Showing posts with label 2000s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2000s. Show all posts
Friday, October 9, 2020
Tough Guy Christmas CDs
From 2000 through 2015 (missing three years), I made Christmas CD compilations to give to friends. Each of these discs was lovingly curated, not just the music, but full packaging including art and liner notes. Pictured below are the front and inside covers and inlay cards for five of these compilations. Bowing to extreme subjectivity not just with the music, but with my choices of artwork, they include some esthetic choices that my not ring as overly Christmassy with some of you, but hey, worked for me. In retrospect, I probably should not have chosen the naked lady being dragged by Santa's leg, regardless of how much I enjoy that particular photo (which was a house ad for Playboy Magazine in the 1970s), but hey, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is pretty sexist, and that thing still airs every year!
Maxwell's Miscellanea
For 15 years, I was the house artist at Maxwell's bar and nightclub in Hoboken, NJ, from 1998 until it closed in 2013. Below are just a handful of examples of some of the work that I did, including logo design, menu design, monthly band schedules, advertisements, and flyers.
Yo La Tengo 8 Nights of Hanukkah Poster
This 2007 poster for Yo La Tengo's annual Eight Nights of Hanukkah event at Maxwell's in Hoboken was sold at the shows as a limited edition. It was (obviously, if you know it) inspired by the old Saturday Night Live faux-commercial for "Jewess Jeans" featuring Gilda Radner.
MTV.com Illustrations
Below are a handful of illustrations I did for mtv.com in the mid-2000s, most of them for a column entitled, "Music Geek," for which I also wrote a few installments.
John Doe, Forever Hasn't Happened Yet Promo Poster
John Doe asked me to do the promo poster for his 2005 album, Forever Hasn't Happened Yet on Yep Rock Records. He wanted a hand-drawn version of the photo used on the album cover, so everything including the lettering was redrawn.
Rye Coalition Poster
Poster done for a Rye Coalition show at Maxwell's in 2004, utilizing artwork from an issue of Hanna-Barbera Super TV Heroes.
John Doe / Grant-Lee Phillips Poster
Poster for John Doe and Grant-Lee Phillips at Maxwell's in Hoboken, NJ in 2004. Copies of this poster were sold at the show.
A Charlie Brown Christmas DVD Redux
This mocked-up DVD cover was done to accompany a piece I wrote in 2004 lamenting the lack of a decent home video version of A Charlie Brown Christmas (something which STILL HASN'T HAPPENED SIXTEEN YEARS LATER!).
Tough Guy Logos and Website Version 1
Pictured below are numerous logo designs over the years and website art for early versions of Tough Guy Goods & Services. The characters in the first homepage illo (when I started a graphics products company that, um, did not last long) are S'tan and Social Grace, characters from a comic strip I did for two different publications in Lancaster and New York City.
Todd's 40th Birthday Bash
Poster done for my old boss, Todd-O-Phonic Todd Abramson's birthday party at Maxwell's in Hoboken NJ. Todd loved White Castle. Brrrrr.
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