My Nephew Andrew taking flight thanks to his dad Mike

CD Packaging for my band Lost Marauders. This was our first 4-song demo release. The concept behind the packaging was simplicity with a shout out to the classic high-energy album art from Sub-Pop in the late 80′s and early 90′s. Add an outlaw western flair and there you have it.

The final packaging was die-cut by hand out of recycled grocery bags. The front and back covers were printed on label paper and held the whole thing together.

You can find out more about the band at: www.lostmarauders.com

You can purchase the demo from iTunes: www.lostmarauders.com/itunes

Diskeeper Corporation had to promote to companies that had the Diskeeper product installed on only half of their computer network. Besides being the model for this campaign (yes, my mom has these on her fridge), I also handled concept, design, layout, typesetting, photography/lighting set up, and image retouching/manipulation. I also created a parachute in 3D for use in the last card.

Included below is each postcard followed by the progression of the Photoshop work I did for each card.

Every year around Oscar season my friends Jamie and Joe prepare for their annual Academy Awards party. I love to help out by designing the invitations for them. For the 2009 Oscars we decided to recreate the 1-sheets for the five films nominated for Best Picture to serve as te cover of the invitations.

This entailed a photo shoot and several hours in Photoshop, erasing parts of the original imagery, color correction of the new photography, compositing and finally typesetting and finishing.

The results were so good that they even decided to get full-sized prints made as decorations at the party.

NOTE: A little background is needed for a couple of these to make sense…
Slumdog: They live in Brentwood.
The Reader: Jamie is a Psychologist.

Full-resolution versions located here.

I was lucky enough to attend a secret Red Hot Chili Peppers show at the Troubadour in Hollywood in May of 2006. I snapped a bunch of shots that night but since there wasn’t a single image that conveyed the energy of the band as a whole, I ended up taking the best parts of multiple images and compositing them together. Being their first gig at the legendary club, I wanted to make sure that I included the neon sign and the crowd to show how small a venue this multi-platinum selling band was playing in.

Get the hi-res version here.

Each image title points out the parts I used to create the final composite image:

The lighthouse at Gayhead

Sam after a long run

My Nephew Nathan striking a pose

A distant boat off the coast of State Beach in Martha's Vineyard