One Pill Makes You Larger...

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..."

Stick 'em Up!

My contribution to an invitational artist sticker collection.

Roundabout

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

The Harrow & The Harvest

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

California Dreamin'

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

Unused logo design.

Online Retreat

Illustration originally created for Tricycle Magazine.

Truckin'

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.

Rock Collection

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.

Candy + Linda

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

Shoes

Ink on paper. Date unknown.

Rusty Cloud

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).

Hungry Nation Poster

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

Moon Rocks!

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.

More NNNext New Posters

Here are my latest poster designs for Next New Networks: Barely Digital and TMI Weekly. They are the 10th and 11th from a series of 12 posters.

Border Tour

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

Indy Mogul

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

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

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.

Rock Star 69 Sketches

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.