Monthly Archives: September 2011

I did these renderings for a class photoshop demo today and was pretty psyched about them, so I thought I would post them up here. Snakeskin high-top shoes are the hot new thing apparently. Enjoy.

I’m very proud to have been invited to speak and participate in HATCH in Bozeman Montana this year. HATCH is an amazing event that will go from Oct. 6-8th 2011 and will consist of a series of films, concerts, panels, keynote speeches, workshops and showcases. I am scheduled to give a talk entitled ‘Designing a Better World,’ on Friday October 7th. If you are in the area I encourage you to stop by and say hi! The list of speakers and participants this year looks really outstanding and I am looking forward to meeting a bunch of really interesting people.

Find out more information on the HATCH website.

I have been working on a few new logos and flyers recently and pushing a lot of techniques to try to get a more vintage look to my graphics. I wanted to post up the work I did for my DJ friend Lacey Youngblood. She wanted a similar look to the logo work I had done for Haters Make Us FAMOUS, although my work has evolved a lot since then and I was eager to do everything custom on this one and not use any pre-existing fonts or type treatments.

The original idea was sketched out with pencil and markers and then afterward I began to build the pieces in illustrator. The text for ‘YOUNG’ was pretty straightforward vector work and we went through quite a few variations before we settled on what was ultimately the most readable.

The handwritten ‘blood’ portion of the logo was done with a Tria marker and then scanned. The resulting scan was then livetraced in illustrator and by carefully adjusting the livetrace parameters I was able to give the text the more liquid appearance that we were going for.

WHEW! Between work, travel, teaching, djing as well as trying to maintain some semblance of a normal social life, I have been all over the place these last couple of months. Despite the busy schedule, I am still developing a super-secret project that is in the works. And this one is gonna be BIG! I expect it will really take off this winter, but here is a little preview. No, it will not be bicycle related, but this IS a bike decal set I am starting. Pretty excited to start some production!

I just got back from a great trip to London last week. I had the opportunity to meet a couple of my favorite artists, Liam Sparkes and Maxime Buechi at Shangri-La Tattoo Parlour. I got some sweet work by Liam and we compared work from Thomas Hooper. I took this photo that Thomas later posted on his webpage.

Photograph by Evan Twyford. ©Evan Twyford and Thomas Hooper 2011.