Font AID IV

2010-01-30T15:36:00.000-08:00

I entered myself into another contest for Font AID IV. It is an event where designers had to submit an icon using an ampersand. If you want more information, here is the link: http://www.typesociety.org/fontaid.html

Design

2009-12-24T21:31:00.000-08:00

As you probably know already, I had my desktop calendar's featured on Smashing Magazine's website www.smashingmagazine.com I am currently working on a packaging design for condoms. YES I said condom no joke. For NYC. More to follow soon.

What has been going on…

2009-11-09T19:39:00.000-08:00

I am due for an update and it has been months. Well here it is. I have a new job, Forms Designer at the UHS Print Shop Binghamton General Hospital. It's an 18 month contract with Xerox and I could not be any happier. We'll see what my career brings me after 18 months.

I have been doing design work as much as I can while working at the Print Shop. I submitted Desktop Calendars for Smashing Magazine and got them featured on their website. I also put in a logo for a design book awhile back and I am still waiting to hear back from the author if it got in or not. More ideas running through my head but I like it.

Identity sells

2009-03-11T00:41:00.000-07:00

Take a look at this image I posted here. What do you think this is promoting? I can ask anyone on the street and if you showed them that billboard and I would guarantee you, they would have no idea what they are trying to sell. For the past few months, every time I drove past this billboard, it drove me absolutely crazy. I could not figure out what they were promoting. My first thought was it could be an advertising agency. After a couple months of going past that advertisement, I finally went onto the website and turns out it was for various types of insurance they offer. Now, you are probably wondering, why is this driving you crazy? First, if that is the identity for the company, it is not a very good one (no offense). You can not just name your website that has a decorative font & color as your identity. Second, that information should be left for the business card & website, not a billboard. Finally, I think the person who designed this missed a very important thought: IDENTITY SELLS. You want more customers/clients to be a part of your business. That is how it generates revenue. I wonder how many customers/clients use this insurance. Probably not that many. I worked on improving this logo and I am hoping it will generate more business. I can guarantee that improving that logo will generate more business.

Hardcore music

2009-02-18T17:26:00.001-08:00

I was talking to one of my friends today, well actually the last few days about the state of hardcore music today. To tell you the truth, it flat out sucks. How I see it, it just another fashion show (trends) and lame ass shit talking on a message board (drama central). It should be about the heart and pride of the music and supporting bands and friends. When I started listening to hardcore music for the last 6 years, I went out to shows to hear good bands and meet new people. I was never that person to give into the latest fashions and drama news. Leader (not a follower). I get aggravated EVERY SINGLE DAY on what has happened to something people worked so hard to build is now being destroyed by audiences who destroy the meaning of the genre. Watered down music; lame fashions; shit talking on myspace; and bands who care about money and end up selling out. Today, despite all the CRAP!!!!!, so many festivals have grown out of this mess and really define the true meaning of Hardcore music. This is Hardcore Fest & Brotherhood Fest are the best examples out there that I hope shines inspiration on the young generation and understand what goes into the music: heart and pride.

Music

2009-01-20T20:53:00.000-08:00

Since I hate posting music genres and certain bands/artists that I like on social networking sites, I figured it would be so much easier to post all the music I have on my iTunes and growing CD collection. Artist and albums. I know as you go through all the music, you will find it suprising or weird. Feel free to leave comments. I will keep updating this as much as possible.

The Acacia Strain: …And Life Is Very Long; 2002 Demo;3750; The Dead Walk;
Continent; Wormwood

Aesop Rock: Labor Days

Agnostic Front: Live at CBGB's (DVD); Victim In Pain 25th Anniversary

Agoraphobic Nosebleed: Agorapocalypse; Frozen Corpse Stuffed With Dope

Alice In Chains: Dirt

All Out War: Assassins in the House of God; For Those Who Were Crucified

All Shall Perish: Hate.Malice.Revenge.; The Price of Existence

All That Remains: This Darkened Heart

Alpha & Omega: Devil's Bed

American Me: Heat

American Nightmare: Background Music

Anberlin: Blueprints for the Blackmarket

Anthrax: Persistence of Time; Return of the Killer A's

Animosity: Animal, Empires, Shut It Down

Arch Enemy: Wages of Sin

Armor For Sleep: What To Do When You Are Dead

As I Lay Dying: Frail Words Collapse; Shadows are Security

Atmosphere: Overcast; Seven Travels; When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold

Bad Brains: self title; Banned In DC; Black Dots; I Against I; Rock For Light

Bad Religion: Suffer, New Maps of Hell, No Control, No Substance, The Process of Belief, Stranger Than Fiction; Recipe For Hate; Tested; The Dissent of Man

