I designed this skateboard deck to help out the folks at the Bordo Bello, a skateboard art fundraiser. The event is put on by the AIGA and all of the proceeds go directly to two places: Access Gallery and Youth Design Denver. All of the skateboards are going to be shown and auctioned off on December 11th at the Andenken gallery. A lot of incredible designers and illustrators are going to be there, are you? Learn more here: http://www.bordobello.com/about/

The design is influenced by the Mexican Day of the Dead celebration and also the tradition of vanitas still life painting, learn more about them here.

Denver was a winter wonderland last week, so it feels appropriate to bring out the holiday work. Enjoy. (Client: Western Union Elements: Spot illustrations, Hand Done Type & Posters)

I recently had the pleasure of working with the folks over at Western Union. I created a series of spot illustrations for their transaction sheet, that’ll be in every store ,and will explain how your money gets from point A, to point B in the Western Union system.

Mustache Madness illustration, Día de los Muertos style. (For those of you who don’t know, “Día de los Muertos” in Spanish, and “The Day of the Dead” in english, is a holiday celebrated mainly in Latin America and by Latinos. The holiday focuses on gatherings of family and friends to pray for and remember friends and family members who have died. Read More Here) Enjoy.

This illustration is now available as a high quality, 4 color limited edition silk screen in my store! Buy one!

Someday baseball will be played in outer space and we will have to deal with eight armed Boston fans catching our foul balls. Then, and only then, will the 70′s baseball stache’ be back in style. Until that happens we’ll just have to settle for Orlando Hudson’s pirate mustache. Enjoy this illustration!

Mustache Madness, day two! Meet Mr. Tuesday. Mr Tuesday enjoys long walks on the beach, monocles, reciting the alphabet, and of course Charlie Chaplin style mustaches. All type was hand done by yours truly, enjoy!

Get the Work You Want, is a booklet put together by the Art Directors Club of Denver. It is about how to market yourself in a tough economy. And while getting the work you want is mostly about hard work & perseverance, after many focus groups & one on one interviews with roller coaster tycoons and sports car test drivers, we concluded it’s also about owning a rocket propelled pencil guided by an old school mainframe computer. This illustration includes hand done type by yours truly. Click through for a larger version. Thanks to Jordan Sher for writing this booklet, and Jarrod Weaton for the art direction.

I’m celebrating all things mustache this week by posting a new and exciting mustache illustration each day this week. Here’s Monday’s illustration, a solid full bodied 1930′s stache’ inspired by none other than the eternally handsome Oliver Wendell Holmes. Enjoy.

I’ve recently been inspired by several illustrators who use a lot of hand done type in their illustrations to add some type to my own illustrations. Until I can post those goodies, here are some highlights from past projects where hand done type played a big roll.

Project: Jordan Sher, www.MyHeadFullofIdeas.com

Project: Personal Newsletter/Website

Project: Van’s Waffles, Client: Sterling Rice Group

This is an illustration sample from a children’s book I’m working on, titled The Case of Mr. Mapple’s Stolen Apples. Which is the story of a farmer (Mr. Mapple) who has some apples come up missing one day. My guess is that the bees might have taken them… but who knows! Click through for a larger version.