Frank Olinsky

So Tote

2012-01-23T17:03:00.000-08:00

Tote bag I designed for the incomparable So Percussion.

Luna Vinyl

2012-01-18T10:55:00.000-08:00

Sleeves for forthcoming limited edition LP releases of Luna's Romantica and Rendezvous albums.

300!

2011-11-14T07:46:00.000-08:00

I can’t believe my 300^th photo has just been posted on “Dogs Waiting for Their Humans”. My approach to the project has been quite casual so I must admit I have surprised even myself with the number. Big thanks to Carrie Miller for all her help.

Below is my original project statement:

“I don’t take that many photographs. The fact that this series even exists is still a surprise to me. The pictures were taken in and around my Brooklyn neighborhood beginning in the spring of 2007. I had started to notice dogs waiting for their owners to come out of coffee shops and delis. I also noticed how individually each dog was responding to this brief separation. I felt compelled to document this contemporary urban phenomenon.”

Tweet!

2011-10-31T08:36:00.000-07:00

I just learned that my Woodstock '94 logo design will be included with other variations of the dove and guitar poster in an exhibit about David Byrd and Arnold Skolnick, who were the two designers for the Woodstock festival posters. The title of the exhibit will be Byrd/Skolnick: A Tale of Two Posters which will run from April 1 to June 10, 2012 at The Museum at Bethel Woods, which is located at the site of the 1969 Woodstock festival in Bethel, NY.

The Summer of 1969 I was a counselor at a children’s arts camp on Long Island. I had been hearing a lot about the forthcoming concert in Woodstock on the radio. A fellow counselor told me she and some friends were going to drive upstate to the concert and asked if I wanted a ride. I thanked her for her kind offer but told her that I was afraid it was going to be too crowded.

Summer Days and Nights

2011-10-04T09:33:00.000-07:00

Jim Woodard, Managing Director of the Philip Glass Days and Nights Festival in Big Sur, just sent me this photo of him standing next to a sign featuring one of the logos I designed for the event. Thanks Jim.

No Way, Dude!

2011-09-12T07:14:00.000-07:00

Yes way, dude! That is me with an unidentified young woman. The photo was recently unearthed and appeared on the cover of a booklet created in conjunction with the MTV 30th Anniversary Party at Bob Pittman's house in Mexico. Unfortunately I couldn't attend the event. You can see the booklet and more MTV stuff on my oldest friend Fred Seibert's site.

Small World

2011-08-22T08:46:00.000-07:00

I was interviewed by David Browne for this recent article in the New York Times about the shrinking album cover.
Check it out here.

Penthouse, etc.

2011-08-22T08:30:00.000-07:00

Check out my recent interview at Rock That Font.

Tricycle Turns 20

2011-08-04T13:57:00.000-07:00

Wow! A few days ago MTV turned 30 -- now Tricycle: The Buddhist Review turns 20. How fortunate I am to have been involved with the creation and development of these two important cultural phenomenon. I am deeply honored to have been a part of Tricycle from its very beginning. I am grateful to the publication's Founder, Helen Tworkov for persuading me to become Tricycle's first Art Director. I was extremely resistant at first, but like Allen Ginsberg said, "I fought the Dharma and the Dharma won." Over the years I have been Tricycle's cover designer, creative consultant and Contributing Editor. Congratulations to James Shaheen, Editor & Publisher; Rachel Hiles, Managing Editor; Fabio Cutro, Art Director; Philip Ryan, Web Editor, and the rest of the Tricycle staff. Rejoice.

Click Click...

2011-08-02T15:34:00.000-07:00

Cover for the forthcoming So Percussion CD. Due out this Fall.
(Did you know that this thing is called Newton's Cradle? I didn't.)

8.1.81

2011-07-27T06:53:00.000-07:00

August 1 marks the 30th anniversary of MTV. You can read my story about the creation of the original MTV logo here.

One Pill Makes You Larger...

2011-07-15T12:57:00.000-07:00

An iTunes digital single cover for a live performance of Jefferson Airplane's White Rabbit by Gillian Welch. The first live show I ever attended was a free Jefferson Airplane in Central Park. "Remember what the dormouse said..."

Think Pink

2011-07-15T12:42:00.000-07:00

Cover for second edition of Dean & Britta's 13 Most Beautiful... album. To be printed in glorious fluorescent pink. Andy would have approved.

Stick 'em Up!