Backtrack: 2008 Demo

Bad Seed: 2008 Demo; self titled

Bane: Give Blood; Holding This Moment; It All Comes Down To This; The Note

Barenaked Ladies: Rock Spectacle; Stunt

Beastie Boys: Polly Wog Stew

Behemoth: The Apostasy

Between The Buried And Me: The Anatomy Of (covers); self titled; The Silent Circus; Alaska; Colors; Colors (live & DVD)

Billy Joel: Greatest Hits Vol. 1-3

Biohazard: self titled; State of the World Address; Urban Discipline

Black My Heart: Before The Devil

Blacklisted: …The Beat Goes On; Demo; Heavier Than Heaven, Lonelier Than God; Our Youth Is Wasted; We're Unstoppable

Bleeding Through: This is Love. This is Murderous; Wolves Among Sheep (DVD)

Blink 182: Buddha; Chesire Cat; Enema of the State; Mark, Tom, & Travis show; Take Off Your Pants & Jacket; Self titled

Blood For Blood: Revenge On Society; Spit My Last Breath; Wasted Youth Brew

Blood Has Been Shed: Spirals

Blood In Blood Out: Hopeless and Heartless EP; No One Conquers Who Does Not Fight; Respect Our Loyalty

Blood Stands Still: Create Only To Destory; The Thrill and The Agony; Tomorrow The World

Bloodline Calligraphy: They Want You Silent

The Bloodhound Gang: Horray For Boobies

Bodycount: self titled

Boxcutter: The Ill Testament

Brand New: Daisy

Built Upon Frustration: The Book of Mourning; 2001 demo; Ressurected

Bulldoze: The Final Beatdown

Bush: Sixteen Stone; Razor blade Suitcase

Bury Your Dead: Cover Your Tracks

Cage: Depart From Me; I Never Knew You EP

Cake: B-Sides & Rarities; Fashion Nugget; Prolonging The Magic

Candiria: Beyond Reasonable; 300 Percent Density; Surrealistic Madness; What Doesn't Kill You

Cannibal Corpse: Vile; Tomb of the Mutilated

Cattle Decapitation: The Harvest Floor

Ceremony: Still Nothing Moves You; Violence Violence

Chimaira: The Impossibility of Reason; Pass Out Of Existence

Cipher: Protoculture

CKY: Vol.1; Infiltrate.Destroy.Rebuild; An Answer Can Be Found; Infiltrate. Destroy. Rebuild the video album (DVD); Carver City

The Clash: London Calling

Clutch: Blast Tyrant; Pitchfork and Lost Needles; Robot Hive/Exodus

Cold World: Ice Grillz; Dedicated To Babies Who Came Feet First

Colin of Arabia: Palehorse split; Snitch

Comin Correct: One Scene Unity

Converge: Petitioning The Empty Sky

Crimzn: Kill-aborationz mix tape

Cro-Mags: The Age of Quarrel; Best Wishes; Revenge

Crown of Thornz: Mentally Vexed; Train Yard Blues

Cruel Hand: Without a Pulse

Danny Diablo: Thugcore 4 Life

Darkest Hour: Deliver Us; Hidden Hands of A Sadist Nation; Undoing Ruin

Darkside NYC: Ambitions Make Way For Dread; Suffer In Silence

Dave Matthews Band: Under the Table and Dreaming; Crash

A Day To Remember: For Those Who Have Heart, Homesick

Dead and Buried: The Company I Keep

Dead To Fall: Everything I Touch Falls to Pieces

Death Before Dishonor: Count Me In; Friends.Family.Forever; Split; True Till Death; Wartime

Death By Stereo: Into The Valley of Death

Death Do Us Part: Legend

Death Threat: Peace & Security; Last Dayz; For God & Government; Now Here Fast

Decapitated: Nihility

Decrepit Birth: Diminishing Between Worlds

Deftones: White Pony

Despised Icon: Consumed By Your Poison; The Healing Process; The Ills of Modern Man

The Devil'z Rejects: Necronomicon

Diecast: Prepetual War, Undo The Wicked

Dimmu Borgir: In Sorte Diaboli, Death Cult Armageddon

Disembodied: The Confession 7"; The Diablerie; Heretic; If God Only Knew

Donnybrook: Lions In This Game; There Is No Love For The Insincere

The Doors: Best Of (Greatest Hits)

