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Last Friday was the CD release party at the Mel for the new Punkin Holler Boys ten year/best of album. I was approached back in April to layout the digipak, and what a fun time!

Ralph Jeffers, John Scheetz and the rest of the gang were a joy to work with. It’s not often that a Hee-Haw inspired Bluegrass band asks for a CD design, so when they asked me to design it they already had a theme based on a joke about tin ears as a misnomer for TEN YEARS.

The folks at  Primary Colours are looking for a new logo. SOOOO, get out your mac and your sketch book and show them your design skilz!

Winner gets a full year of promotion on every event collateral printed piece-not to mention MAJOR BRAGGING RIGHTS for designing the winning logo for one of the state’s most prestigious non-profit groups.

More info is available here.

The Fourth of July edition of the SouthEast Square News will be out on the Fountain Square news stands shortly and finally I am playing with finger puppets. I’m bringing back the robot and Detholz! monster for this edition-don’t worry you won’t see the last of them and they may multiply into a family of other cast mates.

My dream is to have a photo sent to me of these two guys battling it out Michel Gondry style or just colored and crayola’d out for the kid in me to enjoy posting in the Back to School (September/October) edition.

The SESN newsletter is a neighborhood centric rag that is made up of content contributed by the residents of FSQ. So if you want to know about music, art, development and fun going on in the square-check it out.

I took a break yesterday from work, just to play with my food and do a little art. It’s something that I am making myself do more often. I love design and creating identities, but sometimes the kid in me (the kid that used to make shapes by intersecting lines with a ruler and drawing birds) wants to play sometimes.

I took a photos of my carrots during lunch and then did some crazy illustrating with my bamboo tablet.

{Original carrot photo.}

{Subconsiously my carrots are flying through the air and will land in my bra/pac-man ghost/flying brain.}

Then I started playing with my favorite word of all time “Romantical.” Romance + magical.

{The tongue connects the two in a satirical way. It reads “La lengua de amor.” Ahhhh amor.)

I even began playing with a sketch of the world’s saddest Octopus: OCTODEPRESSY
It’s awful I know…but it makes me laugh. Who knows maybe I can one day turn him into a children’s book.

{So sad is an octopus forced to live in a jar.}

{Possible handwritten treatment.}

Why draw these images? Even if they are bad, they release an endorphin and allow a thinking process that I would normal not think about or document. Artists/illustators like Von Glitchka do daily drawings and illustrations professionally, and what they start out with is never exactly what the end product is like.

It all starts with an rough sketch and then one day it gets molded into something much more refined. As a designer/artist you never know until you take the time to play with an idea. It’s a common misconception that artists play all the time-but it’s part of the work and process of refining an image. For now I’ll file these images away in a folder on my hard drive. One day they may evolve into something else.