In From The Cold...

The Wende Museum in Los Angeles has over 60,000 artifacts from Cold War era Eastern Europe, including: paintings, sculpture, posters, and furniture. By preserving these Cold War artifacts and history the museum provides a way of 'applying historical lessons of the past to the present'. 
See more of it's incredible collection here.

In Print...

Happy to find out this week that a few of my works were chosen for two separate "Cube" books ( Illustration2, and Poster Design2) by the German publishing house Zeixs.  Above is one of the images picked for the illustration book.

A Toast to a Legend...

 A.M. Cassandre was a genius whose work has been an inspiration for many contemporary artists and illustrators, including myself.  More sketches here.

In the Garage...

Besides my illustration work, I also enjoy working on the odd design project whenever one comes around that I'm able to do. I've put together a little site (called Capital Garage) that features some of my design work.  Take a look.

Selective Distress...

Italian artist Mimmo Rotella created many of his expressive and vibrant decollages like the ones above using movie posters and advertisements from the 1950's. These 'torn poster' works, part of an art movement called Nouveau Réalisme , remind me of some of the work being done by contemporary street artists like Bast.

Rand-om

Simple and beautiful. This Paul Rand design for IBM is one of my all-time favorite graphic images. Rand did a lot of the design for IBM during the 70's - 90's. This piece was used on a poster for an in-house conference in 1991.

Relaxed Fit...

The simple and bold graphics on hang tags are like miniature posters to me and why I started collecting them years ago. Here's a link to some of my tags. Enjoy.

Commercial Cubism...

Some cubist inspired art by one of the great 20th century poster designers, McKnight Kauffer. Take a look at this site to see more of his inspiring and incredibly versatile work- http://www.rennart.co.uk/kauffer.html

All Wet...

A poster design I did for a summer concert series at a pool. Dive in.