So then, anyone that wants to see my rock posters can easily do so by clickin the link on my sig.

Im gonna up a few designs Ive done in the last couple years that are in any way related to music.

Please bear with.

This is one I did a couple years back for a Drum n Bass 12"
Its a full piece, so the left side is the back and the right the front....

For the same DnB label, I also did these three for a set of EPs they did.
The artwork was limited to spot colors and was designed with a mostly common backside and a piece of art meant to stretch across all three covers while remaining self contained in each.

A digipak design for a CD EP. The band lost their deal or somehting and were unable to produce these, which sucks because I really like it, even if it is a little trendier than I liek to go, designwise.

best. typo. ever.

Cardgage, the details on these are fantastic. Nice work.

A cardboard CD sleeve for a great band called Fleeting Joys. Very 4AD sound, so I ripped off Vaughn Oliver quite a bit for this one.
They werent feeling it for the American release but want to use it for Japan.
Again, left is back, right is front

oooops. On that one left is front, right is back. my bad

This is a full package design with logo for a dude down in LA named Miles Mosley. Does hip-hop flavored jump jazz.
I posted this for some reason in the music board a while back.

Oh snap. It just clicked for me why the Luna design looked familiar. You posted the link to that art like a year, ago, and I remember that being my first gigposters experience. Very nice stuff. I recently bought my wife a couple concert prints for her office for xmas, I may have to add one of these as well.

This one is pretty self explainey...

Cardgage, I'm a design snob, but your work kicks ass. Really, really love the color palates. The textures, too. Your stuff invites repeat viewing.

Here's a "vintage" style t-shirt I designed for a merch company (legit one) back in 05.
Got paid like very little but they did end up in Nordstroms fall line where they sold the fusge out, so that was a nice ego-stroke.



I have one of these but for some reason it looks awful on me.

Oh and those are actually still available here:
http://www.fanfire.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/...ct?sku=DRS37774

If yall are the type whut likes to buy and wear clothing.

HEres the last one I have around, but I know I have more at home.

This is for an electropop dude. Junobot.

Oh and thanks alot everyone for indulging me!

I like your style. The designs are busy and complex, but they all make visual sense. It's clear you know how to lead the viewer's eye. Love the use of color and contrast. I tend to like more minimalist designs, but your designs have a very clear and strong sense of design, and don't look like somebody just puked graphic design history over an album cover. I also like the careful font selection. All the fonts you've chose go very much with the mood and style of your designs.

You get a gold star from me.

...whoa.

I'll just echo all the rave reviews here SC. This is really great work. I made a mental note a long time ago to talk to you when our next album's ready, but see now that you're way the hell out of our league. Is it your full time gig?

Naw dude, fuck leagues. Id love to work with ya.

And yeah, I art direct a magazine as my day job, but yep Im a full-time designer.

If youve been to the Gp site, then youve already seen my Hothouse Flowers Australian Tour Poster, but I also did a t-shirt for that tour too...

This one's my favorite. White space, FTW.
Nice stuff.

Shit. Uploaded the rough draft.
THIS is the one that actually got produced and sold.
The little detail on the lower right actually goes a little more to the side of the shirt near the bottom.....

yea, your shit is pretty amazing.

but all night as i was trying to get to sleep i just had the quote "its a pill. that gives worms. to ex girlfriends. YOU JUST DONT GET IT" cycling through my head over and over and over again. and me giggling each time.

would it also give worms to exboyfriends?

hey Senor, great work. I am gonna be recording another record soon, you interested in doing design work for a surf/rockabilly project?

I love you. (bats eyelashes)

Fully down. Ive worked in that style before. Ill try to up some examples.
Thanks!

Here's the straight design of The Doors shirt.
Also, there are the 3 other designs the merch company commisioned and bought.
These may never get produced, or they may have already, or they may be in the future.
Dunno. Once you submit em, youre on your own.

And yes I am fully aware that one is for Incubus, but they paid well and I was psyched when they said they wanted a "retro jersey" feel.
So I opted for a 70s soccer feel. That 33 detail o n the lower right is designed to go right on the side, about 3 inches below the underarm.

Another one I had posted a while back in the boards, but I cant remember where or why.

A commissioned cover for TapeOp magazine. The dark rectangle was for text placement, but that turned out to just be wishful thinking, as they ended up just running a black box over the area anyway. Made me sad.

This is also a repeat from page one, but I forgot I had it on this compy, and I think it provides a better view than the other one....

Once I get my interior painting done this winter I'm getting some of these.
Always cooler to have things on your walls that have some sort of connection.

Here's one I just finished for the Kinky/Money Mark show (also posted in Compulsive thread)




Also working on some new stuff for Nada Surf, Stephen Malkmus, French Kicks, Enon and American Music Club

what filters are you using to give it the distressed look? (such as on the beatles poster?)

you going to flatstock @ SXSW this year?

this one's very cool... i get TapeOp every month and i'm not sure i noticed this one, i'll take another look.

That was as I recall like July 06
And thanks!




What Ill do is up the contrast on a photo to make mad amounts of distressed looking noise in the highlights and shadows. Ill convert to paths, open in illustrator and then select the areas that look like compelling distressing to me.




Naw I wish. Those dudes are hardcore. THis is more like a nice hobby.

do you use Illustrator for this stuff too or just Photoshop?

Little bit of both. Mainly illustrator for compositing and text, but I need photoshop to create some of the color washes and to blow out the photos for vector.

dear senor,
you're what i strive to be someday.

love,
bderty.



p.s. well besides that whole gay thing

Im only a homosexual to get respect in the art world.

And the blow jobs are nice.

Plus its not gay if youre the one doing the sodomizing and football is on.

indeed they are. are you very familiar w/ the poster scene though?

i know the Burlesque folks well (mostly just Wes). we have so many great poster artists in Mpls it's insane...

Burlesque make better posters than anyone ever.
And t he versatility of their crew is mindboggling.

Aaron Horkey could be as big as Escher some day.

So so ill.

The Burlesque Arcade Fire series ALONE makes them classic.

burlesque in the twin cities
i know someone from the scene too...


nevermind, thought you ment the dancers... not designers

I know the Aesthetic Apparatus folks, too.

Fertile creative city the MLPS.

Fun fucking place too.

Viva SEXWORLD!

This is an example of a Burlesque poster for those watching at home

my favorite Burlesque that i own:



that image doesn't even begin to do it justice though

Horkey man. Fuckin Horkey.
Such incredible penwork.

For Nada Surf show (duh)