Paintings Here & There

There has been a lull in my design work. Not entirely, but in terms of blog updates, I've been slacking. Not slacking, but painting. Here are some of my finished pieces I thought I'd show you:

A gift for ma lovely sista.

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.