One of the biggest things I have learned from James over that year and half I have worked with him is… Pay attention. Most often a really great solution is right in front of you. This is a mess I found on my desk when I was cleaning up after a few jobs. Its a great poster. I loved the way it looked, so I took a photo. I’ll probably use it as reference for a future project.

James has a saying, “if you want attention, you have to pay attention”.

Enjoy!

We went to the MoMA yesterday for some much needed inspiration and to cash in some guest passes James gave me. We saw Picasso’s Guitars exibit which was fabulous, Warhol’s films, and of course the impressionists. My favorite paintings of this visit had to be Robert Motherwell’s work. Obviously a gifted artist, proportionally very nice, illogical in all the good ways, but what caught my attention was Western Air. If you look closely, you can see he painted it over another painting. Its reassuring to see, even the masters can be unhappy with their work and redo.

On the way out I wanted to stop and see if the MoMA bookstore had a book of John Stezaker’s work (currently my hero) and low and behold sitting between Banksy and Picasso was a book I designed with James Victore called LUST. In it a spread of my work I did for it. It was very encouraging to see it in such good company (the other completely awesome designers in the book and of course, Picasso and Banksy). I am very grateful and humbled—I will chase this feeling—today the bookstore, tomorrow the walls.

Sketches about “connection”

A very loose connection, a friend of a friend, has this band with a really great name—Asteroid M. I did this one afternoon and really liked it, but never actually gave it to the band.

Moss and Isaac is a high end wedding photography collaborative between my wife Leigh Anna and her partner CJ Isaac. Moss is my wife’s maiden name.

Logo: Moss and Isaac aren’t just run-of-the-mill photographers, they are premiere photographers. The logo needed to position them in the high-end photography realm. A signature feel seemed appropriate.

Details: By working large, 20″ wide, I was able to use a large unwieldy brush to make nice uncommon letter forms and nicely broken strokes.

It was the goal of this branding not compete, but to be secondary to the photography, and give the work a bit of credibility.

Business card: Letter press black and blind imprint.

more to come…

A big thank you to Darin Clarke (art director) forgiving me creative freedom on this project. The assignment, to produce illustrations for use on the cover and as chapter openings in the next installment of Small Group Life published by LifeWay.