I had been reading about Angels & Airwaves self-releasing their latest album, Love, as a free download via their website so when I got the request to submit art for the tour admat I already had an idea of where the band was going with the project. Plus, I had previously screened the trailer for [...]
I decided to take my kid out to the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park in San Diego, California for a three-day, two-night New Year’s camping trip. We camped with B2K in the southern portion of the park where we could take the kiddo on short hikes to visit ancient Native American pictographs at Indian Hill and to [...]
The first Kiss admat that I created for European market, The White Admat, was so well received that I was asked to create another version with a fighter jet flying over a map, breaking the sound barrier and emitting rings to symbolize such. I accepted the gig with a can-do attitude and produced a piece of [...]
This admat I created for the Breaking Benjamin camp was a breeze from start to finish. Yes, we went through a number of revisions but ultimately it contained my original art direction with adjustments and tinkering here and there. I was given logos and photos and told to have at it so I pitched a [...]
I have run up and down Cowles Mountain in San Diego, California three or four days a week for the past couple of months. Today’s run: 3.08 miles, 37 minutes, 4.9 mph moving average, 1,800 feet total change in elevation. I ran up 1.6 miles from my driveway to the top in 21 min and [...]
Getting a call to pitch art for a Kid Rock U.S. tour is great news but it came with the bad news of a same-day deadline that I just couldn’t meet. I asked Mr. Ritchie’s management if I could work on the job over night and get them a proof first thing in the morning. [...]
The second front desk mural that I’ve created for The Palms Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, for a Kiss concert, was extra fun to make because I also created the admat used for the current Kiss U.S. tour. The giant 31′ x 7′ piece is placed behind the check-in desk in the hotel lobby and was up [...]
Kiss are a great band to do graphic design for because one knows from the get-go that they want a bold layout that features the band’s image and an oversized band logo that punches your eyes in the, um, face. For this project I was given a couple of shots of the band in some [...]
Breaking Benjamin has recently become one of the bands I’m doing work for and when their management asked me to submit some ideas for 30′ x 15′ backdrops for the stage I was intrigued by the task. The art direction was rather liberal: no band photo, no album art, dark colors and “Sci-Fi meets Affliction”. [...]
When I received the request to create a Buddy Guy “sold out” poster for a concert at Dreamcatcher at Viejas in Alpine, California I was immediately motivated by the image of Mr. Guy sitting with his guitar. The first thing I thought when I saw the image of Mr. Guy was, “is he wearing gators [...]