Super Keyboard Cat Bros.

Play Him Off, Keyboard Cat! is a website that catalogs many of the “Keyboard Cat” videos that can be found on the internet. If you’re unfamiliar, these videos typically follow a ridiculously embarrassing, depressing, or otherwise awkward video with a cat “playing it off” on the piano. I suggest you watch this one first and then check out some of the others on the site. I recently teamed up with chip musician Doctor Octoroc to create an 8-bit version of the popular internet meme. Let me know what you think, and if you have any ideas for a future video.

EDIT: The video has since been featured on numerous blogs and podcasts, including G4 TV’s Attack of the Show. Thanks to everyone who made the video so popular!

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.

8-Bit Jesus

I mentioned in my last post that I was designing the packaging for a holiday album by chip music artist Doctor Octoroc. Above is the new cover, and you can download the full album for free (donations encouraged) from his website. I am also providing them for download here as his site has been crashing from all the traffic.

Download 8-Bit Jesus

If you do download it from me, and enjoy it, please consider donating to him. His Welsh Corgi puppy Ein needs to have expensive surgery. The only thing worse than making the baby Jesus cry is…

Okay, guilt trip over. But, if you grew up on old school Nintendo games like I did, you will absolutely love this album. Each track brilliantly marries a classic Christmas carol with the musical style of a specific classic video game (even the non-geek will hear the Super Mario influence in the track “Super Jingle Bros.“).