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Nicolas Jaar & Orchard Lounge at Smart Bar

Very excited for this one!  Nicolas Jaar is a 21 year old wunderkind of sorts.  The music he’s making is well beyond his years.  I’m anxious to see what a live set will be like.

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Nicolas Jaar Gig Poster - […] I’m not sure if this is a real gig poster of if it was designed by a fan (James Cullen who’s Flickr you can see here), but I did a quick google search which also brought up the second gig poster that I also like.Via: Flickr & BZA […]

Hot Natured Miami 2011

I love making Hot Natured posters.  For one, the stuff that Lee Foss and Jamie Jones put out is super fantastic.  What’s more, they’re both brilliant at coming up with absolutely ridiculous art direction (Lee especially).  There’s always a good amount of taking the piss, and a great sense of humor.

2009:

2010:

In 2011, the party is taken deckside on a Hot Natured yacht.  Pulling dolphin water skis.  With a neon laser rope.

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Lee Curtiss – Candy

Here’s the latest release from the Culprit label – Lee Curtiss with Candy.  The brief called for something a little crass, a little class, and with a vintage LA patina.  The photo of Mr. Curtiss came from Terence Patrick, a massively talented LA photographer and Culprit co-conspirator.  Definitely have a look through his impressive body of work.

 

 

The initial inspiration for type design came from advertisements from a 1974 smut rag.  I randomly populated the ads with Lee’s name, the track title, and a repeated lyric (“what we talk about”).

 

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These elements ended up lending more ‘ambiance’ than actual ‘information’, but served  as great inspiration.  The washed out colors and grainy textures of the final image came from pictorials in the same smut rag the ads came from.

 

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Diplo at The Mid

This was a fun one to make.  I wanted to try and match Diplo’s swagger in mashing up disparate styles and putting them together in a slick package.  So I went with a literal take on that idea, and here is Diplo bringing his styles, slung coolly over his shoulder.

Normally when I photochop images together I try to make the fact that they are collaged stand out.  Rarely do I attempt smoother, photorealistic composites (unless of course I’m putting my friend’s heads on other peoples’ bodies), but this poster seemed to call for it.  That being the case, all of the elements came from different original, found photos – the bags, the boxes and crates, the kids, and of course the dog – were all sourced independently.  It took forever to find the right images, but I’m hoping it was worth it in the end.