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A DAY TO REMEMBER - DELUXE VERSION OF HOMESICK VIDEO!

2009-10-26T23:54:00.001-05:00

EMMURE - Felony

2009-08-17T13:33:00.002-05:00

Here is the layout for EMMURE's new record. Pretty stoked and proud of this. Jeremy Saffer had taken all the photos. This is in stores now for only 7.99 at Best Buy and Target.

1997 - New album cover.

2009-08-14T14:26:00.002-05:00

I have been working on this lately, pretty excited about it and even more excited to hear it! This layout is going to be fun, Matt took a lot of great photos.

I went home this weekend - and took some photos

2009-08-11T01:03:00.005-05:00

OTEP DELUXE EDITION: The DEMONstration

2009-08-04T20:07:00.002-05:00

MTV TRUE LIFE : AIDEN TEENAGE QUEEN!

2009-04-16T00:34:00.002-05:00

Look this t-shirt i made was on MTV TRUE LIFE - I have Acne.

Breakfast

2009-01-28T09:16:00.000-06:00

this is what is for breakfast today.

rock me.

2009-01-06T00:10:00.001-06:00

I don't like kids, but i do like this one.

2009-01-05T21:11:00.000-06:00

Boys Night Out - Broken Bones & Bloody Kisses

2008-11-26T14:51:00.002-06:00

It's ok that I'm 27 and still listening to Boys Night Out. :)

NEW WEBSITE

2008-11-18T17:31:00.001-06:00

Ive been working on a new website!!!

DRIVER SIDE IMPACT - Lion

2008-11-07T16:50:00.002-06:00

A Halloween Party!

2008-10-22T16:01:00.000-05:00

FUN!

BAYSIDE - Live From The Bayside Social Club

2008-10-14T16:16:00.006-05:00

There is something really awesome about doing a layout for a band you are 100% totally all about, would kill to work for, and listen to on a daily basis. For me that band has always been BAYSIDE. This layout was one of the most fun I've ever had on a layout. At first I was in a huge slump, I was working on like 10 other layouts, and just felt creatively drained. Until the band and manager had the idea of making it look like a punk rock flyer. I was so down and so excited, started to google flyers from Black Flag, NOFX, Misfits, etc, and came up with this beautiful idea. I really think it came to together very nicely. I wanted it to have a real dirty raw look. So i did most of this without the aid of friendly photoshop. I printed most of the images out, cut them out with a razor blade or scissors, and tape. I used the copier machine a lot too! Just like the old days. Check out the photos i took below of my "work files".

The inside of the CD are photos of fans with BAYSIDE tats, we didn't tell them what we were using the photos for, and hoping they'd find a nice surprise when they opened the CD. The disc face is my favorite part of the layout. I wanted people when they opened the cd, to see this hand written (possibly a burn!?) looking cd. and just be like "WTF!?" but i assure you its an actual real disc, made by a legit company. I am very pleased with out this turned out, from the art to the actual music. I suggest you buy it. What are you waiting for? Enjoy!

And here is the image i used for the front, found it very fitting for some reason.

If you would like i have uploaded a high resolution texture to use if you ever need a "photocopy black background". Click photo to download.

A HALLOWEEN TO REMEMBER!

2008-10-14T15:05:00.003-05:00

Didn't design this but MIKE C. did, and you should buy it!

Marky Mark

2008-10-13T22:35:00.001-05:00

Party Hard maaaan

2008-10-10T17:49:00.007-05:00

My friend Jeanae asked to design a flyer last minute, i liked the way it turned out! TRAVI$ BICKLE + GUNS = PUNK ROCK!

