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LP release including digital distro, CD/digipak with 8-page booklet, 12" vinyl (not shown) and 4 digital singles (right). Cover Rorschach from paper cutout by Jordan Monsell.

Implemented new company branding for 100+ brochures, whitepapers and data sheets for digital & print deployment. Coordinated redesign project with team members in the U.S., Mexico and Brazil for collateral in the Medical, Automotive, Food, Cyber Security and Management Systems sectors. Assets in English, Spanish and Portuguese produced.

UX design process low-fidelity and hi-fidelity prototypes in Figma. In an invoicing app for freelancers, this prototype was built to test the user flow of a main task: enter the Home screen, go to current Jobs, choose Send Invoice for a Job, preview the invoice, and Send.

Logo, branding and identity package for Capitol Records imprint Java Records. Also created mugs, patches, studio labels for 2-inch tape, DAT and more...

A rebrand project in the oil & gas sector. The design on the top left became the new face of the company.

The evolution of a home screen design solution in the UX design process, including paper wireframes, low-fidelity digital wireframes and hi-fidelity prototypes in Figma.

Logo, tradeshow backwall, trifold brochure and T-shirt for Raman spectroscopy developers EmVision.

CD/digipak, 12" double-LP, digital distro and various swag for "Lemon Parade Revisited", Tonic's acoustic re-recording of their 1996 platinum record "Lemon Parade", 20 years after this great record's original release.

This project has ranged in scope from company logo/branding and 200+ music licensing compilation covers, to email marketing and the current website. Using the Webflow low-code platform, along with extensive custom CSS/JS, we represent Gramoscope's strong branding with a plenitude of film, television, podcast and advertising music placements with video clips, audio of complete soundtracks and more. View the website >

Usage guide for responsive HTML email template, utilizing custom inline and -head- CSS in the Pardot ecosystem. This template contained modular pre-purposed sections that were moveable and removeable, allowing the client's users in multiple countries to stay consistently on-brand and responsive on all devices.

CD/digipak and digital distro for Babybird's "The Pleasures of Self Destruction". A challenge here was that the cover and child photos provided by the artist were prohibitively small in canvas/resolution. We created a very effective and thematic nuclear blast effect using motion blurs, noise and lens flares which enabled the significantly uprated photos to print beautifully at high resolution.

Various items for Los Angeles eatery "The Village Idiot": postcards, coasters, matchbooks, match boxes, ads, T-shirts and more...

DVD package for Babybird's final concert, entitled "The End Is Here", live at Leicester Square Theatre, London.

12" vinyl, CD/jewel box, logo, social support and digital distro for Nathan Quick's blues project "Black Cat Bones". Photos by Blackmotor in this inevitable homage to Blue Note's visual visionary Reid Miles.

Responsive HTML email templates, utilizing custom inline and -head- CSS in the Pardot ecosystem.

CD/digipak, 12" vinyl, 7" single and digital distro for troubadour Vic Ruggiero's "This". Our retro "high-fidelity" theme was actually based in fact as Vic (best known as a member of The Slackers) had previously recorded these songs as lower-fi demos, and this album represented their hi-fi metamorphosis.

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