jimbos rock lounge

coming soon to west ashley will be my friend, jimbo webbs' new live music venue, jimbo's rock lounge. picture gene simmon's living room with a live band rockin the house. jimbo is well known in local rock circles and he came to us to create the feel of a hot rock & roll club/lounge. keep your ears and eyes open for information about the opening of this exciting new venue. rock on.

carolina billfish classic

coming this spring is a new billfish tournament to be held out of mount pleasant. we created the identity for the tournament and are busy working on classic hand silkscreened posters
for the event. tight lines everyone.

taxidermy lady

at the fair they have a large exhibit barn that folks pay to have a small space to advertise their business. there was a lady there with her stuffed dead animals. the photo here is of the rare "tabletop raccoon". of course it is not alive, it is stuffed. the live ones are real easy to catch though.

appetizing photos

don't these photos of fries make your mouth water? yummay...

packaging

as a designer of packaging, labels, etc., you got to appreciate the simplicity of these. plus look at the size of the salt container. "put some o dat salt an hot sauce on dat frided dough, it will kickass!"

pizza?

with hair. i always love the food illustrations on the vendors at the fair. this one is gross even without the hair on it.

the coastal carolina fair

well it's fair time again and i am pleased to say that me and my family love the fair. we go every year and have a ball. i took some interesting photos--well i think they are interesting. i will post a few over the next few days. since i am a typography guy i had to post this one first."fresh CLIT fries". can you believe they sell those out there? i thought it was a family affair. mo to come...

dennis and cree

check these guys out, dennis and cree. first, what kind of name is cree? and if this is one side, then the other side must be super freaky. "now on itunes".

how bout this?

esquire leather cream. enough said.

purple drink?

no, orange drink. why don't they name drinks like this anymore. simple, no nonsense name: orange drink. right on!

camp jug

another cool find, literally. this is just he name plate, but very sweet--cold or hot. how do it know?

more barn jams

here are a few more barn jam posters. they happen every week so soon we can have awhole dang cupboard full! fun times, good music.

lil wally

check out this album. lil wally, the polka king. a giant tree with, i guess, lil wallys floating head, as santa? that is a memorable gift.

awesome

this is an old flour sifter. how freaking nice is that design?! simple, beautiful, great colors. best find of the day.

hello everybody

well its been a couple weeks since my last post. thankfully we have been really busy. anyway, i been to a few yard sales, junk shops and have few new things to show you. to my right is packaging for ox blood dressing--for leather goods. i wonder if they still bleed oxen to make red leather beautiful? this is a good example of nice typography and one color packaging. probably 75 years old. nice blood.

travis allison band

i recently had the pleasure of working with travis allison of the travis allison band to create the art for his new album. i know i said album, but i am old school and that is the way i roll. anyway, here is the cover, go out and buy it and see the rest. rock on.

drivin n cryin with leslie--again

sadler vaden of leslie asked me to create another poster for the DNC oct 3 show. he wanted a down n dirty, 4 barrel carb type of look. so i obliged.

new barn jam

this weds, sept. 16, another killer barn jam at awendaw green. see if you can come.

new barn jam

this weds, sept. 16, another killer barn jam at awendaw green. see if you can come.

barns jams for sale

every wednesday night at awendaw green (can you tell they are good buddies) they have a barn jam. i am working on a series of posters of barn jams and jellies for the the music cupboard. i have completed two and working on a third. hopefully there will be full cupboard soon.

drivin n cryin with leslie

also comin up in october at the music farm is the drivin n cryin show with local power trio, leslie. i created this poster for my friend, sadler vaden of leslie. lemme know if you like it. it was fun. should be a kickass show.

yo shedders!

things have been busy in the shed! i really haven't had time to post new stuff. plus college football is in full swing so that takes away some saturday time. i hope everyone is ready for fall, it looks to be a banger. attached is the new art/poster/tshirt for Rocktoberfest 09, the awendaw green music festival. it is a fundraiser for the Charleston Band Instrument Fund. 4 days of music and fun-in the woods-camping allowed. come on out, stand around the fire, drinks some beers, wiggle to some music.

teacher/student concert

well the local school of rock, music unlimited, is getting ready for another teacher/student concert so my friend chris holly asked me to come up with something to put on a poster/tshirt for this amazing, enormous, loud, carzy music extravaganza at the windjammer. chris had given me several names, one of which was "schools in". i liked that so i went from there. oh yea, chris also mentioned if i could include the "hail satan" rock and roll gesture somewhere. check it out.
rock on my friends.