Dr. Dre: The Chronic

Dream Theater: Acoustic Dreams; Awake; A Change Of Seasons; Dark Side Of The Moon; Falling Into Infinity; Images & Words; Live at Budokan; Live At The Marquee; Live Scenes From New York; Los Angeles, California (live); The Majesty Demos; The Making of Scenes From A Memory: The Alternate Mixes; Master of Puppets; The Number of the Beast; Octavarium; Once In A Livetime; Scenes From A Memory; Score: 20th Anniversary; Six Degrees of Innerturbulence; Systematic Chaos; Taste The Memories; Three Hours of Inner Turbulence; Through Her Eyes; Tokyo, Japan (live 10-28-95); Train of Thought; Uncovered

Dropkick Murphys: Blackout; The Gang's All Here; The Meanest of Times; Sing Loud, Sing Proud; The Warriors Code; Do Or Die

E. Town Concrete: The Renaissance; Made For War; Time 2 Shine

Earth Crisis: 1993 Demo; All Out War; Destroy The Machines; To The Death

Eighteen Visions: Until The Ink Runs Out

Emmure: The Complete Guide to Needlework

Energy: Punch The Clock

Eric Clapton: Complete Clapton collection

Everlast: Whitey Ford Sings The Blues

Everytime I Die: Last Night In Town

The Faceless: Akadelma

Fatality: 2005 EP; NY State Of Mind

Fear For Your Life: 2004 Demo

First Blood: Killafornia

For The Fallen Dreams: Changes

Full Blown Chaos: Wake The Demons

Gang-Starr: Hard To Earn; The Ownerz; No More Mr. Nice Guy

Genesis: Abacab

Glassjaw: Everything You Have Wanted To Know About Silence

Goo Goo Dolls: Dizzy Up The Girl

Gorilla Biscuits: self titled

Guns N' Roses: Appetite For Destruction

Guns Up!: Outlive

H2O: F.T.T.W; self titled; Nothing To Prove; Thicker Than Water

Harms Way: Reality Approaches

Hatebreed: Satisfaction Is The Death Of Desire; Perseverance; Live Dominance (DVD); Supremacy; For The Lions

Hazen Street: self titled

Hellfest 2002 (DVD)

HOODS: The King Is Dead; Demonstration 2005

The Hope Conspiracy: Endnote

Icepick: Violent Epiphany

Ill Nino: Revolution/Revolucion

Immortal Technique: The Silenced Revolution; Revolutionary Vol. 2; The 13 Amendments

In Blood We Trust: Curb Games

Infest: No Man's Slave

Insane Clown Posse: Ringmaster, Riddlebox, The Great Milenko, The Amazing Jeckel Brothers; Bizarre

Integrity: Humanity Is The Devil; Systems Overload; To Die For

Irate: New York Metal

Iron Maiden: The Number of the Beast; Piece Of Mind

Jedi Mind Tricks: Legacy of Blood; Servants In Heaven, Kings In Hell; The Psycho-social, Chemical, Biological, And Electro-magnetic Manipulation Of Human Consiousness

Judge: Bringin It Down; No Apologies

Jus Allah: All Fates Have Changed; Allah's Reign Bootleg EP; Black Winter Mixtape; The Treasures of Allah

Killswitch Engage: self titled; Alive or Just Breathing; The End of Heartache

King of Clubz: The Day You Die

Korn: self titled; Life Is Peachy

Lamb of God: New American Gospel; As The Palaces Burn; Ashes of the Wake

Line Of Scrimmage: Cinderblock Solution

The Lonely Island: Incredibad

Madball: Ball of Destruction; Hold It Down; Legacy; Infiltrate The System; Set It Off; Look My Way

Mastodon: Remission

Megadeth: Countdown to Extinction

Metallica: Ride The Lightning; Master of Puppets; black album

MGMT: Oracular Spectacular

Most Precious Blood: Merciless; Nothing In Vain; Our Lady of Annihilation

Mudvayne: L.D. 50; Lost and Found

Mushmouth: Out To Win

N.W.A: Straight Outta Compton

Napalm Death: Words From The Exit Wound

Nasty: Aggression; The Beginning; Declaring War

Naysayer: My Own Demons Drag Me Down demo; No Remorse EP

Necro: The Prefix For Death; Gory Days; I Need Drugs

New Found Glory: Coming Home; From The Screen To Your Stereo Pt. 1 & 2 (covers); It's All About The Girls; self titled; Nothing Gold Can Stay; Sticks and Stones; Tip of the Iceberg

Nile: Ithyphallic; Annihilation of the Wicked

Nine Inch Nails: The Downward Spiral

Nirvana: Nevermind; greatest hits

Noothgrush: Live at Stanford Radio (1996)

Norah Jones: Come Away With Me

Offspring: Smash

On Broken Wings: Going Down

Opeth: Blackwater Park; Damnation; Delieverance; Ghost Reveries; My Arms, Your Hearse; Orchid; Still Life;

Outbreak: Failure

Paint It Black: Amnesia EP

Pantera: Cowboys From Hell; Vulgar Display of Power; Far Beyond Driven; The Great Southern Trendkill; Official Live: 101 Proof

Papa Roach: Love.Hate.Tragedy.

