The Dials"Amoeba Amore" CD

CD Design (front/back/CD)
Client: The Dials

CD/packaging and logotype design for Punk/Power Pop girl band The Dials. Playful take on the album title. Digipak printed on reverse stock with transparent CD tray to mimick petri dish concept.

The Dials - T-Shirt Concepts T-Shirt Design (Design Detail/Design on Shirt) Client: The Dials Various t-shirt designs/concepts for Punk/Power Pop girl band The Dials. While variaous t-shirt colors were used in production, a white tee is used to convey the concepts size and positioning.

Sloppy White "Fat Tape" - Golden Era Hip Hop Mix CD

CD Design (front/back)
Client: Sloppy White

CD/packaging design for DJ Sloppy White. Overall design incorporates a "Hershey's Chocolate" theme including a colorful play on the ingredient listings (CD back) as well as having the actual CD wrapped in foil (ala a Hershey's Kiss). Packaging praised in numerous music industry magazines such as URB, Wire, etc.

Sloppy White "Get Some" - Golden Era Hip Hop Mix CD

CD Design (front/back)
Client: Sloppy White

CD/packaging design for DJ Sloppy White. Overall design incorporates a "Trucker" theme with the packaging designed as a mini-mudflap including a silver strip as well as 3 small bolts and nuts across the front. The front cover is a one color silk-screened image on heavy duty construction board. The black CD is held securely in place by a sturdy hub on the back side. Packaging praised in numerous music industry magazines and web sites such as Turntablelab.com, XLR8R, URB, Wire, etc.

Sloppy White "The Way It Was" - Golden Era Hip Hop Mix CD

CD Design (front/back)
Client: Sloppy White

CD/packaging design for DJ Sloppy White. Overall design incorporates a play on the old Power Records children's comic book and record sets. Design praised in numerous music industry magazines and web sites such as Turntablelab.com, URB, Wire, etc.

Mekalek "Live and Learn"

LP/CD Design (LP design shown - front/back)
Client: Glow in the Dark Records

Mekalek - Double Sided 12" Single

12" Single Design (front/back)
Client: Glow in the Dark Records

Mekalek promoting two Hip Hop artists off of his album, "Live and Learn", on one single.

Marry Me You Idiot

Show Poster
Client: Annoyance Productions

Small Print: "A musical about relationships and the relationships that happen in relation to relationships."

Press Release:
Tracy and Andy meet on the set of the Ellen DeGeneres show, having both lost their partners to strange and sudden deaths. They quickly fall in love and decided to wed. Along the way we meet the colorful characters that cross the couple’s path on the way to their wedding. There’s Andy’s pal who loves technology more than actual people, his odd parents, and the overly helpful ring shop girl. Then there’s Tracy’s bitter best friend, her possibly gay co-worker and her hard driving sister, who just happens to look exactly like Andy’s deceased fiancée. Will Andy fall for the girl who acts like his dead soul mate or the one who looks just like his dead soul mate?

Skinprov

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Client: Annoyance Productions

Press Release:
Annoyance Productions is very proud to once again extend the very popular and very racy Burlesque/Improv show Late Night Tit-Bits (featuring acts by seven stimulating ladies). Based on a suggestion from the audience, the Ladies of a Burlesque club deal with a problem - assisted by their ever-helpful Club Owner on a pogo-stick, Nick Divencenzo.

The only thing more sparse than the clothing in this show is the paper-thin plots... just the way it oughta' be. Perfect for a guys or girls-night out...if you're not shy.

Skinprov

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Client: Annoyance Productions

Idiot Tango

Show Poster
Client: Annoyance Productions

Small Print: "The world is a crowded dance floor filled with fools and the people who suffer them."

Press Release:
The world is a crowded dance floor filled with fools and the people who suffer them - from gangsters with bad phone manners to vampires with bad teeth. From the shallow urbanites who treat sex like a fist bump to a limerick writer so desperate to be read that he becomes a serial killer to get his poetry noticed. The dance floor of "Idiot Tango" is crowded with unforgettable characters tripping through life with ineptitude and idiocy.

Bodyslam - The Rise and Fall of C.A.W.C

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Client: Annoyance Productions

Press Release:
“Bodyslam! The Rise and Fall of CAWC,” follows the journey of Rufus and Preston Dreamwater through the flamboyant world of Professional Wrestling. After gaining the attention of the Continental-American Wrestling Confederation (CAWC), the innocent Dreamwater boys are flung into the gaudy and glamorous lifestyle of America’s fifth largest wrestling promotion. In a world filled with sex, ‘roid rage and steel chairs, the boys find themselves torn apart by Preston’s emerging ego, drug use and the sinister machinations of CAWC owner Mr. Bobwhite. In the midst of a wrestling war, Rufus finds himself facing his brother in a Battle Royale, with their lives hanging in the balance.

Mere Fluff

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Client: Annoyance Productions

Press Release:
Directed by Kirk Hanley, Mere Fluff features Robyn Scott & Bill Larkin in a sketch comedy show that blends original scenes and songs to comment on the idea of celebrity. This full-on programme also features puppetry, performance art and more!

Wouldn't you like to be a fluffer too?

Bear Force One

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Client: Annoyance Productions

Small Print: "The situation on Air Force One just got a little hairier."

Press Release:
The Annoyance pays gay homage to the classic Harrison Ford thriller "Air Force One" with "Bear Force One."

