Labels: 2009, Graphic Design, Posters, Typography

Labels: 2009, CD Design, Graphic Design, Illustration

Labels: 2009, CD Design, Graphic Design

Labels: 2009, CD Design, Graphic Design, Illustration, Turn It Up CDs, Wicked Awesome

Labels: 2008, CD Design, Graphic Design

Labels: 2008, CD Design, Graphic Design

Labels: 2008, CD Design, Graphic Design

Ghostory at The Brass Cat, Easthampton, Massachusetts (photocopy)     THE INSTIGATORS - photocopy flyer & Flywheel Record Fair - photocopy flyer     Starline Rhythm Boys - 11x17 digital promo flat & ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT DOCUMENTARY PROJECT (movie poster) - Yeah, yeah. I know. It's just a ripoff of the DVD packaging, but the staircar came out pretty sweet, right? More info on the movie here.      3-color screenprinted poster for benefit concert (not for sale) - Farm Aid & Educational poster promoting the book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (offset) - available for sale at Teacher's Discovery      Tour flat - Patiokings (laser/digital) & Movie poster - Eat This New York (offset)     Rancid, w/ Tiger Army, The Slackers, Roger Miret at Trocadero, Philadelphia, PA. Featured in Paul Grushkin's big and hefty Art of Modern Rock coffee table book. "perfect all around example of a poster" - Linotype (2-color photocopy, out of print) & Pop*A*Wheelie, Mike Flood, Jason Loewenstein at Harry's, Northampton, Mass (digital)

Labels: 2008, Graphic Design, Posters

Labels: 2007, CD Design, Graphic Design

The No-Shadow Kick - Block Island, RI (photocopy, 2007) & Rock show flyer - Joe Strummer tribute (xerox, 2003)     No-Shadow Kick w/ The Coopers and Hospital at The Baystate, Northampton Mass (1999, 2-color photocopy)& No-Shadow Kick w/ Cindy Bow and Kate O'Connor, Amherst, Mass (1998, 2-color photocopy) TALLER THAN gOD at The Empire Theatre, Manchester, NH. The first flyer I ever made, for the first rock show I ever played. Maybe 1993.

Labels: 2005, Graphic Design, Illustration, No-Shadow Kick, Posters, TALLER THAN gOD

Cover art for the Valley Advocate (April, 2007). Click to see the original art.

Labels: 2007, Graphic Design, Valley Advocate

Labels: 2005, CD Design, Graphic Design

Read reviews | Click to see CD layout | Visit noshadowkick.com | $6.00 CD for sale on the BUY page.

Labels: 2005, CD Design, Graphic Design, Illustration, No-Shadow Kick

Labels: 2005, CD Design, Graphic Design

Labels: 2004, CD Design, Graphic Design

Labels: 2002, CD Design, Graphic Design

Labels: 2000, CD Design, Graphic Design, TALLER THAN gOD, Typography

BASEMENT MAKE-OUT PARTY
(1999, BFXRR-007) The debut CD from Northampton's own No-Shadow Kick. Fourteen tracks plus one secret one that nobody knows about. Find out what happens when three guys lock themselves in a cellar, take off their shirts, plug in, and get really sweaty. Written, recorded, produced, & packaged by the fellas in the band. Brought to you by the fine folk at BlueFX Records.

Read reviews | See larger cover image | $6.00 CD for sale on the BUY page.

Labels: 1999, CD Design, Graphic Design, Mister Reusch, No-Shadow Kick

VMAG, a local (Northampton, western Massachusetts) zine published in the late nineties/early aughts, wasn't my publication, but I did a bunch of graphic work for Murph, the publisher. And since it seems to have very little life on the internet, I figured I'd post some of the work I did for it. Most of the inner-page stuff (spot illustrations & a comic strip called Pinhole) I ended up including in the mythical Failure, Incompetence, but here's some of the cover illustration and design work I did:


SEPT 1999
I did the illustration, not the type. Very Haymarket-y. Heh. The guy on the left was modeled after a fellow Turn It Up employee whose name, unsurprisingly, escapes me at the moment. But he was a RIGHTEOUS DUDE. Click for a better look at the drawing.


JUNE/JULY 2000
Murph, the editor/publisher, let me fiddle with the whole layout for this cover. My young and foolish ways led me to the Impact font. Ho ho ho. But you know, it's pretty ok. This is also one of my earliest forays into misusing the Photoshop halftone filter.


#32 - AUGUST 2000

This was the premiere of a cover layout grid style that i'd actually taken the time to think out. Shocking, I know. For some damned reason, the left column graphics got bumped a quarter of an inch to the left, but it still set the tone for what I wanted in general. I did the illustrations, too. And, hey... how's that for logo design, eh? EH?


#33 - SEPT 2000

A-ha! The grid done correctly... much better! I still really like this style. No-frills, straightforward, limited color palette. I did not take this photo, but I think I did that little graphicy thing in the lower left to fill the space in the layout.


#34 - OCT 2000

I seem to recall that weird little graphic in the lower left is something I did for some spooky ghost story inside.


#35 - NOV 2000

I still really like this illustration, which I later hijacked for my Ween poster. These were the days before I really understood CMYK vs RGB, so the cover came out a lot duller-toned than I'd intended. Click for a better look at the original piece.

Labels: 1999, 2000, Graphic Design, Illustration