David Rhoden: Design

Design and illustration for this Mississippi-based recording artist whose record company is in Germany. The record is on red vinyl.

A t-shirt I designed based on one of my paintings.

I did these circus-inspired calendars for monthly events at a New Orleans art gallery.

T-shirt featuring one of my illustrations for Cotton Bureau.

I did the illustrations and designed the promo materials for this film (that so far hasn't been made) in which Albert Einstein and palooka Gerry Cooney inexplicably (or maybe explicably, I dunno) switch brains and still save the world.

I silkscreened about five of these onto wood panels (sold out), and then, with help from friends, we printed several hundred big vinyl stickers by ganging the job on the end of a bus wrap printout. The paper cutter we used to slice them was about twelve feet long.

I did all the design and coding for this responsive website for a major-label recording artist.

It's a custom theme built on top of a Wordpress back end.

Go to the Hurray For The Riff Raff site

Tiny Roman rock posters given out as throws for the 'tit Rex 2017 parade.

CD cover for the Hi-Balls Tube Or Not Tube album. I wish it were an LP cover.

Go to the Hi-Balls' Tube Or Not Tube on Bandcamp

Cover for the Hi-Balls Love Music album. The illustration is by me but it's a swipe of a much better illustration from an old road atlas.

Go to The Hi-Balls' Love Music on Bandcamp

Cover for the Hi-Balls Love Music 7". Swiped from Bazzini Nuts' "Nut Club" peanut packaging.

It wasn't so much that we had no ideas, what happened was we had a line on a really cheap printer, it was a menu printer on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn with an offset press that they didn't bother to register. We needed a design where the registration hardly mattered. Each finished product was actually unique.

Go to The Hi-Balls' Feel Good Rock and Roll 7"on Bandcamp

Inspired by letterpress or screen printed show posters, even if it is not one.

I drew the letters by hand using silkscreen resist fluid, and screened blue ink onto orange paper. Very messy.

I cut this design (the black layer) out of rubylith! Amazing stuff, but so time consuming. The orange layer was probably done by cutting a screen out of notebook paper.

Kim Fowley saw this and said, in the grossest way, "It's nice, but I'd like to see a lot more of the pretty girls on the cover." They didn't end up using this cover. I still like it. Tree photos by yours truly.

I was co-editor and co-designer of this xeroxed fanzine.

Yeah....I really knew what I was doing. Look at that Q. This font is just Franklin Gothic with hand-drawn shadows. Right-click to Download Flunkrin.

Album cover design using my "original" font, Flunkrin. Photo by Jeff Pounds. All-Night Movers website.

A very very very useful font if what you need to do is doodle a few hundred faces in nice neat rows.  Right-click to Download 26 Heads.

Now you can pretend your handwriting is as sloppy as mine. Right-click to Download Belikeme.