Purple Snow: Forecasting the Minneapolis Sound
4xLP + 108 page Book / 2xCD + 144 page book. Designed for the Numero Group, 2013.
Exhaustive history of the unique Minneapolis music scene that shaped a shy teenage Prince Nelson Rogers into an international pop star.
*Album is a 2015 Grammy nominee for Best Album Notes
*Winner of the 2014 Association of Independent Music's 'Special Catalogue Release of the Year' award
Eccentric Soul: The Bandit Label
3xLP (including a custom die cut 2xLP jacket) + 54 page book. Designed for The Numero Group, 2012.
A stranger than fiction account of a small south side Chicago label funded by the cashed welfare checks of producer/owner Arrow Brown. Lush orchestral soul ballads compliment stories of botched home surgeries, underage brides and unsolved murders.
Medusa: First Step Beyond
Foil stamped gatefold LP on faux velvet. Designed for The Numero Group, 2012.
Companion LP to Warfaring Strangers: Darkscorch Canticles.
Warfaring Strangers: Darkscorch Canticles
Gatefold 2xLP + booklet / CD + booklet. Designed for The Numero Group, 2013.
Compilation of 70s American basement stoner rock.
Collected Religious Pamphlets: 2008-2018
96 pages full color, perfect bound. 5.5" x 8.5". Self Published. 2018.
Perfect bound book compiling 100+ of the most bizarre, beautiful, and busted religious pamphlets that I've accumulated over the years.
Stay Cool, Madonna
160 pages full color, perfect bound. 5.5" x 8.5". Created with Rob Sevier. 2019.
Designed for a corresponding art show of fan mail and fan art for Madonna Louise Ciccone. A rare and otherwise unmatched collection of fan art pertaining to one enduring megastar, assembled at the height of her celebrity from the late 1980s to the late 1990s.
Walnut Street Sightings
80 pages full color, perfect bound. 6" x 6". Created with Rob Sevier. 2022.
Described by Rob as: "a set of ‘found’ photos taken by a woman only known as Lois, who stalked Walnut Street looking for celebrities who would be appearing on the Mike Douglas show. Each photo is paired with related newspaper text accompanying each celebrity's engagement in town, and an introduction that explains everything that is known and can be gleaned."
Players
136 pages full color, perfect bound. 6" x 9". Designed for Rob Sevier and Chris Veltri. 2023.
An engagingly fun glimpse into the world of Musicians and the people that support them as audience, dancer, admirer, and romancer. This is a 25 year accumulation of one of a kind amateur snapshots distilled to perfection for your enjoyment.
NightLife In Chicago
160 pages, black and white, perfect bound. 6" x 8.25". Designed for Success Bottling Works. 2024.
An anthology of ads, photos, strange articles, and listings pulled from the most obscure publication, Night Life in Chicago. This was an authentically underground rag, drained of pretension, with the purest and simplest of intentions: connecting cabarets, massage parlors, and sex workers with their most reliable customers: conventioneers. By its very nature, the paper was ephemeral to an extreme: once used, the evidence would best be discarded. These issues were not, needless to say, brought home as souvenirs. Finding even a single copy today is a stroke of luck, even in the darkest corners of the internet. Limited to 100 copies
Eccentric Soul: The Dynamic Label
Gatefold 2xLP / CD + booklet. Designed for The Numero Group, 2013.
Compilation of late '60s San Antonio soul. The cover photo was a no-brainer.
Alfonso Lovo: La Gigantona
Gatefold 2xLP / CD + booklet. Designed for The Numero Group, 2013.
Previously unreleased album of psychedelic Latin jazz by the son of a Nicaraguan politician.
Iasos: Celestrial Soul Portrait
Gatefold 2xLP / CD + booklet. Designed for The Numero Group, 2013.
Highlights from Iasos's expansive catalog of new age music from another dimension.