Concepcion Studios

San Jose based designer Patrick Concepcion is an incredible screen printer/ illustrator. These prints are amazing and definitely get across the attitude of Alkaline Trio.

The imagery has an interesting style to it and the limited use of red adds to the feel.

Hot Snot Print Co.

from Minneapolis

Strong visual screen printers. Incredible Work. I want to create something eye catching.

The colours are incredible and the imagine print is so simple and the red is a very appropriate colour.

Skinny Ships - Richard Perez

Richard Perez is a San Fran based Graphic Designer / Illustrator

Perez has a strong visual style which is diverse and covers a range of clients and projects.

His use of colour is something which caught my eye and something i will continue to introduce in my work. I've said time and time again that i believe a simple colour palette is a necessity in design. The simplest way is often the best.

I want a strong visual style to run through the poster work i'll be starting later on today for the Full Frame and 7 Deadly Sins poster contest

Mammoth Printshop

are an Alabama based screen printers. They just so happen to be the printers of Johnny Cupcakes' products. So there work is extremely high quality. From looking at their site the stuff they do for Johnny seems to be their most extensive work and in my opinion the best.

Douglas Wilson

Douglas Wilson is a designer, typographer, letterpresser, photographer from Springfield, no not the Simpson's home town the other Springfield. I found his work through the Keep Calm gallery. You know the gallery that produces those Keep Calm and Carry On posters that have been rinsed to fuck.

Doug's work has a clear cut style to it so simple yet effective and you can tell he has alot of fun experimenting with layout. I think simplicity is a factor i've constantly avoided throughout my graphic design formative years and now i'm finding my work is better not only aesthetically but conceptually when i'm not trying to bombard people with unusual off topics.

Editions of 90

The Home Stretch

This blog will be a continuation of everything i've researched, analysed, looked at, stolen, drawn from, copied, dissected, appropriated and used as a contextualisation to my own work. This is the start of FMP.

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Lucas Neeson

is a designer originally from Sao Paulo but studied in New York under the tutorage of Eli Kence. He also studied in the UK. His design work is pretty much entirely in black and white. A very limited colour palette is always good i think and if you can't say it in black and white it aint going to work in colour.

Simple and clean cut type works beautifully