My pieces "Pumpkin Latte Bot" and "Super Coffee" were featured on the Redbubble blog!
Off to Grandma's House
09/23/14
My print "Off to Grandma's House" was featured on the redbubble found section on the redubble home page!
Zombie Shark Tank Featured on DBH!
08/12/14
My piece "The Zombie Shark" was featured on Design By Human's e-mail blast for shark week!
Shark Suit Dog Featured on Redbubble!
08/12/14
My piece "The Shark Suit Dog" was featured on redbubble's e-mail blast!
Funny Hat Shark is a funny tee on DBH!
07/26/14
Funny Hat Shark is featured as a funny tee in a Design By Humans mailer
Bad Day Log featured on Redbubble!
05/08/14
My piece "Bad Day Log" was featured on redbubble's home page!
Happy Birthday Shark on Redbubble!
04/18/14
My piece "Happy Birthday Shark" was featured on redbubble's home page!
Logstache Featured on Redbubble!
03/24/14
My design "Logstache" was featured on the redbubble home page.
Crowberus Featured on Redbubble
01/24/14
My piece "Crowberus" was featured on the Redbubble home page!
On the Tumblr Radar!
![Funny Hat Shark featured on the Tumblr dashboard | Nick Volkert My funny hat shark design went viral on Tumblr](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnickvolkert.sirv.com%2Fpress%2Ftumblr_radar_funnyhatshark.jpg&w=1200&q=75)
Funny Hat Shark featured on the Tumblr dashboard
01/23/14
I woke up the morning of January 23rd to my email and phone blowing up with tumblr notifications, and here my illustration "Funny Hat Shark" was featured!
![Funny Hat Shark viral note count | Nick Volkert The note count on my Funny Hat Shark illustration on Tumblr.com](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnickvolkert.sirv.com%2Fpress%2Ffunnyhat_notecount.png&w=1200&q=75)
Funny Hat Shark viral note count
As of 06/08/14 it has 1,596 notes!
Circusbot Poster
12/01/13
Circusbot was featured as a favorite poster of one of the Redbubble staffers!
Characterized
CHARACTERIZED Chicago 2013 Recap from Cut&Paste on Vimeo.
07/26/1
I recently took place in the live sketching event "Characterized" by Cut & Paste!
Decked Recap
DECKED from Sam Rood on Vimeo.
Sam Rood did an amazing job capturing the "Decked" show that I created some skate deck art for. Be sure to watch it!
TeeCraze.com Home Page
07/06/12
Teecraze.com chose my piece "The Polka Dot" as a featured piece for their daily showcase.
Redbubble Home Page
06/12/12
Redbubble.com chose my piece "Cloud City" as a home page piece.
Redbubble Meetup
![Redbubble Chicago artist meetup | Nick Volkert Select group of artists dining at the redbubble meet up in Chicago](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnickvolkert.sirv.com%2Fnews%2Fredbubblemeetup-chicago.jpeg&w=1200&q=75)
Redbubble Chicago artist meetup
![Redbubble swag from the Chicago meetup | Nick Volkert Collection of my art on works from Redbubble.com](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnickvolkert.sirv.com%2Fpress%2Fredbubblestuff.jpg&w=1200&q=75)
Redbubble swag from the Chicago meetup
06/10/12
The friendly and amazing people at Redbubble.com took me out Tuesday (6/5/12) for a great dinner here in Chicago and to discuss their site.
They were also gracious enough to print my works on some sample items (pictured above).
I want to thank them again for showing me a nice night on the town!
Thrillist Feature
![Feature on Thrillist.com | Nick Volkert Thrillist.com illustration feature](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnickvolkert.sirv.com%2Fpress%2Fthrillistfeature.png&w=1200&q=75)
Feature on Thrillist.com
02/20/12
I was a featured artist on the site thrillist.com
Chicago Dog Bus Benches
01/02/12
Here's a couple pics of the bus bench ads by The Alley of my "Chicago Dog" shown throughout Chicago.
Thanks to Alex Van Trejo for the pics.
Redbubble Home Page
01/02/12
Redbubble.com chose my piece "Circusbot" as a home page piece.
Fine Design Dine and Wine
![finedesigndine.com feature of my art show display at 2Sparrows | Nick Volkert feature of my painted artworks for the now closed breakfast and brunch nook in Chicago called 2Sparrows](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnickvolkert.sirv.com%2Fpress%2Ffinedesignfeature.png&w=1200&q=75)
Abstract works I made for the opening of 2Sparrows on finedesigndine.com
12/05/11
The pieces I had hanging at my 2Sparrows art show and mentioned in a write up about the restaurant on finedesigndine.com (No longer online).
Society6 Printing Process - Lumbermancer Tee
Society6 Stretched Canvas - a day in the life from Justin Wills on Vimeo.
02/23/11
See the behind the scenes action of Society6, and keep an eye out for my "Lumbermancer" tee on the green tee.