2011-07-15T12:27:00.000-07:00

My contribution to an invitational artist sticker collection.

Roundabout

2011-06-27T13:52:00.000-07:00

Round logo for Philip Glass's Days and Nights Festival in Big Sur.

Tick Tock

2011-06-26T05:24:00.000-07:00

Working on new So Percussion package design. Stay tuned.

The Harrow & The Harvest

2011-06-22T08:30:00.000-07:00

Poster designed for Gillian Welch's tour in support of her new album to be released June 28. See details here.

That's So '90s

2011-05-27T16:46:00.000-07:00

Just read that next year The Smashing Pumpkins plan to reissue remastered versions of Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (1995), The Aeroplane Flies High (5 CD box set)(1996), and Adore (1998). I designed the packaging for these albums.

California Dreamin'

2011-04-17T09:58:00.000-07:00

Logo design for Philip Glass's forthcoming Days and Nights Festival to take place this summer in Big Sur. Click here for more info.

Big Bang

2011-04-17T09:55:00.000-07:00

Unused logo design.

Jaws

2011-03-09T13:00:00.000-08:00

I was commissioned by Next New Networks to design a limited edition poster to commemorate their just announced purchase by YouTube. They will become YouTube Next. Read all about it here.
Apparently, during negotiations the code name for YouTube was Melissa and the one for Next New Networks was the sharks.

Beastie Byte

2011-01-28T07:00:00.000-08:00

Someone e-mailed me this from The Daily Beast Media Gallery: 13 Worst Logo Makeovers. See my post from February 9, 2010.

Elvis Presley Blues

2011-01-26T15:13:00.000-08:00

I came across my package design for a radio promo CD for Gillian Welch's Elvis Presley Blues (2001). Cover features a sneaky shakey photo I took at Graceland of one of the King's guitars. (You weren't supposed to take any photos.) Back features my ticket stub from Graceland tour with a photo I took of his pink Cadillacs inset.

Hey Man...

2011-01-26T13:44:00.000-08:00

"Hey man, I tell ya the 80's are gonna be just like the 60's!"

Online Retreat

2010-11-13T07:02:00.000-08:00

Illustration originally created for Tricycle Magazine.

Head Shots

2010-11-12T14:09:00.000-08:00

Fred Seibert sent me these screenshots from a recent interview with Next New Networks co-founder Tim Shey about the new original, exclusive programming for AOL. The images directly to the left of Tim's head are from a series of poster designs I created for Next New Networks. To view all the full poster images click here.

Denied

2010-11-10T10:37:00.000-08:00

Recently rejected book cover comp.

HAI There

2010-10-16T14:45:00.000-07:00

A portrait of me painted by Ray Lopez, a participant in the Saturday Studio at HAI (Hospital Audiences Inc.) I've enjoyed volunteering there for about six months.

Zingiber

2010-10-01T14:38:00.000-07:00

Cover design for Sentieri Selvaggi's forthcoming CD Zingiber. Scheduled for release by Cantaloupe Music sometime next year.

Skin Trade

2010-10-01T13:58:00.000-07:00

Check out the article on the creation of Duran Duran's Notorious album. It includes bits from an interview I did about the design of the album package and related materials. Above is a package for the "Skin Trade" cassette single which was banned in most places because the plastic case and photo of a woman’s naked backside made it look like a miniature adult video. Read more. Click here.

Byrne-ing Down The House

2010-09-10T11:22:00.000-07:00

Cover design and my portrait of David Byrne from What The Songs Look Like: Contemporary Artists Interpret Talking Heads Songs (1987). The book was my brainchild and I got to collaborate with my very favorite band, Talking Heads. I was able to obtain work from many incredible artists including: Jean-Michel Basquiat, David Byrne, Sue Coe, Keith Haring, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Duane Michals, Jim Nutt, Nam June Paik, Gary Panter, Robert Rauschenberg, Ed Ruscha, William Wegman, Tadanori Yokoo and others.

Money Never Sleeps

2010-09-09T17:06:00.000-07:00

"Nine David Byrne tracks including several songs from his 2008 collaboration with Brian Eno, 'Everything That Happens Will Happen Today' are featured in the film and on the soundtrack to Oliver Stone's much anticipated sequel to the 1987 Academy Award winning Wall Street. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps starring Michael Douglas and Shia LaBeouf hits theaters September 24th." (Amazon.com)

I was asked by David's management to put together the CD package. It had been awhile since I worked on a project associated with David. Always an honor.

