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Client: Paxico Records

Format: LP, CD, Cassette

Role: Art Direction, Design

Notes: Yuyu (Fishdoll) is a Chinese singer, songwriter, and prodcuer based in Bejing. For her debut album we enlisted the help of Chinese illustrator Daisy Peng to depict a female protagonist with a modern take on classic folk art motifs. The photography was made to echo the iridescent and energetic quality of Fishdoll's electro-soul music. This record screams Bjork meets Flying Lotus.

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Client: Paxico Records

Format: 2XLP, 2XCS Box, CD

Role: Art Direction, Design

Notes: Since the discovery of their ability to paint, artists have naturally been fascinated by their hand, the hand that holds the brush – this is often the instrument of creation. The external point of manipulation to the outside world holds an infitnite amount of potential energy. This art was an exploration of the actions and expression of our most basic human tool. The hands depicted are the artist's.

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Client: Paxico Records

Format: 2XLP with debossed font and back jacket cover + obi strip, 2XCS Box with debossed cover + obi strip, CD + obi strip, LP test pressings, Merch

Role: Art Direction, Design

Notes: Rugged Tranquility as a concept was a fun dichotomy I represented by debossing a diamond plate pattern on an umprinted jacket. White Album meets White Zombie.

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Client: Bang Ya Head

Format: LP, CD, Stickers

Role: Art Direction, Design, Photography

Walking around my neighborhood a few months back, I noticed a Neighborhood Watch sign left on the porch of a vacant, run-down house. I found this somewhat darkly amusing: Could there be a less reassuring symbol of neighborhood watchfulness than a pilfered and abandoned Neighborhood Watch sign?

As I considered that question, I realized these signs are one of those stealth icons that periodically interest me — something that, through sheer repetition, we are all familiar with, even though we never stopped and thought about it explicitly.

While working on artwork for the "Bad Neighbor" series, I decided to use these signs as inspiration to integrate the "Bad Neighbor" skull character into.

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Client: Stones Throw

Format: LP, CD, 36x36" Poster

Role: Art Direction, Illustration

Notes: Four Tet reimagined this cult classic album with MF DOOM and it's much more on the electronic audio spectrum than the original mixes. I'm a modular art fan and it seemed an apt way to represent a digital remix of the more organic original work.

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Client: Leaving Records

Role: Art direction, Photography, Design

Notes: Kiefer has an obsession with his polo shirts. I borrowed one to create the artwork. A permamnet clear stock sticker is adhered on back of jacket to resemble clothing stickers. Label sides are Size A and Size B.

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Client: Fat Beats

Format: LP + Postcard insert + Flexi disc + 24x24" Poster of the first dozen of the series.

Role: Photography, Design

Note: Baker's Dozen is a vinyl series that shines a spotlight on instrumental music and the personalities behind the craft. To commemorate the 13th release in series history, Fat Beats Records focused on thirteen of its most respected producers with the aptly titled compilation "Baker's Dozen: XIII".

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Client: Feelin Music

Format: LP

Role: Art Director, Designer

Notes: Scotch is actually a reference to hop scotch and the playful nature of this album. I took that direction and made a simple hop scotch pattern with the cover typography. The line art is simple and carried the sketchy nature of the music as well.

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Client: Stones Throw

Format: LP

Role: Design

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Client: Stones Throw

Format: Photography

Role: Photgraphy

Notes: From the Mndsgn Body Wash Release Party.

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Client: Leaving Records

Format: Cassette with rainbow foil embossing and textured stock

Role: Art Direction, Design

Notes: Vhvl is a wildly talented minimal electronic producer who has a totally unique approach and sound. We discussed something born from another realm and I proposed we design this O-card to respenble an alien monolith.

On Stones Throw

On Leaving Records

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Client: Leaving Records

Format: LP, Cassette

Role: Art Direction, Design

On Stones Throw

On Leaving Records

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Client: Fat Beats / Sony

Artist: KRS-One

Title: Return of the Boom Bap

Year: 2017

Format: 12" L.P. + bonus 7"

Art direction, design, manager of manufacturing (jacket, labels, 7 inch insert, 12" insert, & sticker).

This is the first full jacket art for KRS-ONE's classic, "Return of the Boom Bap."

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Co-designer and overseer of manufacturing of MF DOOM's Live From Planet X

On Pitchfork

On Fat Beats

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Client: Rappcats

Role: Illustration

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Client: Paxico Records

Format: Merch

Role: Art Direction, Design, Photography

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Print designs for Waxpoetics magazine.