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

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 recently worked on a poster for The Understudy which will be showing at Theaterworks in Hartford next month. Throughout the month I will be showing work in the Gallery of American Art which is located in the Theaterworks building. More info to follow soon!

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 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 also used the lettering treatments to make a pattern for the book’s endsheets.

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

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!

A couple weeks ago I worked on a couple cover designs for a book compiling a series of short stories. Each story is a mash-up—which is a bit confusing—wherein different monsters or characters are combined in a new way or in a new setting, IE Frankenstein in the Wild West. It looked like the one on the left was the winner and then unfortunately, plans changed for the book all together. Regardless, I thought these were fun and didn’t want them to completely go to waste.

I recently worked with Moth Design and Alphabet Arm to illustrate these fun shoe boxes for Morgan & Milo, a children’s show company located in Boston. The boxes are designed to promote recycling and encourage the end user to keep the box. They are covered with puzzles, games, mazes, riddles, quotes and fun characters. They are kraft boxes screen printed with white and green.

In addition to the box, I illustrated a series of monsters to be screen printed on denim pockets. I also designed their graphic-tee line. As you can imagine this was a very fun project to work on. Mia at Morgan & Milo is fantastic as is everyone at Moth and ABC.

If you are in the Boston area there is a good chance you recently read about Powahouse on the cover of the Boston Globe. A Powahouse is a small apartment building that packs a big punch. It’s also a Boston-based project, currently incubating, that’s scheduled to hatch first thing in 2010.

The basis for the name “Powahouse” comes from the fact that this project is a way for homeowners to make their apartment a renewable energy power plant as well as the idea of setting a powerful example in efficient design and construction. The client expressed their desire to balance the playful take on the word Power with a more serious mark.

The concept for this logo stems from the idea of a carbon footprint, or better yet, the lack there of. The focal point is the stark, white house-shape formed in the negative (or positive if you will) space between the dirty, inefficient homes. The type is clean and modern reflecting the ideals of Powahouse.

Designed at Alphabet Arm.

Art direction and illustration for DVD Packaging. Project included hand-lettered type treatments for every person featured in the movie.
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