No-No-Notorious

2010-09-03T15:58:00.000-07:00

I just learned that the Duran Duran Notorious album was being re-released later this month in various formats. I always liked that album and was proud to be asked to design the package. Here is a piece I wrote earlier this year about my Notorious experience:

NOTORIOUS (1986)
After the Power Station album, John Taylor asked if I would be interested in working on the package for the next Duran Duran album, Notorious. He also asked if I was available to fly to London on short notice to meet the rest of the band. Next thing I knew I was at Kennedy Airport waiting for my British Airways flight to London. A short time later I was informed there was mechanical problem with the plane. I was upgraded to the Concorde SST. Talk about jet set! That was an experience I will never forget. I ended up in London hours ahead of schedule. My meeting the rest of the band members went well and the project proceeded. The album package was built around a black-and-white wraparound photo of the then-current band members (John, Simon, and Nick) plus a very young Christy Turlington. Unlike the Power Station package, the Notorious package didn’t use any illustration, although the singles did feature some graphic elements. The “Notorious” single (1986) marked the first use of my “Pan-with-horn” icon. This icon first appeared in the lower right-hand corner of the cover and also appeared on the labels. The “Skin Trade” single (1987) had a red-tinted close-up photo of a woman’s rear on the cover. The cassette came in a small VHS-like plastic box with the photo insert and looked like a miniature adult video. There were also vinyl versions that did not feature the photo at all, and had solid red covers instead. The “Meet El Presidente” single (1987) featured a black-and-white photo of the band topped with a Soviet Socialist Realism-inspired graphic that was used on the band’s 1987 Strange Behaviour world tour book.

How I Spent My Summer Vacation

2010-09-03T15:03:00.001-07:00

Have a Smurfy day!

Who Let The Dogs Out?

2010-09-03T14:26:00.000-07:00

After a break, more dogs are finding their way to my Dogs Waiting for Their Humans site.

Truckin'

2010-09-01T11:09:00.000-07:00

Rediscovered this piece I created for The Art of Micky Mouse: Artists Interpret The World's Most Famous Mouse edited by Craig Yoe and Janet Morra-Yoe (1991). I was truly flattered to be asked to contribute something to be included along with work by such noted artists as Andy Warhol, Charles M. Schulz, Peter Max, Keith Haring, R. Crumb, Milton Glaser, R.O. Blechman, Gary Panter, Gary Baseman, and Rick Griffin. The book might be a distant relative of What The Songs Look Like: Contemporary Artists Interpret Talking Heads Songs which I co-created with the band in 1987.

Monkey Business

2010-07-02T06:38:00.000-07:00

Promotional postcard for my good ol' studio Manhattan Design (1981). Yep, that's me in the gorilla suit.

Dean + Britta T-Shirt

2010-06-28T16:03:00.000-07:00

T-shirt design for Dean Wareham & Britta Phillips' 13 Most Beautiful... project features the first names of some of Andy Warhol's Screen Test subjects. Available on their website this Summer.

Trike for Trike

2010-06-25T12:25:00.000-07:00

Illustration for Tricycle: The Buddhist Review (2004). First created as a holiday card. Later used as key graphic element in a press kit.

Yo America

2010-06-17T08:59:00.000-07:00

I was just interviewed for a forthcoming book titled StereoTyped: Hip-Hop's Unsung Graphic Design Heroes, Heroines & the Oral & Visual Histories of the Rap Record (1979-1989). I had almost completely forgotten about the Kurtis Blow cover designs for America and If I Ruled The World from 1985. Photos of Mr. Blow by one of my favorite photographers, Deborah Feingold, and collage by one of my favorite illustrators, Stephen Kroninger.

Neck + Neck

2010-06-09T07:49:00.000-07:00

A pair of my unused CD cover designs circa 2005.

Skeptism?

2010-06-08T12:12:00.000-07:00

Sketchbook oddity circa 2005.

13 Most Beautiful...

2010-06-08T07:47:00.000-07:00

Dean Wareham & Britta Phillips's 13 Most Beautiful... Songs For Andy Warhol's Screen Tests deluxe limited edition double CD will be released July 27. Product details and ordering information can be found on their website. Pre-orders will receive an 11 x 17 poster.

I Want My... AIGA

2010-05-21T06:26:00.000-07:00

AIGA NY is organizing an evening celebrating the creative history of MTV. I will be one of the speakers talking about the birth and early days of the MTV logo. Details here.

