Art For Obama

Art for Obama: Designing Manifest Hope and the Campaign for Change was released this month. The book catalogues the many pieces of art displayed at Shepard Fairey’s Manifest Hope exhibitions. Two of my pieces, The Games They Played (Manifest Hope, DC) and New Game (Manifest Hope, Denver), are included, as are works by some of my favorite artists such as Ron English, The Date Farmers, David Choe, Tristan Eaton, Tim Biskup, Travis Lampe, Cathie Bleck, and Mike Perry. All proceeds from the book are going to Americans for the Arts.

Print’s Regional Design Annual 2009

The logo I designed for chip-musician Doctor Octoroc will be featured in PRINT’s Regional Design Annual. This was a really fun project to work on. Doc and I spent many hours playing old NES games for typographic inspiration, but the real challenge was coming up with a clever way to take advantage of the shared letters between the two words in his stage name. In the end the best solution was simply to allow them to share the letters and use color to make the abbreviated “Dr.” pop out so the eye reads “Dr./Doctor” then bounces back to the “O” and reads Octoroc.