Welcome to the 60's!

My latest collaboration with Brian at Caryl Crane Children's Theater at Baldwin Wallace. I wish I could make it to this one, Hairspray with all of it's retro campiness, is one of my favs!

Stanley Clarke Box Set

I'm playing catch up today - a few months back, Edward from Sony came to me with this job. Half the fun with working with you Edward, is catching up on the phone, always a treat! He just needed a black line art bass guitar to drop into his design. Here it is! After giving Stanley a couple hearings, I'm not sure he's my thing, but I absolutely love the music genre. Let's work together again Edward!

Vintage Care Bears

You know I don't think these ever went anywhere and for the longest time I didn't know what to do with them. But I figured what the hell, I'll share them on here today. Ryan from American Greetings came to me with this concepting job a while back asking the question, what if the Care Bears had been around in the 1930's? What would they look like? These were the results of another fun collaboration. Hope its okay if I post them...

Season's Greetings 2011

Surprisingly, Brad couldn't find Christmas cards with the White House out there. So, being the fabulous boyfriend/marginally talented greeting card designer that I am, I offered to help out. ; ) We thought it'd be fun to really play it up with script lettering, an oval frame, and crisp white on cream envelopes to make it all as 'Presidential' as possible. This was the end result, it's very 1968 LBJ administration to me. As for this Christmas 2011, wishing you all the best, have a wonderful holiday!

Mercury Summer Stock 2012

We're working on the upcoming season's promotions and so far this is my favorite. It began as one of those 'what the hell am I going to do with this situations?' I mean, whatever you think of the play or the original poster, they're icons, and so what business do we have even approaching them? But as I played around with it, I grew to like what was happening. I wanted it to be bright, bold, and completely different. I'm just not sure how limited I should go with the palette. I'll keep at it and will post the others soon.

Out There: 1970's San Francisco

This series appears in the latest edition of Out There Magazine, a sexy, aesthetic, very handsomely produced Gay travel magazine out of the U.K. They accompany an interview with Armistead Maupin and Jake Shears on their recent collaboration, a musical adaptation of Tales of the City. As you can probably imagine, this was one of the coolest opportunities to come my way and became a sort of escape, there for a few weeks. I want to send out a big thanks to Senior Creative Editor, Martin Perry, it was a true pleasure collaborating 'across the pond' and I'm hoping to do it again soon. Check out the latest dazzling issue of Out There, on shelves now at Barnes and Noble.

Right better bash on! -Martin

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