“If you’re a designer or creative, and you want a book that helps you both ask and answer the questions that really matter, buy this one.”

Read the entire review HERE.

My CD design for Icebreaker’s album Apollo, won Best In Category for Packaging…

And Awards of Merit were given to…

My CD package for Baroque Tardif by Florent Ghys.

My book The Design Activist’s Handbook.

Since the show is a collaboration of Skull-A-Day and Street Anatomy, I and my co-curator Vanessa Ruiz decided to challenge the participating artists to use a template to create a new skull image, which we would then cut in half (digitally) and combine with other people’s work to create a unique set of mash-up prints to display. It was only fair that Vanessa and I would take the challenge as well and create our own pieces using the template, which I then incorporated into the poster, with an appropriately split design to match.

More information about the event is HERE.

“VHS Phoenix” was created by Tory Mills, a student at Tidewater Community College’s Visual Arts Center in Portsmouth, VA. It was made for an assignment in his 3-D Design class using recycled video tapes from Noah Scalin’s 2012 exhibition, “In, Above and Beyond Ground.” The piece, pictured here, recently appeared in the “42nd Annual Student Art & Design Exhibition” at the Center.

Read more about the original Dead Media installation HERE.

Each 24 x 36 in (61 x 91 cm) poster is printed in white ink on black acid free paper. Only 100 have been made and they are all signed and numbered.

To purchase one visit Krause Gallery’s store HERE.

It’s available from First Books in China.

Atwater Village Theatre Season Brochure

Eurydice CD Package

Clubbed Thumb Season Brochure

Clubbed Thumb Season Brochure

The show is about an American woman in London using graffiti to deal with grief. Inspired by the works of the UK graffiti artist Banksy I created a stencil graffiti portrait of the main character. Rather than a traditional stencil, I created a reverse image so that the painting is actually just of the negative space, covering existing graffiti on a wall, and the woman is only revealed in what remains.

Find out more about the production HERE.

A discussion about the title “If It Ain’t Here When I Get Back” led to Bruce telling me a story about postcards…

Around 1980, before we were all hyper-connected by email and the internet, someone  in our group of friends started a postcard chain letter. We all sent cards requesting other cards containing certain items. I remember asking for Thelonius Monk, Carl Yastrzemski, 1953 Pontiacs (I used to have one) and damaged nuclear reactor rods (a popular item in the news at that time). In the mail, not on the internet. No instant gratification and immediate loss of digital interest. This thing went on for weeks and it was fun to go to the mailbox every day and see what would show up…

Based on that conversation I suggested that I attempt to make a portrait of Bruce out of actual postcards. I borrowed a collection of cards from a friend and laid out the face on the floor, which ended up at about 5 foot square. I then hand drew the additional lines to define some areas that were harder to represent with the postcards. I combined the elements digitally and suggested the typographic layout for the cover, which was then used by designer Robert Hakalski who designed the final package.

Rather than creating the illustrations digitally I had my friends at BIG Secret cut out the PlayCo logo and individual show images from colorful plexiglass, which I then photographed.