frank

this saturday, aug.28, local guitar legend, frank carlier is playing at awendaw green. they asked me to create a poster for that event so i found this old photo of frank and redrew it so he is the devil. ooooh. frank has a reputation as a tough mofo so this fit just fine. everybody doug it.

protect yourself

hey yall! been a little while. i have been busy with work and such so i am sorry for the delay in putting up new stuff. my good friend mark sloan (director of the halsey institute for contemporary art at the college of charleston) gave me this flyer yesterday. i thought all you folks, whoever you are, would enjoy this and think seriously about making this hat. you never know what's out there.

youth gives back

here's a recent poster i designed for a benefit two day concert event at awendaw green. some great, young local bands are gonna turn it up for camp happy days. try and go out there and see some of our areas talented young musicians. this town is cocked and ready for a musical renaissance.

"art it up"

people give me trash all the time. i guess cause i like it. when i refer to trash, it's really just something other people don't want. i don't mean old french fries. anyway, a few years ago a dear friend found some old pieces of chrome/laminate table tops(from the 5o's). she knew i owned several tables and chairs like that so she thought i could do something with the pieces. well i created this wall sculpture. (if you want to call it that) i had been planning on putting it up here for a few years and finally got around to it. so now if you come by the shop you can see him. we will call him jack banning--for now. talk amongst yourself.

jack banning

who the hell is jack banning? famous golfer? famous fictional golfer? fictional golf brand? i was given this cool old game a while ago by an old friend. this game dates back to the '50's and features wooden pins that are in proportion to a golf ball (as a bowling pin is to a bowling ball). anyway, we have had fun playing it but we still can't figure out where jack banning comes into play. and why jack banning? i guess this is a mystery only the old designer of the box can shed light on. great handdone type and colors. i dig it.

shem creek trash

since it was an abnormal high tide yesterday (6'8") at 8:20 pm, my wife, robin, our friend cindy trimnal and me decided to take my boat out and round up trash. the trash really comes out of the marsh when the water is real high. you can see in the photo three buckets(gray, blue and green), those were some of the trash floating around. in the recycling bin behind the buckets are misc cans and bottles plus a small portable toilet. folks, i cannot describe how much trash are in our waterways. so the next time you are out fishing, boating, playing or in the water, if you see a floating bottle, can or toilet, pick it up. every little bit helps. rock on.

2009 battle of the bands

here is the new battle poster designed by my man mark lawrence. hail satan!

makes ironing easy

found this old package recently. very cool type and you cannot go wrong with red and black. that could be your mother or maybe your uncle dressed up for a night out. love that TOPS type!

vinnie barbarino

a few years ago my buddy dave"schmingy" griffiths, mark lawrence and i were out in texas at the austin city limits festival. there were thousands and thousands of people there and damn if we didn't run into john travolta. i got a good shot of him. this picture makes me laugh everytime i see it. enjoy.

uno mas

my friends sal and andrea asked me to create a new logo for their southwestern cafe. i had some fun with this one so i thought i would share it with you. i swear i will get back to some old interesting advertising and such real soon. go visit uno mas, they're having live music on specific nights. adios.

new show

hey yall! some kickass music comin to town. out at my favorite new venue, awendaw green, is joel t.hamilton and a few others for a canned good drive for the low country food bank. just finished the poster. thought you guys might enjoy it. more to come...

cool stuff

hey people! i have been out of town recently so my updates to the shed have been few. i got a good one here. recently i have been searching for "scrambler" seat--from the old amusement ride, "the scrambler". so anyway, a friend of mine was able to turn me on to this auction company that specializes in those types of items. well because of my absence, i missed this amazing auction. dammit! the photos here are just a taste of the hundreds(and i mean hundreds) of items they had up for auction. amazing stuff!(for me anyway). if anyone out there knows of other auctions or places that sell this type of old amusement items, please contact me.
thanks. rock on.

YOU HE MAN

a while back my good friend, mark sloan, a connoisseur of all things weird, gave me this 60 year old brochure on creating a kickass body and becoming a he man. i have included the cover and a couple spreads. notice how crazy they are with the type and sentences cross gutters, font size changes--some paste up artist needed the adderall. you know, there aint much else i can say about this except, enjoy!