above: litho print with hand coloring (water color)
below: toray print on etching press

Last summer I interned at Violette Design in Stowe, Vermont, where I had the opportunity to work on a variety of awesome projects for Burton Snowboards. The most exciting of these were two special series snowboards that I designed the die-cut base graphics for. This three-board series was not scheduled to be put into production until later this year, and I never heard whether or not Burton had approved my base graphics.

I just stumbled upon this Transworld video, dated January 28th 2010, which shows the Burton Meat Eater's series being debuted in Denver, and sure enough, my graphics grace the bottoms of two out of the three boards.

Watch the video here:

(Fast forward the video halfway to the end to see my work on the boards for a second or two. Look for the underside of the Road Soda and Sweettalker boards as well as the checklist on the top of the Sweettalker in my handwriting!)

Since these boards aren't available yet I can't post pictures of the graphics.. 
so you'll have to wait, sorry.

This is a very special series of snowboards and I am truly honored to have contributed. Can't wait for these to hit the stores.

WORK

First week of classes and my schedule is lookin' pretty fresh. Here is a picture of a print I did for my Serial Imagery class. The print is made with a Toray sheet which is basically a fancy

plate that allows you to print waterlessly and get an assload of detail. If you click the picture

you can see all the tiny scratches that printed, its pretty nuts. I also added watercolor to this print.

"Untitled (Lies)" - 9 x 12"

And finally here is some work that I did while in Ghana. The first is of the laptop sleeve prototype that my buddy Jake Zien and I designed and constructed. It is made out of 100% recycled materials, mainly plastic billboard material and flour sack for the lining. We ended up making three of these altogether, but this sweet brown one is mine.

One of the main features of the sleeve is that you can unzip it and use the material as a portable workspace for your laptop. This is a screenprint that we did on the inside of our sleeves, originally from a drawing that I did with the text added digitally:

And finally here are some pages of my sketchbook from the trip. Just a random selection:

Enjoy the newness

-kyle

GHANA

I am traveling to Accra, Ghana from 1/20 thru 2/14 for a design related school trip. My friends and I have created a new Wordpress blog where we will post pictures from the trip, sketchbook drawings, stories, etc. Be sure to bookmark it and check back often!

http://ghanarama.wordpress.com/

RISD EXPOSÉ - First annual fine art sale

The RISD EXPOSÉ is now open to the public!
Go check it out if you are in town, the work is excellent and the kids who organized and set this thing up are awesome. All work is sold with 80% of the sale going directly to the artist. Do it up.





My column of stuff..
"God's Merciful Providence"
16x20"Providence cotton/poly tees by Nineteen Something. $16 in sizes S-XL.

The Expose is located in downtown Providence, next to Symposium Books. Hours are Tuesday-Sunday from 11AM-6PM. Sometimes I work there... so you might even get to see ME!!!!!!!!!!!! yeah!

Nineteen Something on Wordpress

My t-shirt design "company" has a new Wordpress blog. Check it out here:


Nineteen Something's WordPress

EHS ALC

T-shirt design for Essex High School's Athletic Leadership Council.

Stegosaurus, new track posted.

The song "Familiar Currents" from the new Stegosaurus EP, 'Void and Boundless' is up for streaming on our myspace. Check it out, order a CD.. 2 bucks for god sake, what are you saving all your one dollar bills for a special occasion? Jeez..


Layout, design and construction by me. CD comes in folding sleeve with matching booklet containing lyrics and original artwork. 200 cents, so worth it.

www.myspace.com/stegosaurusmusic

www.kyle-norris.com/stegstore

PROVIDENCE!

After several weeks of pain and torment I have finished my t-shirt design. I was able to find a scanner capable of retaining most of the information in the drawing, and the image is also vectorized to smooth out pixelation.
(Click the image above to view it bigger.)


(Design Detail)
I've included a few smaller details within the drawing including the Roman numerals for the year Providence was founded as well as the current year, the traditional Providence 'anchor', and an outline of the state of Rhode Island with Providence's location indicated by a star.

And here are a few color variations I am thinking about printing. I'm pretty sure I will go with silver/gold ink for the darker tee colors. These will be available in most sizes for $15 sometime in the not too distant future. Let me know if you have any special requests...
Thanks for reading,

Kyle*UPDATE*
(click to enlarge)
I've traced a line around the design in PS and was able to modify a few details and invert the image so as to preserve the darks and lights from the original drawing. Looks like this guy might be the winner.
Production next week? Very possible...

-K