This Saturday, March 6th Tiger Tank Euphoria is playing our monthly at The Basement in Long Beach. The Secret 6 and Bearface will open with vintage sounds from DJ Lithuanian Prince between sets and on into the night. Should be a great night if you can make it out! More info here.

A note on the poster design: I had read over on the ISO50 blog about a program called Mousepaths (which is now actually called IOGraph) that traces your mouse actions over a period of time and creates a graphic based on those actions. The background for this poster is what came of me tracing my mouse over a 4 1/2 hour period one night while working (I colorized the image myself, the program only gives B&W output). Like most of the show posters I create, this I consider more of a design exercise since I can’t spend a lot of time on it but am looking for ways to keep things interesting. One day I may go back and ready these for print but for now they remain brief thoughts that get the message across.

This Saturday, February 27th we play the Basement Lounge with Thavius Beck and Free Moral Agents. Should be a great show, things have really been happening at the Basement Lounge recently. Come check it out, we hope to see you.

My good friend Ryan Myers has opened up his new San Francisco-based creative space THINKMAKE Studio. Some amazing stuff going on over there, check it out. He’s also put up a new blog as part of his site, so double-awesome from my neighbor to the north.

Pictured above is THINKMAKE’s screen-printed poster for Kiddo which I also have hanging on my studio wall. Looks beautiful framed.

Handmade collages by Michal Bartlomowicz. Paper cut-outs, Xerox and other prepared materials. Awesome.

Via Definitive Touch

Saturday night we play our monthly at The Basement in Long Beach. Our friends On Blast and DJ Lithuanian Prince will be playing with us along with a special guest or two. Hope to see you there!

More info here.

Letterrheady is a blog that posts interesting letterhead throughout history up to present day. Somehow they even got letterhead from the Third Reich…scary.

Living in the same city as the second busiest container port in the United States I get plenty of shipping containers to look at as I’m driving to and from Los Angeles every day. I’m always struck by the logos and the type that gets painted on the sides of these containers and the above are some of my favorites. I especially love how the logos and type get painted on the ribbed containers and create that fluttering effect, it feels so down and dirty but it’s visually awesome.

This set of posters by Ross Berens just kills it for me. It’s all very simple and perfect. Lately I’ve been a sucker for dark landscapes with stars so maybe that has something to do with it, but I really love how the typography switches up with each piece and it still feels like a very unified series. Check out the rest of the posters here and the rest of Ross’ excellent portfolio here.

I got the idea to do stenciled wine bottles from ReadyMade Magazine when I was trying to figure out what I would do for holiday gifts last year. The idea was doing letter stencils on cheap wine bottles after taking off the original label. These two were done for the two biggest wine lovers in my family (whose initials are on each bottle). Certainly they are more appealing than what comes on the bottle (Papyrus? Really!? Avatar!!).

I’ve been selected the winner of a photo contest that lead up to tonight’s opening of Ordinary Days at South Coast Repertory Theater in Costa Mesa, California. They asked for submissions that exemplified our own ordinary day told in photographs, so I selected some from my iPhone (of all things!) that I’ve taken on what are in fact many-a-ordinary-day.

Winning netted me a pair of tickets, drinks, food and an after party! Should make for a wonderful Friday evening. See my submission after the jump or go here.