My old friend Klintron is just about to release his first noise album. Popjellyfish illustrated the cover.

What I worked on here was coloring the artwork, choosing the color scheme, creating the logo, package design, plus I also customized a Wordpress theme for the website.

The album itself is noise, so it isn’t for the uninitiated. I’ve made the joke, probably a little too often, that anyone can be a noise musician since it is essentially impossible to be bad at making it. Yet after giving Return to the Wasteland a listen to try and get a feel for the kind of design I should do, I found myself wanting to listen to it over and over again. My girlfriend said it sounds like a haunted house, so thats maybe why I like it, being from New England and all. Remembering is my favorite track. That and the rest of the album feels like a meditative stroll through the irradiated desert left behind after an ancient nuclear holocaust on another planet. Inasmuch soothing as it is bristling with aftershocks of toxicity and lost dreams.

Speaking of Klint, his site went back to being called Technoccult recently, which I am pretty stoked about. He starting using the old logo I designed for it again, and he also designed a pretty kickass theme for his site which complements perfectly. It really feels satisfying for me to look at.

If you are in Portland, you should go to his CD Release show at The Parlour tomorrow night.

Continue after the jump to see the back cover design for Return to the Wasteland and screenshot of the WP theme.

Keep a lookout on the Psychetect website to purchase the album, its just $2.50!

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This weeks Parlour poster was rushed, since I wasn’t really supposed to be designing it. Finished in about an hour. Not counting an excruciating bout of time spent in frustration due to missing information and missing people with said information. “I’m not even supposed to be here today!”

There are some problems with it, and but you get what you get, ingrates.

Anyways, I reused elements from earlier works, cobbled them together, and made some quick changes.

Rushed to an insane degree, good thing I have spare parts at my disposal.

Sigh. Now to put on a happy face and head to my duties as doorman for the night.

If you had to pick only one night, show up on Saturday.

Anyways,  my scanner is broken. I drew the black elements of the woman by hand, took a crappy cell phone picture, cleaned up the image a little, vectorized it, and cleaned it up some more. The original was a single line drawing that I did in one continuous stroke. After that, added some extra elements to flesh it out a little. Presto.

Time worked : 4:30am – 7:15am

There is certainly a motif I am currently working with.

Hope your Thanksgiving makes you poop alot.

xoxo

As you can see I used the art I made earlier today and incorporated it into my design.

I’m really into the difference in the look here after darkening up the original.

thrown together in a few minutes like a vector haiku

Lots of things are going on with me, internally and externally.

Overall depression has been harder than usual to kick, but now I feel a little reinvigorated, feeling like I found the others, for real this time.

Anyways, plan is currently to go back to school sometime for fine art, no matter the expense or irrationality of it.

Got my catharsis this morning.

Only now have I really started using my ‘library’ of images for actual work.

I’d really like to be able to do this sort of work at mural size.

Happy with how this poster design came out, mostly because it features the artwork of one of my very favorite artists, Beresford Egan.

His style walks the line between cartooning and deco splendor, which are also two of the bigger influences on my visual thinking.

By the way, I’m poor as fuck right now. I have sketchbooks, ink, and other art supplies in my Amazon Wishlist. At the moment I have no paper, no paint, and no decent pens to my name. /begging

I’ve been working on a zine.

At first I had parts in there about design but I’m not feeling it anymore.

The stuff I’m taking out I’m just going to post here, mostly since popjellyfish wanted to read it, and maybe a few of you might actually need to. Its unfinished, and pretty unstructured, but its never going to get out unless I get it out now.

Its essentially design gripes from my own little point of view, somewhat in the context of speaking to my community of occultniks as a whole. I’m not sure I can even stand behind it, philosophically, but nevertheless, here it is. Enjoy.

Pretty Damned For Kids : Style Sheet Witchcraft

As a designer with a good network of creative and intelligent friends who represent their work online, it has been hard to navigate while biting my tongue. I have a backlog of criticism and unasked for advice when it comes to logos, site design, and identity creation that will never find its way out of my system unless I let it out, so in the following I attempt to relieve myself.

Specifically, my network is comprised of people who are all familiar with concepts such as memetics, magic, and marketing. I personally detest the practice of marketing the use of marketing as magic, because its tacky, but I also don’t have a problem with good natured hypocrisy. I am a ‘chaos magician’ after all, and thats just how we roll, right? Anyways, the following is addressed to those who understand this paragraph. This is especially for those who are creators of niche media and arts.

It seems to me that my community for the most part got into the occult via Chaos Magic or Crowley, but altogether ignored Anton Lavey, because somehow he was harder to take seriously than those two sources of reputable flimflam. Memes they may have missed out are on some of the most important ones a serious business wizard can have. LaVey’s magic is centered on practicality before spirituality, focused on the results in the here-and-now. In particular, Lesser Magic:

Non-ritual or manipulative magic, sometimes called “LESSER MAGIC,” consists of the wile and guile obtained through various devices and contrived situations, which when utilized, can create “change, in accordance with one’s will.” In olden times this would be called “fascination,” “glamour,” or the “evil eye.” […] To manipulate a person, you must first be able to attract and hold his attention.

- Lavey

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This is the logo for The Parlour, the venue a couple friends and I are working on.

Moustache design by popjellyfish.

I may want to tweak it in the future, but for now this will serve nicely. Its not really something imbued with my personal style, and its more popjellyfish than me, but thats just how the cookie crumbles when the order is for Olde Timey goodness. I’m much more of a New Wave person myself.

Speaking of New Wave, we found a CD of these guys in The Parlour : Pink Noise.

awwwwww. dreamy.

[UPDATE: MOVIE NIGHT CANCELLED DUE TO SUPERIOR PARTY SITUATION.]