Some tech humor for the holidays. I was given free rein by my employer to design anything at all, as long as it was both Christmas-y and hi-tech.
This was years before Google Glass. Where are my royalty checks?
For a few years in the 2010s, I made year-end CDs, not of "the best" of that year, but of my favorites from what I had heard. And if a few songs from the previous year (or even many years previous) made the tracklist, well,…
It started as a casual playlist for a campus LGBTQ+ group get-together. It became a 150-minute, 2-CD documentation of the AIDS epidemic in America and England, as told through pop music and news soundbites.
Sourcing the news soundbites added a lot of time to the…
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The Boston Secession were (are?) a modern classical vocal group. For their debut season in 1998, I designed the poster for their two concerts, as well as print ads, tickets, and a gigantic quad-fold mailer/manifesto.
They already had their logo. The rest was up to…
Record collectors and aficionados of packaging prowess know that the luxurious gatefold designs of vinyl LPs in the 1970s absolutely dominated... in terms of physical size if nothing else.
This was part of my exhibition “The Art of Noise,” which was on display in Renfro…
I'm an absolute nut for early synthesizer music. One of my first formative discoveries in my parents' record collection was Dick Hyman's Age of Electronicus, a Moog-filled LP of original compositions and groovy covers like "Green Onions" and the Beatles' "Blackbird." The two best music…
Whatever else may come, I can die satisfied that I designed an embroidered bowling shirt and twenty or thirty of my coworkers and I wore them en masse at the lanes.
It's UpStart Communications again, source of many of my black/red/white designs, and this was…
2016 was a brutal year for pop fans of several generations, as we bid unexpected farewells to Prince and David Bowie. As a longtime fan of both, it was my obligation and honor to showcase some of their visuals in my music exhibition.
Though I…
This plucky character with the devil-may-care vogue gesture and saucy hand on hip is named Thermo, "The Heat Generator." No, I don't know either, but I created it as a logo for internal use at UpStart Communications, a hi-tech public relations agency.
Star performers…
Or is it a data blossom? (Silkscreen, 10 colors)
His name was Prince, and he was funky. At some point, my thirst for new Prince recordings could no longer be slaked with B-sides, remixes and rarities, and I went down the rabbit hole of other artists covering Prince.
While there is a near infinite…