M83’s Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming

So, it’s been a while since I have been active on here and made a post. I blame work and wed­ding plan­ning. How­ever, when it comes to my igno­rance of cur­rent events, NPR favorites, new music and most work conversations …

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Music for Working — Mogwai

Work has been crazy for me these last few months, which is great not only for the bet­ter­ment of my skills, but also for my need to catch up on the music that has been released lately. I find instrumental …

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Happy Holidays from Coolfire Media

The Hol­i­days are near and all of us at Coolfire Media would like to wish you the best with our fes­tive addi­tions to the web­site. Check out the fun fea­tures added in total CFM style!

Arcade Fire Posters: Europe

More incred­i­ble gig posters for Arcade Fire brought to us by the won­der­ful Bur­lesque Design. They have not done a poster for Arcade Fire yet that failed to be aston­ish­ing. The deci­sion of which one to pur­chase is get­ting harder …

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The Antlers — Hospice

Due to my recent redesign and sim­pli­fi­ca­tion of my web­site, I had to rid it of a few sec­tions that were, for the most part, very rarely updated and pretty heavy for the ini­tial load­ing of the page. So, in …

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Conan O’Brien Records a Spoken Word Album with Jack White

Side A starts with his insane impromptu telling of Franken­stein. I haven’t quite heard any­thing like it. Side B is his inter­view con­ducted Jack White. Equally funny. Lis­ten to it here. It is also pretty cool to hear the interview …

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Eric “Guitar” Davis at Beale on Broadway

This poster, cre­ated in con­junc­tion with the pre­vi­ous Kim Massie post, fol­lows the same guide­lines with the Blue Note Records feel but pro­motes the after party to the Big Muddy Blues Fes­ti­val that took place over last week­end. Unfor­tu­nately I …

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The Bungaloo: Fairly Recent Update

My friend and fel­low designer at the Bun­ga­loo recently updated his site with some new work. As usual, the posters are so fun to look at. I espe­cially dig his Liars poster with the torn wall­pa­per theme. Very cool. Buy them …

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Kim Massie’s Tribute to
Women & Soul

For those of you liv­ing in St. Louis, don’t miss Kim Massie’s Trib­ute to Women & Soul this Fri­day night at Beale on Broad­way. I was lucky enough to get the job design­ing the poster for the event as well …

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Jazz Sleeves Brought to Life

Impres­sively cre­ative video hon­or­ing the work of Reid Miles. This is by far one of the coolest things I have seen in a long time. You really don’t have to know a lot about Reid Miles enjoy what is going …

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