Not only were we hired to do the artwork for this music project, but our very own Corey Witt played guitars and wrote two of the six songs on this jazz fusion project by Rosy Rosenquist. For our directions, Rosy pointed out that he loved clean spaces, zen-like tranquility, and stark whites. But he also wanted us to make sure that the exclamation point in the title was a point of interest as well. He liked the idea that one could be in a place of peace but also feel compelled into action by the music. For the last comp, we took some liberty with the title, changing “hear now!” to...
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For this project, we were asked to build some stock thank you cards that a local megachurch could send out to its volunteers and helpers. They had to be non-event-specific and as close to gender neutral as possible. Here are the comps for the
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Yes, it’s Christmas!- however in California, the holidays look suspiciously like the Spring… and the Summer, and the Fall. Here are a couple of quick projects that came across our desks last month. Merry Christmas to all and have a blessed New Year. (yes… yes, this does mean that we probably won’t post updates until Q2
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Have you ever considered what it would be like to sell 1M of a product? A million records is a platinum selling record, something that very few artists actually achieve. Now consider that the product is something more than music (an item universally loved by all mankind)- but rather applies to a niche market. An international company with corporate offices in both Japan and the US has sold one million guitar amps in their “Cube” amp line. As the name implies, it’s cube shaped and comes in an assortment of models, ranging from a battery-powered practice amp to a stage-ready...
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I can’t take credit for this idea, since another designer shared with me his theory of “angel projects”. One way to be a designer without losing your soul is to take on an Angel Project every now and then. It’s a project that offers no financial benefits whatsoever, but is fun to work on and offers an extra dose of creative latitude in place of payment. Also, when you’re approached to work on a project with little to no budget, you can say that you’re already working on an Angel Project. Not only does it clearly distinguish between what you’re doing...
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This is our most recent work for Azusa Pacific University’s School of Music. We started building this thing last year while it was still in production and it’s great to see it finally head off to duplication. We tried to keep with this larger, grander, more celestial mood for the artwork. We didn’t want to do anything that was too tongue-in-cheek or playful because we wanted to avoid anything that would detract from the reverence. And that was certainly self-imposed, the fine folks at APU have always been really receptive to our more “outside” ideas....
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Lots and lots of space lately. And I don’t mean square footage- I mean space. As in, The Final Frontier.  For starters, I just got finished with a design for Kip Fox’s new disc, Astronaut. He had some amazing players on this disc like Mark Hill, former Music Director from Kieth Urban’s band, playing bass; Shawn Pelton, who is an amazing NYC session ace and 20-year regular as the drummer for Saturday Night Live; and Gary Burnette, who plays guitar on much of the gospel, contemporary christian, and pop music you hear coming out of Nashville. It’s a spectacular...
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So there’s this local congregation in Orange, California for whom we regularly do work. They’ve been around for 125 years and have never really done an annual report and figured that it was appropriate to do one for 2007. Unfortunately, talk of money is always a bit uncomfortable when it comes to the church so the assignment was to find a positive and optimistic way to diplomatically discuss how the church’s tithe was being used. We came up with what we think is a creative way to solve this problem. The format was 4″h x 12″w and opened vertically (like a...
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