For ages, anyone thats come by the Laundry! studios has asked me about making skate decks for the masses, and usual me I lagged for ages until now. After months of haggling with production, I managed to squeeze these two out as the start of many. The idea was to play off a Day and Nite them loosely, hence the names of the deck, but really just another avenue to bring my signature lettering and characters to life. As usual, the kdu gets it first, I showed a sneak peak a few weeks back and now these are live for mass consumption on the pkin site.
Todd dropped me a line that the KDU x RYZ collabo would be featured in selected Journeys shoe stores, and he wasnt kidding. Front and center as you walk in was the kdu collabo standing strong. At least in the santa monica store, me, anthony faucheux and mago were repped hard as you will see in particular. Trust and thx to the kdu.
I was experimenting with how to tile work this week for printed patterns down the line. as well as more color experimenting.
A little night time sketch to test some new color schemes
Kdu fam, you get it first. I designed these decks over the holidays as my first project for my pkin art endeavor. I basically pulled elements from every part of my life as positive inspiration, friends family etc. and got it out onto these decks in my signature style. I will be selling them in the next few weeks once i get a store up and figured out. Ill keep everyone posted. Enjoy!
Kdu Fam. After What seems like forever, I finally gathered the energy, focus and follow through to put together Pkin, an illustration and experimentation platform for me to make imagery without the constraints and contexts of corporate clients. I have posted years of illustrations I have completed along with a lot of bits of finished, unfinished and partially completed works from across the spectrum to get the party started. As always kdu fam is a huge inspiration to everything I make.
trust.
We recently completed the illustration and animation for Green Days latest music video ’21st Century breakdown.’ The narrative touches on everything from love, and war, to politics and death. The challenge for us was surprisingly not just the shear amount of work (2 weeks to animate 4 minutes) but to take an approach we have seen so much of with stencil art, and attempt to bring it to life in a new and fresh way.
Also to double up, we recently refreshed with tons of new motion work on our site http://www.laundrymat.tv for the likes of nascar, ed banger records and leroy smith. Enjoy!
An older song they are rereleasing with her upcoming album, we were approached earlier this summer to bring an animation component to the endless summer vibe of the video. Working with the director we used the the loose concept of animated magazine spreads as a starting point to a variety of graphic extravaganzas sprinkled through the video.
Here also is a link to the video on our site where we also included some of the storyboards that got us to the look we ended up with.
http://www.laundrymat.tv/poptheglock
UFFIE “Pop the Glock”
Ed Banger Records
directed by: Nathalie Canguilhem
Design and animation: Laundry!
Hello friends, Below is a 3 x 8 foot drawing I created for the KDU/Diesel Only the brave art show in nyc. The concept for this piece was to illustrate through image and lettering visual call outs to every grafitti artist, designer and illustrator that inspired me through their creative bravery. This included graf artists from San Francisco in the 1990s where I grew up, all the way up to current times working as part of the KDU.
The artwork itself was loosely sketched in pencil then filled in with pen and ink, taking me roughly 2 weeks of heavy line work. Inspiration for these piece most obviously are my kdu counterparts. Past inspirations though have been Twist, kaws, reminesce, ICP (San Fran), saiman chow and mike giant.
