Liftopia is an online lift ticket seller. They contacted Marine Layer about creating a limited-edition t-shirt, and we collaborated on this design. I drew inspiration from a Burton snowboards shirt from the ’90s that used subtle gradients with silhouettes to evoke snowy nighttime scenery. The client was very happy with the final product, and the limited run sold out quickly.

Rabbi Shimshon Nadel is an old friend from New Jersey who has recently moved to Israel. Torah From Tzion is his blog for Torah thought and lectures. For this project, I started with a WordPress theme, tweaked the CSS and created imagery to give a Jerusalem kind of feel. We created a podcast and populated the iTunes page with graphics and information. I had done podcasting previously for Public Radio International, but only using their proprietary back-end software. Turns out, it’s pretty darn easy to write your own RSS code.

Marine Layer is a San Francisco-based t-shirt and apparel company. I’ve been doing design for them occasionally for the past year. This was one of the first project I worked on for them. The logo was already created before I got involved, and the sunset design was their most popular print, so it was a natural fit for the wall at their office / hang-out spot.

This was a project for a friend working with this San Francisco music festival. I came in late to the project, after much artwork had already been created, but deadlines were fast approaching and print-ready files were needed. My involvement here was in layout and typography. In both posters the artwork and logos were ready, but a solution was needed to organize the information in a visually attractive and readable way.

Jeffery Kamen is a New York City based architect. The client wanted a clean and well-organized site to show off his portfolio of completed projects, as well as line drawings and computer-aided renderings.

Gerald Ford said this when he addressed the nation after Nixon resigned, but an argument could be made that its as relevant now as ever, post George Bush. I printed these in 2008 during the election season, took them to Denver to sell at the Democratic National Convention – I don’t think anyone there got the reference. I still thought they were cool.

Probably my most popular t-shirt design so far. I printed these in 2008 and took them to the San Diego comic con to sell them on the street. They were a pretty big hit there. Also got them stocked at a boutique called Density on Valencia St. in San Francisco.

LBJ was a great president. Seriously underrated. He signed some damn good legislation, civil rights, Medicare and Medicaid. And he held cabinet-level meetings nude in a hot tub. This shirt is based on his 1964 campaign slogan.

The concept here was to create a ‘headboard’ for a bed, in a bedroom in Englewood, NJ. The client gave me the concept, and a list of flowers she wanted included. Took me about 5 days.

Laura is a painter and a good friend. I built this website for her in 2006. One of my oldest projects that’s still around, and even though I’ve learned quite a bit about web development since then, this is still one of my favorites for design and functionality.

This is one of my earlier designs, from 2005. I was working at Ink Monkey Graphics, a screen printer in Davis, CA. We were experimenting with gold foil prints, and the printers asked me if I had any designs I wanted to try out. I took the cover of Iggy Pop’s ‘Lust For Life’ album and worked it out in Photoshop to a sharp contrast monotone. The gold foil print process wass sort of like running a special glue through the silk screen, applying the foil to the shirt, putting it under a heat press, and then peeling off the excess foil. I printed about twelve of these, some in black and some in brown. I was pretty happy with the finished product. Never really sold them, just gave them to a couple of friends.

This was a logo I created for a series of t-shirts we were printing. The shirts were a v-neck baseball top with red piping, and I wanted a logo with strong, broad lines that wouldn’t be overwhelmed by the colors in the trim. Because the cost of the garments was higher than usual, we printed a small run which sold out very quickly. I’m not sure how many are out there, but I do still see them worn with pride by the folks who did get one.

Cassie’s was an upscale pizza place in the town of Englewood, NJ. This was my first paid mural commission. Two of my high school buddies were waiters there, and the management was asking around if anyone knew a painter to paint a mural. My friends passed the word on to me, and I got in touch. They offered me $500 plus materials, plus food and drink. Looking back, $500 for a two week, 50 by 15 foot mural job is pretty darn low. But I did my best to make up for it in pizza consumption, and all told, this job was a blast.