Sticker pack developed for LINE corp
Ned, Fred, Bread, and Steve
Ned is a narwal, Fred is a swamp creature, Bread is bread, and Steve is the boy that brings everyone together. They're just four best friends looking to party!
I included the sketches of the designs that ended up being cut in the final pack.
Client: Line Corp
Bumper Car GiftCard built on the Hex Bug platform
Client: Target
Direction: Brian Holt, Heidi Anderson
Writer: Aaron Muther
Printable Halloween labels to dress up your Campbell's Soup cans for some spooky fun.
Official site:
www.campbellsoup.com/cancostumes
Client: Campbell's Soup
Agency: BBDO
Direction: Danny Adrain, Roberto Danino
Additional credit: Some photos are courtesy of the Campbell's Kitchen official Pinterest account
Everyone is invited to the season's best party! You never know who you're going to run into at this frightfully fun Halloween bonanza.
Print Details:
Edition of 75 (ea.) / 11x17" / Archival prints on 300gsm Moab Entrada Bright White cotton rag / Hand-signed and numbered
Available here
Ham it up with the world's most adventurous hamburger!
Available as a free download for Facebook Messenger.
Client: Facebook
This five print series highlights the world's most famous plumbers and their timeless adventures across two console generations and one handheld.
Super Mario Bros.
Super Mario Bros. 2
Super Mario Bros. 3
Super Mario World
Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins
I also recreated the box art for each of the games, staying true to both their original size and their spirit.
Print Details:
Edition of 190 (ea.) / 16x20" / Offset printed on 12pt uncoated card stock / Hand-numbered and signed / Gold foil stamped and embossed.
Each print comes with a matching box art print printed on insanely thick 34pt uncoated card stock.
Available here
Also check out a mini behind the scenes write up on my blog
Ten posters commemorating ten of Nickelodeon’s star Creators and their iconic shows. The poster series includes tributes to: Steven Hillenburg (Spongebob Squarepants), John A. Davis (Jimmy Neutron), Arlene Klasky/Gabor Csupo & Paul Germain (Rugrats, Aaah! Real Monsters!), Jhonen Vasquez (Invader Zim), Craig Bartlett (Hey Arnold!), John Kricfalusi (The Ren & Stimpy Show), Joe Murray (Rocko’s Modern Life), Butch Hartman (The Fairly Odd Parents), Kevin Eastman, and Peter Laird (TMNT).
Client: Nickelodeon
Agency: Struck
UK based natural food brands, Bear, hired me on to concept a set of trading cards that would come packaged inside their granola/fruit bars. The set was called Super Species and focused on the super abilities in the animal kingdom. Each of the animals went to a school where they were then grouped into sub-schools (like Harry Potter). Each of these sub-schools represented different traits in the animals.
The client decided to go in a different direction for the final product, but this stage was a lot of fun.
Client: Bear
Godzilla came knocking at San Francisco's door. Little did he know that Brian Cranston is the one who knocks.
"I hope it's good!" - Every Godzilla fan around the world
Edition of 16 / 8x8" / Printed on Moab Entrada Bright White Rag (300gsm) with archival inks / Hand-numbered and signed
Who lives in the forest inside a tree? To-to-ro!
Print Details:
Open edition / 5x7" / Printed on Epson Cold Press Natural 340gsm watercolor paper / Hand-signed
Available here
Environment illustration to highlight the Echelon Light Jacket. Used in point-of-purchase marketing materials.
Client: Nike ACG
Agency: 72 and Sunny
Target GiftCard
Direction: Brian Holt, Amy Hardy
In-store Halloween Campaign
Client: Target
Direction: Ted Halbur / Lucy Winter
Target GiftCard
Summer is here! This GiftCard features a miniature cornhole game complete with four bean bags and two double-sided game boards.
Direction: Kirstin Stahl
I love giant monster movies. They’re campy, but that’s the best part about them. When planning this print, I wanted to highlight the key plot points that all of these monster movies inevitably share with each other at some point: The fisherman who discovers a new species in his net, the surprise attack, the inept scientist, the super weapon that is not so super, and so on.
Print Details:
Edition of 75 / 16×20″ / Printed on Moab Entrada Bright White Rag (300gsm) with archival inks / Hand-numbered and signed
Available here
The Beast Is Back has apparel!
5 color screen print with “soft feel” inks on an Anvil 980 “fashion fit” tee.
Available here
I developed a family of characters to rebrand the Kid’s Academy program at Lifetime Fitness, a gym chain based in Minnesota. Each character represents a different activity the program has to offer including: spanish, music, Zumba, sports, karate, yoga, dance, arts & crafts, pre-gymnastics, and swimming.
