UPDATE! The piece (now titled, “At the Roburbia Cafe”) is now available for sale at Roburbia.com!
I just finished this piece, which I plan to make the first in a series about Life in Roburbia. I’ll be putting prints of it up for sale soon, but I’m looking to gauge interest. Would you buy a print of this piece? And would you want a large or a small print?
If you’re curious, here’s the original line art I did for the piece:
My good friend Marian Call asked me to create a poster for a music and spoken-word festival, featuring artists from Anchorage, AK. She wanted the piece to feel like an old travel poster, and wanted it to capture the breathtaking colors of an Anchorage sunset.
In addition to being an amazing singer and all around excellent person, Marian is also a graphic designer’s dream client. She knew exactly what she wanted, provided reference images, and gave prompt and useful feedback. I love all my clients, but Marian is a dream to work with!
If you’re in the L.A. area and you haven’t had a chance to check out The Thrilling Adventure Hour, do yourself a favor and pick up tickets to their next show. It’s like a younger, more absurd version of A Prairie Home Companion — actors on stage reading lines in the style of an old-time radio broadcast. And along with the super-talented main cast (the Work Juice Players, who include people like Paul F. Tompkins, John DiMaggio, and the lovely Annie Savage), the monthly guest stars are like a who’s who of comedic actors. The first show I went to guest-starred Nathan Fillion and The Kids in the Hall’s Dave Foley, among others. I’ve also seen Michael Hogan, Chris Hardwick, Allison Brie, Colin Hanks and a ton of other very funny people at the shows, which are staged at a cozy little theatre called Largo at the Coronet. If you can’t make it to a show, check out their podcast, which they just launched at the beginning of the year.
I fell in love with this show the first time I went, and I’ve been back several times. A few days ago, it occurred to me that their old-timey theme would fit in perfectly with my retro art style, so I asked them on Twitter if I could design a poster for them. They replied with, “We would love if you made us a poster! Get in touch through the website.” Naturally, this made my day, and I set right to work coming up with something.
I was so inspired that I had an idea straight off the bat, which was to feature one of their main segments, “Sparks Nevada: Marshal on Mars”. The skit follows the adventures of a earthling law man and his martian companion, Croach the Tracker, who is grudgingly under onus to Sparks for saving his people.
I’m not sure what the folks at The Thrilling Adventure Hour will do with the poster, but it was fun getting to play in their world for a bit!
I’ve been waiting ages to be able to talk about this. It’s a project I worked on with QMx to design the packaging and all the marketing pieces for the new, limited-edition Bad Robot statue, which we created for Bad Robot Productions. Continue Reading »
I designed this limited-edition, animated-style Battlestar Galactica Starbuck maquette for QMx in 2008, and it quickly sold out, thanks to great buzz (like this mention from io9.com) that spread like wildfire.
I created this poster for QMx and Bad Robot as an exclusive, limited-edition promotional giveaway at San Diego Comic-Con 2010. I painted the image digitally in Photoshop, then aged/distressed it to give the poster a worn look. The model itself was based on the collectible statue of the robot unveiled by QMx at the show.
This was a real treat to work on, but definitely made me anxious, as the Bad Robot mascot is such a well-known and beloved character. I wanted to do it justice and create an high-quality piece, but I didn’t want to lose that sense of whimsy that makes the robot so lovable. We had a pretty tight turnaround on this piece, but thankfully the studio seemed to think I nailed it, and signed off on the piece in time for Comic-Con.
Signing Bad Robot posters at the QMx booth, San Diego Comic-Con 2010
A logo I created for a new convention – Geek Girl Con – scheduled for 2011, which will focus on celebrating the role of women in geek-dom. The goal here was to create a professional-looking logo which showed women as strong, independent and just as tuned-in to geek culture as their male counterparts. The organizers were looking for something that struck a delicate balance, featuring attractive characters without being hypersexualized.
The logo was received by the community with overwhelming approval, which is always a nice feeling.
Original sketch for the Geek Girl Con logo
A licensed Serenity t-shirt I did for Quantum Mechanix. This one has been a huge hit, and has been seen everywhere from YouTube music videos:
… to the Jimmy Fallon show:
For my second major project for QMx, I pitched them on the idea of creating vintage propaganda-style posters for Battlestar Galactica. It seemed a natural fit for a TV show that was essentially a war drama.
In 2006, Quantum Mechanix commissioned me to create a series of travel posters for Joss Whedon’s film, Serenity. I designed these as WPA-style travel posters for the planets and locations from the movie. They were a huge success, and remain one of Quantum Mechanix’s top sellers.
The highest praise came from Whedon himself, when he posted on the Whedonesque blog, calling the posters “extremely cool” and “masterfully designed.”