Online Portfolio - 2011

For your perusal and artistic consideration, a selection of some of my finest projects and works to date. This gallery consists of Illustrations, Poster and Flier compositions, examples of package design.

Any and all questions and comments can be directed to me at this blog, or the email address on the resume or business card that brought you to this blog entry. Thank you for your time, and enjoy!

I was proud and honored to have been able to work on the package design for Kyoji Yamamoto's introduction to the USA. "Voyager: The Essential Kyoji Yamamoto" is a fantastic collection of his greatest Solo work, available thru CityBoy Records.

The Cover was to both evoke Kyoji's own flavor of Rock and Wonder, but also to give it a classic "Gold" feel. The guy is a classic, huge around the world, and finally arriving in the USA.

The entire CD package is full of Kyoji's history, in both text and pictures. It was a great experience to work with Bruce Pegg and Kyoji Yamamoto in creating this package.

Promotional artwork created for "Spill Dot Con 2011" art and entertainment convention in Austin TX.

Illustration done to commemorate the First Annual "Spill Dot Con 2010" art and entertainment convention in Austin TX. Thanks and apologies to late artistic hero Al Hirschfeld.

"Empire's" Leia striking her best "Rosie the Riveter" pose. My favorite design for the Syracuse Heroes Expo.

The 2008 Expo was larger, bigger, AND larger, with more guests, more hype, and twice as many days. Fight-club-a-riffic.

The theme for the Heroes Expo is always Star Wars, but the added Fight-Club motif allowed for some more fun elements to be added, hence the "Fincher-esque" color scheme and the film-strip look of 2008's Collectible poster.

A fun mishmash of fonts, pictures and offset printing registers for the 2007 Syracuse Heroes Expo. Grindhouse movie posters and Bronze Age comics were very prevalent on my radar at the time.

My first design working with Jeff for the Syracuse Heroes Expo in 2007. I had a lot of fun making it look faded and weathered, but also eye catching.

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AAAHHHH! Monster! (Spill Dot Con 2011)

Time to get this show back on the road. I am an artist, for I "art". Here's the latest:

I've been on the Spill.com site for quite some time. They are a group of smart and funny writers, artists and humorists who create Animated reviews to new films, along with blogs, podcasts, and general internet tomfoolery.

For the last few years, the guys have put together a fantastic gathering in Austin Texas, a series of panels, workshops, art-jams, and nights of drinking; a fest called SPILL DOT CON. I am proud and honored to have been asked to create the promotional image for this years' event.

To the uninitiated who may be asking "What exactly am I looking at here?" You see the loveable animated characters of Spill.com (clockwise from top-left: Korey, Cyrus, Leon, Carlyle and the inimitable CoHost 3000 in the center) who have been mutated and combined into the body of Godzilla's arch nemesis: King Ghidorah.

(I cannot claim all of the credit. The Japanese translation by Toshishisa Nakamura, a friend who lives in Japan...thankfully far enough away from the recent tsunami and current reactor problems... but close enough where of course things are really scary. Hang in there, buddy.)

Despite the crazy events occuring in Japan,
Toshi is ever the picture of cool.