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Great American Afterlife

I play drums in a post-metal band called Mankind. We had lost our rehearsal space a while back and had spent some time messing around with amps and sounds in my living room. My brother-in-law, and author Peter Brown Hoffmeister (author of End of Boys and Graphic the Valley) had been telling me about a trilogy of short stories he was calling his "post ideal" series. The first story was about a break up and we decided we'd put his narration of the story to music.

We recorded Pete in one take, and then spent the next nine months writing and improvising tracks around his dialogue. It resulted in a 30 minute "audiobook" with music and you can listen below, or download it from the Mankind bandcamp page. Mankind plans on releasing the individual tracks without the story by spring of 2013.

The cover was a combination of a drawing I had done several years ago, given to a girl, and took it back after the divorce. Once it had been committed to use for this project, it went directly in the trash. I love it when art, music and life all work together.

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Transmission Zero Hour

My third album cover for Science Heroes, this is the for the digital release of their full length "Transmission Zero Hour". A great record. Get it at http://scienceheroes.bandcamp.com/.

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Tiny Startup Camp

I've got this friend see. He's got ideas coming out of his lucky face like a notes from a stradivarius. One of those ideas was doing a two day conference called Tiny Startup Camp. It is exactly what it sounds like. A two day camp for tiny startups. I heard it was a smashing success.

Fun. Simple. Bold. Looks good in a header and a mug. Get some.

Book Cover

Fundamentals of Kinyarwanda

As an extension of Speak Rwanda's language materials, they recently started development on a proper textbook. Our earlier travel language guide has since proven to be very popular given the limited resources for learning Kinyarwanda. This textbook will be an ongoing project and the front cover is just the beginning. As the need increases, there will be extensive illustrations added to the inside in the similar style as the travel guide.

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Graphic the Valley

Graphic the Valley is the first novel by author Peter Brown Hoffmeister. It's due out in the spring of 2013 on Tyrus Books. The story follows an American Indian boy who has grown up in the Yosemite Valley and is dealing with his heritage in the face of encroaching tourism.

He told me, in preparation for the cover design, that he'd been using the narrative arc of the Samson story from the Old Testament as a map for Graphic the Valley. I played around with biblical engravings from the story of Samson, as well as public domain photos of Paiute Indians, and old, burned maps. In the end, the publisher went with the least conceptual, but still visually bold option of the vintage map and red overlay. They liked the 'vintage paperback' feel. I added a touch of burned edges to the map under the typography to reference a part of the story, as well as some distressed texturing, to give it a worn look.

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DV.03212011 by Das Verlin

The cover of a digital release for Das Verlin - an electronica side project with composer (and brother) Mckenzie Stubbert. This is one of those projects you wish you had more time for, but real work and the need to pay the bills gets in the way.

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Illustration

Graphic Design

Be Yourself

Again with the visual jokes. This desktop wallpaper was done to make a friend laugh. One of his common sign-offs is "Be Yourself", and he routinely posts cat meme links. It's random, and for your desktop.

Typography

Poster Design

The Brutalist

The Brutalist was a poetry/music performance by poet Tobin Johnston and composer Mckenzie Stubbert. Performed in Eugene, Oregon in 2007. The two of them had traveled to New York together and took a lot of photos. The man in the image here got into a verbal confrontation with them right after they took the picture, and they had to flee on foot. I found his personal style really inspirational. He seems at once the brutalist and the poet. The bullet on his chain needed a heart right next to it.

This poster features an original type treatment in the title.

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Pushplay Logo

Pushplay (now Juliet Zulu of Portland, OR) was a video production firm in Eugene, Oregon. I frequently did design work for them - often video screen graphics.

For this project they had decided to update their identity in order to attract a younger, more contemporary and cutting-edge clientele. They wanted something that reflected what they were known for - lifestyle interviews and short stories - and liked the idea of using the letters of their name. After several pages of comps, I landed on the camera viewfinder as a visual device, and the 'P' as the video subject. I used the shadow as the second 'p' in order to create a stylized reference to depth of field.

Unfortunately this logo never saw the light of day. Not long after it was completed, and before the website relaunch, the company was merged into it's sister firm in Portland.

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Morones Analytics Logo

This client deals in forensic accounting and valuation for businesses and court cases. They needed a brand refresh and wanted something that reflected the culture of their workplace rather than the nature of their business. Contemporary, classy, with a bit of color.

The "M" and green rise in the 'landscape' came from playing around with analysis charts and graphs they use in their work. Overlapping patterns of sharp peaks and less dramatic rises in value are given a subtle nod, while also alluding to the green hills surrounding downtown Portland.

Also done in the this project was a round of new business cards, report covers and stationary.

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Graphic Design

Kinyarwanda Phrasebook

One of my favorite projects to date and definitely the most complex. Took just over a year to finish. I worked with a translator and a native speaker for this one, and handled every aspect of the printed book - cover, typesetting, graphic illustrations and layout. If you are heading to eastern Africa, the Kinyarwanda Phrasebook is available at Amazon, or through the Speak Rwanda website.

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Science Heroes Poster

Two good friends of mine make up the synth-rock duo Science Heroes. I've had the honor of doing occasional graphics for them, including some album covers seen elsewhere in this portfolio. This poster was made using scanned elements from an old science textbook from the 70's. Great colors, halftone patterns, and scientific diagrams.

