Leave it to creative tornado Sayer Danforth to decide he's going to paint a massive mural in his house. I'm just glad he invited me to pitch it. Lots of late nights ahead methinks.
It kills you mural
Leave it to creative tornado Sayer Danforth to decide he's going to paint a massive mural in his house. I'm just glad he invited me to pitch it. Lots of late nights ahead methinks.
Congratulations to my good friend Justin and his lovely new wife Jen. Great couple, great wedding. Here's the stag himself.
Japanaholic #1
I love going to the Japanese market in Torrance. Not only are the noodles delicious but the whole place is a visual roadtrip. Tuna candy, crazy deserts, and the best bread ever. These are a few little gems I spotted. Gotta feel bad for Ponyo though, he looks pretty pissed off about being in that little bag.
Done diggin
A few weeks ago a plot was hatched between myself, Julie and a few friends to do something about the terrible state of our front yard. With Keith as chief designer we went ahead and ripped out the grass. Many back-breaking hours later this is the result. We went from a grass lawn with flowers and a crappy old bar to a drought resistant, low maintenance yard that needs next to no water. Thanks Keith, and thanks to Jen for lending us your husband for the last three weeks. Before and after photos coming.
NYC art show
I just picked this up from the printer today and shipped it to NY to be included in an art show being held by Bespoken Clothiers to launch the Spring Summer line. I finished the Spring Summer look book a week or so ago and started straight on to this. I blended some of my floral ideas with a sketch of one of the models from the look book. Printed on silver rag with archival coating. Came out quite nice. First piece in a show!
Designing stuff with Microsoft Word
Cory Casey, A.K.A. C. Wizard emailed me yesterday with a pretty strange challenge: To try to spruce up some posters he had been creating in Microsoft Word as he had no other software.The only condition was it had to be Helvetica.
At first I thought WTF am I going to do with this?! But before long I was totally hooked.I'm almost thinking about doing some further projects in Word, it's kind of fun!
Prius Floralscapes
I recently had the great opportunity to concept and design nine different scenes for the Prius campaign that were to be taken and made in to these huge flower installations. Low and behold it was actually approved, produced and unveiled with a fanfare that included the Mayor of Los Angeles.
Photo credit: Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times
Ape poster progress
I still want to do a little more to this, I think I need to put him in the context of a bar to make the type make more sense. One of my friends in San Diego would always order this drink at bars. As band that inspired the illustration are from there I thought it would be a nice touch. I think I would like to add something in to the type too.
Transport illustrations
Playing around with some shapes and iconography. I was actually thinking about using something along these lines for a big painting initially but now I'm not too sure. Maybe another possible screen print. Might look at developing some type.Do you recognize the truck in the top image? Clue: "Great Scott!"
America illustration
We wore cowboy boots to work one day towards the end of last year and I had this idea for an illustration. Might make a nice screen print at some point. I'm not decided on the colors though. As much as I want the red, white and blue I want to play with some less expected color.
Floral fabric
Thanks to the magic that is Spoonflower, I got my rosette design printed on to fabric. This is then going to hopefully end up as awesome cushions via the sewing machine skills of Julie and flogged on Etsy. That's the plan anyway.
Bespoken Fall/Winter
The second book I have worked on for Bespoken, uncoated black cover printed in silver with a soft touch coat on the interior pages. We kept the design simple with emphasis on the clothes, quality and the brand message. Photography by Blossom Berkofsky.
First painting
I must have been working on this for well over a year and a half. I started my stencil technique with this and as it is on art board, have had many terrible issues with it. I know working on wood is way easier.
Although I already moved on, I need to back and finish this up. There will eventually be type on the sign, all I need to do is figure out what it will say.
New rosette study
I want to roll out my floral rosette design in to a series of different but related circular pieces. This one I am starting out planning the shapes and color in illustrator with the intention to move over to texture later.
I want to tone the color down a lot but kind of like how this looks all bright. Very playful.
Nice day for a spot of painting
Awesome until your dog tries to eat a Pomeranian walking past your
house. I think her stoop rights are revoked for now.
