Art Direction and Design by Minga with the Mingadigm, on their project for the Cheap Shots’ band identity.
one of Milwaukee’s best party bands. and their lead singer Josh, works for TMJ4, good connect to have.

http://thecheapshots.com/home.cfm

thanks for the opportunity tCS!

Got the opportunity to work with STUCK mag on a series of layout designs for varies featured talent. Working directly with Jeff Sack, i was provided photos and copy to layout with complete freedom on the look and feel of each layout of the series. Was a journey that’s for sure, but in the end the final printed versions of the mag were super dope and my specific contributions to the mag were spot on. Couldn’t have asked for a better production run.  Colors were right on, images were crisp and clear; overall great project to work on.

Got the opportunity to work with STUCK mag on a series of layout designs for varies featured talent. Working directly with Jeff Sack, i was provided photos and copy to layout with complete freedom on the look and feel of each layout of the series. Was a journey that’s for sure, but in the end the final printed versions of the mag were super dope and my specific contributions to the mag were spot on. Couldn’t have asked for a better production run.  Colors were right on, images were crisp and clear; overall great project to work on.

Specifically this Copperpot spread was pretty interesting. I read the write up on dude and figured out how i could play up all these little nuances from his hometown and first beat maker and such to really engage the reader in the narrative. pretty cool.

Huge project to kick of the year! Got invited by my man Michael over at Ocupop to lead the production on their release of HTML5 tees. Ocupop is the creative behind the entire html 5 identity that dropped earlier this week,  http://www.w3.org/html/logo/ . Partnering with W3C.org they got this thing up in a hurry!. step one for me was to take the html 5 icon, separate for printing. step two, get garments in to print. step three, confirm quality and color matching. step four, coordinate the fulfillment with print shop. step five, take additional identity assets and mock-up additional apparel and other promo items. serious amounts of communication and lots of coffee put this thing all together. many thanks to Ocupop for the opportunity and to W3C for jumping behind it and promoting it. now, go grab yours at http://html5shirt.com/

Art Direction and Creation of this custom branded illustration for a new Europe in the Air ride. Client had supplied their logo and had us create a much more compelling graphic to be used on retail merchandise for the park.

graphics are property of Straight-Up, Inc. any other logo’s, graphics, licenses or client assets are still under copyright and trademark of the respective client(s)

Art Direction and Creation of this custom illustration for Hallo-Scream promo event at Busch Gardens. Had a blast creating this graphic for them; sold them on a zombie concept and i couldn’t have been happier!

graphics are property of Straight-Up, Inc. any other logo’s, graphics, licenses or client assets are still under copyright and trademark of the respective client(s)

Art Direction and creation of branded marketing and promotional assets to accompany Sprite’s Step Off competition. Client gave us access to some of their branding and guidelines for the event, along with a simple request of keeping it cohesive. we moved forward creating some really compelling graphics that were well received by the client, noted by their repeat business.

graphics are property of Straight-Up, Inc. any other logo’s, graphics, licenses or client assets are still under copyright and trademark of the respective client(s)