From Gary with Love

Here are two shots I took in the garage today. I spent some time in there today with Joe Mertes on his birthday and I am planning on spending lots more time there in the coming weeks. I will keep you up to date as each project unfolds.

two of my prints are featured in the shot of the welding table. The Baby Huey 21st birthday print and the 3rd Trannysylvania poster.

Done with School!

I finished class on friday and damn does it feel good. My final class was called Art from Vintage Cinema. 14 days of class with 9 days spent watching films and the rest drawing. It was a pretty fun way to end my college life. Here are a few films that I liked:

The Sky Above, The Mud Below
The Little Fugitive
The Night of the Hunter
Overlord
Random Harvest

I will post the others soon because they are all worth watching.

I have also been really in to info graphics and signage. Expect a few graphics with subway inspiration and some other information design coming soon. Above is an image from AIGA's story "The (Mostly) True Story of Helvetica and the New York City Subway". And here is a nice resource for fonts in transit.

Super Street Fighter

I was recently asked to put together some concepts for an Estate / Street Fighter co-lab. The info came to me as "Street Fighter IV (4)" which I quickly turned into these blood "IV" graphics. The project never ended up going through but I really like the designs, so here they are.

This makes me want to travel again

Here is a little how-to video on earning that worn denim look that was so popular in the late 90's. I remember, during my more impressionable years, really going for this look in all the wrong ways. That was post Jinco Jean and Starter Jackets.

There is some amazing imagery in this little video but WARNING at times it is seizure inducing.

Check it out right here

Lost the Great Hopper

Dennis Hopper past away today May 29th 2010 of cancer. The great actor started out co-staring with James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause and had an amazing career being a Hollywood bad ass. Easy Rider and Blue Velvet have just moved to the top of my rewatch list and if I still have a bootleg copy of the unreleased film "The Trip", written by Hopper, I will be watching that as well.

Life Mag has a photo album spanning Hoppers life, including the photo above. Take a look, get inspired, watch "The Trip" if you can find it.

Shit ya Draplin

Check out Draplin's design advice for BP in their troubled times.

Draplin

I am back!

Well, I never went anywhere, I just took a month off to finish school and relax. Now that I am down to one 3 week class and a new venture in the works helping friends Zach Snow and Geoff Lemond (and the others). Big fun and exciting things are happening and I will be updating again.

First things first. My friends Miles and Katinka and their fellow Jerome fellowship winner Justin are showing the culmination of their year of work at High Point Center for Printmaking! Big things from these guys, follow the High Point Link for more and come to the show.