Kings Highway & the Amigo Room

One of the cooler things I have done with the Ace is a ton of identity work for their Palm Springs on-site restaurant and bar, Kings Highway & the Amigo Room. My favorite is the beer cozy.

Ace + Arkitip

I can finally say my work has been in Arkitip. My ego is EXPLODING! This is a kind of ad and a kind of editorial spread I worked on for the Ace that ran in a Arkitip newspaper release. I say "kinda" cause both really fall outside the normal definitions of ads and editorial, but I still like them.

Flapper Girl Website

It took me way longer to design then it should have, but the Flapper Girl website is totally up and running! Christine Blystone, the brains and beauty behind Flapper Girl, coded the whole thing and did an amazing job.

Ace Hotel Property Map

The Ace Hotel & Swim Club is such a huge property, it needed a map so people knew how to get to their rooms. So I drew one! I think it came out really well, and really captures the style of the hotel. It's a tri-fold, normally printed in B+W. The color is from my dreams.

Ace Hotel T-Shirt Collection

A couple shirt graphics for the Ace, both for the Palm Springs hotel. The first one features letters hand cut out of cardboard, a new technique I perfected one day when I ran out of paper.

Ace Palm Springs Ads

This is a sort of a collection of random ads I have done with Jeremy Pelley for the Ace Hotel & Swim Club in Palm Springs. We had the hardest time finding the hotel's voice, but in the end settled on really spastic and tight typography. It's even more fun when we hand draw it all!

Ace Hotely NYC Opening Posters

This is a collection of Hatch style posters + graphics I have done announcing the opening of Ace Hotel NY for various needs. Mostly knock offs, but fun none the less. I guess if you are going to steal, steal something good!

Ace Hotel Website

Probably the biggest website I have ever done! The style is pretty simple, but the big challenge was getting all 4 hotels (which are all pretty different) to exist in the same universe without it looking totally insane. We just made photography the biggest element. One day the page transitions will slide around like a microfiche, but it turns out that sort of thing is harder then I had hoped it would be.

Ace Survival Guide

A kind of follow up to the Nike Presentation, this was sent to everyone who attended to further remind them how awesome the Ace Hotel is. It's basically just a list of all the great places in Portland that people should visit. I pretty much got to do this one all on my own, and tried to make it as interesting as possible while also getting it done in 2 days.

Ace Hotel Nike Presentation

Nike is a weird company. I mean, I know what they do and how global they are, but it still amazes me just how many people actually work there. The Ace wanted to do a presentation to their travel people, who basically are the people that book the hotels for Nike guests and employees. I figured there were maybe 5 or 6 people who did this, but it turned out there were almost 25! To get their attention and break up their boring day (which was to be spent sitting through dopey hotel pitch after dopey hotel pitch), we came up with a whole experience that started long before the meeting.

First, Each rep attending the meeting was sent a letter with a specific number. The letter was an average form letter, with all the boring impersonal parts crossed out, letting the true message pop.

The second item sent was a 45 record sleeve pulled from a local record store with their number screened on the front and stuffed with gifts. The sleeve had a bunch of random stuff inside, including a record, an invite to the meeting, photos, notes, and love. This all came together with the meeting, where everyone just kind of hung out and talked about stuff they liked to talk about. Total success!

Sublimity Monster Board Graphic

They made it! It changed a little, here is the updated version.

Sublimity Water Monster

This is just a concept piece right now, but I thought I would throw it up. Not sure when Sublimity will actually be making it, but probably not for a little while. I want to turn it into a series, so I am going to be making 2 more at some point in the near future.

Saturday Morning Mix-Tape Poster

Oh Mr.T, how I love you. Thank you for all the guidance you have provided in my life. The only way I can repay you is a messed up portrait. On a side note, Mr.T is actually showing up this weekend!*

Hope you can come!

* Mr.T will not actually be anywhere near Backspace this weekend. Sorry for lying.

Saturday Morning Mix-Tape!

I've got a new gig! I am going to be hosting a Saturday Morning Cartoon show at Backspace coming up this weekend. I have been collecting tons of weird, old, wonderful cartoons for years and for the first time I have actually found something to do with them. More-or-less it is just a video DJ sort of gig, but trust me when I say the cartoons are fun to watch. My good friend Ruth is cooking up some awesome vegetarian breakfast items and Backspace has its regular menu going as well. The line-up is a surprise, but I will give you one of the best reasons to come. Hope to see you there!

Sublimity Shirt Love

Just finished new shirt graphics for Sublimity Snow & Skate. Hearts and love, concrete and snow. Snow is for wimps, though.

Website Re-design!

It only took me leaving my job to find the time to do it, but I have FINALLY updated my website! I did a total overhaul, with new graphics, more punch, and a cute picture of Astro Boy punching me in the mouth. Check it out!
popularmonster.com

Flapper Girl Creations Logo

My friend Christine recently asked me to design a new logo for her clothing line, "Flapper Girl Creations". She does awesome work, which you can see right here. I am going to try and talk her into letting me design some t-shirts as well, but we'll see. At the very least, be on the look out for a new header graphic and buy stuff from her!

Sea Monster Poster

Lately I have been trying to solidify a drawing style I can use for posters that is a little more poster-like then the quirky but color-less drawings seen here. To that extent, I think I have a winner in this poster. It took a while, but I am really happy with the outcome.

Old Site Design

Another old design, but one I like a lot. This is a web design from a few years ago for a site that was going to provide users with various condition reports for their favorite sports. It has since gone under, but probably because they re-designed it away from my look. Fools!

Bigger Than Jesus Identity Work

This is a little old, but is one of my favorite ID projects. Branding is one of my great loves of design, and something I only get to do every so often. This is the logo and poster, and I also did a few t-shirt designs.