I have created a wide variety of visual work for bands and artists since 2008. What’s listed here is not a comprehensive list, but rather just a few projects that I like and/or are notible. There is also plenty of other work that I love but can’t show for a variety of reasons.

Douse – The Light In You Has Left

Album Art. This was an interesting design piece for Vancouver art/indie-rock group Douse, released on CD, vinyl, cassette, and was even featured on a beer can. Focusing on an atmospheric sound that is rooted in both glimmers of light and cuts of darkness, the design focuses on a geometric aesthetic that acts as the backdrop for the band’s explorative and intimate sound.

Booklet and 12” LP insert. In order to properly capture the geometric direction the band had chosen for the album, each page was initially 3D modelled, and then illustrated in Photoshop. The band also had a very specific vision for the color-palette of the design, and we worked closely together to create a work that features a decidedly pastel gamut to complete the dreamland that would be this album.

Additionally, the band requested that their then-drummer’s broken glasses be featured in some way, so some effort was put into making them look much more abused than they would have otherwise.

Cassette Tape. Rather than try to convert the design into a different aspect ratio (square LP to the very vertical cassette tape), it was decided that maintaining the art’s integrity would be the better solution. So the artwork here is featured in its original aspect ratio, with the rest of the content floating above and below. It has a bit of a retro feel and I personally love how this looks.

One of my favourite aspects of the cassette tape media is the ability to customize the cassette shell itself, with many distributors providing options for some truly interesting plastics and tapes. However, for this release, it made sense to pick a more reserved approach and a simple white shell was selected, making for a very refined and appropriate visual experience.

Conception. I thought it might be interesting to show a bit about how this album progressed with the band’s input. The initial design was a very simple proof of concept, focusing on using gradients and grids. However, it was immediately apparent that this wasn’t dynamic enough. By the second version, I was using renders from 3D software to create a simplistic retro-inspired work. However, the band wanted to focus more on high-contrast, so I began illustrating the renders and creating very prominent highlights and shadows. We were also playing with the colors quite a lot, unafraid to try things that didn’t work in order to pinpoint what we liked.

Jackson Gardner – The Kingsbury EP

Album Art. Before forming Gleneagle and working out of Vancouver, Jackson Gardner started producing music as a solo folk-inspired artist in Kamloops BC. Working with the same producer for his music as I had at the time, it made sense to collaborate on a project together.

Trifold Digipack. It was important to me that Jackson’s music had an incredibly sincere look to it given the honest nature of his music. I opted to allocate some budget towards buying some model railroad buildings and trees in order to create a sort of caricature of Canadiana, another prominent aspect of his music.

What I really liked about this design is that the cover (far right) and back cover (middle) look complete, but when opened up to reveal the inside flap (far left), you can see that it is a work in progress still.

Digipack Inside. You In order to show off the lyrics, we decided to make the inside of the digipack vertical. This way additional funds didn’t need to be spent on printing booklet for the lyrics, and it allowed me to capture some of the created landscape from a different perspective.

Static Says – Insecurities

Album Art. Kelowna rock band Static Says contacted me to create album art for their debut album, Insecurities, after feeling that their vision wasn’t being captured by another designer. Together, we used stock photography and some heavy Photoshop work to focus on what the idea of insecurities might look like if they were tangible in our world.

Posters

Show Posters. I’ve had the pleasure of creating hundreds of show posters, some of which feature amazing bands like Silverstein, the Wonder Years, Listener, Open Letters and many more. Here are just a few of my favourites.