2 very old Whigs shirts plus a Whigs truck stop crew neck sweatshirt and a semi-recent photo.  Fun!

These Whigs shirts are from around the release of ‘In The Dark’.

Oh i love this one.  I got to design pizza boxes for local pizza gurus Transmetropolitan.  It was especially fun since Lily and I met at Transmetropolitan while she was working there in like 2002.  I love the dudes that run/own the place, i love the pizza, i love the pizza boxes.  We printed some shirts with the pizza box design on them.  Whoo hoo!

I do a lot of work with an Athens, GA based merchandise company called .  These shirts are printed with the logo i designed for them a few years ago.  Its actually based on a painting by a UGA professor in the 60s.  Weird.

I did this Tokyo Police Club shirt at the same time i did the other one several years ago but i never posted it.  So… here it is!  It’s for the ladies.

This is just a couple of old Manchester Orchestra designs i did in 2007/08.

A shirt for Mimosa based on their album artwork.  We did another one as well but i don’t have one.  Whoops!

Some stuff i did for some cool guys who call themselves Ezra Furman & the Harpoons.

Here’s a Dead Confederate (awesomely dudes from Athens) shirt with a logo i did for them printed on it.  How bout it.

Here’s another Cinemechanica shirt i did years ago… i think they took this one to Japan with them or something crazy.  Who knows?!  Anyway, its a fun one.  I love those dudes.  (That’s Ziggy to the left, inspecting)

Hugh Acheson is a badass.  He’s got two restaurants in Athens (5&10 and the National), one in Atlanta (Empire State South), just did a fantastic stint on Top Chef Masters, has an awesome cookbook coming out this fall and i have a feeling you’ll be seeing a lot more of him soon.  Here’s some of the shirts i’ve done for 5&10 and Empire State South.

The Four Coursemen are a motley group of culinarians in Athens, GA who put on bi-weekly dinner parties for people with quick mouse fingers and celebrity status.  They are very good friends of mine and fantastic dudes. These are some shirts we did together.

Just like we did for their first album, the Whigs wanted to have a shirt based on the album artwork for their second lp, “Mission Control”.  Both records were designed the legendary Chris Bilheimer (R.E.M., Green Day, Neutral Milk Hotel, Widespread Panic and countless others), who is both a great friend and design mentor to me.

One of a handful of shirts I designed for Tokyo Police Club earlier this year.  These guys are super sweet and put on an awesome live show to boot.  

Believe it or not, this shirt was originally designed for exclusive sale at Hot Topic in the mall.  After it had been in the store for awhile, we changed the colors and took it on tour.  I can’t remember what the original colors for Hot Topic were.  

I’ll be honest with you, I tried to sell this design to a handful of bands before somebody went for it. It’s definitely in my personal top 5 favorites. I based this design, roughly, on a Circle Jerks shirt that I saw in a book. Since then I’ve sought out as many Circle Jerks shirts as I can find, they are all amazingly designed.  

I only printed 13 (i think) of this shirt.  Kevin’s drummer, Mike Skinner, and I decided to surprise Kevin with these shirts for a show they were playing on April 20th, 2008 (4-20 dude!).  It was a total last minute, spurt-of-the-moment decision but it was well worth it.  The design is based on an amazing Jim Croce shirt from the late 60s or early 70s.  

These photos were taken by my wife, Lily (she’s taken almost all of these photos), and these are so beautiful that I had to put our dog, Ziggy, in there as well. I designed this shirt early one morning while on a 2 month tour with Manchester Orchestra and Kevin Devine.  

These are pretty self explanatory… These are from the first set of shirts/hoodies that I did for Kevin.  There are several others in this set that will end up in this portfolio sometime.  Stay tuned!

I met the Jealous Girlfriend (who totally rule by the way!) when they were touring with Kevin Devine. We all immediately fell in love (or at least I did with them) and they asked me to do a shirt for them. To this day I think I get more comments on this shirt than any other. I like to think its because the Jealous Girlfriends are so awesome. They in turn hooked me up with Nada Surf. Thanks! Please check out the Jealous Girlfriends… you won’t be disappointed. We recently turned this design into a tote bag.  

Jason Stollsteimer (the Von Bondies) is an old friend of mine.  We got back in touch with each other last year just in time for me to help him with some stuff for his new solo project, Jason & the Hounds Below.  Lucky for me, I’ve also gotten to work on some stuff for the newest incarnation of the Von Bondies. Jason rules and if you don’t know that already, you need to check it out… 

I just did 5 designs for Butch Walker.  These are 4 of them.  I had a the pleasure of meeting Butch a few weeks ago.  He’s one of the nicest and most genuine guys I’ve met in a long time.  Looking forward to working with him more in the future.  

“Funderwater” (I know, I know) is one of my favorite shirts that I’ve done for the Whigs.  Dudes are always telling me that it makes them feel like they are 10 years old again.  I feel pretty good about that.  

“Dick Krum” is based on a kick drum head that I made for Julian (Whigs drummer) about a year ago. The kick drum head art was made out of Wrigley’s gum wrappers (the silver part) and lots of Mod Podge. He’s on his second version of the head now. We made these shirts in black with white ink and white with black ink. There are also a bunch of circular stickers with this design.

I love this shirt. This design is based on several aspects of the artwork I did for Manchester Orchestra’s full length debut “I’m Like a Virgin Losing a Child”. The ivy design is based on the textile pattern in the background of the album’s back cover. The ivy on the backside of the shirt is then colored to resemble the woman and the television on the album’s front cover. I believe we did 2 or three different printings of this t-shirt on two different colors. Only the grass green version that was printed in Athens has the tiny lettering in the ivy on the back. There was a sticker made with this design but they were messed up at the press so there are only a few that we were able to give out on the spring 2007 tour with Brand New and Kevin Devine.   

These shirts have been printed many times, many different ways.  The first several batches were printed on my kitchen table without any registration in 2006.  I designed the bird and eggs so that they could fit on the branch and nest with a pretty big margin of error but still look good.  There were also several limited editions of posters using the same art and printing method, just with different papers and colors.  This shirt was later printed by a print shop (other than my kitchen) for tours during 2007.