Pantone 333c

2010-05-14T19:50:00.000-07:00

My previous post got me thinking about the Police. . . and the cover I designed for Danny Quatrochi's 1986 photo collection, Police Confidential.

Amazon Dot Calm

2010-05-14T15:17:00.000-07:00

Watching the news just now I saw a story about last night's Rainforest Foundation benefit at Carnegie Hall. At one point the organization's funky, tribal-looking "R" logo appeared on screen. At that moment I remembered that I had drawn it. That was back in 1989 when Sting and Trudie Styler founded the organizaion. I don't remember how we came to do the logo, but my old studio Manhattan Design was working on a logo and some album package designs for Sting's Panagea Records at that time. Probably we just threw it in.

Andy + Dean + Britta

2010-05-07T05:02:00.000-07:00

Poster and T-shirt designs for Dean Wareham & Britta Phillips' 13 Most Beautiful... The T-shirt features the first names of some of Andy Warhol's Screen Test subjects. Both will be available on their website this Summer.

Coming Attraction

2010-04-29T08:21:00.000-07:00

Cover design for Dean & Britta's forthcoming album 13 Most Beautiful... Songs For Andy Warhol's Screen Tests. Available in July.

Attention Getter

2010-04-19T11:58:00.000-07:00

T-shirt and CD package design for Richard Julian. His terrific new album is titled Girls Need Attention. Both available soon here.

Cover Versions

2010-03-28T11:35:00.000-07:00

I was recently contacted by French photographer Antoine Quereuil ("modelising and shooting") who with his partner Bruno Perrin ("painting and shooting") have created a wonderful and imaginative series of interpretations of classic album covers called Hall of Fame. Included are their "cover versions" of album packages I art directed: The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, and Sonic Youth Murray Street. Amazing work you guys.

Back In The USSR

2010-02-25T04:42:00.000-08:00

I was interviewed for a Russian web publication called f5.ru by its "newsmaker" Roman Samokha. It is in Russian so I have no idea what it says but it looks pretty good. You can go there by clicking here. Thank you Roman.

So and Sew

2010-02-11T13:54:00.000-08:00

Cover design of the forthcoming So Percussion EP Threads.

Attention

2010-02-11T13:46:00.000-08:00

Cover design of the forthcoming Richard Julian album, Girls Need Attention.

Flipside

2010-02-11T12:57:00.001-08:00

Something to add to all the recent blogging about the "MTV-minus-the-Music" logo. A design I came up with for a 2-sided version of the original logo. The idea was that it could be used on a glass door or window.

I Want My . . . Daily News

2010-02-09T09:26:00.000-08:00

I found out yesterday via email from Christina Kinon at the Daily News about the revised MTV logo. We spoke briefly and her article about the new logo scheme appeared in today's paper. A small excerpt:

Frank Olinsky and his team at Manhattan Design created the MTV logo when the network launched. When the change was announced yesterday, Olinsky wasn't feeling much nostalgia. "I had no idea" the change was coming, said Olinsky. "MTV now is a whole other reality than MTV was back in the day. Things change. The fact that it doesn't say 'music television' anymore, that's appropriate."

Rock Collection

2009-11-28T12:20:00.000-08:00

I received an email asking if I had any large poster proofs or original artwork from the Power Station project. Unfortunately I don't have anything saved from that project other than a few samples of the album and singles packages, the tour book and a platinum album. That was about 25 years ago and time has a way of consuming things. The email did remind me of something vaguely related -- and extremely obscure! In 1985, my studio Manhattan Design, art directed and designed a series of about 50 greeting cards called "Rock Collection" for a small card company in Virginia. These cards featured excerpts from lyrics mainly by musicians popular at the time, including: Sting, The B-52's, The Cars, Dire Straits, David Bowie, Madonna, Tears For Fears, Eurythmics, and Hall & Oates. The artwork was done by a range of illustrators and photographers hired or licensed by Manhattan Design. One of these cards featured lyrics from the Power Station song "Communication." I created a full-color illustration of the Power Station figure specifically to go with the lyric. Alas, as visually cool and timely as the cards were, they were unsuccessful and I doubt they were seen by more than a small number of people attending 1985 stationery trade shows -- and the artists involved.

Barely Hungry Digital Nation

2009-11-25T13:55:00.000-08:00

I just received printed samples of the Barely Digital and Hungry Nation posters. I am very pleased with the results. Thank you Next New Networks!

