I’m rather psyched to announce my Big Fish poster is live on the Silver Screen Society site. Head over and check it out!

I designed a poster for a Penmanship show to open during Design Philadelphia at the Vox Populi Gallery on Thursday, 10/13. More information is available on the event page.

“A man’s penmanship is an unfailing index of his character, moral and mental, and a criterion by which to judge his peculiarities of taste and sentiments.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, Man of Letters

Penmanship, the exhibition, is a product of this idea—the idea that ones penmanship is a window into his or her character. A selection of local artists employ their inherent typographic instincts to create black and white prints. Born of a similar idea, the letterforms within the finished pieces are differentiated by shape, scale, contrast, manipulation and layering. A study of personal touch and distinction, the works you’ll see are a clear reflection of individual aesthetic.

I printed these myself with rubber stamps on 160lb Cougar. Pretty happy with the results…

I was happy to participate in Ambigram Magazine‘s latest Quick Draw Challenge. The gist of it is they assign a word to two ambigramists with a one week deadline. You dont know who your up against until the results are posted… We were assigned the word Metropolis. Head over there to see some sketches, a little bit about the process and my opponent’s design.

With fall registration around the corner Camden County College asked us to create a new outdoor campaign to raise enrollment. I took a simple approach, marrying a no nonsense concept with a bold look. Keep and eye out in South Jersey and the 8th and Market PATCO station…

Here are a couple submissions I threw together  for Greenpeace’s BP logo redesign contest.

About the project:
“A few years ago, BP rebranded themselves as ‘beyond petroleum’. And yet BP is pursuing ‘unconventional oil’ – the Canadian tar sands and deepwater drilling, despite the massive environmental damage that’s being caused by their business.

That’s why we want you to rebrand them. Your brief is to create a logo for BP which shows that the company is not ‘beyond petroleum’ – they’re up to their necks in tar sands and deepwater drilling.”

This was really fun to work on.

My Update Your Status mall poster campaign went over well with the folks at Camden County College so they were on board to do some outdoor with it too. I’m happy to see this concept adapted to more applications than usual from a client who tends to want to run something from every concept presented. It’s definitely a welcomed change.

When I started working on this account photographs generally were not used (a post covering the evolution of their branding coming soon) and because of state funding we’re shyed away from showing faces as to exclude any of the college’s multi-racial  demographic. I was happy to find an exception to the rule…

Typophile had a “Type Battle” for their 10th anniversary… I found out about it late, but threw together a few sketches to contribute just for fun. You can see them with the other entries here.

Being that I don’t like clutter, there isn’t much I collect. Show tickets are definitely an exception to the rule. One day I planned to wallpaper a room or do something really cool with them, but it appears my hopes and dreams have been crushed… Last week I went to pick up some tickets for shows that wouldn’t be sold out and I could definitely pay at the door. For the ticket of course…

Anyway, as the tickets were placed in front of me I couldn’t help but feel some type of way. Show tickets had looked generally the same ever since I could remember, but what was sitting in front of me was definitely different. I don’t know who’s idea it was to make these changes, but it seems the ticket vendors are behind it. I haven’t seen what Ticketmaster prints these days, but Live Nation and Ticket Fly (pictured below) just don’t do it for me. File show tickets with everything else that used to be better. I suppose my black t-shirt collection will have to suffice.

If anyone knows of or comes across an archive of ticket images please share it.

This Baroness jawn is what a ticket should look like.

We got word from our client that this billboard won a NCMPR award, whatever that means… Neat, I didnt even know it was entered for anything.