Portland Zine Symposium

This weekend is the 10th annual Portland Zine Symposium. This will be my 5th year tabling at the Symposium, I think. If you’re in the Portland area, swing by the gym at PSU on Saturday or Sunday, it’s free to attend.
IPRC Seal

The Independent Publishing Resource Center asked me to come up with an official seal for them, based on the state seal of Maine, but with more IPRC-related icons. I was more than happy to oblige.
MFNW Poster Process
Every year in Portland there is a city-wide music happening called MusicfestNW. My friends at Tender Loving Empire asked me to design the poster for their showcase last year, and I must’ve done an OK job because they asked me to do the same this year.
All the bands involved in this show are ones that I have seen multiple times and really like, so that’s always a bonus. The show is in early September, right at the end of summer/beginning of fall, and I liked the concept of someone making the last ditch summer effort of making some cutoffs, even though it is about to cool down soon.


I designed this to be a three-color poster, the first being a split-fountain gradient to re-create the sunburned feet/pale legs. The paper is a light blue, which will show through in the cutoffs and flip-flops.

Then a dark blue layer.

And here they are after a final, deep pink layer.
PDA? Hands Away

I created this set of illustrations for an article in this week’s Willamette Week, one of Portland’s weekly newspapers. The article is about a talk being given this week on how different public displays of affection are viewed within the queer community as well as the world at large.
There’s a lot more copy that they worked into the illustration. Each couple’s pose has a name, description, and a ranking of how acceptable or unacceptable it is. It printed in grayscale, but I thought it would look good with a sort of vintage-y offset color scheme, so I went ahead and did that.



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