Over the past three years, I have created my own silk-screen studio in the basement of my home. Assembling old lumber, found objects, Craigslist purchases and custom engineered parts to make what I call “Studio-B”. “B” is for basement, of course! It is always a work in progress but allows me the freedom to make Gig Posters or just fool around with art print ideas.

Eventually, I will upgrade my equipment. Here is how you can help out! Commission me to design/print a poster.

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This year the Good Food Collective wanted to re-skin the WordPress site with these goals in mind:

1. Stay Contemporary, not make a conventional farm/food site

2. Think Universal for future year brand updates

3. Fun Typography

4. Focus on Usability

Chris Hartman thinks I nailed it. The result is a consistent, functional site that confirms the GFC brand of a contemporary model for a local food system. The other component of the project is the posters and post cards. Soon to appear here and around Rochester.

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As an Americana music fan, venues for this type of music have been popping up in cities around the country. Rochester has one that I have great admiration, Abilene Bar and Lounge. Owned by Danny Deutsch. Danny has brought great vision to the music scene in town. Landing great acts like Bill Kirchen, Miss Tess and the Bon Ton Parade, Eilen Jewel, David Mayfield Parade (another parade) and many more cool acts.

With deep respect and kind regards, I responded to the upcoming show of a favorite band of mine, David Wax Museum, with designing and printing a show poster. Using found imagery and typography, I created this poster as a 4-color silk screen (silver, golden rod, red and black ink on Neenah Classic Crest Avon Brilliant White 110 pound cover. Final run was 45 posters.

I hope to land more jobs like this in 2012 and kick up the show poster culture in Rochester to a new level.

A small and exciting 4 page website for Meridian Capital Corporation. The site uses typographic style and brand colors for a unique group providing funding for small businesses. The project includes the addition of a 60 second time based movie to introduce the visitor to the groups brand messaging. The site is a WordPress theme to allow the client to update their own content if they decide to do so in the future. View the website with this link: http://www.meridiancapitalcorporation.com

I printed up a small number of these promotional wearable items in my “Studio B”. Also known as my basement. They use the brand messaging and typography developed for Bona Fide Coffee.

We are entering our 10th year of Goshen Coffee. The website is a custom theme created for WordPress. Visit the website here: http://www.goshencoffee.com

Each year we evolve the GFC materials. This year we choose a stock photo image to use in the header. Which also translated into the printed promotional material. We use WordPress to manage all the content. It includes a series of plugins for contact forms and eCommerce. Visit the site at: http://www.thegoodfoodcollective.com

This is the first project that I worked on with Laura Kammermeier of Honeoye Falls business, Birds, Words and Websites. Mydarndest was contracted to consult, design and program a new website for Seneca White Deer, Inc. This site includes lots of content developed by Laura about the White Deer and the Seneca Army Depot. On this side of the project, we worked out developing a donation and membership system using Cforms plugin. Including the use of the plugins auto-replies to help with the process. It also includes the ability of making online purchases using WP e-Commerce Plug-in. The core structure of the web site was created using the Thesis theme per request of client.

The project is a solid use of WordPress and its available plug-ins to help this small non-profit. We can report that within 4 hours of launching the web site there were 2 requests for membership!

During my term as President of AIGA Upstate New York, I was fortunate enough to have Debbie Millman of Sterling Brands visit Rochester for a lecture. Part of my responsibility was to design promotional materials for the event. Creating something that touches upon contemporary typography and stays withing AIGA brand standards. Posters were printed and sold at the event. Debbie was kind enough to sign them to add to the overall success of the evening.