MidwestLove Art & Design

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.

Here are some links to some of my favorite websites that we’ve had the pleasure of working on over the last year-

www.DotDotDotOnline.com - Utilizes our MidwestLove administration for dynamic customer controlled content managment. You can currently see these guys on the new FOX show Next Great American Band. We’ll be adding more to their site over the next couple weeks.

www.SamBakerOnline.com - Utilizes our MidwestLove administration for dynamic customer controlled content managment. We took care of everything from the custom photography to the CD packaging and promotional materials for this incredibly talented WI singer/songwriter, all utilizing these same design elements. Also check out the myspace page that we did for Sam.

-marky

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

Geffen recording artist Charlotte Sometimes site launched summer of ‘07 utilizing custom back-end customer based content management system. Based off of our Charlotte Sometimes logo design and “Charlotte Girl” illustrations.

p.s. This girl’s music is rad. Seriously.

www.CharlotteSometimesMusic.com

-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

• New custom database driven site for Faith Builders International Ministries www.FaithBuilders.cc.

• Tshirt and apparel designs for Epitaph records band Motion City Soundtrack.

• CD packaging design for Minneapolis area rock unit Firefight.

• Website design for IL singer/songwriter Kelsey Wild.

• Website design for Milwaukee, WI rock band From The Headline.

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