I’m going to try to do more fun, non-work, design stuff more. I seem to easily get cought up in only doing design for clients and months go by where I haven’t done one thing for my self. I guess Defgrip still feels like a personal project, but even that gets to feel like “work” a lot. So, this morning, I was listening to my brothers new album. He’s in a few different bands, but just finished up a project he did with his friend Nash. It’s more of a fun thing they threw together, but it was in my iTunes with no art… I’m super anal about having album art for all my music, so I though, what a perfect opportunity to do some random crap.

Hamilton and Nash titled this project “Horse Grinder” and for some reason, I had horse illustrations stuck in my head. I didn’t have much time to spend on the art, so I just hit up google images and came across this rad anatomy drawing of a horse, made a little logo, threw some type in there, messed with a the background and that was that! I only spent like 30min on it, but it was super fun messing around and I’m going to try to do something along these lines a few times a week… Keep my brain fresh!

Hamilton doesn’t have anything online for Horsegrinder, but you can check out his main band, Song Sparrow Research here.

This was the very first ad I did for MacNeil. I could write so much about this, but I have to go to sleep… To say the least. I was so psyched to get to A, do a full spread B, do a ad of Ruben and C, use a Joe Rich photo…

Amazing… I had never seen this album cover for whatever reason, probably because I don’t really know much about Grace Jones, but I’ve had this on my computer for a few months and every time I come across it, I stare at it for like five minutes. The whole cutting and pasting of her hair and mouth has this really childish but yet so conceptual aspect to it. I completely love how they left the pieces of tape in and also used a sticker from a roll of film or something near her hair. The cover has this whole “fuck you” feel to it, like she just doesn’t give a fuck that her mouth is like 10x to tall… With the whole cut and paste thing, but also the look in her eyes. The cover wouldn’t be as amazing if the photo didn’t suit it so well… There is also a nice use of Trade Gothic for the type. Nothing crazy to distract you from the image, but not dull enough to bore you.

I found this video with a few shots of the creation of the album. Not sure if this is the actual video to this song, but it is also pretty incredible. I’m going to go and listen to Grace Jones now.

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