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New Posters!

Just rushed out 2 posters for some big events this coming weekend: the LAST Bear Garden and a People Under the Stairs Concert. Despite the time constraint, I am very happy with how both turned out.

Everyone loves free honey and food.

At some point during the hazy hours of vectoring more and more little bears, my mind strayed and created this monster. Every time I look at it I laugh to myself.

Thes One and Double K under some stairs. Decided to get very literal with this poster!

Concert posters are always the most fun, especially when there’s much creative freedom. But I’m sad to say, after 3 years of good times, these might be my last two posters for UCSD…

It’s okay though. See you at Bear Garden!

SGF09 Print

Some of the promotional items for the Sun God Festival, a 15-page festival guide and mix CD with music from all the artists who performed.

Sun God Shirts On the Market

For all UCSD persons, Sun God Festival merch is officially up for grabs! Find them at the Sun God Boutique next to Jamba Juice. 9 hot shirt designs plus pint glasses, water bottles, free CDs and more. More in-depth pics to be posted later…

Design: Bear Garden Spring

The newest Bear Garden poster has been added to my portfolio. This time around, I wanted to capture the birth of the new season through the expressions and movement of the bears. At the same time I wanted to create an intense sense of desire for the “honey”. I mainly worked off of vector pieces from the first event poster, with obvious technical improvements (notice the flowers). Once again, the even was canceled a day before due to a forecast of rain. And once again…it did not rain. Let’s hope the next and final festival goes through.

Design: Taiwan Film Festival

Just completed artwork for an upcoming Taiwan Film Festival poster. I used a combination of sharp shapes and calligraphic marks to create a modern and slick image with a slightly “Asian” feel that all can appreciate. The event is in early May and features some pretty exciting and hard-to-view films. I’ll be posting the complete poster as the date gets closer.

Design: Mustache Dance vs. Tommy

Here we have completed Mustache Dance posters, featuring the smooth photography skills of my buddy/ex-roomie, Tommy Ross. Tommy did an awesome series of models with mustaches last year for a final project. Everyone who saw the show was impressed and entertained, so when the poster assignment for this dance came up, the ASGS decided the collaboration had to happen. Only 3 pieces out of the photographic series were selected for translation to poster format. Hopefully the text I added doesn’t take too much away from the pieces themselves.

Design: ASGS Killer Cutout

I present Derek, the first of hopefully many Killer Cutouts from the ASGS. I squeezed out this guy at the last minute for a campus-wide promotional event. A couple hundred copies were printed on cardstock and given out for free. Hopefully, people took some time to build him. Let me know if you want one.