I’m currently well behind, trying to keep up with the business side of things, thus that is the reason no new president was posted this weekend. For that I apologize.

To hold you over, however, I will be posting up some other new work until I can get back into the president series. I also thought it’d be interesting to look back at the sales report of 2009 and give out some honors to the best selling states and hopefully shame the bottom states into action. So here were go! (more…)

Friends in the greater Topeka area, I have a job for you all… tomorrow 12-13!

First thing, pick up a Topeka Capital-Journal and find the Midway. There’s going to be an article on me in the news-rag! Not only was I stoked that they sought me out and came up for the interview, but they chose to put me in the Sunday paper!

Then stay up real, real late and watch KTKA Channel 49 ABCs 10 o’clock news. They came up to shoot a feel good piece on me, so I’m gonna be on the tuba-vision too!

For those of you not in the local news coverage radius, I’ll be posting both those pieces on the newly added Press Section of my site as soon as possible.

Carry on.

Well well well… I’ve been a bad blogger haven’t I?

I don’t lack a great reason! If you haven’t noticed, I have begun to upload second editions of many of the United Plates prints whilst still working on the US Presidents series.

I redesigned the site, added Google Checkout (the best service ever!) to my store and… oh yeah, got a feature page in the latest issue of Food Network Magazine! (more…)

The United Plates is a series of posters I created based on the 50 states and how a different food is represented in each of their outlines. The official tag line is “An interesting take on how each states shape forms a different plate!” What started out as a small idea soon grew to a full fledged project that found me hand printing a limited number of posters for each idea.

I approached most of the posters with tongue planted firmly in cheek. I wanted lighthearted and fun — not a display of form and technical prowess. Though they can be enjoyed individually, no poster was meant to stand on its own. It’s the collective power of all the ideas together. I tried to create “art” that wasn’t so “arty” that it couldn’t be enjoyed by the everyman. I wanted to fashion something that could be liked by people of all ages and interest groups. I forced myself to fill each poster with only what was necessary to convey the intended food.

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