October 2nd marks the final installment of 2011’s Culprit Sessions at the standard hotel, downtown LA. Here’s a quick look back at the whole season: This year’s program was based on vintage mens magazines – a little bit of smut and smarm mixed with jazzy type and hazy dream state blur. Special occasions called […]
I’m really excited about Culprit’s first label compilation. The album takes inspiration from their many rooftop sessions at LA’s Standard Hotel, and the album art followed suit. The parties themselves take place at dusk, well above LA’s streets on top of the historic Superior Oil Company Building, now the Standard Hotel. The abstracted geometric pattern […]
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 […]