Hey, It’s Friday.

Double Business

Working on an identity for DJ Lani Love, who also happens to be half of the fashion blog Sugar Rock Catwalk.  For the upcoming NY Fashion Week, she needed something that could do double duty, as she will be DJing the Independent Fashion Bloggers event and there as a representative for the blog.  Information overload on business cards is a tough thing to deal with.  I tried to keep it clean with a lean font and simple graphics.  As with nearly all projects, there ended up being a designer’s pick and a client’s pick.  On the internet, you get to see both!

Beautiful morning here in NYC. Some more poster work for the inimitable DJ Lani Love. Went for a dot instead of my (what's slowly becoming trademark) loose stipple patterning.

Take a Septembral stroll with me through 10 new choice tracks. As usual, most are what's been on heavy repeat, filled in with classics from the vault that fit just right for a Septembral stroll. Enjoy.

Good good, Good bad, Bad bad: An American Werewolf in London

I got a new scanner!  So, folks, you can expect to see a lot more real life art, if you get my meaning. Watched An American Werewolf In London last night and it was straight up Good good. Another campy but seriously made horror movie. I particularly liked how afraid the guy was of becoming a wolf and eating folks.

Season 3 Episode 8 in which an un-extraordinary man snatches a kid. Some psychic link stuff between a previous abductee and the current, but nothing too spectacular other than that. Carl Wade.

This is part of an ongoing project to catalogue the villains from the television series X Files. Check out the others here!

No updates last week because I was in Florida, sitting on the beach, watching white ibises probe the sand under receding waves for morsels. 

Bird 8: American Crow

Many birds very common to New York fall into the recognized nuisance category. These birds, like the pigeon, the sparrow and the gull, are at times nearly invisible to the average person. Many of us only notice these common birds when they are actively in our way or bothering us in some way. Studying and drawing these birds in great detail has given me a greater respect for them - probably the feeling I had when I was younger and didn’t have any bird-stories yet; about how this one did this yucky thing, or wouldn’t move because it’s superdumb. They really are pretty incredible, even the American Crow, the dogged black sheep of the bird world. This marks the half way point for the Common Birds of Brooklyn poster. Phew, more to come.

Bird 12: Red-winged Blackbird

An east coast staple, always mistook these at first glance for the much more elusive Oriole in my homestate of Maryland. Cornell Ornithology via Wikipedia claims this may be "the most abundant and most well studied bird in North America." Go figure. 

June - Turtie Needs Work.

Continuing the 2015 calendar project, June is Turtie from Steve Wolfhard’s Turtie Needs Work. We love this minicomic beyond reason and I can only pretend to make a strip as good as the originals. Here it is. That’s 6 months, half of 2015 down and printed. More coming, obvs. 

Season 3 Episode 10 in which a supposed NSA agent tries to keep Mulder and Scully from uncovering a dastardly alien-human hybrid experiment gone bad. This is the guy that was in the fantastic zombie film Pontypool, which I highly recommend for anyone liking radio-play style, mostly implied horror.

This is part of an ongoing project to catalogue the villains from the television series X Files. Check out the others here!