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Dioramas in the Big Apple!

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:28:20 -0700

Those of you who live in NY might want to head over to Giant Robot this weekend to look at lots of tiny art!
I’ve got three pieces in the show, wish I could be there to see all the cool stuff people made for it!

Here’s my little album of the three little pieces I sent to NY via FedEx this afternoon, they are called:

1.) Personal Hot Dog Reminder

2.) The Secret Me

3.) Affirmation for Lovers

They are sparkly, and they are on sale. If you like what you see, let me know, I’m making more!

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Spring Things!

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:18:12 -0700

Ah yes, lots of spring cleaning, planting of fruits and vegetables and, of course, lots of illustration and design!

Head over to the Invitations/Flyers Section of my portfolio, and you can catch colors and shapes galore!

1.) Friends of the Los Angeles River Valentine Gala Invite
2.) Baby Announcement for a wonderful new guy named Arlo
3.) Flyer for Jason Myers and his Band at the Standard Hotel Downtown
4.) Baby Announcement for a fantastic new little lady named Olive
5.) The Bicycle Kitchen Fundraiser Logo

Currently I’m working on more top-secret toy stuff, and some DVD/website branding, and trying to make my studio not look like someone picked it up and shook it all over the place. I’m making small dioramas for a show in NY, pictures of those will be up soon, stay tuned!

Who Doesn’t Like Creepy Clowns?

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:42:35 -0800

Currently on view on National Television is a USPS Commercial wherein I designed the “creepy clown” terrorizing a family during the holiday season. And if you visit the website of the United States Post Office, you can catch the clown on their main web page!
I’ve also received two fan mail messages about the clown, one thanking me for designing it, and another asking how we might reproduce the clown as a doll for people to purchase! We’ll see what happens, and thanks for the awesome e-mails, clown fans!
Also on view in the portfolio section of my site is a baby announcement made for Arlo Thomas, and a very spirited Valentine for the Upcoming gala for the Friends of the Los Angeles River!

Secret Drawings, Secret Projects!

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:09:24 -0800

GOTHTOBER, has reached completion, another amazing month packed with artists making films, recipes, crafts and more, all in the name of Halloween!
Mom called and had me design a crab drawing for the Santa Rosa Chapter’s Annual Crab Feed, this year’s theme is “The Good, the Crab and the Ugly.”

In other news, I’ve created a map for the website for Universal’s “Couples Retreat” starring Vince Vaughn, and a host of other well-known comedic actors... but you can’t view it, because they ended up not using the map on their site! Who knows, they might use it later, they liked it a lot, but you never know with the studios, plans change, ideas whirl around, the outcome of things like this is rarely without mystical and thought-provoking results.

Unrelated to that was a very high-octane week of sculpting, drawing, painting and bringing about over 20 clownhead concepts for a US Post Office commercial, very fun, LOTS of crazy curly red clown hair festooned the house for quite a few days during and after the project’s completion. Hopefully we’ll get to see which design they chose, and I’ll post it on here verily.

In development is an invitation for the Friends of the Los Angeles River (FOLAR), a video game about recycling, business cards for Heather Cassils, personal trainer, and other tidbits I’ll be posting when completed.

Approaching Autumn!

Fri, 4 Sep 2009 03:58:43 -0700

Well, first thing’s first, I’d like to present the latest addition to the INVITATIONS portfolio, the wedding invitation for Jessica Blue and Jason Rabinowitz! This 2-color letterpress invite was hand-pressed on Crane’s 100% cotton paper by Madeleine Zygarewicz of Panorama Press.
I was given complete freedom to create this fantastic forest invitation for a wedding that will be held in New York’s Fort Tryon Park at the New Leaf Cafe. It was a real pleasure to design, we made a custom die cut for the tree, and then hand-folded and assembled its pop-up feature.
Fort Tryon is home to the Cloisters, which holds the famous “Unicorn in Captivity” Tapestry. Among many animals in the invitation I made for Jess and Jason, I included this very same unicorn, except the gate is open, referring to the concept that love, like art, is not a spectator sport, and lovers decide to choose each other every day. The age-old saying goes “Flowers bloom where they have room, and this is true of people too.” Jason and Jessica’s union is good for the world around them, they possess true acceptance of their own and each other’s individuality and separateness, which is the foundation of a real and lasting love. I know, I know, all that in ONE little unicorn drawing! But yes, that’s the message there!

And when you get a chance, check out the GOTHTOBER BLOG, because it IS underway, I’m recruiting, designing, curating, writing, animating, everything! Yearly nuttiness! Get Ready for the world’s ONLY Online Time-Release Halloween Countdown Calendar! It’s our seventh! Impressive!