Richmond Folk Festival Poster

Richmond Folk Festival poster design with and without the figure and type. The image on the left is the one being used of course, but I thought that I’d show it without the b-girl. Also working on the shirts for this year’s event.

If you haven’t see it, here is some press about the poster design for this years event.  http://www.richmond.com/entertainment/article_92152bb0-9ed6-513c-b19b-9c39e0923b8b.htmlhttp://wtvr.com/2015/09/09/richmond-folk-festival-poster/

http://www.styleweekly.com/Studi/archives/2015/09/09/the-2015-richmond-folk-fest-poster-revealed

NEW WORK: Richmond Young Writers

Just finished this guy for Richmond Young Writers. 29 young writers were paired up with 28 artists to illustrate their stories through art. An exhibition of all the participants will be up at ArtSpace kicking off on Sept 18th. I was paired with the above 14 year old author.

More info below:
“We’ve matched 29 Richmond Young Writers with 28 of Richmond’s most fantastic creative artists in a collaborative arts show at ARTSPACE gallery (0 East 4th St Richmond, VA 23224 USA) … for 30 days! Join us on Friday, September 18th for opening night in the main gallery room to see how the artists add 2 and 3 dimensional life to text.”

Fri, Sep 18, 2015 6:00pm
Up Till Sun, Oct 18, 2015 5:00pm

Finished up this logo for the Mathews Film Society. This non-profit regularly shows films in Mathews, VA. I chose to use a crab as a point of departure because the city is in the Chesapeake Bay region and known for their sea life. The society’s next film screening will be the 1962 adaptation of To Kill A Mocking Bird on August 20th. At the screening, attendees will have the opportunity to meet the actress, Mary Badham, who played Scout in the film.

UCI Championships

Did this illustration for the 2015 Road World Championships in collaboration with Proof Integrated Communications for Dominion Power. It was a lot of fun having the point of departure to combine some of the elements of my previous work with classic French cycling posters. More of my work can be found at: www.mendedarrow.com

NEW WORK: Boom Box self-promo

Unused illustration that I sketched out for a client, but just had to finished it. It was a lot of fun - as will be the final sketch that the client went with.

NEW WORK: SPX ad

Can finally share this SPX ad going in DC’s Magic Bullet that I illustrated and designed!

NEW WORK: Sci-fi Metal Poster

New poster and detail. This guy was for Gallery5 in Richmond, VA. The band has history of using space images and the macabre so this was my solution for their poster. More of my work can by found at: www.mendedarrow.com

Bicycle Y'all

I'll be tabling at this event tomorrow! More info below.

Secretly Y'all is excited to bring you a day long festival celebrating storytelling, bikes, beer and our Richmond Community.
Admission: free if you donated to our kickstarter campaign!
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first 175 people to purchase tickets get a free New Belgium Brewery bike light and a free beer token!
first 500 people to purchase tickets get a free beer token!
GET TO EVENTBRITE quick! (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bicycle-yall-tickets-17173606720)

Please come and listen, share your stories, meet The Storybike - the original mobile storyrecording bike that will capture our stories - and spend time with the people of our city.

Proceeds will be used towards a city wide campaign called "These are our roads" - a reminder to all of us that whatever mode of transportation we choose, on wheels, on our feet, self-propelled or motor moved, we all deserve space and respect as we move around our city.

Official craft brew partner: New Belgium Brewing.

Bands: SLEEPWALKERS Sturgeon City and Andy Cobb of The Itchy Hearts

Food Trucks: Opa Greek. The Dog Wagon.

Four Square Tournament with Mark Pryor

YArt Sale- local artists showing and selling their work!

Want to voluteer at the event and get in for free and be awesome? Click this link: http://goo.gl/forms/AjZHRs7qrV

New work: Worriers poster

This guy just got approved!

Afro-futurism film poster remakes

Posters for an invitational exhibition of revisited film posters for Afro-Futurism classics that is tentatively scheduled for October 2015. They are designed to be 27″ X 40″.  I tried my best to reflect the movies well in both content and aesthetic. 

For “Cosmic Slop”, I referenced the Parliament Funkadelic’s aesthetic while using imagery from the three short films included in the HBO spot. George Clinton’s floating head appears between films and the Parliament Funkadelic has a album titled “Cosmic Slop.” 

For “The Brother From Another Planet”, I chose to reference the main character’s constant use of the “thumbs up” to explain where he is from (outer space) to New Yorkers. It’s a very unusual way to point as well as a gesture fitting to the good-natured alien protagonist.

For “PUMZI”, I decided to use high contrasted minimal imagery to reference the contrast between the rugged radioactive landscape and clean minimal architecture inside. The word “pumzi” translates as “breath” in Swahili and the film is partially about finding fertile soil in a post-apocalyptic radioactive world so the use of plant life for lungs seemed to be a good fit.