NEW WORK: THOR ESPRESSO BAR SHIRT/PACKAGING
Bandito Design Co. was approached by Thor Espresso Bar to create a few items for their boutique coffee shop. They wanted a shirt to represent their tagline of "Powered by Thor" and they wanted to expand their product line to accommodate a bottled "cold brew" coffee.
Powered by Thor "T"-shirt... get it?
Custom lettering for the FROST GIANT logo. Dimension was achieved with a halftone effect.
The "FROST GIANT" name was proposed to fit with the Norse mythology theme of the brand.
The label is designed to wrap about halfway around the "Boston-style" tinted bottle. With so much information to include, the 5" x 5" label's space needed to sectioned off appropriately so the important bits weren't lost.
THE GIG POSTER GRAVEYARD
When a band emails you, big or small, and they like your style enough to ask you to design a poster for their next gig/tour, it feels pretty good. I've had the privilege of making merch for bands like Bright Eyes/Conor Oberst, David Bazan, Panic at the Disco, Rocky Votolato, The Felice Brothers, and more.
Sometimes, I get carried away and stray from my normal "you get three options to choose from" and go overboard with five or six concepts for a band to choose from. Often, it works out to my benefit with the band picking two, or one now and one later, or even "wow! let's print all five as a set for the next tour!", which really only happened once. This method, however, results in a good amount of unused designs.
What you see here are some of my favorite poster designs that have been gathering dust on the cutting room floor. The actual band names have been changed to protect the innocent.
If you know a band that might be interested in some hand-me-down designs, let me know. One band's trash could be another band's treasure!