Apartment complex painting
Trying to get all of these cabinet doors painted so I can start on my full size doors. Started this piece for a friend, going to try get it done in good time, speed up my process. This is my 2nd full-on piece. Another local spot in Long Beach, this super cool 70's apartment complex is looking kind of tatty these days but the lines are awesome.
Well hung
Took far too long, but not as long as the last one. My completed
lighthouse painting up on the wall! I still need to go in and touch up a few spots which got messed up along the way. The Long beach Lighthouse, or robot lighthouse sits in the port of Long Beach and was completed in 1949. Built to survive earthquakes and tidal waves, it's a great example of 50's design. I have been fascinated with it since we moved to Long Beach as you can see it's light blinking at night and it is often silhouetted against Catalina Island.
iPhone doodle
Drawn using brushes for the iPhone. Cool little tool for the finger
phone. Lots of control of zoom, brushes, color and opacity. Layers
would be nice though.
This is a Steve Jobs quote I found interesting, and worthy of a little
doodle.
Bespoken lookbook
Drum roll please........... This is the cover of a spring / summer 09 look book that should print this weekend.
BC Surf
My good friend, and Brother-in-law Chris asked me to help out with some branding for a local surf shop in San Clemente California.
After meeting the owners I decided this would be a fun project, we agreed on a lot of the things we liked. One of those being old-school Ocean Pacific graphics.
I think we managed to bring that through in the redesign.
Rumors circulating that they are having new signage made for the exterior of the shop using the new branding which will be great. Got to say I'm crossing my fingers for the board laminate though.
If you are in the area and need anything check them out. Melanie, Mannie and Chris. Super nice people... BC SURF
APES desktop art
Here's two 16080x1027 APES desktop images. Click on the above image then right click and save, or just drag over to your desktop. I will work on getting some other sizes up. Any requests?
Save Trestles From The Monster
Everyone seemed to like this concept for it's attention-grabbing quality. Also this comes across a considerably meaner than the previous idea. The work was eventually used across web banners, posters, pins, shirts and so on.
Great chance to work with a great organization. We need to look after our natural resources and hopefully with our participation there's room for Surfrider to grow in to a force to be reckoned with.
Save Trestles Initial concept
Through work I got the opportunity to do some work for Surfrider. It was a quick-fire job to get people to attend a public hearing. This was the second and final hearing where arguments were being heard for and against building a giant, gnarly toll road right through the middle of some truly unique countryside in Southern California.
Surfrider had already done a great job raising awareness with the 'Save Trestles' campaign. They now wanted to get something a little more solid circulated that
had a specific call to action for the event.
We banged out two concepts. This being the first. These were meant to be posters, highlighting what might happen if the toll road was to go ahead.
The second concept was chosen. I liked this one personally. If not just for finding a good place to make a reference to the original Woodstock poster!
APES banner art
I worked some detail in to the 'Apes Of Wrath' type for a banner to hang behind the band at shows. Was pretty tedious but think it will pay off when it's printed pretty large. Just need to decide on the color scheme.
Work in Progress
I have been getting in some practice with the old Wacom Tablet. I like drawing big textures so far. Tedious but rewarding. Here's a test for a possible poster, and probable wall mural.
S&S Digibook
By far the most ambitious interactive project I have worked on, it took about seven months from start to completion to get this together. Saatchi Los Angeles wanted to produce a yearly book of work but instead of printing a book, saving those resources and producing an interactive book to be distributed on a USB drive.
I tried to keep the navigation linear to emulate a printed book, using detail photos from around the office as background elements. It was nice to work on a project like this and see it all come together through the programming and flash development.
Good friends and photographers extraordinaire, Dan Busta and Ryan Schude came along and shot wonderful interior images of the new remodeled third floor. The final package was an orange rubber casing presented in a foil-stamped box.
Stag Rmx
In an attempt to produce some prints as gifts for the kind gents that helped myself and Julie out at our wedding, I produced these pieces. Both are kind of mash-ups of other existing content I am working on. I was initially going to just print one piece but realized that some people are room mates and would therefore have duplicate prints in the house. Going to produce 6 prints, three of each on a different type of art paper, including bamboo which I'm super excited about as it's totally sustainable.
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