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Crowd Deterrent Japan Tour Poster

Poster I designed for Crowd Deterrent’s Japan Tour. 1 color screen print on 11×17 French Paper Stock. I’ll have them for sale (if still in stock) as soon as the tour is over.

Creepout Music Video

I just edited a music video for Japanese hardcore band Creepout. I didn’t film this video but took all the footage from their North American tour and put it into a little montage. Check it out.

Flyer 20

This was the flyer for the last Skies Bleed Black show we ever played. It was July 17th, 2007 and in West Virginia. We were all really excited for Hoods to play and they dropped off last minute. It was a strange show. The band wasn’t going through the best times. There was a cookout and we did a lot of walking around checking the city out.

Flyer 19

This is another tour flyer for a house show that never happened. We never played so I don’t have much to say about it. I didn’t design it, I assume the kid who threw the show designed it. There’s a skull and crossbones. Nuff said.

The Black Keys Poster Process

Jeff Soto shares the process of how he designs and gets a poster to finish. It shows just how much work goes into one of these gig posters. Incredible.

Flyer 18

After Skies Bleed Black broke up for two years we decided to get back together and play a show at the Vineyard. This was a poster I designed for the show. It’s SO simple. Maybe TOO simple. I wanted to make a screenprint for the show but wasn’t that versed in silkscreening at the time so I went with a one color, super simple design. I printed like 50 of them and got the date wrong. Lesson learned (well, this is a lesson learned early in school and life, but sometimes you have to make the mistake to learn the lesson). Anyway, the show was a big success and great time.

John Cuneo

One of my favorite illustrators and now one of my favorite illustrations.

Flyer 17

This was for one of the two Fallen Eyes benefit shows we played. Fallen Eyes was a venue in Canton that booked really, really great shows. It became home to a lot of us in the hardcore scene because it was a place where we got to do what we wanted. At most shows you had to deal with bar owners taking your money, security starting problems, different types of crowds mixing, etc. Not at the Fallen Eyes. It was a niche market geared towards mostly “hardcore” crowds so usually everything went smoothly.

It got shut down though after some losers decided to trash the surrounding businesses. We played two benefit shows to try and raise money but the venue was never re-built. A lot of people wondered where the money went and thought the promoter stole it and the bands should have been paid. I know for a fact he didn’t steal it because he wired us money while we were on tour when our van broke down, he also paid the other bands as well.

Anyway, here’s the flyer for one of the shows.

2005!? Jeeez.