Path To Misery: self titled

Pennywise: Reason To Believe; From The Ashes; Land of The Free?

A Perfect Circle: Thirteenth Step; Mer De Noms

Peter Gabriel: So

Phantoms: Fuck These Days EP

Phish: Hoist

Powerman 5000: Tonight The Stars Revolt

Primer 55: Introduction To Mayhem

Punch Your Face: White Night and Barfights

Queen: Greatest Hits Vol. 1-3

R.E.M: Document; Green

Rage Against The Machine: self titled; Evil Empire; Battle Of Los Angeles

Ramallah: Kill A Celebrity

Rammstein: Mutter

Reach The Sky: Friends, Lies, and the End of the World; Open Roads and Broken Dreams; So Far From Home

Remembering Never: Women & Children Die First

Rick Whispers: mixtape

Rivers Cuomo: Alone II: The Home Recordings; The Home Recordings

Rob Zombie: Hellbilly Deluxe

Sabac: Sabacolypse "A Change Gon' Come"

Sade: The Best Of

Sepultura: Chaos A.D.; Roots

Set Your Goals: This Will Be The Death of Us

Sevendust: Home

Shadows Fall: Of One Truth; The Art of Balance; The War Within

Shai Hulud: Hearts Once Nourished With Hope and Compassion

Shattered Realm: Broken Ties…Spoken Lies

Shere Khan: Get Fucked

Shipwreck AD: Abyss

Sick of It All: Blood, Sweat, and Tears; Built To Last; Death To Tyrants; Just Look Around; We Stand Alone; Dragon Power; Life On The Ropes

Silverchair: Neon Ballroom

Since The Flood: Valor & Vengance

Slayer: Diabolous In Musica; Divine Intervention; Hell Awaits; Seasons In The Abyss; Show No Mercy; South Of Heaven; God Hates Us All; Live Decade of Aggression; War at the Warfield (DVD); Still Reigning (DVD); Christ Illusion

Slipknot: self titled; Iowa

Smashing Pumpkins: Earphobia; Gish; Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness; Siamese Dream; Judas O: B-Sides & Rarities; Rotten Apples:Greatest Hits

Soul Coughing: Ruby Vroom

Spit Ya Teeth: Shut Your Mouth

Steel Nation: Demo; Crucified split EP

Sting: Nothing Like The Sun

Stifling Neglect: Complication Factors

Stone Temple Pilots: Core

Story Of The Year: Page Avenue

Stout: N.G.M.F

Strength For A Reason: Blood, Faith, Loyalty; Show and Prove;

Suffocation: Effigy of the Forgotten; Souls To Deny; Blood Oath

Suffokate: Oakland

Swear To God: Best of 2002-2005

Sworn Enemy: As Real As It Gets; Integrity Defines Strength; Negative Outlook; The Beginning of the End

System Of A Down: self titled; Toxicity

Terror: Lowest Of The Low; One With The Underdogs

Throwdown: Haymaker

Tool: Aenima; Lateralus

Trapped Under Ice: 2007 Demo; Stay Cold; Secrets Of The World

Trash Talk: Plagues; self titled; Walking Disease

Trivium: Ascendancy

U2: Achtung Baby

Unearth: The Oncoming Storm

Unit 731: A Plague Upon Humanity

Vision Of Disorder: 1993-95 Demos; Self Titled

Walls of Jericho: The American Dream

Weekend Nachos: Unforgivable

Weezer: blue album; green album; Maladroit; Pinkerton; red album; Make Believe

Whitechapel: The Somatic Defilement; This Is Exile

Winds of Plague: Decimate The Weak

Wisdom In Chains: Class War; Die Young; self titled

With Honor: Heart Means Everything

Wu-Tang Clan: Iron Flag; 8 Diagrams; Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

xDEATHSTARx: We Are The Threat

xREPRESENTx: True At All Costs

Years Spent Cold: Moving Heaven To Hell; Retribution

25 Ta Life: Forever True Represent; Best of Friends/Enemies; Hellbound, Misery, Torment

100 Demons: self titled; In The Eyez of the Lord

311: self titled; From Chaos

Matt Jerauld

Font AID IV

Design

What has been going on…

Identity sells

Hardcore music

Music