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up ta date

2009-12-07T22:35:00.001-08:00

I have updated my carbonmade portfolio. click here.

2009-10-27T07:57:00.000-07:00

This is an Illustration of Don Draper. I tried to make it look like it was printed in an old magazine with a similar style to illustrations found in the 40s, 50s and 60s

To Mary Jane, Best Wishes, Martin

2009-10-24T07:59:00.000-07:00

So I had to design a fake CD cover for my graphic design class. this is one of the mock-ups. Actually it's the only mock-up right now. Give me some feedback (Chris , Scott, Alex anyone!!), and as I come up with more designs I'll post them

This one is dedicated to anyone who ever had to endure sitting next to a huge douche bag on a train

2009-08-02T18:07:00.000-07:00

Hello all.
so I made these t shirts this past weekend. I printed the guys on that dark blue, and the girls on white.
I still have a bunch/the screen still so if anyone's interested you can have one for a mere $20! I'm really happy with the way they turned out and IT MADE ME REALLY EXCITED ABOUT SILKSCREENING AGAIN. oops, so excited it made me accidently hit the caps lock and shout at you. i apologize if i damaged your mind's ears.

sorry it took me so long to post stuff! i'll get back on it right away.... sir.

Don't surround yourself with yourself

2009-07-09T10:31:00.000-07:00

So it's a little blurry because my Moleskine is kinda warped and the scanner just can't deal with that.

Threadless Loves Pre-Loved

2009-07-01T10:33:00.001-07:00

it's up for voting! go here to vote! PLEEEEEEEEASE!

preloved love

2009-06-29T08:15:00.001-07:00

potential Threadless tee! I'm just waiting for approval from the website and then it will be up for voting. I'll post a link as soon as it's up.
It's for a special contest they're having called "Threadless Loves: Pre-Loved". so the designs are supposed to remind people of pre-loved stuff (vintage stuff, used stuff, hand-me-downs). anyways my design is based off the book/movie the Brave Little Toaster.

I promise to post more soon. I've been rather neglectful of this blog for a while haven't I?

good 1

2009-06-04T10:52:00.001-07:00

This one is dedicated to the "So Hip It Hurts" crew.

2009-05-27T08:22:00.001-07:00

"what's set upon the table sits upon the table"

2009-05-23T19:44:00.000-07:00

My foray into graphic design....

This one is dedicated to Jackson

2009-05-21T07:19:00.001-07:00

2009-05-13T09:39:00.001-07:00

are you human enough?

2009-05-12T17:57:00.000-07:00

Live Long and Prosper

2009-05-12T17:53:00.000-07:00

My best friend is a fictional character

2009-05-10T22:00:00.000-07:00

This one is dedicated to Betty

2009-05-10T20:26:00.001-07:00

TCAF, Paul Pope, Lucy Knisley oh my!

2009-05-09T18:05:00.000-07:00

mary mary, quite contrary

2009-05-05T06:30:00.001-07:00

So yesterday I biked to Wal-Mart and bought a box, some potting soil, and herbs. then I came home and spent the afternoon planting!
I also changed the strings on my acoustic again, and gave it a good wipe down and tightening.
I hope I don't kill these plants! I don't think I have a very green thumb, but I'm thinking positively about it.

not having to get up to go to classes is nice. it's finally starting to feel like summer... sort of.

2009-04-25T21:44:00.000-07:00

last computers project!! it's nothing special, but I like it. it's from a radio show called Escape starring Vincent Price, you'll probably recognize his voice.

Unofficial Beard Season Music Video!! (AKA: my very first After Effects animation)

2009-03-27T11:27:00.000-07:00

wow mike you're so talented...

it's up!

2009-03-09T14:40:00.000-07:00

go here to vote for my Threadless design! they accepted it for voting, so go sign up and represent!

thanks!!!

King of the Rodeo

2009-03-08T12:59:00.001-07:00

Everyone PLEASE go vote for my Kings Of Leon T shirt design at Design by Humans! here to view and vote! thank you!!

Psyence- Fiction

2009-03-06T08:56:00.000-08:00

So I submitted this design to Threadless, but realized it has too many colours so they'll probably send it back to me. whatever, I worked really hard on it so I thought you should see it anyways.
sorry I haven't posted in so long.

she's lost control

2009-01-23T05:40:00.001-08:00

Alex and I watched "Control" last night. that bio-pic about Ian Curtis (lead singer of Joy Division). It was hard for me to feel any real sympathy for the guy in the end. I had watched another film a couple nights before called "24 Hour Party People" which was practically about the same thing. This film however was about Tony Wilson, the owner/creator of Factory records, the company which produced Joy Division, and then later New Order. In this movie, Curtis is portrayed as the character the audience feels almost sorry for. A musical genius misunderstood who finds this life too much and hangs himself in his home. I was actually sad after this.

