Whole Foods Market Pollinators Week!

A campaign I did for Whole Foods promoting Pollinators Week. It's more then just bees!

Santa Fe Arts Festival

I know, it looks a lot like the Palm Springs stuff I did for the Ace (which was just a rip of Hatch Show Print stuff in the first place). My response: I don't care, I like it. Eventually this will probably turn into a full campaign, but for right now it is just an announcement splash page.

Dial M for Murder

The kid is back! It has been a while since I posted anything, which is mostly because it has been a while since I had something worth posting. But thankfully the self-pity streak has been broken with the completion of the Dial M for Murder poster! Made for the Albuquerque Little Theater production, it is easily my favorite Hitchcock movie. And overall I am really happy with how the graphic came out. Of course, anything rendered only in black, red, and white is bound to look pretty good. Mostly I guess I am just happy that it doesn't look like total red barf. Which is really really gross. Take my word for it.

Pinball Publishing Interview

I was interviewed! The awesome people at Pinball Publishing talked a little to Jeremy Pelley and myself about the work we did for the Ace Hotel over the past 2 years. See inside my brain! Steal our techniques! Thanks to the Laura at Pinball, one of my favorite printers ever.

Check out the interview!

Shakespeare In Hollywood

I have just recently started volunteering my design skills to the Albuquerque Little Theater, this is the first poster I have done for them. I, like many Americans, love the idea of volunteering, but generally find it hard to find time or a way to volunteer the only thing I am really any good at. But designing theater posters is something I have always wanted to get into. Concert posters are great and all, but there is so much drama and story and comedy to convey in a theater poster. And what a rich history! I first started really loving theater design seeing the work Portland Center Stage did in Oregon. Great bold illustration and colors, imagery that fit in with current design. They made theater look so much more inviting. My favorite part was the way they found new ways to show iconic plays. Later in the season I'll be doing a poster for Dial M for Murder, one of my favorite movies ever. Hopefully it wont, you know, suck.

Santa Fean "Flow" Feature

Back working at a magazine! This time it's a art and culture mag in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It is way out of my comfort zone, so to speak, but certainly a learning experience. This feature is all about a Santa Fean couple's 2nd home, which is more expensive then anything I will ever ever ever own. I just wanted something that felt as modern and clean as their house, while avoiding being a total snore festival. Hopefully this came close. I kinda like it, anyway. PS: I didn't choose the article title.

Ace Press Kits: Award Winning!

I have always thought design awards were kind of dumb. It's all so subjective, does it really mean anything? Still, it feels good to win one. For the work Jeremy Pelley and I did on the Ace Hotel press kits, we got an Applied Arts award. No trophy, flowers, or call from the President, though. I guess its more of a feel good award.

New Website!

I hate updating my website. I usually put it off for as long as possible, then go to it 3 years later and realize the whole thing is in dire need of a total redesign. Today is that day! I have re-done popularmonster.com to reflect the person I am RIGHT NOW. Of course, the whole thing will be outdated in about 5 hours, but that won't stop me from re-designing it again… in 2012.

Grimly Boys Poster

Another old poster brought up from the depths of my external hard drive.

Sublimity Monster Board Graphic #2

New Sublimity board graphic! Holy shit, that monster sure can sleep!

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!