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Our 11th  Hour will be playing at ShamROCKS Rock and Roll Irish Pub on April 4th. We’ll be playing with DJ Seedz at 9pm. If you’ve been waiting for a good night to come see us, this is the one to see. Our material is completed and we’ll be playing a full set. We will [...]

Here’s another easy trick you can do with Adobe Photoshop that I learned from the Something Awful forums a handful of years ago. Basically, all you’re going to do is mask out your (or whoever else’s) head, then mask out your facial features, then vertically flip your head and clone stamp the background. Sounds easy [...]

I created an updated identity system for Syracuse Label. It is still in the preliminary stages, but this is the general idea of it. I modified the existing logo (which looks somewhat similar to the black “peeling away” label in the center of the new version) to incorporate the new name. It uses the negative [...]

Here’s a fun trick you can do somewhat easily with Photoshop. I love the subtlety of this photo manipulation because many people don’t realize it has been taken under the “knife.” In this tutorial, I will teach you how to make your camera disappear and trick your viewers with this optical illusion.
What you’ll need is [...]

I made this after spending four hours making all sorts of other designs and ultimately having nothing to show for it.

http://groggie.deviantart.com/art/Design-is-Really-Hard-96146944

I just designed what will be our full logo for Our 11th Hour (the “wings” design will remain as a little identifier). The idea was to subtly reference a clock and I wanted to use my usual minimalist style. I just really like how everything lines up; most notably the “TH” lines up with the [...]

Not sure if anyone would want to use this, but I made it for myself and figure I’d put it up anyway. It’s just a desktop wallpaper featuring the new Groggie.com logo. It’s 1440×900, and I’ll gladly make other aspect ratios if anyone actually wants one.

http://groggie.deviantart.com/art/Groggie-com-Wallpaper-93845496

I designed this one around the lyrics of the song I wrote for Our 11th Hour with the same name.

http://groggie.deviantart.com/art/Falling-For-You-92309659

The theme behind this compilation album is that the topic is randomized (via Wikipedia), and musicians write original songs based on that article. This time the topic is the Panama Canal. This is the album art I made for it.

This is the album cover for the Musician’s Lounge compilation where song lengths are all 30 seconds max. I thought this was a neat concept for that idea.

http://groggie.deviantart.com/art/Short-Music-for-People-w-ADD-89487270
(7/6/08 Update) Check out the thread about it on Something Awful, or click here for a direct link to the album. My songs are track six and nineteen.

http://groggie.deviantart.com/art/Hoover-Dam-Panorama-89018010

http://groggie.deviantart.com/art/Bellagio-Waterfront-89018302

http://www.flickr.com/photos/groggie/2589522698/in/photostream/

I’ve sort of reached a niche for my recent design style- not sure if that’s a good or bad thing, but I think most artists have periods where their design traits have similarities. I am glad that I found a style that I really like, so I guess it is a good thing. Let’s see [...]

http://groggie.deviantart.com/art/Indie-Poster-Design-87466317
(7/1/2008 Update) This poster was selected to be licensed for sale at PostersForHumans.com. I’ll link to my poster’s page once it’s up.

I thought I’d make a simple poster design for my band. This is a little banner with the band name tangled with some vines.

http://Groggie.deviantart.com/art/Our-11th-Hour-87293413

A darkness as black as… Oh, I don’t know… Oil? Inspired by Kazimir Malevich’s “Black Square.”

http://groggie.deviantart.com/art/A-Darkness-87230052
(8/29/2008 Update) This image will be featured in the “Buy This” Exhibition at the Anton Art Center.

An ode to Helvetica Light and Ultralight. I tried to focus on the two definitions of “light,” so that is why the elements of the light post and the sun are included. It also represents typographical integration in that the type is silhouetted in the sun; integrating type doesn’t need to be complicated.

http://groggie.deviantart.com/art/I-Love-Helvetica-Neue-Light-85561898

Well, the part that makes us do stupid things.

http://groggie.deviantart.com/art/The-Human-Brain-85467284

We took our first promo photos and they turned out pretty well- especially since they were just a whim by Pat and Marty.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/groggie/sets/72157604896328116/
http://www.groggie.com/music/our11thhour/

I just updated the Groggie.com logo to get rid of my stupid face as the main identity for the site. It needed the update anyway, since my face has represented the site since about 2005 and has outlasted all three of the major overhauls. Well, here it is. It should be easier to get used [...]

This was for the same digital illustration project as “Through the Eyes of Conservatism.” This is my pro-Obama campaign poster.

http://groggie.deviantart.com/art/Barack-Obama-Change-84384578
(6/2/08 Update) This image will be featured in the Propaganda or Propaganda? Exhibition at SUNY Oswego.