Logo design commemorating Billy Joel’s 50th anniversary of record making, featured in a multimedia campaign in marketing materials, social media, merchandising – and on the re-released album covers themselves (including a nationwide colored vinyl edition).
Client: Sony Music & Billy Joel.
Graphic design and layout for Cuco’s Fantasy Gateway album campaign in collaboration with Grin Machine.
Client: Interscope Records & Cuco.
Poster design. Selected for inclusion in the ‘Artists for Bernie Sanders’ initiative for Bernie Sanders’ 2020 presidential campaign. Prints are available through Bernie’s campaign store, all proceeds go to the campaign.
Campaign design for Michael Jackson Thriller 40, including the graphic design of the Michael Jackson Thriller 40 Immersive Experience, a three day event in New York City that transported audience members inside the iconic best-selling album using state of the art technology and recreations of Thriller’s iconic music videos. The Immersive Experience was shortlisted for a CLIO Award.
Created under the direction of Noah Shulman. Client: Sony Music & Michael Jackson.
Masa Films brand identity and guidelines. Animation: Venin Studios.
Client: Masa Films.
Poster design. Photography by Ysa Perez.
Client: Esther Povitsky.
Packaging design for LP with photography by James Boudreau and Emma Sanchez.
Client: Carpark Records & Madeline Kenney.
Title, credit and one-sheet design for Baca, LACMA’s short film portrait of pioneering muralist Judy Baca. Inspired by Judy Baca’s collaborative process, working with local youths on her landmark Great Wall of Los Angeles, titles for the film were hand painted. The film was acquired by Los Angeles Times Short Docs.
Multimedia project including branding, print, product and web design.
Personal project: SmileWorldwide.biz.
Poster design commemorating Bernie Sanders’s Democratic Primary win in California, signifying a previously unimaginable victory for the progressive movement in the United States. Proceeds from the poster’s sale were donated to the Bernie Sanders campaign. Intended as a complementary design to our official Bernie Sanders campaign poster. Personal project.
Apparel design. This official White Stripes t-shirt was inspired by The White Stripes’s cover of St. James Infirmary Blues, which was in turn inspired by a classic Betty Boop cartoon featuring Koko the Clown.
Clients: created in conjunction with Third Man Records, King Features, Fleischer Studios and Rockin Pins.
Poster design (homage to Paula Scher, with love). Photography: Carianne Older.
Client: Esther Povitsky.
I completely recreated and restored the original cassette artwork for Alice Coltrane's Turiya Sings – and envisioned what a deluxe LP reissue might look like. An album that unfortunately has never seen wide release, it was only available officially on cassette through Coltrane’s ashram in the 1980s. These originals are extremely rare and sell for hundreds of dollars. The only way to hear this music is via distorted, muffled bootlegs circulating online. The artwork itself exists only as a compressed 600px .JPEG. To recreate it, I identified the typefaces, re-typeset the entire contents exactingly (letter by letter when needed), and completely redrew the custom Alice Coltrane wordmark. I also sourced and retouched a higher quality version of the cover photo to match the original. From there, I expanded on the visual language of the original J-Card to create what would be my ideal LP reissue on Impulse Records (who issued an alternate, beautiful, but significantly stripped down version of these songs a few years ago). The original master recordings are apparently lost, but maybe one day they will surface. This artwork is NOT available for public use or bootlegs. This was just a way for me to connect with this music that I love so much.
Personal project.
Diamond Jim Brady Social Club: a semi-monthly gathering of likeminded individuals, named after one of the All-Time Eaters & Life Enjoyers, dedicated to a good company, formal wear, wood-paneled walls, historic dining halls, gargantuan portions, table-side salad preparation, reckless abandon, ice cold martinis, cocktail sauce, creamed vegetables – but above all, a gorgeous medium rare slab of beef.
Personal project.
JASON CRYER STUDIO will send you a totally unique work of art free of charge, created in collaboration with the United States Postal Service.
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An exercise in communication, mail, art, collaboration, postage stamps, paper, peace, love, understanding.
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The results of the Postcard Project are below. The work of art was created in unknowing collaboration the United States Postal Service. A handful of recipients sent photos of their completed postcards back, which are presented here. The final slide overlays approximately 35 of the completed postcards on top of the first postcard (100001).
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Nearly 200 postcards were mailed from the San Francisco Bay Area, including more than a dozen international postcards, some traveling as far as Sweden, Scotland, Kyrgyzstan, and New Zealand.
