TOM ROREM

I had the pleasure of meeting Tom Rorem a year ago. I discovered a thinker, a musician, and a friend. He has the reward of graduating from a fine Chicago school and is finishing it with a final show with a full band. Proud of you Tom!

The first thing that came to mind for this poster was actually color. I never think of color schemes first so this was something I was excited to see where it would take me. I wanted it to be old school western meets old adventure book covers with thick type. I tried to think of imagery of being done, being free, moving on. I kept coming back to wild horses on the Midwest plains with so much room to roam. This is the most grainy masking i've done on a poster and something i don't want to do often but the element was perfect for this.

If you are in Chi-town hit this up!

NO THEFT x AMPERSAND

There has been incredible attention given to this swirly character in the past year, blogs, shirts, fonts, tattoos even have been saturated with them. I enjoy them a lot as well, SO I decided to make one and give it to my pal Anna who is a fan as well.

MICHAEL PORTER

A few weeks back my dear friend/brother asked me to put together a business card for him for his photography. I worked on it from the road and a couple days back this developed into a logo that I'm really proud of. I wanted to keep it very simple, something that could be versatile for diff. mediums and something that would have equal emphasis of imagery & type. I brought in the aperture shapes and it made itself! MP liked it and we sent em off to be printed. I haven't done much logo work and with this under my belt I'm excited to work on future logo projects.

Please check out Michael's site for some great work!

Chemistry In Print

Saw this today, beakers are in!

Background

My mum has been telling me to try using more colors for back grounds than the typical. I came across these today and thought of her. I love the gem/film logo and the unique type placements on the mustard color poster. Here's to more color in future works.

INVISIBLE CREATURE

I usually don't double post, but I had to share on my page as well. I just finished designing Paper Astronomer's new EP cover with the help of Shoot take it & Casey (singer of PA) and will be working on another cover soon! I have limited experience with cover work helping with the art direction on 2 GV albums and 1 GV record on my own. I'm excited to work more on music covers in the future and the Invisible Creature kids are a huge current inspiration that is fueling my growing intrigue with cover work. Anyone need an album cover done or know someone who needs one done? holla! ANYWAY back to the re-post

"I’m always researching/gathering for inspirations. Lately I’ve been gathering more mixed media works, from textures, illustrated/photo combos, 3-d pieces. I don’t really use those theories in my work but when I see it done well I’m deff. engaged. I’ve been staring at these 3 record covers for the past while and today discoverd that they collectively are done by the same design firm! After looking at their blog I found more pieces of their work that I’ve previously put in my design likings. I wonder if they want another designer for their firm…winky wink ALSO these kids are Seatown LOCAL, gotta love the two-o-six scene!"

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NEW NOISE

Mdot got me connected to Nassir a week ago. He runs a weekly joint called New Noise that brings in unsigned acts to get em exposure and to draw talent out of the community. We had a very short window to get this poster done & up for promotions. It was a challenge for me to research, develop the thought, and deliver in a day and a half for a brand new client. The amount of information that needed to be on this was a bit challenging as well, it's more than a line up show.

I had 2 things to base my work on 1) a past New Noise poster 2) the season of spring. I thought of leaves budding and chemistry as a symbol for developing something 'new'. I went more busy/illustrated than I normally do, littered the beaker with leaves and used diff. versions of them for the fire that is brewing the new concoction. I continued the natural theme into the tongs being a twig and then 2 toned the liquid for slight depth.

I learned a lot from this project. The hustle made me realize how to better understand my client before producing a product, to have more time between start & deadline for more revisions, and to run with several themes at one time more consistently.

Nassir is doing great things with Found Track and his contribution to the music scene is going to grow and grow and grow. I'm stoked about it!