But in "Control", we discover so much more about Curtis, and some of it isn't as "genius". He was married young, was in a post-punk band garnering a lot of attention, had a baby daughter, and a lover on the side, and oh yeah, epilepsy and all this happened before his life ended at 23 years old. The film made him seem a coward, and way too immature to have to deal with everything he created for himself so young. I still hold a lot of respect for how he shaped music history, but Ian Curtis the Man, is not someone I would look up to.

Collaboration celebration

2009-01-02T11:09:00.000-08:00

So Scott Pilgrim and I have been tirelessly working on a collaboration for the past few days. We'd been talking about doing something together for a while, but we finally sat down and worked something out.
this is the end result.

It's considered a series but each piece is an individual as well. We went around town and Scott photographed all the urban areas, and we took the photos and traced them, keeping the buildings etc incomplete looking and simplified. Then we added the colour which we'd decided early on was going to be just a small smear somewhere on one of the structures. Then the figures were added by myself, using brush and ink. the figures were referenced from life and photos.

so here you have it. The most personal art I've produced in a long time, and I can't believe it turned out exactly as it was envisioned in my mind.

Scott, it was a pleasure working with you!

My city is evaporating

2008-12-27T08:44:00.000-08:00

My grandparents house is full of awesome stuff. This wall paper and, shag carpet are part of my fondest childhood memories.

Art to come. Scanner doesn't work with my computer so I'll have to use my parents' which is slooooowwww, and unwelcoming, but I'll do it this week.

Bon Hiver

2008-12-19T08:19:00.000-08:00

My Phone took these. well...I took them... with my camera. at 4 am. they kind of look a bit fiery... firey?... fyery? Tyger Tyger Burning bright?

Finally home
Finally Employed
Finally creating

good things come to those who want and wait.
there's a lot of snow in London as of last night. and it's still going! I'm pretty amazed, and happy. Though I'd like to leave, and it looks very cold out. BUNDLE UP! you say... and you're right. I will.
Art will come soon. I just have to make sure there's a scanner located somewhere in this house....

Moleskine 08

2008-12-15T11:23:00.000-08:00

Holy Mole-y!

So there goes the semester, and as glad as I am to see it go, I can't help reflect on all the good things that it brought. So, as I upload these sketchbook pages, my iTunes playing it's best choice of shuffle ever, I think about what next semester will hold...
I'm very optimistic about it and everything to come. ees gon'be gooood!!!

Also while school's out I'm gonna do all the things the first semester never allowed me to do because of school. like make tons of awesome different art, get a job, record some music, see my family, and eat sommmmeeee awesome foooood!!!

Computer Project Blues

2008-12-08T18:08:00.000-08:00

so it isn't great but it's something.
We had to make a CD cover to a Starbucks introduction compilation CD. The genres were given at random, and I got western swing. Luckily western swing involves campy-ass cowboy crap. I left all the crop marks so you guys could see all the professionalism and stuff. amazing ain't it?

Things going slowly lately.... so excited for the break. make some REAL art for a change...

Oh the fonts I used on this cd cover are all from this sweet site called Dafont. they're mostly all free and there's tons to choose from. tons.

another one?? yep

2008-11-24T10:24:00.000-08:00

So I've submitted yet another shirt design to DBH. I really like this design and it's something even before I decided it would look good on a shirt. so please go voooteeee. i'll give you a shirt if i win. thanks!

shirt design!

2008-11-19T07:19:00.000-08:00

click here to go vote for my shirt design on Design By Humans! thank you!!!

sorry....y'all

2008-11-18T19:15:00.001-08:00

sorry I haven't posted in like, forever, but I have been pretty busy. so here's a comics to tie you over for a while, I know it's not my best, but I hope you'll get a small chuckle out of it...

still to come - new Design By Humans t shirt submission! I'll be sure to tell you to go vote if it gets approved.

Century Home

2008-08-17T09:02:00.000-07:00

Hey all! please go to here and vote for this shirt design. every vote helps!
thanks!

Fire Rescue

2008-07-19T22:39:00.001-07:00

A day at the beach

2008-07-15T10:34:00.001-07:00

Oot East

2008-07-12T11:40:00.001-07:00

sorry about the hiatus. went out east for a few days, but that's no excuse.

daft punk

2008-06-30T22:02:00.001-07:00

ok so I'm not sure what's up with the recent Daft Punk obsession but I know it's legit. I've been wanting to do a Daft Punk illo for a while but never go around to it, i also wanna colour it. any suggestions?

also i silkscreened this tee. LCD Soundsystem kicks major face.

gazebospiel

2008-06-11T06:35:00.000-07:00

cat-top

2008-06-03T14:42:00.000-07:00

Border Control

2008-06-03T14:34:00.000-07:00

Puberty sucks for everyone

2008-05-28T08:32:00.001-07:00

till the cows come home...

2008-05-25T21:33:00.000-07:00

So these are just comic strips either about my life or just thoughts that occur to me. I'll try to post as often as I can, but I'm a terrible blogger so who knows what'll happen. enjoy!

Prechance to...work?

2008-05-23T20:07:00.000-07:00