A DAY TO REMEMBER - DELUXE VERSION OF HOMESICK VIDEO!

EMMURE - Felony

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.

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.

BAYSIDE - Live From The Bayside Social Club

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.

PUNCHLINE - Just Say Yes

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

BENEATH THE SKY - The Day The Music Died

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.

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

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.

JAMIES ELSEWHERE - Guidebook For Sinners Turned Saints

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

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.