"Hey, I'm not square, you're the one that's square. Your full of shit, man. What are you talking about? You walk out with those fuckin' creeps and low-lifes and degenerates out on the streets and you sell your little pussy for peanuts? For some low-life pimp who stands in the hall? And I'm square? You're the one that's square, man. I don't go screwing fuck with bunch of killers and junkies like you do. You call that bein' hip? What world are you from? "

Update 9/12/08

2008-09-12T22:45:00.000-05:00

Summer is almost over, I am excited for sweaters and fall foliage :). I feel like a fat girl, I have been looking at LOLcats/dogs wayyy too much lately. Hence the photo. So good.
Ok now the update... There's a lot of things coming, I am really excited about what I have been working on lately. A lot of CD layouts and new t-shirts here is a sneak peak at some things that I've been working on. Enjoy. More later K BAI.

Just a few faves.

PUNCHLINE - Just Say Yes

2008-08-14T20:55:00.002-05:00

Coming soon... more from PUNCHLINE :) Pre-order this pretty little piece.

THE FASTEST KID ALIVE! - The Digital EP

2008-08-14T20:45:00.007-05:00

Here is a digital cover and other things for one of Chicago's newest, upcoming and one of the most hardest working bands I've seen in a while. THE FASTEST KID ALIVE, not to mention one of the best band names EVER! Named for Michael Cera. But this band is smart, they are only releasing this digitally, and have made Dropcards to sell at shows. Genius! I wanted to post this and give these boys some love. blow are other things that i have made for them. Listen to them on myspacerrr.

Band Logo

Sunglasses

Dropcards

BENEATH THE SKY - The Day The Music Died

2008-07-07T18:32:00.008-05:00

This was a really fun project, the band approached us saying they wanted a 50's theme greaser kind of look for their upcoming album named "The Day The Music Died" and they had a tshirt design with zombies and a jukebox, so we went with that. And i have recently been dying to work with this amazing illustrator named Ray Frenden, so i called him up and he said sure I'll do it. So i sketched up the idea, and sent it over to him and a few days later he came in with this amazing piece. Anyways, enough words look at these really cool zombies!

The disc face is my favorite, i used 2 different blacks so it feels like grooves, if you run your fingers across this.

Here is how it came to shape. This is the sketch I sent to Ray...

This his sketch of my sketch...

...and that is Ray's final product. I loved the color scheme of this, but felt it was a little too "black light" so Ray was very cool about me messing with the colors and adding textures and what not.

We also printed a T-shirt with the zombies on it.
if you wish you buy this CD or tshirt, check out their webstore.

New T-Shirts!

2008-07-07T18:14:00.005-05:00

I have designed a few new shirts. yum!

If you like any of these you can buy them at VictoryRecords.com. Except for the Catch22 shirt, you will have to go see them on
CATCH22's BIG SKANK TOUR

Oh and BIG HUGE MOSTER UPS to MIKE C. for drawing the big skank.

Bayside - The Walking Wounded GOLD EDITION

2008-07-01T18:31:00.001-05:00

More coming soon!

FAREWELL TO FREEWAY 'Definitions' VS. COLDPLAY 'Viva la Vida'

2008-06-19T08:37:00.003-05:00

I found this interesting, while looking through old files, i found a rejected/unfinished album cover for FAREWELL TO FREEWAY i did back in December. It looks very similar to the new COLDPLAY album. I am not saying anything, but i just thought it was funny, to be honest I don't think I ever showed that cover to anyone outside of the office. OH well I'm in no way trying to be like this guy... (what a douche). Go buy the new COLDPLAY, its amazing.

and the other rejected covers... (some are sort of dumb)

Here is what it turned out to be:

Check out Michelle from FAREWELL TO FREEWAY in Revolver's HOTTEST CHICKS IN METAL issue.

VICTORY RECORDS ASSAULT VECHILE

2008-06-17T18:48:00.003-05:00

Check out the new wrap, shit is hot!

JAMIES ELSEWHERE - Guidebook For Sinners Turned Saints

2008-05-28T20:52:00.005-05:00

Having the album title "Guidebook For Sinners Turned Saints" you have to jump on the whole "book themed" layout, but make sure you do everything you forgot, or learned since the last time you had to deal with a "book themed" layout. This project, I called my good old friend Raymond Klecker, who I met when i was on tour with Midtown, in 2000. He was pimpin' his band, Chick Bait, Aberdein or something. Anyways we became good friends and kept in touch through out the years. Meanwhile, Raymond was getting really awesome at painting and illustrating, and Since I saw one of this first paintings, I always wanted to work with him, and finally it happened. I told him the idea, and he came up with some great sketches right away. With a few tweaks, we finally got everything down to what we wanted. And this is the final result. Big thanks to Raymond for helping me out. On with the layout, just enjoy the images.

