A client had a personal project for me to do a portrait of Bob Marley. I took the opportunity to use the hatchy style from the trees and water towers prints, but, this time drawing it digitally as opposed to doing it in ink. Although I don’t think it necessarily looks any more digital than the others, I like how it turned out.

The Green Paper, a local newspaper about being nice to the environment, had me paint one of their boxes. Inspired by the children’s book, The Giving Tree, I turned the box into an abstract tree trunk.

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A fun little iPhone game that needed some graphics. The first thing was to come up with 3 colors that logically implied good, not so good, and bad. I made a few different sets of faces just to add variety: Dweebs, Monsters, Anime, and Curmudgeons.

Identity for Ciretose, an iPhone software developer. We wanted something that had a story. Since Ciretose specializes in software for Apple products, we took inspiration from the “Apple key”.

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I can honestly say I miss New York….or miss some things about it. The Northwest and I are far more compatible. But I had a good fling with the big city. Even taking into consideration all the museums, galleries, world attractions of various kinds, the thing I miss most is the sunset on the rickety old rooftop water towers.

I must have been hungry when I came up with the record stack for DJ Linus. I also added a nod to drippy-paint logos, which abound in Hip Hop, by applying the syrup to the lettering.

Not all Hip Hop artists have the pedigree of ENEE-ONE, whose grandfather was a professional boxer. I figured this entitled him to some serious bragging rights, so I decided to incorporate it into the design of his debut album, Say Goodnight. (Did I mention it features KRS-ONE — more bragging rights).

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Logos for hip hoppers, Den of the Flow, also known as the Pasta Crew.

What says old school Hip Hop like the original turntable, mix tape, mic, and boombox?

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