Posts tagged "design"

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Jul 07

July 08, 2009

here are a couple things i did at the airport or right before the trip. ld got asked to do a bigger tour this fall so i wanted to do all new designs for it, a couple are here. they aren’t quite finished but pretty close. the pencil sketch with the flower and candle is also for that tour, and the pencil sketch of the fast food employee is for native. i’ll also be uploading some stuff soon (within a few days if all goes well) that i’ll be working on for australian friends Quiet Steps and To The North. Also, fellow aussie Ruined Lighthouse Records, don’t think I forgot about you. I finished your design on the plane and am waiting for you to approve before I show it off here.

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trend design arrows

Jul 22

Want to say it

saying this now in hopes of beating a curve, but i’m predicting arrows become the new trend in band design to replace all seeing eyes. check up on this in like 2 months and see if i’m right. i’m admittedly guilty of using both.


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shirts sketches design la dispute to the north quiet steps art

Jul 26

Sketches July 26, 2009

Here are just some inks of things I’m working on. Looking forward to digitizing them and getting them cleaned up.
These first two, an owl and a group of mice, are going to be together for a to the north shirt. they’ll be seperated by text. i drew them on seperate pieces of paper so i could draw them bigger and resize them in photoshop, so here they are as seperate scans.
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Up next is a design for quiet steps. Its goin to be a 2 color tshirt print, black and neon green on white, and i’m also going to paint it digitally for their record art.

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lastly are a couple lighthouses i sketched for a la dispute shirt. the pencily one was a bigger attempt at the inked one which was my initial idea but drawn very small. plan to paint it in watercolors then bitmap it for screen printing.

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holidays painting design tattoos sale discounts

Nov 13

Holiday Season & Tattoos

the holidays are approaching, which means a lot of people need gifts, and i need to be able to afford to get people gifts. a simple way to work this out is for you to purchase or commission paintings from me! i will do work for you to give as a gift at a lower rate than i normally would so that i can purchase gifts for my loved ones. contact me at adamxvass@gmail.com.

also winter means a lot of bands going on tour for winter break. i’ll be doing discounted rates for shirt design’s during the rest of november and december, so get at me to take advantage of that as well. adamxvass@gmail.com.


that being said, i have two more tattoos i designed to post. one of them on myself even. 4 of my best friends and myself got this matching owl boxer on our left forearms. each of us got a different symbol on the tshirt, mine is the E for equality shown here.
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the second is one i should have uploaded earlier on my favorite tour manager, shay. i drew this up on the thursday/fall of troy tour last month and two weeks after i left, he got it done on his shoulder. pretty proud of this one, just black and white:
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merch shirts design art

Nov 17

New Shirt Designs

been doing some shirt designs for the first time in a long time lately. running some price breaks on them for bands/groups interested in getting something done, contact me at adamxvass@gmail.com.






merch shirts painting design native merchant ships art

Dec 15

Been A Month

I probably shouldn’t go a month at a time without updating. I was gone on tour with a great band called Touche Amore and let my work take a major backseat to having fun for a couple weeks. Here is most of the stuff I made in that time. Be on the lookout for new art on ladisputemusic.com and myspace.com/ladispute that will correlate to the artwork on some 7”s we have being prepared. also working on artwork for a 3rd edition of here, hear which will come out on christmas via digital download.





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Jan 26

Shirt Designs

a couple things i’m pretty proud of that i did, mostly this week.






also, a couple of the shirts i designed for our band are now available at www.hellfishfamily.com to purchase. a few more are on their way in the webstore this week.


former thieves are the best band around right now in the middle west and i’m stoked to see that design get printed. if you don’t believe me, watch this:

Former Thieves - Dead Horses Are Turned Into Glue (LIVE) from Tim Dodd on Vimeo.


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Feb 17

A much needed update

looking for work big time right now. we are leaving on tour in about a month and i won’t have much time to work between then and july because of a lot of touring, which is a blessing and a curse, but please contact me if you’d like something done. adamXvass@gmail.com. 1 bigger project going on right now but i’m definitely looking for more.

that being said, here is a collection of things that I’ve done in the past month since my last update.
for la dispute/touche amore split 7” art, a drawing of an abandoned house in indiana on 3 layers of tracing paper (idea borrowed from mez

flash sheet for valentines day, just for the hell of it
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painting for my mom’s birthday

tentative split art, not done yet

poster for bledfest

poster for sxsw tour featuring dustin hoffman of mr magorium’s wonder emporium (cities are a placeholder, don’t contact me about dates)

make do and mend tshirt


and lastly, to people that follow my blog, you know this is a big deal for me and something i’ve been working towards for some time: i got a tattoo machine. grapefruits for now, but my roommates getting one soon and i’ll post updates.


drawing sketch design soda art

Feb 24

Feeling Good

I feel pretty accomplished today, not entirely sure why. I just finished up an album art project that I’ve been working with for a couple weeks, which is the likely reason, so I went out and got some vegan garbage from Brick Road Pizza and then indulged in some sodas. I recently registered and will soon be updating a blog called Buds & Suds (http://budsnsuds.tumblr.com) where I review different small brew sodas. My long term goal is to get enough traffic that brewers will want me to review their soda and then send me some :).

quite possibly my favorite soda and australian import BUNDABERG was on sale at world market today so I had to get a 4 pack:


there were also some crunchie bars near expiration so they were 50% off and i snagged some. that store has a serious pop selection.

Oh yeah, I did some work too:





paintings sketches alexisonfire design drawings therefore i am la dispute art trash talk tour

Apr 30

Update From The Road

I’m in a hot backroom in Atlanta Georgia and feeling motivated to show off some things I’ve drawn/painted on this tour. Before I do, I’d like to link you to a few blogs that are far better at recounting tour events than mine:

My band, La Dispute, has a website where we post pictures/videos/whatever from the road. It is usually pretty well kept. It is located at http://www.ladisputemusic.com.

My friend, room mate, and now tour manager also recounts tales of adventure on his new blog, Unicorn Blood. He probably has enough embarassing pictures of me by now to bury me, so I’m linking to him in an effort to keep him happy. http://colinmccarthy.wordpress.com.

Lastly, Therefore I Am’s tour manager Erin takes a million photos then takes a long time to sort through them and posts the winners on her website http://erinirerin.blogspot.com/. If she doesn’t link back to me, I’m going to be pissed. If she doesn’t read http://www.BUDSNSUDS.org I will be way more pissed, I bet her a slurpee date that its funny, and I know its funny.

On with the pictures. Peep these and leave me feedback if you feel compelled. Thank you for continuing to read my blog when sometimes I fail to update it regularly.