On The Road

2009-11-18T08:35:00.000-08:00

Dave Rawlings Machine tour poster. Photo by Mark Seliger.

Yearbook Page

2009-11-17T14:31:00.000-08:00

Page design for the 1998 Parsons Illustration Department Yearbook. It includes a brief bio and creative advice from Jack Kerouac. It features the font I designed for Live Bait bar/restaurant.

Candy + Linda

2009-11-17T13:20:00.000-08:00

Watercolor from the early '70s. Two of my favorite people ever.

Girls Rock!

2009-11-17T13:15:00.000-08:00

Cover for Gerri Hirshey's book, We Gotta Get Out of This Place (2001).
There was some sort of legal "issue" and the awesome Courtney Love photo got nixed on the paperback edition (which I didn't design).

Shoes

2009-11-17T13:00:00.000-08:00

Ink on paper. Date unknown.

Rusty Cloud

2009-10-20T13:32:00.000-07:00

Watercolor from the early '70s. Painting created for an LP that never came out. I don't recall the circumstances. The musician's name was Rusty Cloud (for real).

Punk Meets Dude (circa 1980)

2009-10-19T13:18:00.000-07:00

"The future ain't what it used to be." -- Yogi Berra

Who's A Good Boy?!

2009-10-19T13:05:00.000-07:00

After a short hiatus, more of my dog photos are appearing on the Dogs Waiting For Their Humans site. (Thank you Fred!)

Welcome To The Machine

2009-10-16T10:33:00.000-07:00

Cover for A Friend of a Friend, the forthcoming Dave Rawlings Machine album. Available soon on Acony Records, the label owned by Dave and his partner Gillian Welch.

Hungry Nation

2009-08-31T08:34:00.000-07:00

Basic logo design for Next New Networks' forthcoming Hungry Nation show. Final typography and colors to be determined.

Jay-Z Cover Coincidence?

2009-08-04T07:14:00.000-07:00

The cover of Jay-Z's forthcoming album, The Blueprint 3 (right), may have "borrowed heavily" from my concept and design for the Secret Machine's 2004 album Now Here Is Nowhere (left). See and read more here. What do you think?

So Summer

2009-07-29T11:49:00.000-07:00

Just came across the "summer So" design (left) for So Percussion's summer institute. It is an adaptation by Kayrock Screenprinting of my original "Bell Guy" design (shown on t-shirt)

Hungry Nation Poster

2009-07-22T06:52:00.000-07:00

Latest poster from the series illustrated and designed for Next New Networks.

Moon Rocks!

2009-07-20T11:27:00.000-07:00

In honor of the 4oth anniversary of the first moon landing I am posting Moon Rocks (1986). It was one of several illustrations I created for my book with Talking Heads titled What The Songs Look Like: Contemporary Artists Interpret Talking Heads Songs. The artwork is 20 x 20 inches and was created with cut paper, ink, gouache, spray paint and collage. The original is in the collection of band members Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth.

Hot + Sticky

2009-07-20T11:11:00.000-07:00

Hot Club of Cowtown logo stickers. Their new album is titled Wishful Thinking. Thanks Elana.

Prattfolio

2009-07-18T14:11:00.000-07:00

While going through my flat files, I came across this little bio from the Fall 08 issue of Prattfolio, the Magazine of Pratt Institute. I had forgotten I was a sculpture major!
Click to enlarge/read.

ThreadBanger Video Interview

2009-07-02T11:34:00.000-07:00

Perelandra Green Bags

2009-07-01T12:09:00.000-07:00

I stopped by Perelandra Natural Foods here in Brooklyn this afternoon to pick up some of their brand new reusable/recycleable green shopping bags. These bags feature the logo I designed "very, very long ago" for owner and dear friend, Steve Hoose. The Perelandra logo was based on the small watercolor painting seen above. The bags are only 65 cents so pick up a bunch.

Smashing Pumpkins Website Interview

2009-06-12T19:08:00.000-07:00

I was just interviewed for the Smashing Pumpkins website. Click here.
I dug up some of Billy Corgan's faxed sketches and other things which have never been seen before. I was really moved when I read the following comment from Billy himself:

"Looking back now over 10 years, what sticks out most in my mind about Frank is he is total class. I am really fortunate to have been able to work with someone so talented, kind-hearted, and really someone who puts everything he has into his work. He really is a true artist thru and thru" -- Billy Corgan

Yo Howdy!

