East Dev Music Packaging & Websites

Art direction and design for the first 13 releases of a music imprint I cofounded. My partners and I wanted the packaging to obviously reflect the individual artist projects but also feel like an East Dev release. The lack of realistic budgets also helped dictate the look which often ended up being illustrated.

East Dev websites

Various iterations of websites for Eastern Developments. As we released music the sites because increasingly neutral to emphasize packaging and photography.

East Dev Posters, various

Various posters for non specific or multiple releases. Top left poster contains a loose hand style — an 80s graf writer perhaps trying to copy Picasso poster letters. Top right poster is a miserable attempt at producing something that is supposed to be cut up, as in, “interactivity”, blah! Both were initial experiments with graphics other than logos for the label and questioned to what extend should the label have a visual language beyond the individual packaging. See Stones Throw for the modern thorough working model.

Bottom posters are 2 color, 11×17 on cheap pastel Kinko’s paper for an Eliot Lipp release. The black is xerography and the red is serigraphy. Other color ways included green ink on blue pastels.

Ammon Contact

This EP sounds so raw and funky that there was no way it could be not be done by hand, especially without ready access to photos. The illustrations are all done with construction paper on a bed of stickie notes.

My only regret was that we were unable to get proper digital repro due to budgets and a crazy deadline. Currently out of print and hard to come by. Printed shots coming shortly, vinyl collection in storage.

EastDev promo CDs

I detest hate CDs. Ya believe it or not we used to mail these things to people. These were basic promo CDs with space to write on. I wanted to establish this as the house illustration style but it never evolved as such.

Sneakers and Drug Wars

Illustration for David W. era XLR8R for a piece on drug wars and a new book out on the subject. For another article on sneaker fanatics I was asked to illustrate a pair of gravis sneakers. Both illustrations are mixed media, but the sneaker impressed gravis and VW enough to fork over gear and a commission, respectively.