Typosters

This is a series of posters I made under commission of the London based Bullet Creative for the Cool Sounds from the Frozen Arctic event organized by Cape Farewell and the Eden Project as part of the 2009 Eden Sessions.
It was a nice job since the kids at Bullet basically let me do 'my thing' and luckily for me the client really liked it.

Because of a somewhat limited budget I wasn't able to custom-drawn all the type, but I did do the 'Shlomo'. For the "Jarvis Cocker" I made use of the House Industries, Photolettering Inc. online application of which I am lucky enough to be a beta tester.

All of these were used, apart from the one with Jarvis Cocker. He had to drop out of the line-up for reason I'm not aware of.

Hope you like.

Digging the crates

Over the years I have designed a ton of T-shirts, which was fun, but hardly lucrative. The one thing I still get a bit of a kick out of though, is bumping into people wearing them every so often. This usually happens at punk-rock or hardcore gigs as the vast majority of those shirts were commissioned by Mark Beemer.... hang on there's logic to that.
Mark being a veteran photographer of the hardcore and punk-scene also runs the Syrentha Savio Endowment, a non-profit organization that provides financial assistance to underprivileged women who cannot afford the expense of fighting breast cancer.
He raises money by, among other things, sell limited edition t-shirts of well-known hardcore- punk- and alternative-bands who make their name available free of charge (I assume). And these needed to be designed. So that's where I came in.

Not all of these were used in the end, but I like these enough to post them (obviously). Click the pics for a closer look.

All American Rejects (never used).


Antiflag (never used)


Between the Buried and Me


the Draft, I also turned this into a painting, with the band's permission.


Funeral for a Friend


Halifax (never used)


Minus the Bear


Maroon


Mark also organized tours and when he set up shop in Austin for the SxSW festival in 2007, I did something special for the occassion. A double bill of LIFETIME and My Chemical Romance, t-shirts and a poster.






Orange 9MM


Paint it Black


the Pink Spiders


Refused


Sacry Kids Scaring Kids


The Sounds


The Receiving End of Sirens


Sorry for the carpet-bomb-post but I figured I had to make up for my blog slackery lately.

REJECTS

Occasionally when I start working on a project, the same basic idea will produce two (or sometimes even more)very different but equally strong potential directions in style. In those cases I usually just leave it up to the client to decide which one they feel more comfortable with using.
Which always leave a reject. These poor schmucks didn't tickle any fancies, so I'll post them here.
I can't divulge anything about the concept or the project as it still on-going.

Hope you like it.

BOLTposter

Every once in a while, when I have some money left over, I like to get some stuff printed, to send 'round to friend, colleagues, clients, people I would like to become clients etc.
So I did. Posters this time.

The posters were printed by the friendly and very professional folks at Drukkerij Terst and some of you will probably find one in the mail in the coming weeks.

Doodle Toosday

Just some doodlings I did recently. Hope these will keep you mildly entertained for now.

We could be heroes.

And now for something completely different.
Every once in a while I love to go on little excursions into styles and techniques I normally stay away from or not get a chance to get into.
This time Erik van Blokland from Letterror asked me to help him on a project for the Andreas Hofer Museum in Süd Tirol, in Italy (it's an Austrian part of Italy.. sort of).
Andreas is a folk hero in those parts and the museum wanted to show how heroes are often not made by their own actions, but more by how their actions are perceived, interpreted and recounted by the public.
So we made a hero factory, showing all kinds of heroes, from the historic to the modern and all their fans / makers.

I did all the little characters and Erik did the building and the type (he also made some nice little videos for the same exhibitions)

Here are all the hero-makers:








And these are all the heroes... can you name them all?








And this is the end result (click the pic for a closer look):

Nightmare

These are a few illustrations I did for the magazine Zeilen [Sailing]. The article, titled 'de Nachtmerrie' [the Nightmare] was the true story about a young Dutch sailor traveling around the Caribbean islands where he got found himself blackmailed (over a bogus poker debt) by Colombian gangsters to transport a shipment of drugs to Europe.
It's a harrowing story and the poor guy is now locked up in a French jail, where he can't even defend himself in court for fear of retributions as even in prison the gangsters threatened to harm his loved-ones if he were to testify.
Anyway... the illustrations; the first one is the main one, the other three are fillers.