IDIOT BOY

“Idiot Boy”

Spraypaint and marker on wall.

Thanks Armada Skis for letting me paint the office!  I had a lot of fun.  Got to paint next to Stink and Madsteez, who are both rad artists.  Will post pics of the whole building soon.

Also I have Instagram now, so follow me if you're into that.

GHOSTS & HOBOS

I painted this lovely hobo couple on the bathroom doors at Armada HQ in Costa Mesa yesterday.  We have an affinity for hobos around here since they seem to be omnipresent and completely unavoidable.  Sometimes they do funny things like bring bags of their feces into our office.  Oh hobos...

                  

"Magical Hobos"
Acrylic, spraypaint, pencil and paint pen on bathroom doors


Also, someone had a heart attack in the men's room a long time ago and now he haunts the bathroom and surrounding area.  He's a pretty lame ghost, and only seems to be able to turn the lights on and off and close the door on dogs that wander inside.  Come on ghost, step your haunting game up.

                       

HENRIK HARLAUT

I had the honor of designing the graphics for Henrik Harlaut's first Armada pro model ski a few months back.  Henrik is my favorite skiier and all around cool dude, so I was stoked to get the chance to design his ski, which he rode all throughout the X-games last week.

I wanted to recap with a couple videos of his big slopestyle win at the games in case you missed it-- Henrik threw down a trick that has never been done before (Nosebutter triple cork) for his final run, and my skis got a bunch of camera time.  Even better, my friend Corey was behind the scenes and gave Tanner Hall a GoPro to film the moments before Henrik's final trick.. the result is pretty insane.  Check out the video of his final run, the behind the scenes video, and some more of Henrik shredding below.  This kid is off the chain!

FREESKIER

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!  My ad in Freeskier magazine dropped yesterday and I'm pretty excited about how it turned out.  Armada skis has been doing a series of artist-based ads in conjunction with their 10-year anniversary and I was given the opportunity to customize an epic photo of freeskiing legend Tanner Hall in any way I chose.  For the most part the previous ads in the series were created by artists that have contributed to the visual history of Armada over the past ten years, so I was especially honored to be selected as I am a full-time employee of Armada and I've only been with the company for a little over a year so far!

I was given a vertical black and white photo of Tanner and we thought it would be cool to orient the ad vertically over the two page spread so that you have to rotate the magazine to view the piece.  All of the ads so far have been extremely colorful so I went with a decidedly unsaturated approach and decided to limit myself to a single color and focus more on the composition and typography.

 My first magazine ad that I've ever gotten to put my name on so I am quite stoked.  Happy 10 years to Armada skis, definitely watch the sick anniversary edit we just put out for a little insight into the company.  The video, which you can view right here, was created by my good friend and coworker, Corey Stanton.  He and I have worked together pretty closely to try and create more exciting graphical content for our videos.  Hopefully there will be much more to come!

Be sure to pick up a copy of the magazine and check it out for yourself.  Thanks for reading!

New Business Card

Been waiting to get my new business cards in the mail for a few weeks, finally got em yesterday and they're just as beautiful as I hoped they would be:

I spent a while on this design and knew I wanted to have it letter pressed so I did some research and finally found The Cotton Paperie, which I can't recommend highly enough.  Not only did they have the most reasonable pricing I was able to find for letter press jobs, they also have the most options for paper and ink colors-- not to mention the fact that they did an incredible job on my cards.

The detail is perfect and the embossing is subtle and classy. Their standard paper stock is a thick double-ply which looks and feels great in your hand.  I am going to be giving these out with extreme discretion as I don't want to part with any of them!

Education of Style Invite

This is somewhat exciting, as I rarely get to share things I make at my job right after they are created (our ski designs are made 2 years in advance, and everything else is generally done 1 year in advance).
However, next week is the world premiere of 'The Education of Style', the new ski film starring Tanner Hall, Henrik Harlaut and Phil Casabon, and I got to make a cool invitation for the event:

The title of the movie is done up like a graffiti handstyle and I thought it would be fun to play off of that for the poster.  Since the movie is called The Education of Style, I wanted to "educate" folks on some different styles of tagging.  I always enjoy drawing out type by hand so this was very cool to work on.

I also got to make the invitation for the after party, which is a celebration of Henrik Harlaut's 21'st birthday.  Henrik (or E-Dollo as he is called by his fans) is one of my favorite dudes and I wanted to do something really awesome for his party.  And what's more awesome than Mike Tyson's Punch Out?

If you happen to be in Southern California next Tuesday, definitely swing by Lido Theater in Newport for the premiere and check out the after party at Bikini Bar!

*Update:  The afterparty will take place at our office/warehouse at 1987 Placentia St in Costa Mesa.  Come grab a beer and skate the miniramp with us after the movie.

Life update

I got a job.  I am the newest member of the design team at Armada Skis.  They are sick:

I start in two weeks and it's going to be totally awesome.  Can't wait.