So Long Seattle

I had the opportunity to do some album art last week for a friend of mine who lives down in Nashville, Julia Appleton. It is for her latest single "So Long Seattle". I always enjoy working on album art and this project was no exception.

She will be marrying a long-time friend of mine this coming fall! Everything is grand!

Check Julia's new single out here. You won't be disappointed.

Facebook Banner

Wellp, I guess Facebook wins again (they always win dang it). In the wake of the official launch of the new Facebook page format that all of us Facebook users have been forced into using I have made this image as a "banner pic" for my Facebook profile.

Yes, to all of you who are better than the rest of us and don't have a Facebook account, I care about that stuff...

... I feel icky.

-Matt

New Band Poster

My band will be playing at the Drake Hotel in Toronto and I thought I'd do a poster to help the event along :)

-Matt

Quaint, Comfortable, Acoustic

Here is a poster I did for my band The Breaking Lakes. We were asked to do an acoustic show (which usually means unplugged... though I'm sure ALL concerts are acoustic concerts, seeing as one is listening to the band's acoustics... but I digress) in Branford at Therapy Lounge. Normally the posters I do for concerts are a bit louder... but that's usually because the music will be as well. This is promised be an intimate "unplugged" show, so I figured a guitar with flowers growing out of it says quaint and comfortable.

New Tour Poster

Here's a tour poster I did for a tour that never really got off the ground... I still like the poster though.

New Poster for a New Band!

My band, The Breaking Lakes just announced our CD Release show. It's going to be Saturday, May 29th. It'll be fun. I designed the poster, so I figured I'd post it. I'll have more cartoons soon!!!1!!

-Matt

Intensity in 10 Cities Tour Poster

Hello Kelly

and To Tell present

Intensity in 10 Cities

10 exclusive shows across Ontrio

March 2010

Here is the poster I did for the "Intensity in 10 Cities" tour, featuring Hello Kelly and To Tell. Hello Kelly asked me to do this poster and some other variations of it. They wanted it to be intense and stuff, with bombs or something. I decided on this Russian missile and to give it kinda like an old WWII/Cold War theme. Those were pretty intense moments in time and they possessed lots of cool silk screen, one colour posters. I like how it turned out.

-Matt

New Hello Kelly tees

This are a couple t-shirt designs I did for my buddy Francois and his band Hello Kelly. They have a new album coming out this year and they'll be on tour in Ontario in the next month. Later they'll be off to the Eastern USA and after that Western Canada... they keep themselves moving. Anyway, I kinda liked these two so I thought I'd post them.

I'll post some more sketches soon, I just have to sort out the battle with my scanner... lame.

Have a great day!

-Matt

Head Above - Silverlane - Official Video

My band just finished another music video. I edited it and did the banners for it. It was a lot of fun to do. My good friend Randeep has a good friend Sean. Sean has a good friend at Budget (the car rental place) and at some lighting warehouse (they do movies). David (my brother) has a good friend Alex who has an amazingly trusting dad (in a good way, not a gullible way), Bill, who owns a company that makes office furniture. They have a large shipping bay that we could use.

We shot the film all night, along with our friends T.J., Phill, and Bridget, and Sean. I think me and my brother got home at like 5am... we got there at 4pm the day before. So pulling all of our resources together we've finally been able to get this one in the bag. The song is called "Head Above" and it's off of Silverlane's newest EP entitled "Neanderthals to concert Halls". I hope you like it!

Check it out www.silverlanemusic.com

Ugh... so is this a sequal or what?

Yeah, I know what you're thinking, "pretty stupid", I know. Whatever, just killing time. Here you go Group D... I guess they went home...

Neanderthals!!! To the Concert Halls!!! Onward!

Here is a promo poster i did for my band. We'll be going into the studio in the next few

weeks to record our new ep. We're calling it "Neanderthals to Concert Halls".

Greetings Kelly

This is a poster I did for a friend of mine. He wanted me to make him a poster for his bands up comming lineup of Christmas showes. He said make it festive, so this is what I came up with. It is not exactly cartoony but it does have a small Star Wars tribute in it. Besids it has been so long, I thought I ought-a post something.