After a series of unexpected assassinations, Buck Marshall, Secretary of Agriculture, and ninth in line for the Presidency, finds himself the first gay "bear" President of the United States. Like his chest, the world he steps into is quite hairy. The Pope has just been taken prisoner after his crack terrorist organization, the CCD, assassinated the last 8 Presidents in order to bring a message of decency back to the world.

All Buck wants to do is escape to Key West with his "First Cub," daughter India-China, and his newly assembled queer cabinet. But as he boards "Air Force One" for some R & R, the CCD have plans of their own!

Arm Soup - The Story of How Five People Went West and Ate Each Other

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Client: Annoyance Productions

Press Release:
Loosely based on actual events that occurred in 1846, “Arm Soup” tells the story of nice guy George Donner’s road trip with his ex-girlfriend, his Goth brother, a guy named James Reed, and an alcoholic divorcee. George’s party starts out in the boring, crappy town of Loami, IL. They head West from there in a small covered wagon to avoid the high price of gas. They opt to take small roads and navigation advice from Boston Red Sox great, Wade Boggs. Along the way they encounter all sorts of fun, obstacles, merriment, hunger, anger, murder, Madlibs, sexual tension, Taco Bell, sex, and cannibalism. As if that weren’t enough, it’s a goddamn musical!

President Bush is a Great Man

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Client: Annoyance Productions

Press Release:
The Annoyance Theatre, creators of such legendary shows as “Coed Prison Sluts” and “Manson The Musical” kicks off their new theatre in Uptown with an original, provocative show that takes a dip into the political realm. “President Bush Is A Great Man” pays tribute through sketch and song to whatever great qualities could be found about the president, his staff, his followers, and conservative values. The show is directed by Mick Napier (director of such Annoyance shows as “Coed Prison Sluts” and “That Darned Antichrist” as well as Second City Main Stage reviews including Jeff award winner “Paradigm Lost”). It is performed and written by Lilly Allison, Kyle Dolan, Jennifer Estlin, Tony Mendoza, Ellen Stoneking, and Josh Walker. The music is written and performed by Lisa McQueen.

58 - A Comedy About Bike Messengessengering

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Client: Tony Mendoza

The client took this hilarious show on the road so the poster needed an area to write in the billing information (yellow portion at bottom; the "Delivery Schedule").

Press Release:
Based on the experiences of real-life Chicago Bike Messenger, Tony Mendoza , we follow the rollercoaster life of Telly Mimosa as he dodges abusive security guards, bullying buses, Segway cops and street weirdos with dumb fetishes. In this dangerous vocation, Telly is forced to face his own humanity as the rest of the world stands defiantly in his bike’s path. He gets a second wind from a strangely hopeful receptionist who helps him see people instead of pedestrians. This new path is even more treacherous because now he must choose between a fixed life as a name or the break-neck life as a number. Performed at the pace of a hot, direct delivery, Tony Mendoza and Thea Lux play out the grounded relationship of Telly and Constance while Daniel Jessup, Alex Fox and Andrew Hobgood juggle sixty characters between the three of them to fill in the ever-looming insanity that surrounds Telly’s everyday life.

Thunderpussy - A Tommy Bartlett Story

Show Poster and display cards (front/back)
Client: Annoyance Productions

Press Release:
What happens when two Icelandic cops, a Mexican drug lord and his handicapped wife, and a failed English gymnast and her psychic sister win an all-expenses-paid trip to the Wisconsin Dells? Well, murder of course. When these six people travel from their native countries to the Wisconsin Dells, they meet the arrogant showman Tommy Bartlett who is close to completing Thunderpussy, the most amazing rollercoaster in the history of the universe. In the midst of the lazy rivers, water shows, waterslides, jet skis, cocaine and Michael McDonald, they come face to face with evil at a children’s arcade. And to round out their experience, there is of course a drag queen toy claw machine and a six-foot tall knife wielding egg.

Sweet Ride

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Client: Paula Killen

Press Release:
"Sweet Ride", an innovative hybrid of theater, improv and audience involvement is a dark comedy about the serious nature of nothing in particular, but will include discourse on drugs, music, feminism, sex, loneliness and the nature of long-term friendships--where one person is driving and the other naturally becomes the passenger. Bumpy roads, bitter fights, smooth sailing, wrong turn, sweet ride. Get in and buckle up.

Testify

Show Poster and display cards (front/back)
Client: Annoyance Productions

Press Release:
“Testify” is a righteous comedy that centers on the eulogy of a local spiritual leader who led a life both holy and unholy. "Testify" shines a divine light on some of today's most troubling spiritual conundrums: "What do I do if someone I'm talking to starts leaking racism?", "How do I get out of bed when Stranger Danger is still at large?", "What's the secret to getting un-gay?".

The display card front design is a satirical take on the Jack Chick comics.

The Perfect Wave

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Client: Annoyance Productions

Press Release:
Kip Hardburn is the most awesome dude/gnarliest surfer in the whole town of Ondo Perfecto. Kip and his bros are totally amped for another summer of beach blanket fun and hamburger milkshakes when suddenly they are hit with a total bummer. Real Estate magnate, France Germany, plans to buy the beach and turn their surf spot into luxury condos. What a buzz kill! Now, Kip and the gang's only chance to have their beach back is to win the local surf competition and buy the beach themselves. Along the way the super sweet teens learn about life, love and how to party to the fullest without blowing chunks in the sand.