1997 - On The Run

2008-05-28T20:38:00.008-05:00

This was a fun project, scary at first, the band had a budget of $0. So some mad brainstorming came out and that didn't even work. Two days until dead line, friend and savior of 1997, Matthew Wysocki, snapped some amazing photos of the band. These photos were all taken out side of the Victory Records office on from what i understand to be a very cold, cold morning. You can even see snow in the some of the photos. On top ofthe beautiful layout this album is really good, You should really buy it.

One of the biggest tasks from this layout was selecting the right cover, we were blessed with all these awesome photos. Here a few rejected covers. My choice was to have one of the photos with Alida on the cover, something about that photo that seemed so dark, and so beautiful. The band chose otherwise, no big deal. I am still extremely happy with how this album came out.

EMMURE - The Respect Issue (BEHIND THE SCENES) Featuring Kurt Angle

2008-05-08T11:19:00.000-05:00

Check out this behind the scenes footage of the photo shoot for EMMURE's new album layout, with Kurt Angle! Photos by Matt Wysocki.

Emmure behind-the-scenes at The Respect Issue photoshoot

EMMURE - The Respect Issue

2008-03-28T16:33:00.003-05:00

EMMURE's new cover features TNA Wrestling World Heavyweight Champion KURT ANGLE. This is just the retail poster i am really excited about this layout I can post more after the album comes out. This one is brutal!

SPITALFIELD - Remember Right Now (2003)

2008-03-28T15:07:00.006-05:00

I believe I made this in 2003, this was my first major album layout that I did, and the most personal one. The photos were taken by Chris Strong. All of these photos are places in Chicago. At the time I had just started my new life at Victory, and living for the first time on my own. The band itself was taking on a new life of full time touring and leaving their home behind. I wanted to make something that really captured the time period when all this was going on, so they could (pun) Remember Right Now. For those involved or anyone who bought this record I hope they feel the same way, looking back on this I feel very strong when I say this may be my favorite CD layout I've ever been a part of. All the time stamps are relevant, and mean something, but thats my secret. ;)

SPITALFIELD - Better Than Knowing Where You Are

2008-03-28T12:05:00.008-05:00

When SPITALFIELD told me they wanted this album to feel more like REMEMBER RIGHT NOW, before even hearing the music, i knew this album would be a great listen and probably one of my new favorites. (turns out it didn't leave my cd player for weeks!) anyways... Chris Strong took all these beautiful photos. The cover was taken on Montrose Beach in Chicago... a little interesting fact, the man on the cover is the singer for the band MOCK ORANGE. (Bet you didn't know that!). The band also shot their music video on the same beach! Not much more else to say, just look.

TAKING BACK SUNDAY - Notes From The Past

2008-03-28T12:01:00.004-05:00

Photographer Matt Wysocki had some really great photos from being on the road and going on insane road trips, i looked to his portfolio after we had talked to the band about what they wanted, They wanted something very Kerouac and this is what we came up with:

THE JUNIOR VARSITY - Cinematographic

2008-03-28T11:51:00.002-05:00

One of my favorite releases of last year, and one of my favorite album layouts. We had hired JAKE ROLFE (a 16 year old kid from Australia with some extreme talent) to come up with some really weird colorful creatures for this album, he came up with this monster with a film projector on his head, so strange... i mean who thinks of stuff like that... The colors on this album turned out wonderful, My favorite part of this layout is the traycard, i think they look so pro, and like a real band! Its really a shame they broke up a few months after this release. Photos by Evan Hunt.

