Archive for May, 2009

On Sunday, I finished the invitations for Danapalooza 2009. The invited consisted of one main poster, and 4 mini posters. I guess these aren’t posters so much as Facebook fliers, but who is ever proud of designing a facebook flier? No one, except me, last year.

Here are the sketches. How many Matt Kats does it take to make a poster? Ten.

And here are the posters. Why have one when you can have five? The facebook flier medium is kind of funny because you can’t really have the same contrast in hierarchy that you can have with an 18" × 24" poster, but you can have about 2 solid levels. Obviously, the main poster has a bunch of crap all over—mostly inside jokes for friends—but the others stick to mostly two levels of information.

Update

Dana wrote an article on her blog Life is Such an Adventure thanking me for the work I did! It was truly a labor of love, but everyone appreciates a thank you. Her blog is password protected, so for the Jamilo Pitts readers that aren LISAA readers, here is an excerpt from her post “James, YOU’RE THE FUCKING BOMB.”

Dearest James,

First off I’m in tears. And B, I’m in hysterics! Everything is beautiful. The witty minimalism, the amazing fonts, the orange, white, light blue, and black color scheme. It is absolutely fantastic. And I thought I couldn’t get any more excited!

I love you. We really don’t say it enough.

Love,

Dana

This is why I love doing work for friends. They appreciate it so much. Nothing more fulfilling than that.

Took me a while to find a good one of Evan, but I think this does a good job. Not bad of Hayley either.

Ever since I met Evan, I knew he had some special hidden talent that would expose itself in time. His affinity for Goodwill hats and disregard for appropriate behavior gave birth to the thought of an secret genius lurking beneath the facade of novelty tees and stained sweatpants.

I’m happy to announce that Evan’s brilliant mind has been up to some good use as of late—in the form of some seriously raw beats and rhymes to match.

Despite the two minutes of silence at the end of this track, his producing skills are very impressive, and though I’ve never been really interested in fast rapping, he can rap pretty fast. So that’s cool, if you’re into that sort of thing.

What I’m most interested to see with Frawg Face’s development as an artist is a more truthful representation of his natural charisma charm personality in his music. It’s tough to be as original as you think you are, or want to be, but ironically, BIGHack is well on his way.

Here’s “Promuzac.”

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http://myspace.com/frawgface

“His designs are transparent, leaving room to breathe. Them letters got things to say, they are so clear it tickles your eye and make you blink. What is this colourful craft?”

Letman’s real name is Job Wouters. You wouldn’t expect anybody with a name like that to produce anything less than remarkulous (that’s a new one for all you biters). He’s from Amsterdam, but is influenced by everything from old western wood type to graffiti from the most chollo-esque LA ghettos. Is this shit as bomb as I think it is? Probably.

Letman.com

Via SpiekerBlog

I couldn’t agree more.