The Samuel Adams Boston Brewery gift shop was looking to have some shirts done with a vintage football feel. We were to use a very simple distressed “84” as that is the year they were founded. They loved the garment as well as the distressed numbers and wanted to brand the shirt in a way…
A menudo la gente me pregunta cual es mi impresión favorita. Esta cuestión es simple pero es la que me da más satisfacción. Esta impresión fue diseñada como cinta continua. El truco fue conseguir la parte alta de la cinta ligeramente clara y que las sombras fueran suaves y realistas. La solución para la…
People often ask me what my favorite print is. That’s a doozy of a question but the one that brought me the most satisfaction was this one. It was designed so that the type was a continuous ribbon. The trick was to get the high part of the ribbon a little lighter, and the shadows…
Every now and then during the course of a crazy day when questions are flying about garment styles and available colors and you find yourself thumbing back and forth through catalogs throwing little pieces of sticky notes between the pages to save the sections you’ll need to go back and reference… you discover that someone has…
When it comes to illustration especially on wearables, there are two things that truly separate the elite from everyone else–composition and execution. In the early 2000’s I had the privilege of working with someone who is a master at both, Mike Thompson. Mike headed up the tee shirt division of Ecko Unlimited and I was…
In August of ’96, I was waiting at a bus stop in the old downtown section of Prague. Across the street there was an unusual billboard. It was made up of vertical slats with different images printed on each side of the slat. The images were divided in such a way that you could only…
You never know where inspiration will come from! Back in the mid to late 90’s, high density and dimensional printing was all the rage. We now had another print dimension to work with and I took to it like a duck to water. I was constantly looking for textures and patterns everywhere I went as inspiration…
