2012 Middle of the Map Cover

Posted on April 9, 2012 by Mike

Here’s the cover I did for this year’s Middle of the Map Festival. I think it turned out really cool. I may need to start posting some photos of the actual printed pieces. I think this one looks even better printed than on screen. This is the second year of this music fest here in Kanas City and it was even bigger and better than the year before. My girlfriend and I got to see A Lull, Coalecse, and Fucked Up. It was a blast. It was my first time in a mosh pit in over a decade and I have more weight to throw around these days. Don’t worry I didn’t hurt anyone.

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Home Guide Cover

Posted on April 9, 2012 by Mike

Hey you may recognize this piece from a logo I posted a while back and that’s because it’s the same project. The people really liked the look but not the name so instead of it being the Ink Spots logo, we went with making it the whole cover of the publication with the new name of the Home Guide. They wanted to keep the name real generic on purpose. I’m happy with the art being blown up into a full cover. We went with blues to fit with the Ink cover that this section inserted in, which was a about the Royals. And oh by the way… GO ROYALS!!!

 

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Typography Tuesday #6

Posted on February 6, 2012 by Mike

Here’s a banner I designed for a LGBT Festival in Kansas City called Pride Fest. They wanted to do the Kansas City skyline in rainbow colors. I decided to do it in a cut paper style. Quite a big departure from my Blue Mustang illustration. Still a fun project though.

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Midcoast Takeover Handbill

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Mike

Here’s a handbill/postcard (yes, it’s two sided) that I did for the Kansas City’s Midcoast Takeover. Go support your local music and go see one of these shows. They’re putting money together for their Kansas City showcase at the SXSW music festival later this year. I had a lot of fun making the beat up old van illustration and I think the color palette I came up with for this piece turned out well. For more info on the shows go to www.midcoasttakeover.com

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Nerdy Numbers 2 (Web Traffic)

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Mike

Well I’ve broke 2,000 unique visitors a couple of days ago, so as I said on the first nerdy numbers post I would track this. Just skip this post if this isn’t your thing. It’s just interesting for me to see how things are progressing.

Here are the stats for the second 1,000:

3.75 months
1,018 unique visitors
3,150 visits
7,880 page views
22,270 image hits
Average time on site per visit 3 min. 20 sec.

Below here I’m just doing the totals for the full 2,000:
The site has been visited by 81 different countries

The Top ten countries (by hits):
1. United States: 37,596
2. European Country (Don’t ask) 1,663
3. Great Britain: 952
4. Canada: 872
5. Germany 663
6. Russian Federation: 631
7. Indonesia 528
8. Netherlands 489
9. Sweden 389
10. Brazil 330

Top Search Engines (hits, not searches):
1. Google 570 hits
2. Yandex (Russian) 39 hits
3. Bing 26 hits
4. Yahoo 8 hits
5. Stumble 7 hits
6. Digg 1 hit

Visitors coming from other sites:
1. Dribbble.com 208 visits
2. Twitter 39 visits
3. Illustration Mundo 37 visits
4. Illustration Friday 30 visits
5. Facebook 27 visits

Next web traffic post won’t be until I hit 10,000 unique visitors.

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Two of my posters are now on Occuprint

Posted on January 15, 2012 by Mike

I just took this for my own fun. My posters are “Banks know the Price of Everything…” and “Who really runs this Land”. This is a great website to check out. Designers and artists from all over the world are submitting posters to this site. The accepted ones are put up on the site and if you click on the thumbnail it will take you to a page where you can download a PDF of the poster for your own use. They also pick a few of the posters from the site to be printed in the Occupy Wall Street newspaper. Go check out this great site: www.occuprint.org another website you can also check out for Occupy artwork is www.theoccupyvoice.com This one is a site run by a local Zine artist Marc Saviano check it out and also keep a look out for a possible new zine to come out of this website.

 

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The new design of the Occupy KC newspaper’s Header (Typography Tuesday #6)

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Mike

Here it is!  The Occupy KC newspaper’s new flag. The creators of this paper wanted an old-school look to it. This black and white paper hit the streets this last weekend. It was a small run of 400, a good start for a project that is only going to grow. If you are in Kansas City keep an eye out for it, there might still be a few left. The next issue will be out in mid-February.

 

 

 

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