Client: Life Time Fitness
Agency: 3e - A Life Time Agency
Direction: Adam Reynolds, Krae Lausch
34′ x 10′ mural highlighting EA’s most successful game properties. This was installed at their global headquarters (Redwood Shores) in Redwood City, California.
Client: Electronic Arts
I'm a big fan of mid-century modern furnishings, but often times some of the most iconic designs look the most uncomfortable. These are kids attempting (and failing miserably) to get comfortable in the period's best.
Print Details:
Edition of 75 (ea.) / 5x5″ / Printed on Moab Entrada Bright White Rag (300gsm) with archival inks / Hand-numbered and signed
Available here
The Beast Is Back has apparel!
5 color screenprint with “soft feel” inks on an Anvil 980 “fashion fit” tee.
Available here
A print inspired by The Land Before Time.
Print Details:
Edition of 50 / 12x12″ / Printed on Moab Entrada Bright White Rag (300gsm) with archival inks / Hand-signed and numbered
Available here
My love letter to one of the best giant monster movies ever created.
Print Details:
16×20″ / Printed on Moab Entrada Bright White Rag (300gsm) with archival inks / Hand-numbered and signed
Standard version / Edition of 100
“Night Stalker” variant / Edition of 30
Cover illustration for a small booklet included in the Q4 2012 Target Red publication.
Client: Target
Agency: Little & Company
Direction: Paul Sieka
Target organizes five amazing carnivals for the patients of St. Jude’s Children’s hospital each year and I was given the opportunity to design all the collateral for the 2012 carnival schedule. These are the posters.
I had a chance to visit St. Jude in Memphis for their Halloween 2011 carnival to volunteer and to get a feel for what it was all about it. It really changed my perspective on the value of the things I have. Those kids have a lot more courage than I will ever have and I am proud to have donated my time for this great cause.
Client: Target
Direction: Ted Halbur
Help Bullseye build his new pad! I have to admit, when I received the samples in the mail, it took me a good 10 minutes to put it together.
The functioning GiftCard is the door mat. The top and bottom of the carrier is perforated so you can remove them, flip the box over, and place the constructed puzzle on the little “landscape”.
Client: Target
Direction: Kirstin Stahl
These products were created for The Birds and The Beasts, a sister brand I started with my girlfriend that focused on greeting cards, prints, and other paper goods for the modern household.
Print Details:
18x24" / Screen prints on French Paper cover stock
"Dear Typography" written by Kristine Songco
Boards for a pitch featuring hand drawn typography and an illustrated city.
Client: Honda
Studio: Logan
Resin Figure
All editions are sold out.
Standard
(Edition of 28)
The U-23 was originally a city owned utility storage unit which as been reconfigured for civilian use. With ten cubic feet of internal storage, the U-23 is indispensable for the urban pack rat.
Nautical Explorer Variant
(Edition of 8)
Freeman Robotics was contracted by the Ocean Conservation Society to develop a small fleet of U-23′s for research and rescue. Only eight were ever made.
Municipal Services Variant
(Edition of 8)
Before the U-23 was modified and offered for sale to the general public, it was utilized daily by construction and clean up crews around the city. On particularly busy garbage days, Freeman Robotics would send additional U-23′s to speed up trash collection. These eight units have been decommissioned and are sold as-is.
General Figure details:
- 4.5″ tall resin figure with two points of articulation
- Comes with a Power Station accessory
- 100% hand-painted and detailed
- Each figure comes safely packed in its own box that includes stickers, a “quick start guide”, a safe handling sheet, a “Certificate of Ownership” with the edition number, two promotional postcards, and a small archival print of the original concept illustration.
Character and environment design to be composited against live action footage for a AT&T U-Verse Movies promo.
Client: AT&T U-Verse
Agency: Digital Kitchen
I worked with the agency, Olson, to develop the artwork and UI for Target’s Snack Bowl. Instead of doing a traditional Super Bowl ad in 2013, Target instead decided to create a game for mobile devices.
Client: Target
Agency: Olson
This was my contribution the first annual Heartwork Art Benefit organized by Target and Invisible Creature. The prints raised a lot of money for a great cause!
Heartwork is a project designed to raise money for art supplies within the art room at Target House—this wonderful home-away-from-home for the families of children facing long-term treatment at St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital.
Client: Target
This is why you should buy a certified used car. Buy an uncertified one and risk owning a half cow half car hybrid. The choice is yours.
I was responsible for the design of the first two spots (Area 52 and the Super Hero one). The third one, appropriately named “Backseat Soiree” was a collaborative effort between myself and Audrey Lee.
The additional concepts in the images were from unused ideas. One involved a meteor crash landing on a car and becoming a car…alien. Another was about a car being driven off a pier and swallowed by a giant whale. The last one was involved a car being the happy home of a bee hive.
