PinnedRethinking Louisville’s soccer brandWhat would it take to keep Louisville City FC’s brand from committing another red card offense? — Soccer fans have seen this before. The city’s team enters a new league, breaks affiliation with a franchise or exchanges ownership. The team needs a bold visual statement to reflect the fresh start. The owners unveil a new brand and it flops. Badly. It fails to capture the character of…Design8 min readDesign8 min read
Apr 25, 2019PDX Pop Now! Vol. 16Depression Mountain 3: Fear of Literally Everything — Pick up a copy at Music Millennium or stream on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music and Amazon. Young Fools PDX Pop Now! is an all-volunteer organization that provides support for live performances and recorded materials that are accessible, contemporary and local to Portland musicians. …Illustration5 min readIllustration5 min read
Published innope.ltd·Nov 7, 2018Tall Tale in a Small SpaceIn July, eBay’s Portland outpost put out a request for proposals from artists to decorate their new third-floor office spaces. The brief suggested themes like The Portland Horse Project, Beverly Cleary, Rose City Rollers, Darcelle and Paul Bunyan. As I contemplated sundry possibilities, I kept returning to one of my…Illustration5 min readIllustration5 min read
Mar 2, 2018Andrew Got CancerIt’s okay! He’s in remission and didn’t die! Buy a T-Shirt! — In June of 2016, my best friend called to tell me he had cancer. It made sense in the context of our lives. We had reached our mid-30s and had grown weary of the tedium in our daily rigor. Cancer was a good pick for anyone with a natural inclination…Illustration6 min readIllustration6 min read
Published innope.ltd·Feb 6, 2018We Make *Moving* Pictures for Your StoriesNow in SquigglevisionIllustration5 min readIllustration5 min read
Published innope.ltd·Nov 6, 2017Poster Process: I Know Why the Caged Bird SingsYou don’t need to make a full synesthetic leap to find music in the words of Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Melodic language set to poetic rhythm with a healing timbre—it’s all there. So when Julia McNamara and I were tasked with creating the promotional poster…Illustration3 min readIllustration3 min read
Mar 14, 2017You Won’t Believe How My Kickstarter Was Funded 600%…and So Can You!Medium has weird header leading; it needs a subtitle to look right — I have been making Futura Bracket since 2011 and sharing it with wider audiences online (through Tumblr, Twitter and email) since 2012. So long as I enjoy NCAA basketball, it is something I will continue to make in perpetuity, even if the audience is just me. Futura Bracket is a…Kickstarter3 min readKickstarter3 min read
Published innope.ltd·Sep 22, 2016Yep: NopePreface: Cool Word Combinations That Just Mean “Collaboration” and a Moderate Dose of Excessive Self-Importance — This is a story of syzygy and synergy. Or, rather, the story of the byproduct of that story. Our heroes aligned and allied to illustrate and design four posters for a theater—whose plays had not yet been written (they were still being adapted from their respective looong books)—regardless of working…Illustration6 min readIllustration6 min read
Published innope.ltd·Dec 21, 2015Be Kind OnlineCollaborative Constraints — For the second time, BT Livermore and I decided to make something together. And for the second time, we were faced with laying out parameters for the project. Over a quick beer, we decided the collaboration would yield: a poster in the style of the WPA concerning a contemporary subject …Illustration6 min readIllustration6 min read
Published innope.ltd·Nov 25, 2015Poster Volley, vol. 3A conversation between postermongers Michael Buchino and Julia McNamara.Illustration4 min readIllustration4 min read
