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Magazine cover art to the "Back to School" issue of BC Magazine.
A collage of various student activities: Studying, eating, drinking, playing, sleeping and... dreaming! I correographed the poses of all the models in the shot. Analog photographs were scanned in and then outlined and composited in Adobe Photoshop. There are also various 3d elements that were rendered for the piece.

Mike Woods

CD Cover Art: "Mike Woods - Diggable Dues"
A montage of Mike and his bass along with glowing and 3d type. Mike supplied the photograph of himself and I shot the remaining elements. The bass guitar was a feature theme in the CD booklet and on the CD itself. Analog photographs were scanned in and then outlined and composited in Adobe Photoshop.

ProKite

Website - "ProKite"
Designed for the Prokite Sportkite competition circuit. Lots of features. User configurable competitor bios and discussion forum (perl scipts.) 3d buttons, carveouts, animations and rollovers (javascript.) Detailed example can be seen here.

Succulent

CD cover art - "Fambooey - Succullent"
A sexy fruit collage. Fambooey, a goofy R&B funk band, hired me to do thier first CD package. Actual fruit was sliced, scanned in and outlined, and a "kaleidascope" arrangement was adopted. Hand written type was also scanned in and used for all titling, lyrics and credits providing a more organic feel. Another hilarious element of the package was the image of the band member's comical face expressions superimposed on the flesh of a tomato on the inside of the CD booklet. A very fun and successful project!

Club Mildew

CD cover art - "Fambooey - Live at Club Mildew"
2-color collage/duotone hybrid. Fambooey, a local R&B funk band, hired me to do thier second CD package. An existing photograph from a live performance was scanned in and outlined/masked. This was composited with an electronically generated texture background and artificial lighting effects. The inside cover artwork featured a more traditional duotone of a photograph with a correographed diarama of various "cryptic coffee table artifacts." The band was delighted with the artwork and we made a very tight deadline.

Muzynth

Program Skin - "Muzynth"
One of my most recent projects, Muzys is a midi and audio application for creating music and originates out of Belgium. (http://www.muzys.com) I was honored to be offered the opportunity to create the official skin for the built-in software synth/sampler called the "Muzynth." This project was somewhat similar to web design as the art elements are much smaller resolution files than for traditional print media, for example. The skin features animated 3d knobs and buttons. I had to learn some new animation methods on this project, since this was the first graphical interface I've designed for a software application. The client was thrilled, and screenshots of the muzynth have been published in Computer Music magazine.

Ansel Toney

Website - "Ansel Toney Kite Festival"
A very basic website, but quite functional. I designed all graphics including the festival logo. I also shot all the kite photos. Created in less than a day, this website has been in use for over three years by the Hoosier Kitefliers Society. Detailed example can be seen here.

Indu Girl

Gallery Piece - "Indugirl"
A very simple montage of a female model and images from the Chicago-Gary stretch of the Indiana toll road. This image was on display at Daisy Brain Art Gallery in Bloomington, Indiana.

Humunculus

Concert Poster - "Humunculus"
A fairly complex composite with digital and analog elements. All band members were photographed outside in midday light, scanned in, outlined and merged with computer-generated 3d objects. Poses were correographed to facilitate effective positioning of the models surrounding the "H."

B-Town Sampler

CD cover art - "B-town Sampler"
Collage of traditional photographic elements superimposed by computer generated textures. I was hired to create the entire CD package for the B-town sampler which featured a "sampling" of local music acts in Bloomington, Indiana. Location shots of limestone blocks came from local quarries. A major theme was diversity. Originally we featured hands from various nationalities, but later evolved into the superimposed textures so as to not favor/disinclude any group of people.

Rex and Rich

Gift - "Rex and Rich"
Collage of the house and artifacts at Richard Fish's locally reknowed recording studio, Lodestone Productions. This was a gift to him and one of his best friends, Rex Hunt. It was a lot of fun photogrpahing the old radios and microphones. The fire image was taken from a local fire brigade training session.

Unamed

Gallery Piece - Untitled
Originally a bid for the cover of a sci-fi magazine, this was quickly composited from stock photographic elements.

Savage City

Gallery Piece - "Savage City" 1995
This was a personal experiment with stock photographic elements. It had been only a short time working in the city before I came up with this piece. I've always loved city nightscapes, and have always wanted to incorporate it into my artwork somehow. Also, if you look closely you can see the eyes of the wolf superimposed onto the night sky.

Fireman

Gallery Piece - Untitled 1995
This was inspired by my roadtrips along the Indiana toll road near Gary, Indiana. I found a decent stock photo of an old man with beard and superimposed his face into the fireball which was from a real photograph of a local fire brigade training session. I shot the photo of the steel mill in Gary. Since a kid, I was always intrigued by the hulking structures that lined the highway. The piece attempts to symbolize the ghost in our industrial past.

Frakhead

T-shirt - "Frakhead" 1995
This was a t-shirt that I sold in various consignment shops in Bloomington, Indiana. I have a great fascination with fractal geometry and have been incorporating these bizarre and beautiful artforms into my designs for quite some time now.

Fraksun

Poster - "Fractal Sungod" 1995
This was a poster that I sold in various consignment shops in Bloomington, Indiana. In the late eighties, I was experimenting with computer programs which generated bizarre, symetrical/assymetrical and quite beautiful images using fractal geometry. I was naturally going to incorporate them into my designs and here you can see some of the results.