2009-05-29T07:17:00.000-07:00

A recent "also ran" logo design for a band.

Dogs Waiting . . . Since the 1970s?!

2009-05-24T06:12:00.000-07:00

I just came across this photo I took in the early '70s somewhere around Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Had a good laugh when I saw it and thought about my Dogs Waiting for Their Humans blog. Talk about a dormant seed of an idea!

The 100th Dog

2009-05-19T18:04:00.000-07:00

I just photographed my 100th dog waiting for its human. It will be a while before it appears on the DWFTH Tumblr site but I wanted to mark the occasion.

Floodplain Released

2009-05-19T10:50:00.000-07:00

Kronons Quartet Floodplain has just been released by Nonesuch. The latest in a long line of album packages I have had the great honor to art direct and design for Kronos and Nonesuch. The globe cover art is by Ingo Gunther. On Floodplain, the Quartet explores work from the Middle East, South Asia, Africa, and Eastern Europe with original arrangements of traditional music and newly commissioned pieces. There's vintage pop from Egypt, folk from Azerbaijan, electronica from a Palestinian music collective, and an ambitious piece from Serbian composer Aleksandra Vrebalov that has the contemplative grace of a Górecki masterwork.

Border Tour

2009-05-02T11:47:00.000-07:00

Poster/handbill design from 1995. The original art was created with cut paper.

Woodstock '94

2009-05-01T13:38:00.000-07:00

Logo concept for Woodstock 1994. Don't recall who asked me to do this. Maybe nobody!

Indy Mogul

2009-04-27T10:44:00.000-07:00

Latest poster for NextNewNetworks. Fifth in a series of 12. This one for Indy Mogul, the internet network for for DYI filmakers and moviegoers.

Give The Drummer Some

2009-04-23T09:16:00.000-07:00

Signed some ThreadBanger posters during a recent fun visit to Next New Networks. More preliminary skecthes and info behind the making of the poster here.

Happy Feet

2009-04-22T05:38:00.000-07:00

Another goodie created during a magical time. Made using old school analog technique and materials. Basic drawing was done in ink > photostat was made of the drawing > color was added using Pantone film.

Words & Pictures 2

2009-04-14T11:36:00.000-07:00

My second blog banner design for The Parsons Illustration Department blog.

Rock Star 69 Sketches

2009-04-13T14:37:00.000-07:00

I am posting this work by special request from my old friend Fred Seibert. I hesitate to post too much old work, but a request from Fred is almost impossible for me to deny. These sketches were made in June 1969 for a series of sculptures/constructions of rock musicians. They were done on unlined, 3-hole punched notebook paper. Represented are Eric Clapton, Jack Casady, Janis Joplin, Jeff Beck, Pete Townshend, Pig Pen and Taj Mahal. None of these remaining sketches ever became sculptures. Musicians who made it into the 3rd dimension were: John and Yoko, Jim Morrison, Frank Zappa and Jimi Hendrix. I recall Jimi's hat was made from an upside down plastic cottage cheese container with a cardboard brim. His hair was made from steel wool spray painted matte black. Unfortunately these sculptures and their preliminary sketches got lost somewhere in time and space.

Dalai Lama Photo Book

2009-04-13T05:24:00.000-07:00

Don Farber asked me to art direct a book of his photos of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. I have been working with the editors and designer at teNeues. The book is due out Fall 2009.

Tomorrow Never Knows

2009-04-02T13:27:00.000-07:00

Self-portrait circa 1969. Obviously inspired by Klaus Voorman's incredible cover art for the Beatle's Revolver album. I gave my Raidopgraph a real workout on this thing. The eyes were cut out from a newspaper, and I cut out and spray-glued acetate lenses on the glasses frames. The areas of discoloration are the result of aging spray-glue.

NNNext New Posters

2009-03-27T06:17:00.000-07:00

My latest series of approved poster designs for Next New Networks. One for Ultra Kawaii, one for Channel Frederator and one for $99 Music Videos. See all my preliminary poster comps here.

One From The Vault

2009-03-25T14:22:00.000-07:00

Camel cigarette pack on acid? (Where did the camel go?)
Watercolor with markers from sometime in the 70s.

