and the winner is...

last week, i posted about the tour posters i was doing for the upcoming folly reunion shows. if you didn't catch it, check it out here. anyway, the guys originally were going to pick 2 out of the 6 designs and send them to print. but they liked them so much that they decided to get 4 of the designs printed instead of 2. here's the one's they chose:

DRAGON:

(this is actually an alternate color scheme than the original one i sent them)

SPACE:


PINUPS:


SOVIET:


look out for them if you are going to any of the shows.

new work: feelin' friendly

just finished up the artwork and layout for my friend's website. he shoots skateboard film and he's trying to do big things. check it out. site features a short video filmed & edited by bj wishard, along with links to his youtube page and his old website (which i did not design)..

http://www.williamwishard.com/

infrequent.

so i realize that i've been slacking a lot with posts on here. i apologize to the people that check this regularly. i've just had so much on my plate and so much going on in the social life that i've been really strapped for time. dating back to june, i've been bogged down with a lot of design projects. here's a few of the things i've worked on:

green room / max jerome flyer:


last minute birthday flyer:


sweet nelly's bbq sauce label:


dingbatz unplugged flyer:


abacinate / fit for an autopsy tour poster:


dingo's den bikini bike wash flyer:



dingbatz dio tribute / cancer benefit flyer:



joehate's birthday bash flyer:


still in the works.. album artwork for my man sebzero.. website layout artwork and a sticker design for the upcoming feelin' friendly website.

not to mention, i'm still in the process of putting together a handful of my own shirt designs that i want to release independently. unfortunately, those currently have to take a back seat to jobs that are paying me so that i can actually put the cash together to get them printed.

and i'm also slowly but surely collecting material for my upcoming project.. STREET CELEBRITY. i have a list of people that i want to eventually contact about doing interviews, but if you are interested in setting something up, please let me know.

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besides my full-time job, my freelance and my own personal projects, i've also managed to see a shitload of shows over the last few months. since may i've managed to see all of the following bands live:

troublemaker
black kites
fleshtemple
suburban scum
wisdom in chains
trapped under ice
skarhead
madball
H2O
cro mags
ill bill
cage
nassau chainsaw
sebzero
waking the cadaver
totimoshi
melvins
isis
faith no more
gravehill
cardiac arrest
infernal revulsion
unearthly trance
high on fire

(and those are just the ones i can think of off the top of my head. there are definitely a bunch more. plus next week i'm going to see slayer, megadeth and testament as well.)

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SHAMELESS SELF-PROMOTION:

IF YOU NEED FLYERS, POSTERS, STICKERS OR T-SHIRTS FOR YOUR BAND, BUSINESS, EVENT OR ANYTHING ELSE, PLEASE CONTACT ME. I CAN DO STRICTLY LAYOUTS/DESIGN FOR YOU VERY CHEAP, AND I ALSO HAVE HOOKUPS FOR PRINTING AS WELL IF YOU NEED THEM.

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i'll definitely be posting some of my usual goodies this week and try to get this thing back and rolling like usual. thanks for checking me out.

phase one.

so i'm in the process of really getting this graphic design thing legitimate and into full swing. finally found some reliable printing. still putting my website together. got so much stuff to organize. hopefully i can roll out my website and have business cards in circulation within the next month or two. in the meantime, if you need print flyers for your band or any event, please get in touch with me.

for starters, here are some standard flyer prices:

4x6 double-sided / full-color:

500 flyers - $100
1000 flyers - $125
2500 flyers - $225

i can do smaller and larger runs than this, but these are the most common orders. if you need any other quantity or different size flyer, let me know and i'll get you a price.

prices include design and printing. if you need it shipped somewhere, you will have to pay extra for shipping. if you are local, i can meet up with you for pickup. you can do payments through paypal or in cash when you pick them up.

i can also do posters and business cards as well. if you need them, give me a shout and i'll get you a price.


give me a shout HERE if you need anything.

untitled.

if you are in the design field, you undoubtedly know the usefulness and necessity of having a ton of good textures. they have so many different purposes and can turn something plain into something totally sweet with a simple place underneath a layer and a change in blending modes. along with my obsession with vintage flicks, posters, ads and all that, my other obsession most definitely lies with textures. i can never get enough, and i search far and wide to find as many as possible. you can really never have enough.

generally, i don't give away too many of my sources. especially when it comes to design resources. i look at it like this. i'm not going anywhere special to find my shit. they are all freely available on the web. i just dig and search and click on links upon links and sometimes get lost in the vortex of the internet for hours. and i find a lot of cool shit. anyone can find the things i find, they just need to have the patience and dedication. but today i'm in a good mood, so i'm going to give out a few things.

first, a couple links to some sweet websites where i download a lot of free hi-res textures:

circleboxtextures.com
lostandtaken.com

you can find some really cool stuff there if you need some background textures for design projects, or even if you want some dope flicks for your desktop background. i'm also going to do something that i've never done before. i'm going to give away some of my very own hi-res textures in the spirit of circlebox and lost and taken.

you can download all of them as a zip file here, or you can click on the thumbs below if you just want to download individual ones. i have so many of these and i will be giving out more for free in the future. i just have to organize the thousands of photos on my hard drive. anyway, enjoy and if you ever use them for anything, hit me up and show me what you did with them.

































and while we are on the topic of design, check out some of that recent flyer game:





this voice or no voice show should be pretty wild in august. they are doing a video shoot at the end of the show, so make sure you get your ass down there and get your face in the video.

on a side note, my man gdp is on tour right now with pistol pete and daniel joseph. they started a blog with tour photos and words of wisdom from the road. check it out.

found this website today called threeframes.net. the name is pretty self-explanatory:



(these are all animated but for some reason, they don't seem to be working on here. but check out the site for the real versions along with a lot of others.)

also found this site which had a lot of funny shit:










but i digress. anyway, there's a family of stray cats that live underneath some huge trailer outside my building. i bought food for them and i feed them all the time. a mother and three rascally little kittens. they like to sneak up on me when i'm smoking cigarettes:






















and finally some random weekend flicks:

yo she slapded that shit.

















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