Hey, it's another T-Shirt design for the Barcade chain! Most of the locations are now up and running again after the long Coronavirus shutdown, but buying merch is a great way to help a small business out during still-difficult times. So go get one!
At top is the final design and below are two of the rejected designs / works in progress. This one took a lot of tweaking to get to the final product.
Design done for the fantastic Daughter of the 70s Instagram Page. You don't follow them? Up your nose with a rubber hose! Sit on it, nerd! Or, just go and rectify that oversight.
My second collaboration with Kanibal & Co. in Jersey City is this screaming skull design, emblazoned on a lovely gray zip hoodie. Go git one! Pictured here are the final design and two variations.
Promotional sticker done for my Instagram page, The Daily Superman. Want one? Shoot me a message! But you have to follow me on Instagram, that's the deal, pallie!
My first collaboration with Kanibal & Co. in Jersey City, I designed a shot glass (because, hooch!). Here are the finished product and artwork along with the sketches of ideas in progress and variations on the final piece. You can buy it at their store or online here! And watch soon for a tee-shirt collab I just did for them.
This piece was a commission for a dear friend who puts his young son to bed every night with a reminder to try to be these three things, traits that are inherent in the superheroes whose logos are interpreted (I mean, you can kinda swap some of them and it still works, but this one seemed to make the most sense).
I recently did some designs for some of journalist / podcasters John Holl and Justin Kennedy's numerous beer-themed podcasts, specifically Drink Beer, Think Beer (which dedicates an episode to Rauchbier every April 1st) and Steal This Beer (co-hosted by Augie Carton of the outstanding Carton Brewing Co.), a podcast for which I used to be the unofficial bartender.
Pictured with the final designs are some of the works-in-progress, alternate and rejected designs (I thought the Rauchbier label should have some German on it, but in the end we went all-English). You can purchase this limited edition merch here! (Don't tell them, but I used the Rastal Tumbler to drink some Whistle Pig Straight Rye last night, I cheated!)
Cheers!
As mentioned before, I've done a ton of work for Kearny, NJ's own Killing Horse Records, including numerous album covers for the great TV Sound. Here's their latest release, another hooky slab of Mod-influenced rockers, an EP called POP PERSECUTION.
Here's the final art (who can name the record label on which the one below is based?) and some prospective T-Shirt logo designs. You can listen to the record here, or order the good ol' hard copy on compact disc here.
Oooh, was it a thrill to be asked to design the cover art for AJ Lambert's LONELY SONGS ep, covering four songs from her grandfather's classic album, FRANK SINATRA SINGS FOR ONLY THE LONELY. After originally releasing the songs digitally in 2018, AJ decided to put out a limited edition vinyl version to coincide with a series of live shows that got canceled by the pandemic. Hopefully the shows will be rescheduled at some point, but in the meantime, you can order the record here!
Naturally, I wanted the artwork to likewise be an homage to the cover of the 1958 Capitol Records release (designed by Howard Kim, front cover painting by Nicholas Volpe). The diamond motif was the obvious thing to adapt, but I did for a brief moment toy with the idea of drawing AJ as a clown (a very brief moment). I soon came up with the idea of using ovals instead of diamonds, a softer image I thought befitting of the work.
As an enormous fan of Frank Sinatra (as well as his lovely granddaughter... oh, and her mother, Nancy, too), being able to add a little bit to the family's recorded legacy was a big deal to me.
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