Recent Discovery

2009-03-23T07:51:00.001-07:00

I was recently contacted about a small number of posters discovered in a basement somewhere in Queens. I had all but forgotten about this Manhattan Design-ed poster until I received an e-mail with the above photo attached. The image was based on one of my line drawings from a comic. The brightly-colored and technically amazing poster was printed by Ambassador Arts in 1987. It was the seventh in a series of quarterly calendars. Fortunately the printing specifications were included in the lower left corner: Silkscreen printed on 10 pt. Chromolux in 13 match colors, including transparent, fluorescent, matte, glaze, frosted and opaque inks. There are only about 30 mint condition copies of these posters. I just signed them and they will be for sale online hopefully in the near future. Once the details are worked out they will be posted.

That 80s Show

2009-03-05T08:58:00.000-08:00

I'm mostly awful at promoting myself. Here's an exception from the vault. A large promotional print piece (measuring 24 x 17 inches when folded open) for my good old studio Manhattan Design. Shown above is the fashionista cover photo of my partner Pat Gorman and myself taken by Caroline Greyshock and the inside spread, which required my extreme x-acto blade typography work. Can you believe the copy?!: "Billy Idol sums up their work as 'fuckin' brilliant" and "The whole world looks to Manhattan Design". Whoa!

Daily Dogs

2009-03-05T06:14:00.000-08:00

Dogs Waiting for Their Human s is currently adding one of my photos almost every weekday -- at least for a while.

Abecedary

2009-03-05T05:37:00.000-08:00

An abecedary is an alphabet book. I created this one sometime around 1990 after attending workshops with Mayumi Oda and Peter London. Mayumi is one of my all time favorite artists. Peter is the author of No More Secondhand Art: Awakening The Artist Within. Shown above is the title page and the page for the letter "N". The caption reads: "N is for Now - There's no other Time." The artwork for this book was created with ink and xerox copies, and the lettering was created on an old typewriter. I made a few copies of the book and gave them to friends as a gift.

Blues Brother

2009-03-01T13:01:00.000-08:00

My author photo from What The Songs Look Like: Contemporary Artists Interpret Talking Heads Songs, a book I created with the band (mostly David Byrne) in 1987. Shot on film. No retouching. Just bright lights and face paint. Taken back at the good ol' Manhattan Design studio by my gifted friend Deborah Feingold.

Floodplain

2009-02-20T06:17:00.000-08:00

Have begun work on package design for forthcoming Kronos Quartet album Floodplain. Cover features globe art by Ingo Gunther. More info as things progress.

Parsons Blog Header

2009-02-11T12:49:00.000-08:00

Header recently designed for the Parsons Illustration Department Blog.

Yo Howdy!

2009-02-07T08:31:00.000-08:00

Brooklyn boy designs new logo for Texas Crab Festival.

Frank Olinsky

So Tote

Luna Vinyl

300!

Tweet!

Summer Days and Nights

No Way, Dude!

Small World

Penthouse, etc.

Tricycle Turns 20

Click Click...

8.1.81

One Pill Makes You Larger...

Think Pink

Stick 'em Up!

Roundabout

Tick Tock

The Harrow & The Harvest

That's So '90s

California Dreamin'

Big Bang

Jaws

Beastie Byte

Elvis Presley Blues

Hey Man...

Online Retreat

Head Shots

Denied

HAI There

Zingiber

Skin Trade

Byrne-ing Down The House

Money Never Sleeps

No-No-Notorious

How I Spent My Summer Vacation

Who Let The Dogs Out?

Truckin'

Monkey Business

Dean + Britta T-Shirt

Trike for Trike

Yo America

Neck + Neck

Skeptism?

13 Most Beautiful...

I Want My... AIGA

Pantone 333c

Amazon Dot Calm

Andy + Dean + Britta

Coming Attraction

Attention Getter

Cover Versions

Back In The USSR

So and Sew

Attention

Flipside

I Want My . . . Daily News

Rock Collection

Barely Hungry Digital Nation

On The Road

Yearbook Page

Candy + Linda

Girls Rock!

Shoes

Rusty Cloud

Punk Meets Dude (circa 1980)

Who's A Good Boy?!

Welcome To The Machine

Hungry Nation

Jay-Z Cover Coincidence?

So Summer

Hungry Nation Poster

Moon Rocks!

Hot + Sticky

Prattfolio

More NNNext New Posters

ThreadBanger Video Interview

Perelandra Green Bags

Smashing Pumpkins Website Interview

Yo Howdy!

Dogs Waiting . . . Since the 1970s?!