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Lighthouse Annual Report – FY2014

The most recent design piece for The Lighthouse for the Blind, Inc. — a 24 page annual report to the community featuring accomplishments over the fiscal year. Measures 8.75″ square and printed on uncoated stock. The background texture print is actually the Lighthouse mission rendered in braille and repeated.

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.

Annual Reports – The Lighthouse for the Blind, Inc.

These are a series of spreads from various annual reports I’ve designed for The Lighthouse for the Blind, Inc. I chose 2-color layouts on the 6″x9″ booklet format, and tried to make spreads from alternating pages align with one another. Generating graphs can be a tedious job, but it can be a fun experiment to try and make data pop on the page.

Dreadful Children poster – PND 002

The second Print’s Not Dead project, this was a three-color silk screened print of a show for Seattle’s Dreadful Children, The Lucky Boys, Barnswallow, and my band Sick Ward. This was a really fun project that incorporated several different elements and processes. We first designed fake cassette spines for each band, printed them out, and inserted them in real jewel cases so we could get the textures correct for a vintage feel.  There are tons of easter eggs in the spines, that was probably the most fun part of the design process. We shot the cassettes, and I sadly sacrificed a friend’s demo tape for art and we shot the unraveled cassette outside on the porch.

 

We finished a limited run of 12″x 28″ prints and sold them on the day of the show.

Black Breath poster – PND 001

A project which marked the first official Print’s Not Dead catalog number, this was a three-color silk-screened poster for Seattle’s Black Breath, Paralyzer, Old Skin, and my band, Countdown to Armageddon.

 

I shot the image of Brandon [Print’s Not Dead] on the driveway of his house, and halftoned the photo and added the horns later.  This was our first attempt at the 3-color process and we learned a lot in the crafting of this poster. A hand-numbered limited edition of 47 18″ x 24″ prints were made in total and sold at the packed show at Seattle’s Crocodile venue.

Meisce – Spirits and Spectres CD

This was a photo and design project for my band Meisce, for our final release to coincide with some farewell shows we played in May of 2013. The record was titled Spirits and Spectres, and so the goal was to bring some ethereal, ghostly imagery to the release. I shot these photos of our friend Joy at two locations, Volunteer Park and the Interlaken Park in Seattle in April of 2013. I used some multiple exposures to add to the mix. Layout was done in a simple 4-panel digipak, and I continued the photo spread inside behind the CD holder.

 

Listen to a track here:

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.