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The design for The Honey Dewdrops packaging for the 2012 release, Silver Lining was inspired by a fabulous book called There Is No Eye - John Cohen Photographs and the accompanying CD, There Is No Eye - Music For Photographs, as well as the style of old Blue Note LPs from the 50s and 60s. We had the amazing good fortune of the photography of Jack Looney to work with.
The design for Larry Stone’s Thistles & Salt was inspired by an old weather-beaten photo that Stone found while looking through the ruins of an old friend’s home that had been abandoned. Among the debris he found the photo and his friend’s bible. He brought me a knarly, thistle from his farm to photograph that was prickly as hell! The hands on the back cover are my husband’s :)
The band wanted something different from the package for other merch items like stickers and business cards so I came up with this linocut illustration. Now we are also using the design on T-shirts.
The tour poster features the photography of Jack Looney.
The packaging design for Big Slyde was inspired by a combination of Hatch Show Print style posters and old fruit crate logos. Both fit well with the band’s concept of naming the record after a variety of apple called the Honey Gold.
I did custom linocut prints for the logo type as well as the cover, back cover and label art. Printmaking is one of my passions, so I’m super psyched when I have the opportunity to use it in a design.
Safetycan, the synthpop collection by songwriter turned DJ Jon Margulies was a dreamy mixture of warm analog and digital sounds. We tried to capture this feeling with the digitized photo of the vacuum tube on the cover. This image inspired our new Beehive Productions logo that we use today.
The design for a.k.a george’s Two Tone Throwback was inspired by band member Ron Key’s love of vintage cars and guitars.
The package for Dan Seiden’s Orville was done during a time that I was obsessed with the polaroid image transfer and emulsion transfer processes. Dan dug it too so we went with it. All of the photos are were taken and processed by me. The album title refers to Orville Gibson, the father of the Gibson guitar. Several vintage Gibsons were used on the recording, including the 1916 L-1 archtop that appears on the inner tray card and a photo of Gibson’s headstone appears on the inside of the booklet. The cover logo is hand-lettered.
The storybook-like themes of singer/songwriter Marc Teamaker’s Ping leant themselves to our whimsical approach to the design of this package. Each of the nine images on the cover has a specific meaning to the artsist.
I modified an existing linocut for the cover of this CD for singer/songwriter Brendan O’Donnell. I also shot
This package is a compilation/sampler of blues greats like B.B. King, Joe Louis Wells, Etta James and Taj Mahal for the Monster Music imprint.
Jazz guitarist Dave Moreno is also a mixed media artist. All of the watercolor and torn-paper collages are his work. I’m always blown away by multi talented people like him.
We did a custom, two-color, spot printing on Speckletone paper by French Paper Co. for this package for jazz guitarist Bill Borris. At the time his label was making limited edition releases for some of its artists. They hand-embossed a limited number! Super cool!
Here is a collection of oldies but goodies from the archives.
Erykah Badu’s debut release, Baduism, was also the first full-length that I designed for Universal/Motown Records. The record went triple-platinum. I hand-lettered the logo type for that as well as for Billie Myer’s Growing Pains.
