Labels: 2009, CD Design, Graphic Design, Illustration

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

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Labels: 2008, Illustration, Sketchbook

A full page illustration I did for The Valley Advocate after the inauguration. See larger photo.- This is available as an 11x12" digital print on the BUY POSTERS page.

Labels: 2008, Art Prints, Illustration, Posters, Valley Advocate

Cover for the Valley Advocate for an article about the Flywheel Collective. (Nov. 2007). Click to see the original art.

Labels: 2007, Illustration, Northampton, Valley Advocate

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

Labels: 2007, Illustration, Sketchbook

Labels: 2007, Illustration, Turn It Up CDs

Labels: 2007, Illustration

A spot page illustration I did for The Valley Advocate when ol' KV passed. See larger image. An 11"x14" digital print is available for sale on the BUY STUFF page

Labels: 2007, Art Prints, Illustration, Valley Advocate

Cover art for the Valley Advocate article about Star Wars' anniversary. (Aug. 2007). Click to see the original art.

Labels: 2007, Illustration, Star Wars, Valley Advocate

Labels: 2007, Illustration, Turn It Up CDs

Labels: 2007, Illustration

Labels: 2006, Illustration, Sketchbook

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

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

LOLLIPOP was/is a Boston-based music magazine. Some of the comic work I did for it ended up in my much-talked-about-but-seldom-purchased FAILURE, INCOMPETENCE collection, but here are some of the cover illustrations I did:

AUG 1996 - The editor's art direction was "I'm paying for full color covers... use every color." Yikes. I hated all the text put over it, I hated the pink logo, and I sort of hated my own drawing. Devout Standard Design readers will note the dog is a prototype of Banjo from Broken Lines.

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Labels: 1996, 1997, 2000, Illustration, Massachusetts