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Mars Bluff EP by Science Heroes

Though the first release by Science Heroes, I made the Mars Bluff cover around the time of their full length release Transmission Zero Hour. A simple idea - a duotone image of a vintage analog tube, hovering like a satellite in the atmosphere of Mars.

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Gutenberg Soccer Club

One of my soccer teams needed a jersey, but more accurately, I really wanted to do a soccer club logo and had a t-shirt hook up for free. I'd show the shirt, but the printer screwed up on the image of the soccer ball and it came out reversed, losing some impact. Oh well. It was a favor through a friend and I'm not one to complain about free t-shirt printing. The team wore them with pride and lost all season.

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Full Basket Belize Logo

The non-profit Full Basket Belize needed an update to their logo to go along with a name change. Operating largely out of the U.S., their focus was in grass-roots education and community building in Belize. Taking the lead from their new name (a reference to the creole saying "Wan wan okro ful basket" meaning "little by little we reach our goal") I focused on representing basket weaving as my main visual element.

The mayan weaving technique involves a spiral, working outward from the center, with the main chord being connected to all the rest. I found this a fitting metaphor for the groups work, and set about distilling a well known object into something simple and recognizable. An imperfect spiral, with subtle chords on the outer edge to give it texture.

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Poster Design

Push for Immediate Raise

This was done for comedy around the office. No purpose other than making co-workers laugh. It was successful in that regard, but no raises were given during the use of the poster.

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XMAS I by Das Verlin

The first release for my Das Verlin side project happened to be christmas time, so we re-interpreted a couple Vince Guaraldi classics into 8bit drum and bass. This cover was loosely based on classic holiday albums I grew up looking at. Franklin Gothic with a duotone image. I grabbed a bunch of cheap decorations hanging up around the office and through them on the scanner, and added a bit of danger (razor blade and mouse trap) for balance. I have a scanned cover of the Beatles White Album I use a lot of texture, and it helped give a worn look here.

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Padlock

A radom illustratio I made for an old blog post. Someone should pay to use this for a magazine article.

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Fugazi Redesign

Keeping random projects open on my desktop at work is part of my process. Something to work on in between 'real' projects. A long-time favorite band, I thought I'd mess around with reworking Fugazi's covers as if it were my gig, but using elements of the existing covers as an anchor. Their original covers are perfectly DIY, and some stellar pieces of design in their own right.

There are several more in process.

Print Design

Copic Airbush Brochure

Before I became Creative Director for Copic, USA I was the Graphic Designer responsible for every piece of print that came out of our office. The best projects are often the brochures like this. I did the airbrushed illustration by hand, using the product featured in the piece. This one is still shipped out in stacks every week.

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Typography T-Shirt

This Year's Model was a collaborative t-shirt project with my old art school buddy and surf artist Spencer Reynolds. I designed this one all by my lonesome. A general deconstruction of Futura characters.

TYM was a fun time while it lasted. We designed a bunch, printed too many, sold too few. In order to make up for what we lacked in sales, I'll make up with offering a shot of me sporting one whilst banging drums behind Science Heroes. Because that's how we do.

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Starry Vaultz Waltz by Science Heroes

My first cover for Science Heroes, I combined some clear visual elements that connected with the music. The band has a distinct analog synth sound, and this track really puts you into outer space. A dark and lonely swinger. Listen to it here.

Hell, Purgatory & Heaven: A Walking Tour

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Hell, Purgatory & Heaven: A Walking Tour

My friend and playwright, Tim Macintosh, wrote and directed a site-specific, modern interpretation of Dante's Inferno, in an old three story house for Halloween in 2008. Each section of the play was performed on the appropriate levels, and the audience was led through each act by Virgil. Great play. Loads of fun to design.

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Boombox T-Shirt

Another favorite of the This Year's Model collaboration. This one was truly collaborative and came to be through a series of rounds of layer tennis. I still wear the hell out of it and will be bummed with it's all threads and shreds.

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Machete Brothers Logo

Machete Brothers is an old, post-punk, improv-driven, musical side-project of mine with producer/brother Ashley Stubbert. Pretty straight forward. The two words connected by a rivulet of blood, representing the connection my brother and I have in music and art making.

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Rwanda Rhythms

Rwanda Rhythms - A Compilation of Rwandan Gospel and Traditional Music, is exactly that. Another project for the great folks at Speak Africa.

For this one the producer really wanted to capture the spiritual intensity of the music. The traditional Intore dancer seemed to be the best option for imagery. After playing with several photos I had of the dancers I found the right balance between the silhouette and the chevron pattern in the background. For the inside disc, a traditional basket pattern seemed like the perfect choice for the shape.

Poster Design

Happy Birthday Poster

My brother, composer Mckenzie Stubbert, told me he wanted to have a 'communist party' for his birthday one year. He also happened to be sporting a healthy beard and was dressing like he had just stepped off the siberian express.

The translation is literally "Happy Birthday For Me!", and references an often-quoted line in the final scene of Rocky IV, when Ivan Drago yells at the Russian premiere "I fight for me! For Me!" He knew what it said without me telling him.

Boom.