A few of my favorite album covers.

I really love the handdrawn illustrations and as a fan of the Wu-Tang Clan, I can appreciate the black and yellow color scheme.



A nice simple cover with a subtle touch from artist KAWS. Kanye has always been design conscious with his album covers.



I don't know why but I really like this album cover. It's something about the illustration.



While I have no clue how the baby implies being "ready to die", I have always loved this cover it's simplicity and use of negative space.



The type treatment and the "teasing" of the group by simply photographing their iconic hats is what makes this album cover great, in my opinion.

“Each week I feel as though I must check in at/with…”

Popular Blogs like Hypebeast.com and Complex.com, since both of these blogs are what I consider to be the online meccas of urban culture, in terms of art, design, fashion, and music. These sites have inspired me in some sort of way, be it through fashion or through art and design, as they do features on artists I'm inspired by like KAWS and Obey.

Details Magazine

Details is an American monthly men's magazine published by Condé Nast Publications, founded in 1982. Though primarily a magazine devoted to fashion and lifestyle, Details also features reports on relevant social and political issues.

I was introduced to Details when I was in high school. My parents always get free magazines in the mail since they used to own a salon and one day the magazine was just there with the rest of the mail. Then, I couldn't really appreciate the minimal and clean aesthetic that Details possessed but after I wanted to study Graphic Design, I began to become inspired by the visuals of the spreads and pictorials I saw in the publication. Not only was I inspired as a designer but I was also inspired sartorially as well, as the magazine gives great style tips that I've used to help improve my fashion.

To this day, I still follow Details and receive a great deal of inspiration from the magazine, especially for the Editorial Design class.

Details.com

A Block of Type: Little 5 Points

A few of my favorite T-Shirt Designs

My Workspace

Here is my place to design and be inspired by many types of music. And yes that is the dated Apple iBook G4 in the picture and I am currently accepting donations towards a new iMac. Seriously. :)

Calligraffiti

Calligraffiti is a combination of calligraphy and graffiti. Calligraphy is about the art of writing and can have many forms. Whether it be Japanese ancient brush characters, Arabic pictorial scripts, illuminated mediaeval books or swirly quill writing… all calligraphy.

Graffiti is the art of getting your (pseudo) name up in an urban environment. Perfected in New York City and now a worldwide phenomenon.

The fairly new art of Graffiti and its somewhat rigid rules prompt us to look further back into the history of writing. This is exactly what Niels Shoe Meulman has been doing since his teens, and at the beginning of this century he started combining the two. Thus resulting in Calligraffiti: traditional handwriting with a metropolitan attitude.