All spots were animated by the superstars at Brand New School.
Watch them here.
Client: Toyota
Studio: Brand New School
GiftCard
Client: Target
Direction: Ted Halbur
A jet pack pilot and a three headed monster take charge of Target’s team mottos: “Speed Is Life” and “Fast, Fun, Friendly”. These illustrations were for an e-card series that employees of Target could send to each other internally.
Client: Target
Direction: Ted Halbur
This poster pays tribute to Star Wars and the iconic Kenner card back from the 80′s. This one in particular is the “92 card back” which covered the entire basic figure assortment. While Yak Face was never included in the lineup, I threw him in there for good measure.
Print Details:
27×39″ / Offset Printed on 100lb matte book / SOLD OUT
Free desktop wallpaper pack available below (various sizes): http://bit.ly/18AeyIb
GiftCard
Follow Bullseye as he chases after his runaway spot! Pop up book with 3D effects using the supplied glasses.
Client: Target
Direction: Kirstin Stahl, Amy Hardy
This ten print series features the best food at the greatest restaurants you’ve never heard about.
The stands that are currently completed are:
Astro Burger
Jasper’s Jurassic BBQ
The Kraken Seafood Shack
The Lumber Lodge
Madam Bunion’s Restaurant and Gifts
Mumbo Gumbo – Cajun Kitchen
Ms. Sato’s Sushi and Gas
Saturday Morning Rocks!
The Hole - Donuts
Print Details:
Edition of 100 (ea.) / 8x10″ / Printed on Moab Entrada Bright White Rag (300gsm) with archival inks / Hand-numbered and signed
Available here
Do you have the Power?
Tribute print to the original Masters of the Universe Toy line from the ’80s.
Print Details:
27×39″ / Offset printed on 100lb matte book / Hand-signed
Available here
A 20x9' wide mural for Disney Consumer Products' headquarters in Glendale, California.
Each section represents a different sub-discipline of the department. From left to right: preschool, plush, wood based toys, and consumer electronics.
Client: Disney Consumer Products
Inspired by vintage lobby cards that were handed out at movie screenings in the 60′s.
Print Details:
Edition of 25 / 8×10″ / Printed on Moab Entrada Bright White Rag (300gsm) with archival inks / Hand-signed
Available here
Character/environment element designs for a Bengay Cold Therapy commercial where an ice skating Yeti ushers us through an arctic science facility while outside snowmen are busy relieving your sore spots. Yep.
Client: Bengay
Studio: Brand New School
A long time ago in a... ah, you know the story.
Print Details:
16×20″ / Printed on Moab Entrada Bright White Rag (300gsm) with archival inks / Hand-numbered
These are no longer available for sale and are now property of Lucasfilm ltd
Ken Oak and Ed Gorski are the extremely talented musical duo that form Oak and Gorski. For this poster, I was inspired by the traditional art of the Inuit people.
You can check out Oak and Gorski’s music at cellorock.com
Client: Oak and Gorski
TMNT was a huge part of my childhood and this poster is my tribute to the legendary toy line from Playmates. While doing research I realized they got away with a ton of things that would never fly in today’s toy market. Things like Rat King’s roadkill cat pelt and the illustration of Baxter Stockman choking Raphael on his action figure packaging. Oh the ’90s!
Poster Details:
27×39″ / Offset printed on 100lb matte book / Hand-signed
Available here
Bullseye was the perfect candidate for the Qee figure platform from Toy2R. His design was inspired by the Target race team uniform.
Additional designs were concepted, but unfortunately were never used.
Client: Target
Editiorial illustrations for a special section called “What Colour Are You?” in Roger Magazine. Each color represented different personality traits and habits.
Roger is published quarterly and reaches the entire Virgin Group of companies, including over 50,000 employees.
Client: Roger Magazine / Virgin Group
Agency: The John Brown Group
Greeting card line for The Birds and The Beasts, a side project I started with my girlfriend Kristine. She is a brilliant writer so we teamed up to create cards that we would want to give to friends and family. These are some of my favorites.
We worked on this brand for three years and have exhibited at many different craft and DIY shows with great success. Sadly, due to time constraints with both of our jobs, we haven't had the time or energy to give The Birds and The Beasts the attention it deserves. For now, the brand is on a permanent hiatus.
Print Details:
Edition of 100 / 16×20″ / Printed on Moab Entrada Bright White Rag (300gsm) with archival inks / Hand-numbered
Available here
This was my submission for Qpop’s Tokusatsu tribute show. Godzilla has always been one of my favorite franchises so I decided to do a piece that paid homage to one of the series best… Great Monster War or better known in the US as Godzilla vs Monster Zero.
