DESIGN: WEB | PRINT | DYNAMIC | OTHER

This recent design is part of the long term development and branding of the 'FlowMatiQue' comicbook characters designed for DraMatiQue & BenFlowz' 2008 album FlowMatiQue: Rise of the True MCs. This flier design was made for an album release party and works in series with the images below.

Another example of the use of the 'FlowMatiQue' comicbook figures in the promotional materials developed to promote the DraMatiQue & BenFlowz album releae. This design was made for general circulation on the internet and in printed fliers announcing the release of the album and works to support to over-all image and brand of D&B's project.

These designs were made for a big show/album release party for DraMatiQue & BenFlowz' 2008 release 'FlowMatiQue.'

The figures within the design, drawn by illustrator Feras Khagani, were extracted from the album cover and made into the 'logo' for this project. This design fits into a larger body of designs in branding, merchandising, and identity development that resulted in numerous fliers, the final CD packaging, a website and myspace page, and t-shirts. The top image here was printed both as a club-card flier and a poster. It was also widely distributed via the internet by the various performing acts. The second image was printed solely on reverse side of the club-card fliers.

This was a simple design created for a concert featuring RZA of Wu-Tang Clan. The stark, bold imagery and lettering was meant to stand out in San Francisco's vibrant atmosphere. This poster was printed and posted primarily in local convenience stores, corner stores, and laundrymats.

A fun design created for a possibly fictitious event featuring possibly fictitious bands.

I say that this event is 'possibly' fictitious because it has yet to be, and the design was not commissioned to promote an event but rather as an exercise. However, I also say 'possibly' because you may soon find an event called Skelethon, or a recording by the band Samba Bionic. What an interesting concept - design determining it's product or event rather than the other way around.

This design, created for a (possibly fictitious) sushi party, was meant to intrigue the guest with it's simple compositional elements but strikingly dynamic color elements. If you look closely you will see that the minor details are crucial, the slight drop shadow on a field of translucent tokyo-pop color slivers, and the simulated watercolor paper texture on which the entire content sits.

A fun graphic I created for personal pleasure. It draws from a few sources: my love of the painter Jean Michel Basquiat, my collection of vinyl records (they have amazing covers), and my abstract/action painting experience. The peice succeeds for me in meshing the steril, utopic qualities of digital work with a more gritty, emotional style of design that I sometimes strive for.

Again, I set out on a personal quest with this little peice. It was not done for any particular reason but that I wanted to design a fun character in the spirit of Haight Street's various toy shops (so modern) but also with a rough, painterly quality to it (so primal and perpetually relevent). I have not printed this peice at the time of writing but would hope to do so on a large-scale at some point - or perhaps to integrate this into a mural design.

This design was done back in 2005 when I needed a business card for my musical alias BenFlowz. The design utilizes textural photographs taken during the album photo shoot by Kija Lucas and the classic Sharpie BenFlowz logo that I designed and used throughout the project's promotional period on fliers, album packaging, and t-shirts/hoodies.