My second shirt design for The Cowmen. This was done in conjunction with the art for their new EP “Bad News.” They only had so much budget to use on artwork, so they wanted one design that could work both in full color for an album and as a cost-effective one color for a shirt.

This was my second shirt I made for the client. I tried to replicate the screen print look, and also give the art the sense of being overexposed, like it’s a xeroxed photograph. The inspiration for Robo and me were old band t-shirts and show posters, cheaply printed, gritty, but rich in texture.

The special challenge here was that it was both inspired by a photograph, and already adapted as a sticker design the previous year. My goal was to find a way to distinguish it from the prior art, which I already loved—make it keep true to the original photo, but lean into detail and grit. My move was to highlight the soles of the boots, center the figure more, and increase the severity of the contrast and shading.

Band shirt for the Undone Sweaters, a Weezer cover band making a tour only through Ohio to play the Blue Album. The design is simple: an unraveling sweater in the shape of the state. If I know one thing about Ohioans, it’s that they will buy anything with their own state on it.

I was right! The t-shirt was an immediate success, and afforded the band some actual profits at the end of the tour.

Jounce is the band of Danny Tamberelli, of Nickelodeon classic Pete and Pete fame. He requested some special additions to the brain to capture his essence, make it fun for longtime fans.

Hidden in the brain are a guitar pick, a can of beer, and Little Pete’s famous tattoo of Petunia.