How Do You Do Fellow Kids? So as a guy in my 30s it may be a little surprising to read that I’m enjoying the heck out of TikTok. The amount of information and ideas available from this very useful app is astounding, especially when it comes to cannabis.

High, Hell How Are You ? I’m Travis, and I’m going to be writing this here column for a little bit. A little background on my cannabis authority – I have no formal training in the science or business of marijuana. What I lack in traditional training, I make up with over a decade of daily use of the devil’s lettuce.

Podcast Travis Duda, Co-Host of SeltzerTime podcast and owner of Hunchback Graphics Branding and Design, explains the focus of the podcast. He also shares information about his business and also POW! WOW! in Worcester.

You are probably already familiar with Ricky Nelson and Travis Duda. Maybe Ricky served you a beer at the area-favorite (but sadly, now defunct) Dive Bar. Maybe you met Travis while marveling at some of the incredible public art you’ve seen around the city. When Travis isn’t “popping seltzer cans,” he spends his time with Hunchback Graphics + Design, his company.

Ricky Nelson and Travis Duda might seem familiar. The pair exude a blissful essence of quirky, hipster '90s-kid vibes, and you could swear you know them from somewhere. Maybe it was at Redemption Rock Brewery over the weekend, or during your daily coffee run to Crust Bakeshop. Perhaps you bumped into them last time you were at Buds Goods & Provisions, your favorite dispensary. Ever made a trip to Worcester Wares? If so, you definitely know who they are.

“There’s just something about public art that is really enchanting, the idea that we’re taking art out of museums and putting it on the street and making it really accessible to all people, that truly appeals to me,” says Duda, a graphic designer at Hunchback Graphics, a company he founded. Duda has also been a board member of POW! WOW! Worcester for three years, helping with the annual arts festival.

On this week’s Kornercast podcast Travis Duda joins us for his first ever Kornercast appearance!

I have know Travis for a long time and there is no cooler due or nicer guy than him. It was so much fun to catch up and just geek out about stuff.

“Try to remember this,” Gabe Rollins wrote in the first edition of the Worcester Quaranzine, a new project seeking to give a platform to people to articulate thoughts about being cooped up in Worcester through a historic pandemic.

Two Holy Cross students, Mia Lambo ('20) and Bryan Rivas ('23) dive into the world of Pow! Wow! and the life of Duda

WORCESTER – Of all places, it was in the back of Table Talk Pies in Worcester that Ricky Nelson and Travis Duda came together in the fall of 2018 to create the emerging local podcast, SeltzerTime.

Working in MetroWest, “I was taking clients wherever I could find them,” said Mr. Duda. After moving to Worcester, “I got a local opportunity followed by another and another and I stopped pursuing outside work.”

When they would drive up from Connecticut to see shows at the Palladium, Travis Duda and his friends would lock the car and hide their valuables under the seat.

"We'd only go straight to the venue because we'd heard all these horror stories about Worcester," he said.

But that's all changed.

In 2019, philanthropist Jean McDonough donated $2 million to support the completion of the BrickBox Theater, one of the Worcester Cultural Coalition programs. To honor her gift, the Coalition teamed with a local graphic designer, Travis Duda of Hunchback Graphics, to create a new logo.

508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk machetes, Worcester, politics, and opening foods and beverages on the internet with Travis Duda & Ricky Nelson of the Seltzer Time podcast.

Travis Duda is the owner of Hunchback Graphics. As a talented graphic designer, he has a gift for branding, typography, art direction and logo design. Duda is also a vital member of Worcester’s creative community. (You may recognize him as the man behind all of the Pow!Wow! Worcester slime videos that have been popping up in your newsfeed.) In addition, Duda makes up half of the Asylum Coffeetorium team that currently operates out of the Worcester Regional Food Hub to bring popovers to the masses.

Today we’d like to introduce you to Travis Duda and Daniel Lee.

Hunchback Graphics was started in a dorm room at Central Connecticut State University by Travis Duda and was going to be the premier design firm of badass album covers and the most metal logos anyone had seen.

In the run up to Halloween we take a bite out of Stitches, a macabre comedy with a big appetite which sees introduces us to the dark world of Edward Ables, an undead funeral home director with a taste for human flesh. And if that sentence alone isn’t enough to spark a morbid interest in this book then we’re not sure what will!

Ghouls! Zombies! Mystery! Noir! Stitches: The Undertaking, story by Travis Duda & Dan Lee with art & letters by Shawn Daley, is one of those rare comics that comes from out of nowhere, with a concept I’ve never seen before. So before we proceed let’s get the concept out of the way.