MidwestLove Art & Design

At the beginning of this year I said to myself that I should dust off the pens and brushes and try my hand at doing more do more “physical” art to accompany all this digital stuff. Along those lines, here are some recent watercolor paintings for a stellar little band from MI called Your Best Friend. I’m pretty pumped about how this project is turning out so I figured I’d give everyone an early look at it.

Apple & Arrow spot illustration -

Background Painting -

Tray Card design -

I’ll post the entire project soon. Thanks!

-marky

Design for A Farewell Rescue’s 07 release Never Meet Your Heroes.

One of my favorite releases that I’ve had the pleasure of working on, Bastian’s ‘06 Full Length Stay Quiet.

Here’s the cover for the upcoming FIREFIGHT release, titled Natural Disaster.

www.MajiSongs.com - Seasonal site designed to accompany the CD Packaging that we put together for Maji, a holiday super group featuring Joe Puerta of Bruce Hornsby & The Range and Ambrosia. Designed to drive digital as well as physical sales of their debut CD Christmas Dreams. Songs from that CD have been heard on the TV show E.R. and have received national radio attention.

-marky

This is one of my all time favorite pieces that I’ve ever had the pleasure of working on. I guess it helps that From The Headline is also one of my favorite working bands at the moment.

This project was a blast from the beginning because the band gave me full artistic freedom to come up with a design based off of my interpretation of their music. I chose to go the route of dark, yet whimsical. Serious, yet lighthearted in a creepy sorta way. I ended up coming up with these 4 custom illustrations that look like stills from a children’s movie or a storybook from a forgotten era where children were still disciplined with belts. Awesome.

See the whole project here.

-marky

Flowers For Dorian’s EP release Phone Calls, Car Rides is out now.

This project was especially fun because the band wanted me to emulate one of my all time favorite graphic artists, Scott Hanson (ISO 50). Hopefully it’s more of a tribute and less of a direct rip-off. Hmmm…

Anyway, you can view the entire project here.

-marky

MidwestLove was asked to design the packaging for the newest release from EMI / Sparrow recording artists, Newsboys. The ‘boys wanted something classic, simple and timeless to represent this greatest hits disc. It hits shelves in November.

Take a look at the full project here.

-marky