hand carved

Here's a preview of a hand-carved woodblock plate for a poster that i'm currently working on. This is a project that I'm in the middle of for a printmaking class at Firecracker Press that I'm taking. I get access to all of their vintage printing presses during the class!! So awesome! I'll post more pics as I get it finished up. cheers.

show flyer

been a while since i've posted anything. my bad. honestly, its probably going to stay this way until the end of the semester or if somehow 5 more hours get added to the day. been busy hanging with family, traveling out of the country, teaching, and making fires in my backyard. priorities, ya know.
here's a little something i did for this stl show coming up. go see these bands.
The Dopamines (OH), Banner Pilot (MN), Humanoids, & The Wifflers

LEATHERFACE!

did the flyer art for this show coming up that i'm fuckin' excited about! helped screenprint this beast the other night... look forward to limited signed & numbered prints of this for sale on fancy colored paper in the near future. you all should really head over to NO IDEA! and pick up the new Leatherface & Young Livers. highly recommended. Now, its off to vegas for punk rock bowling for the weekend!!

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.