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SKATEBOARDSPAGE 10

STICKERSPAGE 14

SHIRTSPAGE 22

RUSTO REBRANDPAGE 28

MONSTER PROJECTPAGE 32

SUMMER TOTEM SNOWBOARD

This graphic was produced for an art show titled “Art on Board” at the BCA in Burlington, VT. The graphic was based on the plethora of emotions felt throughout the week while working on the snowboard. I condensed my normal line balance in order to create an intense feel. The graphic was then printed out on an archival printer and applied to a Burton warranty snowboard to be presented at the show. During the show I would periodically turn the board upside down to show viewers that the reverse produced different faces. The snowboard was auctioned off, receiving the highest price of any work at the show.

BURTON MOONSHINE SNOWBOARD

Burton held a contest on BlankYouVeryMuch.com for the design of 2 board graphics. This half, Moonshine, was my first exploration into a type specific application of my visual line style. I created lines that played around on top of the type rather than influencing it directly. Out of thousands of entries my combined entry landed me at spot #91.

BURTON SPEAKEASY SNOWBOARD

Speakeasy was second half of my submission to the Burton BlankYouVeryMuch.com design contest. It is a design that garnered much praise. The base idea was to stack multiple faces one after another to create a multitude of mouths to express an ease of expression and the vast quantity of things people say. The colors were built around the red burton uses for their stickers. On top of the faces I placed word bubbles with my own personally made language. This design was also entered into a Champlain College contest that coincided with the BlankYouVeryMuch.com contest. This design took home both categories for the Champlain College contest, Judges Favorite (decided on by Burton employees) and Popular Vote.

ONE STRAND TOTEMSKATEBOARD

My first skateboard graphic I ever even thought to create. I built it to test the Boardpusher.com website and see how their custom boards looked. I went with an abstract feel and kept a plentiful boundary around the edges. This design is one of my earlier experiments with line. The basic idea was to pack as many abstract faces based on Japanese cartoon aesthetic as possible.

SHIKUTA FACESSKATEBOARD

This project was born of a mixture of excitement from the last skateboard I created combined with sheer boredom. I had created the previous board a year earlier and had gotten a plethora of praise for it. Thus, I began simply making a line, then a face, then just kept going. Near the end of the project a friend came to me asking for the board when it was finished, and thus I finished it up quickly. The main aim was to make all of the faces contained together and continuous. I had to skateboard printed by Boardpusher.com and it was featured on their website as the featured board of the week. A full color version is in the works.

LONG ROOTSSKATEBOARD

This skateboard has yet to have been physically produced. Boardpusher.com holds a monthly Third Thursday skateboard design contest and this was my entry with the guideline of “Native Roots.” Each face was molded towards different cultures, from Japanese to Slovak to Nordic to Indian. I took these cultures and passed them through my style as if the end result were to be a woodprint. The icing on the cake was the hands added to the bottom.

ED FINNERTY

RALPH

For a college class, Illustration, we were asked to create an illustration based off a random fortune we got from a fortune cookie. Mine was, “There is no way to see the future.” I created a character with a third eye to represent the ability to see the future, and combined him with a speech bubble including unreadable asemic writing, making it impossible to understand the future he sees. It was produced as a sticker by The Sticky Brand to promote a shirt I release with Thirdshift Clothing.

I was asked to create a graphic for a collaborative work with a street artist who produced Pacman ghost type characters. The other artist dropped off the grid, and this I produced the face by itself. I based the face on Japanese demons with a mix of abstract Slovak patterns. A small boil was the perfect accent to throw off the symmetry.

SPACE MONKEY

KEVIN DOOTZ

Tagür came to Champlain College for advice on marketing. The school met the company with a school wide design contest for the company’s sneakers. I wanted to create a sneaker graphic that gave the idea of space boots. I found a toy monkey and created an illustration of it, putting it in a circle to represent the space helmet.

I was an RA throughout the grand majority of my college experience. The end of the fall semester marks a holiday party for the RAs and a gift exchange, in which presents are chosen at random. For the event I designed and printed these stickers in a quantity of 100 and gave them away at that event only. Two faces in one, upside-down a dragon face is seen.

