Music Design
This page is barely scratching the surface. I first started screenprinting posters for local indie and underground shows in the late 90s and since then have worked on projects as big as an album cover for John Legend and The Roots.
This project illustrates my dedication to detail and getting it right.
Titus Andronicus’ breakout album was a concept record about the Civil War. Song titles were constructed from meticulously-sourced 19th-century ephemera, paired with public domain images, and printed up in silver and blue on uncoated stock. “The Monitor” as it appears on the cover is from the note written for the telegraph sent to President Lincoln with an update on the famed warship’s progress in a battle.
A dystopian vision in black and white and the future.
Victoria Legrand wanted Beach House’s album 7 to be all black and white and gray. This collection of songs were the band’s darkest to date and they wanted the art to reflect it. Could a collage approach evoke a retro-inspired femininity, an uneasy and unsure world in disorder, and hint at science fiction and the future? And could we make this black and white LP an object that consumers just had to buy? Prismatic foil stamping that reads gray at some angles and flashes with endless color at others gave the cover that flash from the future and made it irresistible to fans who eagerly grabbed copies upon release. You can’t foil stamp Spotify.
I co-led this project and created most of the collages at Post Typography.
Commissioned by Sony Music, this album cover was adapted by Spike Lee into a stage background for the release show in New York City. Made at Post Typography.
U+N Fest’s founder and main promoter, Dana Murphy, has made it a point since the festival’s first year to have diverse line-ups, long before other events paid lip service to the idea. This wide range of genres, perspectives, and voices is reflected in every year’s poster, with a different lettering style drawn for every act across both nights.
Posters & Miscellany
A small grab bag of the countless flyers I’ve made for shows in illegal warehouse spaces, waterfront amphitheaters, and everything in between over the last 20ish years. Plus a few other things.
