Fish Collector

Cranked this puppy out just in time for the 3x3 student competition. Pretty happy with how it turned out. I initially had a hard time balancing all the elements I wanted but I think its resolved at this point. I'm also a day behind in my MSCED. I know this.

MSCED #12, 13, 14, 15

Yea I know I missed a few days. WHAT

MSCED 11

MSCED 11

MSCED 10

We're in double digits

MSCED #9

I'm going to miss uploading for a few days when I go to New York. New work when I get back!

MSCED 8

Phase 8

MSCED 7

MSCED #7. I call this one: "No Disrespect to JJ"

MSCED 6. Thanks to J. William Waterhouse for this one.

MSCED 5

MSCED 4

Just started spring break. Let's see if I can keep these up...

MSCED #3

Day 3!

MSCED #2

Day #2! feelin good feelin strong.

MSCED #1

Ok, folks. I'm jumping on this Make Something Cool Everyday bandwagon in the hopes of motivating myself to update this blog err day. I think I can do. Feel free to reprimand me if I fail to uphold my self-imposed contract. Day #1!

L'Etranger Finished

Finished this one on up. The previous post was just a cropping that I finished in time to submit to AI (no thanks to their double postponement...).

I feel a lot more comfortable with the text in this piece than in the Heart of Darkness cover and that's mainly due to my inclusion of text in my initial thumbnails (duh). Anyways, you will all surely not be able to see past the glaring irony that I included both the original French title and the english translator, but let's hope that doesn't ruin the piece entirely.

Thanks for lookin!

L'Etranger

Super Seaweed Sex Scandal

Hello friends!

Super Seaweed Sex Scandal (conveniently shortened to 'SSSS') is a band that makes noise so hard to accurately describe in words that I have to settle on those often overused and under-representative ones such as "experimental" and "avant-garde" to give you an idea of where they're coming from.

Anyhow, my friend Paul Wheeler is in the band and asked me to do a gig poster for an upcoming show. I'm sure he won't mind the extra advertisement.

If you are in the NYC area March 2nd, you should do yourself a favor and check these guys out. Bad. Ass.

Atom Smashers

Hello hello!

After the fateful Snowpocalypse (as it has forthwith come to be known), I was feeling the need to step up my game a little bit. Having a week off kind of threw off my normal schedule and I couldn't help but worry about the impending real-adult-work-money life that will soon enough be upon me. Hence, I decided to give myself another project in conjunction to my thesis which consists of 1 week editorial pieces focusing around science, politics, lifestyle, finance etc.

This week's piece comes from an article in Science News about scientists using the recently completed particle collider in Switzerland to smash gold atoms together. They found that when two atoms successfully met, they created a super dense, super hot substance that they believe could resemble the infant universe.

Heart of Darkness cover finish

Here is the completed mock-up for Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Let me know what you think!

Heart of Darkness pt.1

Popped this baby out in just over a week so I could have it done for the SOI student comp. The image is only a cropping - since im designing book covers, the composition was intended to work either seeing the front or the back. Ideally, the full spread would work but it didn't quite have enough oompf to it so I decided to submit a cropping to SOI.

Next post I'll have the full spread, finished cover with type, and some detail shots.

Heartless Devil

I've been getting a fair of amount of music-based commissions recently and considering my last semester's thesis revolved around the subject, I'd say it's paid off! Here is an album cover done for my friend Michael Meredith under the name of Hopewell Exchange. I was thinking of time lines and topography among other things for the imagery. Head on over to http://hopewellexchange.bandcamp.com/ to check out the music for youself.