Here's the weekly poster for the 8-0 Buckeyes. Bit of Wes Anderson/Royal Tenenbaums influence going on here. As always, download the printable version from 11W.
Brutus is at it again, this time getting his bandit on and sticking up the Mustache Express on its way to Columbus. Get a free printable version over at 11W.
Big changes on the brewery front as Oval Brewing Co is now the Land-Grant Brewing Company. With the new name, obviously, comes a new graphic system. I've overhauled the logo and complimentary marks, and given the brewery an adaptable brand that still speaks to our core golden-era collegiate aesthetic.
You can read the full brand statement over at the website: landgrantbrewing.com. Look for a fully updated web experience soon.
In case you were wondering, the name-change came about as a result of a conflicting trademark with an international vodka distiller.
Buckeyes open up Big Ten play this weekend. Dug this one out of the archives to celebrate. Brutus looked pretty weird back in the day.
Poster #3 for the 2012 season. Get the printable version here.
Get ready for Game Two with the Golden Knights. Be sure to grab a printable version from 11W.
I think I need to stop watching Game of Thrones.
This here is a logo I recently made for Lovestruck State Cookies, the concept is tasty home-made cookies in the shape of your favorite state, with a little heart stamped in the location of the town of your choice. They should be launching this summer.
Set of screen-printed posters for the Jon Langford show at MOTR Pub on June 1 as well as his art show at the Clay Street Press in OTR. The awesome dudes at Southpaw were kind enough to handle the printing duties for these. A limited run of 25 prints each were available at MOTR and CSP.
Grandman favorites, and Ohio indie rock heroes the Ridges reached out to collaborate on a very cool promotion for Record Store Day. 50 of these LP-sized beauties (printed by the fine folks at Southpaw in OTR) have been scattered throughout record stores in the region. Along with the poster, you get a unique link to download a special live recording of the bands' "Insomniac's Song" performed with a massive chorus comprised of various Cincinnati-indie-scene mainstays. Get one while you can.
The mighty Buckeyes are playing in the Final 4 this weekend along with some other teams. To celebrate, I put together this poster chronicling the tournament up to this point. You can grab a high-res (vector) printable PDF version of the poster by clicking here. If things go well (KNOCK ON WOOD), there will be an updated version next week. Go Bucks!
A very limited edition (3) poster I put together for the Alabama Shakes free show at MOTR Pub tomorrow night. Not one you wanna miss, folks.
The offensive coordinator is a fraud, the athletic director is an embarrassment and the sidelines are getting Bauserbombed at an alarming rate. Join the movement.
This is the first unofficial poster for the 2011 season, you can download and print a higher-res version by clicking here. Below is another version I put together that I don't like as much as the above, but thought it worth sharing, you can grab a higher-res version of that one here.
A poster for the Wisco game is coming soon and will be available to purchase online as well as at Eleven Warrior's Eat Too Brutus 2011.
MPMF.11 proper got down in Cincinnati over the past weekend and, while I didn't get to see as much music as I normally would, I was honored to participate in the first Midpoint Midway. The midway was a series of art installations built into standard box-trucks. Lots of interesting and talented folks like Able, Losantiville and Soapbox were in on the action as well. I participated, as a member of Libre, in the Poster Expo which was currated by the creative team at Powerhouse Factories. Ourselves, Powerhouse, Southpaw, Keith Neltner and Rob Warnick all pitched in to build rock poster galleries in the back of our two trucks, and slung some special posters on the premesis.
If you didn't make it down to the Expo, you can purchase most of the stuff we had available at our shop.
You can see photos from the Expo, my Cut Copy Print, and a video I put together that was projected on the wall at the Expo. I also got some good shots of Cut Copy's amazing performance at Grammer's.
CUT COPY
My lil' sis, her boyfriend, Feyonce Knowles and I have been spending Thursday nights this summer watching David Lynch's whacked-out early 90's series "Twin Peaks." For my sister's 23rd b-day, I designed this map highlighting all the must see spots in the fictional town. I took inspiration from Lynch's original map as well as from some choice screenshots. Locations are speculative, but I used this site for those speculations.
See the full size map here.
Eat Local for the Globe poster contest. Posters were limited to one color and simply needed to express the theme of "Eat Local." I did not win, but was pleased with the results, so I thought I'd share. Maybe we'll do a run of something similar at Libre, we shall see. Congrats to the winners!
Poster design for The Ridges' May 21 show in Athens, Ohio. This is the second poster I've designed for The Ridges (you can see the first one here), the band's ephemeral romance aesthetic is always a pleasure to work with.
"We've got to make Ohio cool. You know, I was down at Lexis-Nexis down in Dayton, I'm meeting with the CEO of the company, and he says, you know, a lot of these, these young people, you know, they want to head for the coast. Why do they want to go to the coast? It's cool. Why do they want to go to Austin? You ever been to Austin? It's very cool. You want to go to the Triangle of North Carolina, go down there and check it out, it's cool. We need to make Ohio cool." -J. Kasich
