Mayazteca Studios

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We are a tiny design studio consisting of geeky graphic designers, and a comic book nerd. 
We sell original, nerdy & culturally–inspired products that even we would buy and collect. 
Cultura. Sci–Fi. Comics. Collectibles. 
Authentic San Francisco. 

Website:https://mayazteca.studio

Heads up, Bay Area Small Businesses:

If you qualify as diverse-owned, you have until 1/31/2025 to apply to provide a product or service to Super Bowl LX via the NFL Source program. Application is quick & easy. We did it. You should, too. For details, go to:

https://superbowl60suppliers.com/

Let’s do this, friends!

#NFL #SuperBowl #SuperBowlLX #LeviStadium #SFBayArea #SanFranciscoBay #SFBay #SmallBusiness #Diversity #DiverseOwned #SuperBowlVendor #Sports #Football

Super Bowl LX Source Procurement Program |

The cultural representation and artwork in this video is beautiful.

#Music #MusicVideo #CulturalRepresentation #Culture #Representation #Animation

https://youtu.be/6P9_UkEMMks

Julian Lennon - Lucky Ones (Official Music Video)

YouTube

Braids and bowlers: Indigenous Bolivian women skateboard in style in Celia D. Luna’s empowered portraits. #skateboarding #portrait #culture

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/01/celia-luna-cholitas/

Braids and Bowlers: Indigenous Bolivian Women Skateboard in Style in Celia D. Luna's Empowered Portraits

"Cholitas Skaters" focuses on a group of Indigenous Bolivian women who wear traditional clothes while practicing extreme sports.

Colossal

Blast from the past when our Art Director was a wee graphic designer and created the logo for NBC’s “The Voice” Season 8 contestant, Sonic.

#GraphicDesign #LogoDesign #TshirtGraphics #TheVoice #Sonic #NBC

“Not only were the cards produced in conjunction with the hockey players and their families, but Indigenous artist Jacob Alexis from the Alexis Nakota Sioux Nation designed them as well. Indigenous card collector Naim Cardinal, a Cree and member of Tallcree First Nation, wrote the card backs.”

#SportsCollectibles #Hockey #TradingCards #Indigenous #Canada #NakotaSioux #Cree #NHL

https://www.upperdeckblog.com/2023/01/upper-deck-releases-nhl-first-peoples-rookie-cards/

Upper Deck Releases NHL® First Peoples Rookie Cards | Upper Deck Blog

To help shine a light on the Indigenous community and honor iconic Indigenous players, Upper Deck created a limited-edition set featuring Indigenous hockey players who never had an NHL® licensed trading card before. The goal was to create a set that was for the community, by the community. So it was important that from the

Upper Deck Blog | Opinions, News and Info from Sports Industry Insiders

“Paracas” animates a 2000-year-old pre-Columbian textile created in the Paracas/Nazca region of Perú. Figures from the ancient textile come to life to perform an imagined ancient ritual in a miniature wold set in the poetic universe of a desert transformed into a garden by its ancient inhabitants.

#StopMotion #Archaeology #Animation

https://vimeo.com/15818461

Paracas

Vimeo

That time we drove the bumpiest road 3 hours to the very remote Racetrack Playa in Death Valley to see the Sailing Stones.

I walked quite a bit (the jeep is quite far in the background) and as I was photographing a stone, I looked up and caught an iridescent cloud. The only sound was the wind. (My business partner was far in another direction.) A truly sacred moment. I took a few photos, then stopped, sat and meditated.

#DeathValley #SailingStones #ThrowbackThursday #Photography

Sunday Geek-out with MetalBallStudios:

"STARSHIPS - Dimensions at Real Scale"

https://youtu.be/m_Loc7qX7FI

#3Dart #3Drendering #3d #SciFi #SciFiMovies #Starships

STARSHIPS - Dimensions at Real Scale

YouTube

The Paracas textiles are truly extraordinary.

"The fabrics the mummies were wrapped in reveal the extraordinary skill and artistry of the Paracas. And the images and symbols provide insight into their worldview...There are shamans in trances. Deities. And severed heads...For the Paracas, colors have meaning, and the way they organize them is important. It's part of their identity. There is a symbolism we haven't deciphered yet."

https://www.allarts.org/programs/nova/nazca-desert-mystery-66vtkw/

#textiles #archaeology #peru #paracas

“We wanted to...convey the point that Maya are living people, not something archaeological or from the past,” Chinchilla Mazariegos said. “These are living communities that still preserve aspects of the ancient religious beliefs depicted in the ancient objects presented in the exhibition.”

#MayanArt #Maya #MayanExhibit

https://news.yale.edu/2022/11/22/lives-gods-met-exhibition-maya-art-guided-yale-scholarship

Lives of the Gods: Met exhibition on Maya art guided by Yale scholarship

Co-curated by Yale’s Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos, the new exhibition features nearly 100 rarely seen masterpieces and recent discoveries of Maya art.

YaleNews