Arsenic & Old Lace

A new poster design on my site! :) A mixture of whimsical typography and clean illustration, which make up much of my personal style are used to create this poster for the play Arsenic & Old Lace. Arsenic & Old Lace is a play by American playwright Joseph Kesselring, written in 1939. This is not a client project but is my interpretation of how it could be done and was developed for a series of samples I'll be sending to art directors.

Alice in Wonderland

I'm a big fan of Alice in Wonderland and felt it would make a great addition to a pitch of samples for art directors. This is not a client project and never took place but is my interpretation of how it could be done. It is 2 posters, the program cover, and a shirt design for the staff. I set this fictitious project with the Port Tobacco Players, they are an awesome local theater of volunteers that do great work.

TERCIO!

Tercio is a pastiche slab-serif of wood & metal tendencies. Originally construction was to create a slab-serif version of Camisado, but as the design progressed so many changes took place that Tercio became its own font. The steampunk inspired print is 12.5" x 19" four color process with a silk-screen overprint of metallic gold ink on French's 65# Cover Parchtone Aged. Download Tercio for free here. Enjoy!

Give A Damn

I recently finished a run of my new Give A Damn posters which you can check out here. This poster was initially inspired by a statement I saw saying "Design like you give a damn." I thought of creating this poster so that each person could make it their own personalized motivational poster and put in what they give a damn about in the area above the words. It is custom lettering and my Atreyu typeface below. Silk screened with gunmetal metallic ink on 65# Cover French's Pop-Tone Lemon Drop.

Dribbble Dis

So I love the idea of Dribbble. Especially since it plays upon my idea that design needs to be more about community over competition, sharing ideas and inspirations rather than worrying about others stealing them. As an educator I find it to be really bad in the heart of design education so I encourage my students to share and share alike. It doesn't matter it someone has the same idea as you, they won't execute it the same way as you because they are NOT you. That being said I decided to dribbble here a bit, since well...I don't have a dribbble account (you need to be invited, oh well someday maybe :] )


A new poster/shirt print illustration. Enjoy!

Graphic Design Favors

As a designer we all do favors for friends and family and I'm not opposed to it. I usually take on a bit of a slacker focus to these kinds of jobs and don't really guarantee a turn around time since it would be most likely harmful towards paying work. Lunchbreath did this awesome poster of The Dreaded Killer Jellyfish. :) Loving this poster!

Knockout 2

This animation is a remake of my original second part of my Knockout Poster project which uses Adobe After Effects to create an animation of the poster. In the animation I chose to have the poster become the climax of a dynamic introduction that portraits Knockout as a world champion boxer. Using the sidescroll text sequence of the name in combination with the iconic Rocky Balboa theme song. The end of the movie is the pasting of the broadsheet and hanging of the gloves to bring a cohesive whole to the piece and it’s connection to the poster.

New Blackhaus Poster

I'm really digging this redesign I did for my Blackhaus typeface promotional poster.

Quote Poster 1

This past Sunday I decided to isolate myself and create a poster for my girlfriend. I have a great enthusiasm for rock posters, custom lettering and quotes. My sketchbooks tend to be filled with more text than drawings since I tend to think in words, a trait slightly uncommon for a visual artist (at least that is what I have found). So drawing inspiration from the exquisite work over at The Small Stakes I set out to create a poster for her of my favorite quote about love.


"Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real" - Iris Murdoch.
If you would like a copy of the poster you can download a PDF of it here

I plan on making a series of posters much like this one and perhaps putting on a show of them sometime in the next year.