Villains Back Patch

These were some back patches I had screenprinted. Inspired by metal & punk culture, I chose the word Villains and ran with it. It's not a real band or gang or anything at all. Just a word, open to interpretation.

E.E. U.U. is Spanish for Estados Unidos (USA for all you laymen) and signifies Villains' country of origin. Duh.

Originally printed June 2013

Art-a-Whirl GIF

Lizzie & Maru somewhere @ Art-a-Whirl

Everybody 12

Newly produced is the winter edition of my just-for-fun biannual Mix CD: Everybody 12.

Cover Art

Track List!

I encourage all who did not receive a physical copy to check out the songs on iTunes or Soundcloud, cause these are these are like, some choice cuts, man.

S.O.S. Save Our Sage

Just wanted to quick post this up; despite the event having long since past. I designed and screen printed a poster to promote and be sold for a benefit event on behalf of Sage Ugstad & her medical costs.

 

It printed nicely with a border on a few different colored stocks.

Mind the blur.

Lizzo Bangers Logo

Back in August, longtime friend and local rapper Lizzo asked me to come up with a logo for her debut album. After a lot of deliberation, we decided to go with this one:

As seen on various merch:

Congrats to Lizzo on all the critical acclaim she's been receiving as of late!

BONUS ROUND:
Some logo drafts from the brainstorming process:

UPDATE

Rescued from the file catacombs:

Research at Urban Bean

Foolish September

A flyer I designed

Everybody 10

Oh yeah, I made a new mix CD for everybody. Except for only 25 of everybody, since it is a limited edition out of 25.

The front cover.

Contact me if interested.

Sing About Me

Ay! Made some album artwork for a new single by 1990 & the Larva Ink.

Check the track out the sveltly sexy Drum n' Bass track here.

Hail Rock Selfy

Self portrait: Rock & Roll style !!

Bonus Inversion Version:

Gigi X Cliche

Long time no see, right? Anyways, I threw together this flyer for an event my friend is hosting at Cliche in Minneapolis. If you dig female fashion, you should check it out. Short notice (it's tomorrow!) but I'm satisfied with the way the flyer turned out.

Everybody 9

 

The time has arrived for another one of my bi-annual mix cds: Summer Time.

Citation of references for inspiration of cover design: Summer time, warmth, frisbees.

Limited, hand-numbered run of 30.

Get one for yourself to see the TOTALLY KILLER tracklist!

Kid Sister: Kid No Longer

My sister is graduating high school. That is crazy. Seems like just yesterday I was jumping in leaf piles with her and placing her in miniature doll beds, pretending she herself was a doll.

I threw together a graduation party invite for her; looks like this:

Alternate Colors

Al's Brew

It was recently my totally awesome Dad's birthday. Since he collects old beer cans, I figured a custom designed label would be a fitting gift.

I went for a pretty classic style and approach. After it was ready for printing, I found an old style beer can to paste it on;

They don't make 'em like they used to.

The existing rust from the can showed through during the pasting process, but it added a really great touch of antiquity. One of those "happy mistakes" I'd always heard about...

\m/etal

I was set to design this logo for a client, but it never got past the planning stages.

I was excited enough about the idea to take it to a [rough] final stage, just for fun, and here's how it turned out:

Babies' first metal band logo!

Melancholia

I learned myself a new trick! In order to get the hang of it, I decided to make a mock-movie poster. I've seen the likes of Graphic Design giants such as Olly Moss and Tomer Hanuka do their takes on movie posters (Yes, I chose the same movie as Tomer but what can I say, it's an awesome movie!) to which I could never dream of comparing, but in spite of that I decided to do my own modest little version of one.

Really minimal and it kind of gives it a sci-fi vibe, but it was a quick little project.

Uptown Art Fair 2012

Hello, it's me. It's been a while, hasn't it? Have you been thinking of me, like I've been thinking of you? Fond memories... Passion filled rendezvous... Heart-wrenching goodbyes...

Woah woah woah, got a little side tracked. Anyways, I came up with a submission for the Uptown [Minneapolis] Art Fair t-shirts this year. It's simple, but I wanted to appeal to a wide demographic. Hopefully I win! But no hard feelings if I don't, I had fun making it.

The font was designed by Måns Grebäck, and I added the reflection-type flourishes.

A quick mock-up.

Handwritten Notes

  I don't know.

I always get these strings of words stuck in my head and I feel like they should be manifested somehow. "Handwritten Notes" is one of those said strings.

Maybe someday if I start a correspondence with someone after I'm famous, I can make this a cover of a short book or something. Or something.

Six Words

This is something I threw together a while ago for Six Word Story Everyday. It looks as though they are no longer posting daily submissions, and they never posted mine even when they were, but I still like it. It was nothing fancy anyways.

I'll probably make more of these.

The Toxics

I want to be in a punk rock band. I already made our first single cover. 

Second Iteration

Just joshin'. 

I made up a band name etc. because I like to use text in designs. Picture, if one of my designs were a room, type & font would be the proverbial rug that really ties said room together. Without that "rug", something would just be missing, Dude.

Taste

This is just a post out of boredom. 

A lot of the time, when creating something, I make dozens of iterations of a piece just to more easily visualize the possibilities of an end product. Here are two early (read: far cry from final product) iterations of a piece I'm currently working on.

I'll be sure to come back eventually with the final product. These are essentially just proverbial thumbnail sketches of digital imaging. A byproduct of processing my way to a final composition.