The best part about this movie is that Godzilla doesn’t even play a huge role in it. King Ghidrah is definitely the star of this one and I wanted to make sure the poster reflected that.
Print Details:
Edition of 25 / 16×20″ / Printed on Moab Entrada Bright White Rag (300gsm) with archival inks / Hand-numbered and signed / SOLD OUT
The polar bear’s sweater has a light-up feature when the button is pressed. Does that make it less ugly?
Client: Target
I had the pleasure of working with the Canada based advertising firm Grip Limited during the development of Honda Canada’s web refresh. The designers at Grip were responsible for the site redesign and I was given the task of illustrating vignettes that embodied the spirit and the audience of each car model in Honda’s fleet. All of these environments existed as footer graphics on each vehicle page.
Client: Honda Canada
Agency: Grip Limited
Halloween GiftCard
Client: Target
Gallery 1988 approached me to create a poster that would commemorate their first “Crazy 4 Cult” group art show which was to be curated by Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier.
Client: Gallery 1988 (G1988)
This series of prints features fictional monster toys in the style of Japanese ‘sofubi’ figures.
The Kaiju featured in this series are:
Snack Monster
Space Lion
Nebula Superstar
Mister Squid
Gigasaur
Cloud Sorcerer
Print Details:
Edition of 75 (ea.) / 5x5″ / Printed on Moab Entrada Bright White Rag (300gsm) with archival inks / Hand-numbered and signed
Available here
Boards for a Honda Days pitch
Client: Honda
Studio: Logan
GiftCard
These were created for Target’s newly opened stores in Canada. The moose card is a production piece, but the animal party design didn’t make the cut.
Client: Target
Agency: kbsp
GiftCard
1, 2, 3, 4...I declare a thumb war!
Client: Target
Direction: Chad Albers
Illustrations for a card game called Dweebies developed by Tim Roediger and produced by Gamewright. The game is available directly from Game Wright and other online outlets like Thought Hammer and Amazon.
Check out this review of the game by The Dice Tower if you're curious about the game mechanics.
Client: Gamewright
Preliminary concept designs for Hasbro's Mighty Muggs line of vinyl figures.
Client: Hasbro
Marketing piece for Adobe’s discounted student and teacher edition software.
Client: Adobe
Agency: Goodby, Silverstein and Partners
GiftCard
Lenticular design, when rotated, shows the hamster running in his wheel trying to grab the present.
Client: Target
Direction: Ted Halbur
Spot illustrations for an article titled “The next 50…” Target team members across the country submitted quotes describing what they thought Target stores would be like in the next fifty years. Personally, I’m looking forward to free teleportation. Make it happen Target!
Client: Target
Agency: Little & Company
"Hooooooo!"
This poster illustrates the complete line of Thundercats action figures from LJN.
Poster Details:
24x36″ / Offset printed on 100lb matte book / Hand-signed
Available here
“Hey Ripley, don’t worry. Me and my squad of ultimate bad-asses will protect you.”
Print Details:
12x12″ / Edition of 95 / Printed on Moab Entrada Bright White Rag (300gsm) with archival inks / Hand-numbered and signed
Available here
Character exploration for a personal project about a scooter gang.
The goal of this project was to create a whimsical PSA campaign that reminds Target guests that thoughtful reviews can make all the difference.
Client: Target
A collection of prints over the years that are either sold out or retired.
Internal campaign for Stockholm based retail agency, Workshop. These graphics were used to illustrate the different ways to be more efficient in business.
The points touched on are: in-store communication, sales development, retail management consulting, academy (retail college), and implementation.
Character designs for a Nestea pitch
Client: Nestea
Studio: Buck
I worked with Scholz & Volkmer to develop a character that represents the digital and mobile services of Deutsche Bahn, Germany’s leading railway company.
Client: Deustche Bahn
Agency: Scholz & Volkmer
Painted Eames Rocker Giveaway
I was invited to paint and Eames Rocker alongside artists Andrew Holder, Mark Giglio, Phil Lumbang, and Josh Cochran for a giveaway that represented the collaborative efforts between Herman Miller and LA based design firm Hello Design. This was actually my very first painting and while a daunting task, I’m proud that I was able to finish it with some degree of accuracy. The giveaway is over now, but you can check the awesome site Hello Design put together for the campaign at the link below.
Client: Herman Miller
Agency: Hello Design
I had the pleasure of working with Hasbro/Playskool for two years (2008-2010) developing booster pack artwork for the brand refresh of a toy icon from our childhood.
The initial set of cards that comes packaged with Alphie is fully illustrated by me along with the future “Animals” booster pack.
Client: Hasbro
