L.A.M.B

Wordmark for Gwen Stefani’s fashion line. A secondary mark was also designed along with first season’s hang tags and garment labels, tee shirts.

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.

CD packaging for Jon Philpot’s Bear In Heaven project entitled “Tunes NextDoor to Songs”. The illustrations are by S. Jeffery Sims. Unfortunately no vinyl was produced.

East Dev illustrations

Some spot illustrations for tshirts and packaging for 2003 East Dev tours and releases. The old portable radios with tape decks were for t-shirts and the guitars for Ahmad Szabo release. Both were done with ink. 

Since the label itself was so associated with electronic music, both my partner and I thought we should emphasize traditional and hand done references as opposed to the then prevalent tech-oriented images.

Stay Honest

Cary at Honest wanted to feature some of my work in their featured section of their site and I of course ablidged but also asked if I could design a nice xerox machine inspired interface.

In this archived version I swapped out all the work and replaced with images of friends. And some of the functionality is gone like preloaders. Be careful not to run out of toner.

Hill and Gully Rider

Initially these collages were presented to Arkitip as examples of how one could illustrate with a couple different bitmap patterns. They soon found their way into a Sci-Arc graduate project thanks to I. Kandarian. The bikes were rendered in plaids and floral print shelf lining that provided a nice contrast to the subject matter. The technique is perfect for contemporary retail installations. 

Decatur

Decatur is a bimap slab serif face designed specifically for on–screen viewing. The optimal usage is 9px aliased. The face is inspired by Decatur, Georgia a neighborhood east of Atlanta Georgia, which in the 80s left an impression on me as a odd mix of rural and urban although not at all suburban. Download font.