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Mayer Hawthorne World Tour

Mayer Hawthorne - How Do You Do - World Tour poster

I created this poster for Mayer Hawthorne’s How Do You Do World Tour. Designing a poster is always fun and Mayer has been great to work with. Go check him out when he’s in your neck of the woods!

Previously:
Mayer Hawthorne Shirts
How Do You Do

The Mother F#cker with the Hat

The Mother Fucker with the Hat

I recently designed another poster for Theaterworks in Hartford. This new one is for the American Regional theater premier of The Mother Fucker with the Hat.

Exciting, incisive, cruel and very, very funny… a hip, harsh romance about people grasping for confirmation of their existence … always looking for a fix whether it’s drugs, alcohol, sex, love, or health food.

“One of the best new plays in ages.” – The New Yorker

I Love My Bike book

I Love My Bike book

I just received my advance copy of the I Love My Bike book that I designed for Chronicle over the summer. Seeing a finished and produced piece is always exciting—especially when that piece is almost 200 pages! I’ll have some better photographs taken soon—but in the meantime here is a sneak peak (including a process photo).

I Love My Bike book process
I created custom lettering treatments for everyone that was featured in the book. I just discovered this photo I took during the process (with a typo and all!).

I Love My Bike book process
I also used the lettering treatments to make a pattern for the book’s endsheets.

Mike Giant and his bike

Curtin Anthony I love my bike book

These are two sample spreads from the book. Check out a more extensive preview on Issuu.

Milltag x Chris Piascik

Milltag x Chris Piascik cycling jersey

Recently Milltag approached me to design a cycling jersey for their first collection. As an avid cyclist I jumped at this opportunity. Here’s a little more info about Milltag:

Milltag was born out of a passion for life in the saddle. The individual freedom that cycling provides is intoxicating, it’s the perfect synthesis of speed and ease, force and grace. On the bike you remove yourself from the world, it’s just you versus the tarmac or mud and all that mother nature can throw at you. But bike riding is about more than cogs and chainsets. The bike you ride and the jersey on your back says so much about who you are, or it should do. The technical quality of the lowly cycling jersey might have advanced since the woolen classics proudly worn by Anquetil, Merckx et al, but you can’t say the same for the designs that appear on them. All too often these days jerseys are either plastered with sponsors’ logos or banal designs indistinct from other generic sportswear. Well it’s our mission to change that. Our jerseys are designed by top class cycling enthusiasts from the art and design world. They share your love for the honest bicycle and know what it’s like to hit either the wall or the deck.

Each jersey in their first artist collection is highly limited—only 30 of each were produced! Head on over to the Milltag site and check them out!

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Logos and Type Treatments
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Morgan & Milo Shoebox
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Standard Byke Company
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1000 Days of Drawing
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CADC 2011 Award Show

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Chris Piascik is a New England artist, graphic designer, and illustrator. With 8 years of professional experience at award-winning firms in New England, he is currently working as a freelance designer and illustrator, and just presented his 6th solo exhibition. He holds degrees in Visual Communication Design and Art History from the Hartford Art School at the University of Hartford, where he has moonlighted as an instructor of design courses. In 2008, the American Institute of Graphic Arts selected his poster design as a winning entry for its Get Out the Vote campaign. His other recognitions include Gold Awards, Silver Awards, Excellence Awards, Judges Award and the Spirit of Creativity Award from the Connecticut Art Director’s Club as well as a BoNE award from the AIGA. In addition his work has been published in numerous books and publications including Print and Communication Arts, the Logo Lounge series, Typography Essentials and Lettering, Beyond Computer Graphics and Bike Art: Bicycles in Art Around the World. Previous clients include: Chronicle Books, Nike, Goodbyn, Mayer Hawthorne, Odyssey, Gnarls Barkley, Monolith Music Festival, Eat Boston, and Theaterworks.

Represented in France by: Valérie Oualid

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