I recently finished up this shirt design for a record label out of Michigan called The Great Lakes Collective. I have to say, sometimes I really enjoy the challenge of working for a client and solving the problem of creating what they’re imagining. In this case, a wise blue owl nestled in a tree shaped like Michigan.

Without hesitation, we can safely say that when it comes to genuine, kind, and musically uber-talented dudes, Canton, Ohio seems to have them in spades.  The guys who make up Shaw’s Landing are part of that burgeoning and highly-promising music scene, and can often be found stirring things up with the scruffy troublemakers in Come Wind and A Minor Bird.  We’re ardent fans of the whole crew, and had a blast working on the visual aspects of their new release, ‘I Stand In the Balance’.  This is a record ripe with meaning and Mystery, a moving dynamic that we sought to compliment with the album illustration and design.

We just sent off files for a new shirt design for previous clients, PK, who you may have spotted in a recent issue of Rolling Stone. They’re currently involved in a competition to grace the cover of the magazine. In addition to that, they’re currently giving away their album Into the Roaring for free, so head on over to their website and check it out!

Houston’s Scale the Summit is a band fully capable of forging its own path. With the 2009 release of their second full-length, ‘Carving Desert Canyons’, the young band (an average age of 22) brazenly declared themselves instrumentalists worthy of holding their own on tour with bands like Dream Theater, Between the Buried and Me, Cynic, Protest the Hero, and Misery Signals. Their highly anticipated new record, ‘The Collective’, drops on March 1st, and international fervor for the album is already building.

Guitarist, Chris Letchford, contacted us about designing a shirt representative of a truly epic track called “Whales” – it, and other songs by the band, can be listened to on the band’s Facebook page. We decided to go literal with this one, creating the shirt you see below. It, and several other different color combinations, should be available from the band soon.