Accepted Final Album Cover Design thingny addddddddd Operetta
Black and white sketch for thingny addddddddd
Know The Ropes
Cicadas' Rhythm Off The Record
Rejected Sketch for thingny during process of web and album design
Rejected thingny sketch for web design
thingny web logo
Accepted Final Album Cover Design thingny addddddddd OperettaThingny wrote and performed an operetta involving their experimental Brooklyn based ensemble in 2008-9. I created a hand drawn series of sketches inspired by the Tibetan philosophy of a city or world on a turtle’s back. This was to convey the idea of this bustling, capitalist, consumerist city as an island of ideas, hopes, problems and more. I listened to their work and proposed this plan for a sketch. thingny requested my bold use of color, and approved this with the fourth version of typeface all hand lettered. I really enjoyed working with this crew of creative people. Their music is more hipster/adult themed than much of my personal work, but they were very positive and creative people who supported my work. This was a fun project. You can buy this album at thingny’s website thingny.com. Inside is a comic book style rendition of the entire score. A different artist illustrated each page within the work. I was responsible for one interior page as well as this frontis piece and the back cover.
Black and white sketch for thingny adddddddddThingny addddddddd album cover. Black and white sketch.
Know The RopesThis piece represents a physical manifestation of a psychological state of mind I was playing with for an idiom show. I was accepted with this and another illustration to the Anderson Ranch Visual Art Idiom show, and won 3rd best in show for these two works. ‘Know the Ropes’ is the idiom I worked with. I wanted to convey a vast amount of physical stuff, visual information, sensory overload, and chaos generated by one unified machine or system. This imaginary, impossible machine recalls Rube Goldbergesque impossible or inefficient machines that carry out a task in the slowest or silliest way possible using unrelated machines and materials. I was ruminating on life and tasks of comprehending existence in a modern world, balance of the past and learning in the future, and a nod to the impossibility to be great and efficient at this modern life. What rope to pull? What key to press? What to keep and what to discard? Are we really only in need of the most recent information? This idea floats effortlessly in a composition, juxtaposing the heaviness of trying to know the ropes in life.
Cicadas' Rhythm Off The RecordThis work was a response piece to enter into the Anderson Ranch Center for the Arts in Indiana’s Annual Idiom Artist Contest. The contest guidelines featured lists of idioms to be inspired by. I was at the time living in an area of Wisconsin where the cicada song was rampant. I loved hearing this when I hiked through the woods. They have a quick chance at life and song and 17 years of dormancy. Off the Record is a pun I illustrated. This piece won 3rd best in show in the gallery exhibit. The Cicadas bounce off the record, literally in different directions creating visual rhythm that echoes what their sound was like. I wanted to record that sound in my memory. The two phonographs represent a social friendship, as two figural elements facing each other in a rare conversation.
Rejected Sketch for thingny during process of web and album designThis is one of many commissioned sketches involving hand drawn, xacto knife cut and collaged drawing elements I hand duplicated and used as beginning ideas for the thingny album cover and web design process. I worked with this experimental ensemble to create unique illustrations involving themes and ideas from their music. Cash registers, machines, ideas from popular culture, music players and more symbolize parts of their musical pieces.
Rejected thingny sketch for web designThis little sketch was sent to thingny as a possible web design logo idea. After the work was rejected, I was invited to be in a show, and sent a digital print of the original work. This and many other sketches led to the final versions of what thingny used as their logo and album cover designs.
thingny web logo
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