ENDWELL - Homeland Insecurity

2008-03-28T11:35:00.010-05:00

This layout was done very last minute, Chris George had set up this set, and took all the photos, Susie Finkbiner (means bird legs in German) volunteered to come out and do this for us. The whole idea was to portray how a person is not always what they seem to be, and they are never happy with their true self image. And finding a way to escape it. You can say (an) influence here was based from the scene THE WHO's TOMMY,

GO TO THE MIRROR BOY, Listening to you I get the music. Gazing at you I get the heat. Following you I climb the mountain....

I really enjoyed this layout, I love the dark texture i used under the lyrics. The broken glass was fun to work with too.

MOROS EROS - Jealous Me Was Killed By Curiosity

2008-03-28T11:15:00.007-05:00

Moros Eros is a band of many ideas, thoughts and dreams. Big hearts, but never seemed to get a break. Here is the album i did for them. At first they really didn't have a clue of what they wanted, after a few mock ups, and different ideas...(see below) the band decided they wanted the Rhino on the cover... ha they faxed over an image and we started cranking out ideas. I hand wrote all the titles, I've always wanted to do that... So here it is... enjoy.

(here is a more detail shot)

The Rejected covers...

(this one looks JUST like the opening credits for men in black, and still my favorite of the mocks)

THURSDAY - KILL THE HOUSE LIGHTS

2008-02-05T09:55:00.000-06:00

To this day is one of my favorite layouts, what an honor to do a THURSDAY layout, I always heard it was so difficult to work with this band because they are "so picky" it turns out this was one of the easiest layouts i have done. Way impressed with how this turned out. I also discovered a great font "BlairMdITC TT", easy excellent thin font to work with. Also a little secret, the binary code on the bird is "Understanding In A Crash" translated into Ones and Zeros.

DRIVER SIDE IMPACT - The Very Air We Breathe

2008-02-05T09:46:00.001-06:00

I think this may be one of my top 3 favorite cd layouts I did in '07. The band didn't really have any idea what they wanted, so i sort of took this idea on my own, and found this iceberg image, and turned it upside down, I always wanted to do a layout, to where it feels like the one image can actually be two. I added the pink star thing to help it stand out. I also used the reversed italics on this, I haven't every really thought of doing that before. A lot of people thought the upside down band photo was a printing mistake, those are the people who just didn't get it.

THIS IS VICTORY TOUR!

2008-02-04T23:21:00.001-06:00

Tour Poster for THIS IS VICTORY TOUR! Featuring BURY YOUR DEAD, EMMURE, THE WARRIORS & WITH BLOOD COMES CLEANSING. Coming this spring! Fire MOSH! VictoryRecordsTour.com

FOUR LETTER LIE - What A Terrible Thing To Say

2008-01-31T20:51:00.000-06:00

I really like how this came out, Tony Maldo (he also did the Aiden Rain In Hell artwork) did all the bears and stuff, Matt Wysocki took the photos. Maybe one of my favorites so far of this year.

ACROSS FIVE APRILS - Life Under Water - Layout

2008-01-31T20:43:00.001-06:00

Here we have the A5A cd layout, Stephen Kasner (integrity artwork) drew the heart with snake tounges, i did the layout and the new logo.

A DAY TO REMEMBER - RE-ISSUE

2008-01-31T20:19:00.000-06:00

The A DAY TO REMEMBER Re-issue (CD / DVD) package is finally done, and looks hot as shit. Big ups to MikeC for drawing that crazy shit. This has an ocard that is a gold foil stamp. *BLING*

TOSSERS - LIVE CD / DVD

2008-01-31T20:11:00.001-06:00

The Tossers layout will be a 12 panel poster fold out with a metallic color. Quite an Honor to do a layout for such a legendary Chicago band.

Red I Flight Layout

2008-01-31T19:59:00.000-06:00

Been working on the RED I FLIGHT layout, its turning out pretty sweet. D. "Up All Night" Ramierz did the illustrations in a few quick hours. I really like how blurry the text is, i never really did anything like that before thankfully it turned out pretty nice. The logo is one of my favorites i have came up with in a while.