Veggie Burger Bar
Shangri-La started a burger bar on Wednesday nights. I’ve never had a veggie burger that I liked until I had theirs 
Tasted just like a real burger! Anyway it’s an all you can eat Mini-Burger Bar and you get ice cream at the end! It seemed like everyone was having fun and a lot of people showed up! Even Adam Richter was there.. everybody likes Adam Richter!
60’s Shangri-La Poster
I was looking through a book full of 60’s black light posters and was thinking it would be great to do one for Shangri-La. The hostess cupcakes they have there are hand made ginormous mounds of unhealthy wonderfulness. They keep them in a case up front so you can look at them and drool. They are pretty freakin crazy. We have no real budget so we can’t make it an actual black light poster unless we run into some cheap cheap ink. no matter.
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The Hostess with the Mostess
And one good cupcake deserves another.
Shangri-La Veggie Burgers
I was given a lot of freedom on this flyer (THANKS ANGELO!!!) and I think it would (/will?) actually make a nice poster as well. I was told to just pick anything on their menu and make a flyer.. It is a 60’s themed vegetarian diner with the most amazing owner/cook Patrice. She was open to anything so I tried to mix some sixty’s with organic. Their food actually tastes really good and appeals to the non-vegetarian (often unhealthy) eater.. so a burger seemed appropriate. 
Shangri-La Specials
Angelo actually asked me to help with these. It’s fun trying to make copy. It takes me too long but it’s fun. This was actually created first before the burger and I was really just trying to create a system that I could use in future matreial. The organic parts took a while as I kept exploring how I might want them to look.
Too Late For Fun Time
Yay a Variety Show at work.. This is an odd one. And one of my favorites in a long time.
It is a show of many acts based on the theme of a St. Louis Missed Connections Craigslist Advertisement. The numerous acts are asked to in some way incorperate the missed connection involving a person who found someone elses name inside of a Death Cab for Cutie CD. They went on and on about how they fantisized about the person who wrote their name inside.. We don’t know the person who wrote the ad and eventually decided to invite them to the show as well. I knew this was going to be fun when Jo suggested I illustrate a bearded lady.. Because you never know who you’ll meet when you take a chance on the internet.
We’ve been pretty busy at the shop. I was looking forward to doing this poster for some time but time constraints were making the outcome look kinda bleak until I whipped this one up. Anyway May Day is a celibration of labor/equality laws and such. It’s strange to get involved in political posters when I am way to passive and hate politics or an argument of any kind for that matter. I think that may have carried onto this poster as I fought to keep it positive and not offend the other political party… and I like that.
Also got a chance to work out the finishing details on a new website for Nathan Lee. This guys music rocks you should check it out HERE! It’s one of the more simple things I have done in a long time. 
Got the opportunity to do some more gig posters at work recently. I love making posters. Just wish I had the time to silk screen them 
some day.
Trivia night poster/ flyer for extreme leftists to get funding for May Day on Cherokee Street. Hurray I got to draw a brain! I worked on this for Angelo after wasting 3 hours driving him to and from a job interview during which I fell asleep in my car. I started on the brain the previous day but we get back at 3pm and he asked for it by 5 so I had 2 hours to work out the rest. I’m happy with the results.
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Musical, Swap Meet, Pot Luck at my job this Saturday. Had some fun with this one I admittedly spent too long on his trousers. My inspiration being white trash, Bar-B-Que, trailer park hoedowns. I’ve never actually been to a swap meet but I image it would be something like that.
Cat Gunna Fuck you Up
Ok this is just our new store hours
Matt helped me set this up. Actually he told me what to do… and I do what I am told so there. Anyway here’s some of my latest illustration I’ve been up to at work yay!!
