mewithoutYou Ten Stories

Yesterday mewithoutYou revealed the cover of their new album Ten Stories. I’m super excited to be a part of this project. Vasily Kafanov was commissioned for the paintings, and I’m handling the rest of the visuals. On previous releases, the band used existing Kafanov paintings, but this time around they had him do a custom piece based on the concept of the album. I can’t take much credit for the cover, but the original painting is taller, so I had to photoshop some of the elements to fit within the square frame, as well as some color adjustments.

The record comes out on May 15th, and a pre-order will be available in the coming weeks, with several different formats for the collectors (and audiophiles).

Gold Addy!

A week after the Akron Addy Award Ceremony, I got my award, and I got a gold! I can’t even explain how surprised I was. I won the award for this logo I made for Summit Cycling Center. And check out the video below, about the making of the new awards.


Andrew Weathers & Ancient Ocean Split Tape

This week I got to design my first cassette tape. Akron’s Rubber City Noise will be releasing a limited-edition split tape between my pal Andrew Weathers & Ancient Ocean. The music is pretty ambient abstract americana. I’m excited about the clear “smokey” colored tapes that we’re having them pressed on. And I took the photo at Lake Erie last year with my Diana.

Anchor & Braille T-Shirt

Very excited that Anchor & Braille snatched up this new shirt comp! A&B is the side project of Anberlin’s lead singer Stephen Christian with collaboration from Aaron Marsh of Copeland.

I will now be taking the rest of the day off for my birthday.


mewithoutYou ‘Ten Stories’ Teaser

Last week, mewithoutYou announced their new album Ten Stories, to be released on May 15h. I’m very proud to have been asked to handle all of the design aspects of this record. As with their previous records, the artwork is based around a series of paintings by Vasily Kafanov. I’ve been working directly with Aaron & Mike to handle all other visual elements, including intricate typography, illustration and general layout.

For now, the band is revealing a small puzzle piece of the cover, every week-day on their facebook, until the full cover is finally displayed. More to be announced soon.