Artists from around the world were invited to contribute to this book. Each of them received a creative task picked at random from the Grab Bag. The National Record Holders were tasked with developing a “comic strip”.We decided to break the expected “strip” format, and go with a non-traditional family of characters.Work will be published by HOW books and feature 100 artists, be around 200 pages long, and will come out in Spring 2009. More info about the Grab Bag project here.
I was invited to take part in a Haiti relief poster project, initiated by Lancaster-based studio, Infantree.
Projects like this are almost obligatory for me — if there’s an opportunity to make a difference through design, I fully support it.
It was also a chance to team up with my partner Mike, from National Record Holders.
We ultimately designed a series of 3 pretty powerful posters around the reality of the situation: the loss of 230,000 lives.
That’s a lot of people. And that’s a lot of heartache.
This series speaks to that tragedy in a few ways:
- Mike’s stunning, yet disturbing portrayal of humanity (and loss of).
- The threatening, red, “Who What When Where Why” reveals the event in it’s simplest form.
- A typographic treatment that reflects the destruction of the earthquake.
(The posters work together as a series, as well as individually.)
The show opens tomorrow, Friday March 5th, 2010 and will benefit Build-A-Bridge, a Philadelphia-based non-profit arts organization
that uses the power of the arts to bring hope and healing. Its Haiti response includes art therapy to help children who may not have the
emotional outlets or tools to cope with the tragedy.
The Warfare of Deception started out as a personal project that I was able to adapt and re-interpret for a group show titled, Duplicate of a Duplicate. When initially concepting for the show, I was challenged by the over-arching idea of duplicating a duplicate and how to convey that visually. My thinking was initially consumed with some (rather expected) solutions of repetition and pattern, but ultimately my executions fell flat. At some point I had a shift in my focus and addressed the problem in terms of how one goes about actually creating a duplicate of a duplicate and what is the original source of what’s being duplicated. Eventually, the idea of a covert operation started to take the form, where the main objective was to duplicate secret documents. Out of this concept came 7 posters, which ultimately form a Basic Field Guide consisting of 6 sections: Survival, Objective, Protocol, Safety, First Aid, and Communication (Communication is based on a Flag & Dash & Dot alphabet using HUSTLE as an example.)
These are 12″x18″ prints on generic brown school paper using archival inks.
Individual prints are available at Neusprint.
I was asked by Computer Arts magazine to contribute to a feature (with beautiful type illustrations by Deanne Cheuk) pulling together some great advice on typography, typographic design, illustrative type and font management. I wrote 4 brief pieces (see below) about Woodtype, Color in Type, Best Type reference, and Font Mangement.
4 pages in ABT. Self-promotion illustration piece, and 2 pages consisting of a collection of work from the past several years. Click here to see an enlarged view of the flats.
New issue of Faesthetic, including 6-pages from Neuarmy. Based around the theme of Ghost Stories, The Land of Shadows is a reflection of my daily travels on public transit. I’ll have photos once I receive my issue, these are just comps, the final color was blue, not magenta!
Only $8 – Order at The Select Series.
Love & Hate. Creative Direction, Art Direction, and Design.
Collaboration with Juxtavision. Buy it: Overspray Magazine.
Artists from around the world were invited to contribute to this book. Each of them received a creative task picked at random from the Grab Bag. The National Record Holders were tasked with developing a “comic strip”.We decided to break the expected “strip” format, and go with a non-traditional family of characters.Work will be published by HOW books and feature 100 artists, be around 200 pages long, and will come out in Spring 2009. More info about the Grab Bag project here.
The Materials Issue. Creative Direction, Art Direction, and Design. Cover, Threads type treatment, Materials intro and around 30 pages of Materials content. Collaboration with Juxtavision. Buy it: Overspray Magazine.
Personal project – A play off of the first letter of our first and last names: Ryan, Olivia, Charlotte and Corinne Katrina. Illustrating strength, love, and family bond through the glamour of rock and roll, diamond rocks, and chain links. Here’s a few pages, followed by the originals.
Faesthetic is a collection of art & oddities from around the world. The theme for this issue was Doomsday, this piece is based around the concept of “Doomsday Surplus” – a list of essential supplies for surviving Doomsday.
KDU limited editioned, hand numbered Royal Magazine special publication. The book contains inspiring works, all focused on the Future.
Interview and Feature article in issue 41 of Vapors Magazine – Neighborhood Not Hollywood.
Featuring the work of Aerosyn Lex, Nigel Evan Denis, Kareem Black, Matt Salacuse, and several others. Organized by Matt Rowaen. Check out some photos from A Supreme New York Thing.
Typography developed using floral elements along with elements of nature. Birds nest, beehive, honey, alligator, snake, butterflies, ants, bamboo, mud, etc.
Six page feature on artist Shepard Fairey. This Cali themed issue number six of Overspray Magazine showcases the man behind OBEY in a very unique choose your own adventure style feature article.
Illustrations for a Talib Kweli and Blacksmith Entertainment Special Edition.
Ads for Triple Crown bar, and a piece based on a Marshall Mcluhan quote.
Neuarmy was approached by Redken/L’oreal to design a Tshirt for the launch of their new edgy line of hair products branded Urban Experiment.
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