The phenomenal Bay Area talent, Elliot Randall (no, NOT the guy from Steeley Dan) came to re:mused before the holidays to do the artwork for his new album with his band The Deadmen. We’ve been working together since the first EP he put out, but collaborating this time around proved things do keep getting better with time.
First off, Elliot Randall & The Deadmen have truly hit their stride with “Caffeine & Gasoline.” Elliot co-produced the album with David Simon-Baker (ALO, Mother Hips, Jackie Greene… and just happens to be one of my favorite people), creating an alt-country/americana rock record to be reckoned with. The album officially releases on February 9, 2010. You can watch some behind the scenes footage here:
The album artwork was a blast to create, drawing inspiration from the warm, gritty, southern sound the band creates. Special thanks to photographer David Arnspiger of Traumantic Studios for letting me play with his photographs!
The band is currently touring up and down the west coast in support of the album. Check out the dates here and preview the music on their myspace page or at amazon.com (my favorite track so far: “Judgement Day”).
I’ve been noticing a trend in the wonderful world of the design blog as of late… Science and math collage design??!!??! Diagramatic info graphics overlayed on large retro-style colored shapes overlayed onto photos from space masked out of heads from vintage advertisements. Visual overload?? Perhaps. But I’m on board. It even made an appearance while guest critquing a graphic design class at California College of the Arts, when a student created an epic 6-disc compilation cd package design for the music genre “Spacerock.” If I can get my hands on some photos of it, I’ll post as well. The student knocked it out of the park. (Pardon the baseball reference, I must still be under the influence of my previous post.)
A few examples from Michael Paukner, Mark Weaver, and Laura Mujico (click on any image to enlarge).
Living a short walk from the San Francisco Giants’ ballpark for over a year has made me loosen my grip on my loathing of baseball. You still couldn’t pay me to watch a whole game on television, but put me in a bleacher seat with a hot dog and a cold beer and some good friends and I can feign entertainment. I might even enjoy it a little.
Today things changed though, when I came across these vintage Japanese baseball cards from the collection of John Gall, art director for Vintage and Anchor Books, via ajourneyroundmyskull. I thought to myself, “Now this could actually make me like baseball.”
