GHavaPress

Website mockups for a publishing venture in Brooklyn NY. Although my preference where these, what was eventually coded is ok as well. My first use of Trebuchet MS.

The Life Force Trio

Carlos essentially let me run with this — his only request that it have a private press feel and include a Kev Ramos polaroid on the front. I added Akzidenz Grotesk, the polaroid and a mix of rich and pure black ink.

My main visual reference was the Actuel jazz series but with a much looser type treatment. And  both Carlos and I thought it quite democratic to include all the players name on the cover as opposed to hiding them in the liner notes.

Triple Five Soul 2004 – 2008

For eight seasons, between 2004 and 2008, I was responsible, with Ben Velez and the team in NYC, for the content development and design of the Triple Five Soul website. Initially the site simply presented campaign imagery and lookbooks but it quickly grew to include viewer submitted imagery (Global Soul Project), a Japanese sister site and social network presence on MySpace and YouTube.

Eliot Lipp
“Steele Street Scraps”

Another music packaging project with a small budget and quick turn around time. The typography is a play off of the title, with the 8bit chunks and blood splats for style points. Inconsistencies in color in the above images are purely due to my lack of skill in shooting flat work. A Hefty Records release. I also recently found an interesting outtake.