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Horror Vacui Poster – PND 003

The third Print’s Not Dead project, this was a three-color, silk-screened 22″x 28″ poster for Bologna, Italy’s Horror Vacui, Portland’s Vivid Sekt, Countdown to Armageddon, and Arcane at Seattle’s Highline Bar. We staged the photo of Sasha originally with the intention of blocking out the backdrop, but found it provided an interesting visual texture once filmed. The composition of the photo lent itself really well to the type, and allowed us to really dial in our printing process to a science.

Countdown to Armageddon / Duesenjaeger split EP

This was another project for my band Countdown to Armageddon, for a split 7″ vinyl record with our friends in Duesenjaeger from Osnabrück, Germany.  Duesenjaeger has a similar aesthetic to us, and when we began the project to do the split they requested that I do the artwork. Creating an aesthetic that worked for both bands’ sound, I took a field trip to Fort Ward on Bainbridge Island, WA. Fort Ward is an abandoned military munitions fort, and I liked the contrasts between the overtaking of nature and what was essentially a stockpile house for guns and bombs. I chose four pictures for the layouts which you can see below.

The Duesenjaeger song on this release is titled “Fass Ohne Boden,” which translates to “Bottomless Pit” in English. Amazingly I found one to shoot at the site, which made the design process all the more involved. I really like being able to take a concept and translate it visually and spatially in a project like this.

Countdown to Armageddon – Through the Wires LP/CD

This was a project for my band Countdown to Armageddon on our second full length release. I shot the photo of Brandon in the woods up by Glacier, WA, right near the Canadian border during a camping trip some friends and I took for my birthday. I had the concept of the cover in my mind for a few months, and luckily we just happened to stumble upon this setting while out on a hike. Through the Wires is a concept album that revolves around a dystopian society, and only through the reconnection to nature can humanity survive and prevail.

 

The CD digipak also combined Through the Wires with our first LP, Eater of Worlds. I took a photo from the same shoot as I did for the Eater of Worlds layout, and tried to bridge the gap chromatically between the two releases.