Way back in 2001, the editorial staff of LA Weekly decided to create a special issue dedicated entirely to the topic of nonprescription drugs. I always looked forward to special issues, particularly when I had plenty of warning and a decent... Read The Rest →
2009 saw the end of Mean magazine. Officially Mean is on hiatus, but it’s unlikely that the print version will be resurrected any time soon. Mean and the creative vision of publisher, Kashy Khaledi lives on in a short video format... Read The Rest →
In design school, I cut my teeth at the local paper, The Daily Collegian. I was art director there for a couple years. Really I wanted to be an illustrator, but I learned that my illustration sucked and I was actually... Read The Rest →
All designers love to make posters. Sadly, I haven’t really done that many. Here are a few, some pretty old, one (Lollapalooza) never even made it to press because the year I was doing the Lollapalooza graphics they canceled all of... Read The Rest →
CD packages are fun to design, like tiny books in a plastic shell. I haven’t done that many. All of them have been for indie labels. I’ve heard nightmare stories about high-strung musicians, but most of the artists I’ve worked with... Read The Rest →
This is a catch-all post. I used to have a page for corporate identity, a page for advertising and marketing, and a page for web. But I don’t really want to do that kind of work except on special occasions. There’s... Read The Rest →