One sheet teaser, title, and apparel design.
Client: Belka Strelka Films.
Event poster design benefitting Australian Wildfire Relief. Client: Neil Hamburger.
Poster design. Photography: Carianne Older. Styling: Jensen Edmonson.
Client: Esther Povitsky.
Series of pro-bono product designs intended to raise money for small businesses during the COVID-19 crisis. Personal project.
Branding and social media style design. Client: Sony Music.
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I had the pleasure to work with Sony Music establishing a cohesive and definitive online identity for *NSYNC. *NSYNC used several logos through their career, and their aesthetics changed drastically from album to album. With this project, I tied all of their aesthetics together into a modern package while avoiding the campy pitfalls of Y2K digital design. I studied their catalog and pulled inspiration from each album. I designed the revised and new logos you see here, and established a new color palette, typographical standards, and overall visual language. These elements carry across their social media, video and web presence.
Brand identity, style guide, illustration and apparel design. Client: The Yetee.
Logo design and campaign art direction celebrating Mega64’s 20th anniversary.
Client: Mega64.
Experiment exploring the idea of Ambient Art – formless, innocuous, abstract images for the background of life. Enjoyable by everyone. Artwork for Airports. Personal project.
Apparel and packaging design. Packaging in collaboration with Meg Turner.
Client: Mega64.
Poster design for an imaginary concert series. Personal project.
Type design, inspired by “Johnny Cash Live At San Quentin.”
Client: Sony Music and Johnny Cash.
A selection of various illustrations, graphics, and marketing materials designed in-house at Handle Financial.
One sheet poster design.
Personal project.
Branding and apparel design inspired by the works of Katsuhiro Otomo. Personal project.
Print and logo design for the Official Hellboy 20th Anniversary art show in Los Angeles, presented by Dark Horse Comics.
Poster design. Fundraiser for Médecins Sans Frontières.
Personal project.
Officially licensed Twin Peaks t-shirt design. Personally approved by David Lynch. Client: Loot Crate.
Rebranding and logo design. The client wanted to evolve the up-arrow iconography and color scheme of their previous logo, but move away from the outdated pixel art approach. Client: Power Up Audio.
Poster design. Personal project.
Brand identity, business card and packaging design. Client: Film Pin Society.
T-shirt designs. Inspired by video game locales. Client: The Yetee.
Poster design. Inspired by Sofia Coppola's 2017 film. Client: Focus Features / Gallery1988.
Multimedia art and design.
Personal project.
Poster design & photography. Inspired by Twin Peaks. Personal project.
Branding and print collateral. Watercolors by Mary Denham. Client: M. Denham Baking Co.
Series of print designs. Inspired by the worlds of popular culture. Clients: Mattel, Gallery1988, The Yetee.
Digital collage. Personal project.
Multimedia project including logo, identity, apparel, print, and digital design. CAPSULE as a company was operated for 3 years, from 2014 through 2017. Personal project.
Logo and identity design. Created for Razer's 2017 April Fools' project, the fictional Razer SAiSO robotic pal. Client: Razer.
Poster and typographical design. Inspired by The Godfather Part III, using Francis Ford Coppola's preferred original title for the film. Personal project.
Product design. Officially licensed Captain Beefheart Trout Mask Replica enamel pin design. Client: Zappa Family Trust & Rockin Pins.
T-shirt designs. Inspired by California culture and lifestyle brands. Client: Mega64.
Identity and digital design. Created for David Lynch: The Art Life (using its working title LYNCHthreePROJECT), these images were featured on the official social media channels from 2012-2016. Client: David Lynch: The Art Life.
Logo, beer label, and print collateral design. Client: Groundswell Brewing Company.
Poster design. Inspired by Nintendo's Earthbound. Personal project.
Poster design. Inspired by Mega64's Version series. Personal project.
One sheet poster design.
Clients: Grey Keith and Logan Shillinglaw IV.
Print design. Inspired by the work of Carl Sagan. Personal project.
T-shirt design. Inspired by Kiki's Delivery Service. Personal project.
Poster design. Inspired by Jeremy Saulnier's 2015 film. Personal project.
T-shirt design. Created in collaboration with illustrator Dan Dussault. Client: Final Fantasy XIV & MeatBun.
Album cover & packaging design. Runner-up in Third Man Records Olivia Jean record design contest.
Poster and brush lettering design. Created for documentary short Soap or Die. Client: Soap or Die.
