madballs

little project for a friend's baseball team. had fun ripping off the Cardinals script lettering on this one.
sketch & vector below.

My students rule!

below is a collaborative poster that my students completed this semester as part of my 'illustrative lettering' project. each student contributed a letter that they created. the letters were then combined to make the final poster design. the basic concept is that if you only read the RED areas of the design it reads HELP HAITI... and when both colors are read together, you get HELP SAVE HUMANITY.

a hand-pulled screenprinted signed & numbered edition of 50 posters is now for sale at www.thehaitiposterproject.com. (direct link to our poster is HERE) all proceeds from poster sales will be donated to doctors without borders.

click the image below for a larger view. some really fantastic detailing in there. really proud of my students!

Travel, Travel, Travel

seems like I've been out of town for a month straight!
I was in Vegas for 4 days, back home for 5, and then off to Tokyo, Beijing, Hong Kong, Donguan, Shenzhen, Xiamen, & Shanghai.
too little time spent exploring the cities and too much time spent sitting in airports, on planes, trains, subways, buses, taxis, & in cars. good trip, nonetheless.... quite the experience, as always. makes you really appreciate being home though.

think something must have been lost in translation for this 'ass' store.

stencil numbers

created these vector numbers for a project by manipulating a picture i took of an actual stencil on a canvas military bag from the 1940's.

some Logo work

very happy with how this came out.
1- my illustrator art. 2- cotton embroidery. 3- metal buckle. 4- felt applique.

BEER!

Batch #1 of my home brew!!! very fun and simple to do. took about 3 weeks to go through the whole fermenting process. my lagers are ready to enjoy. serve chilled.

check out that hand lettering on those labels! works pretty nicely with that futura bold if you ask me.
*and yes, i know that is a bite on some old Carhartt lettering.

next batch, i'm going to try a stout. wish me luck!

vintage varsity lettering

sketch. 2nd sketch. vector clean up. final. cheers.