DYLAN ONI

JULZ THE DOG

Champlain College AIGA held a contest in which students were to produce an art gig poster for their favorite band as if they were coming to Burlington, VT to perform. I chose the Japanese rapper Oni. This demon face was produced for the poster and colored as a sketch for the halftone shaded final, which I silkscreened at ISKRA studio.

This little guy was done simply for the fun of it. Champlain College AIGA sponsored a trip to Boston for their AIGA members and I created this to give out to fellow student during the trip. It was based off my memory of my childhood Dog Julz’s face, with a small heart to represent my love for her.

DANNY DUFFY

DARTH VADERThis was another design made just for fun. A friend and fellow designer asked me to create an illustration of Darth Vader, so I did. It was so popular that I produced multiple color ways and The Sticky Brand began producing shirts of the design, as seen on page 25. The design also marks a new personal shading style.

A sticker produced for fun to test my ability to draw a full body figure. The shoes were based off my favorite pair of shoes.

GONIKER

JYAKO

Goniker is named vaguely after Vonnegut’s Hoenikker characters. The face is my imagining of the face of Newt while reading the book Cat’s Cradle. I also produced this design as necklace pendant, which was very commercially successful. Different color ways include Bubblegum, Grape, Spearmint, and Wintergreen.

This sticker was a leftover logo from a college project. Being fascinated with tattoos at the time I created a tattoo company’s assets. I combined Samoan tattoo heritage with the visage of Charlie brown to create a happy smiling tattoo man. The logo font was removed and I then created a limited amount of stickers.

ASSORTED BLACK AND

WHITESTICKERS

I often produce many of my stickers without color. Below is a sample of a few such stickers, all of which were produced at larger sizes. From top to bottom; Fat Boy, Albino Dragon, and Parlot.

SKIN ROSEREHASH

For a college class project we were to create a company and a few deliverables for it. I created a tattoo cream company, and used this design as the top hit for the cream jars. A few left over label stickers made their way around and I was asked to create a few different color ways to sell at The Sticky Brand.

NO NAME LIMITED EDITION TEE WITH THIRDSHIFT CLOTHING

I interned for Thirdshift Clothing and made the No Name shirt. I learned how to create custom halftones in Illustrator the next day and readied the design for a 3 color print. The asemic letters on the design left many people asking what it said, which, is nothing. Thus, we produced tags for the shirts, each numbering the shirts, thus making them limited edition, and each including a different small phrase.

RALPH HALFTONE TEE

My second shirt I produced while in college. While interning for Bow+Arrow I was allowed full access to the studio. I got together a few shirts and silkscreened my own design. I simplified Ralph into 2 colors and went to town in the studio for a few hours until 100 were produced. I sold the shirt at multiple locations and simply had fun.

DARTH VADER TEE

Who doesn’t like Star Wars? Simply put, while interning at Sticky Brand the company decided they loved the shirt and began creating heat transfers of the design. It was a case of a design crossing over from one application to another. The design has also most recently been used on Sticky Brand’s promotional lighters.

ROME CONTEST ENTRY

Rome SDS held a design contest at Champlain College for a new shirt graphic. After working with the given assets for a short period of time, I found that drawing directly over the logo seemed the most fun. I simply played about for a while until the graphic flowed well and the face expressed happiness. I added hand done lettering with the brand colors for a little extra flair. This design came in second.

MICKEY TEE

Based on the success of my Darth Vader graphic, I was prompted to tackle other popular figures. My first choice was Mickey Mouse. I recreated the traditional Mickey and then began creating my own style of graphics over the face until the shape of a Mickey Mouse hat was produced. This graphic has also been created as a sticker and as sweatshirts.

For a college class we were given the project to rebrand an existing company. I reworked Rust-oleum into a more graffiti friendly brand. Through a simplification of the logo, extracting the 3 main colors of the brand (black, red, and white), and a strong push towards the expression of the artists rather than the brand, I came to these visual deliverables. I then produced a new can graphic and a poster series. The cans were left mostly blank, giving space to breathe. The posters are a large blank page, with the idea that, by posting them up around the city, it invites graffiti artists to make the posters themselves.

A personal project, I decided to hand draw 40 original characters to fill an entire sketchbook. The project took 2 weeks, drawing 3 to 4 new characters a day. A fun study, which helped to solidify my line work and pushed me to work hard thematically.