Fact: police officers in borderline tactical gear do not like people taking pictures of empty Metra train platforms. Not that I blame them for finding it “peculiar”. But the strange ambiance of the oversized architectural scale and eerie tungsten lights have always had me wanting to shoot photos at Ogilvie. So I took out my […]
Turned up the sleaze to about 8 or 9 on this one. I really love the borderline meth-face on the girl. That’s about as sexy as someone who hasn’t slept for a week can look. I’m really getting into skanking up the type, too. I didn’t do any handsetting this time, but everything got a […]
Orchard Lounge wanted something whipped up for their all vinyl, 7 hour marathon set coming up at Smart Bar. I’d had a notion of doing a sort of cascading set of pictorial elements motif in the past, but never attempted it. So when my first drafts for this project went south, I gave it a […]
The Culprit Sessions magazine cover theme took a relatively large leap in time this month from the 60’s and 70’s to the late 80’s. And for Hot Natured, why not? I’ve been experimenting more and more with finding ways to give the type work a realistic printed look, or at least matching the feel of […]
I bought these records back in 2007 at a thrift shop in Paris because they were so ridiculously great. I’m still kind of surprised that I then schlepped them with me to Germany, and eventually back to Chicago – I don’t know the artists at all, and I don’t even own a record player. But […]