New Steve Aoki and DJ Tiesto ‘Tornado’ Music video We at Laundry! directed and produced with our rocking team of designers and animators. Visually inspired by 80s arcade hit Tempest, we assembled this galactic kamikaze space race ending in DJ tiesto’s 3d head exploding among other entertaining moments.

Guest cameo appearances by Omar Doom of Inglorious bastards fame, mike trevino of vampire diaries and DJ Tiestos 3d head.

click on image or here to see the project in full

A sneak preview of some skatedecks I am making for an upcoming art show.

After months of laboring back and forth with programmers, we finally relaunched our website with a bundle of animation and live action projects within the realm of branding, music videos, commercials and beyond.

have a look here. www.laundrymat.tv

So this is a prime example of how the Kdu can work advantageously. Last year, the Kdu graciously curated a Hennessy artist collaboration bottle between myself and DJ Steve Aoki. Our collaboration was quite positive and we got along well enough to make a music video together for the first single off his new album. Shot just months after finishing Hennessy artwork, we spent the remaining months finishing the design and animation here at Laundry! The moral is it is as much about making dynamic work as it is about being collaborative and not an asshole to foster further collaborations.

Let me start off by saying I am not much for joke or comedy graphics in general. I find them shallow and often more cheap than funny and generally try to avoid such projects. An associate got in touch recently with a proposition of creating graphics based around the rants of the one and only Charlie Sheen however, which much against my normal anti comedy stance seemed like a really interesting opportunity to participate in the rise or fall of an acting legend depending on your take on it. Regardless, his many signature sayings really lent themselves to fun iconography. See more here… Also I am putting the finishing touches on the interfaces for his iphone app that will release very soon.

Here’s a visual preview to a music video we directed, designed, and animated at Laundry! for Steve Aoki and Rivers Cuomo from Weezer as a direct extension of the Hennessy Art of Blending project we did with the Kdu. Look for the video soon!

click here for more….

I am experimenting with cel animation for a new upcoming project and put together this animated alphabet to help me figure out what I am up against technically and creatively.

We at Laundry! recently completed this animated film for Levi’s showcasing their Trucker jacket collaborations with Opening Ceremony, Neighborhood/Stussy, Billy Reid, Filson and Pendington. Our concept was to create a world made of denim where a single character wearing the collaboration jacket exists within the environment where the partnering jacket company is from, NY, LA, Alabama, New Mexico and Oregon. We built this entire animation with stop motion of the jackets and stills of denim put together in adobe after effects to create a fake sense of dimension. See below for the film.

I finally put together a personal site for my design and illustration work with hopes of pushing the less commercial side creatively and highlighting the less corporate side of my body of design.

We had the pleasure at Laundry! of throwing in our two cents typographically for Will.i.ams new video feat. the ever unique Nicki Minaj which was our main reason for taking this on. The concept was to visually nod to korean game shows and their frenetic rediculousness and pair that with both Will and Nicki’s spastic delivery. We have no idea what the words say, we are told they are close translations. Click here to see more of our work.

This project took almost all year to come together but the results are glorious. The Kdu hq in brooklyn lead by David Gensler, Lex and the team spearheaded this collaboration between a bunch of talented musicians and artists inlcuding myself to create these custom hennessy bottles. Here is one I created with dj steve aoki. For more info about the project and other artists involved click here. Seriously big ups to The Kdu for this opportunity.

The concept for this video was to simulate a contrast between the rugged user made animated gif graphics across the internet, and dated yet unachievable beauty advertising imagery. Add persian and arabian myspace desktop graphic influences, and the rest is history. Here are some of the designs we created to influence our animations and direction throughout the video with Maya. A link to the video can be found on our site here.

and directly at: http://www.laundrymat.tv/xxxo

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!

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!