One project I always love to do and look forward to is doing these Scion event Posters for Revolt Marketing. Maybe to the viewer, it’s not that exciting, but to me, it’s a way to do whatever I want and have limited creative feedback to develop something I think is fitting for a event. Simply put, I love it. I’ve been really busy on many other things as well and also trying to get the new site design sorted in every small bit of free-time I’ve been able to grab. So just a heads up, something rad is coming soon:)

Two new fonts from Hydro74 are now up. These faces are custom display typefaces that are easy to use. Order them from the Hydro Stock Section

This past NBA season, I had a great opportunity to work on some fun pieces for Nike for their Apparel side for the NBA All Star Game. It’s not everyday you get a chance to work on pieces for LeBron, Kobe, & Nash, as well as have them review it for approval. It was a fun project and finally got a thumbs up to be able to show it!

Few weeks back, Back in Black 2 hit Ybor Florida with great success. Over 950 people attended the event that night with another 350 hitting the after party. It personally took me a week to recover from this event, then found myself neck deep in client work. All in all, everything was fantastic. Pale Horse did so much on the back end with prepping, setting up and keeping things in order that a special thanks goes to them. Revolt Marketing came in and developed a great party with Dave Nada, Monk and some residence DJ’s. One highlight was having ISO50 do his set at the closing of the show. Of course, by that time, I was fueled by too many free drinks, A.D.D and keeping up with everyone else. However from what I did catch, pretty amazing.

If you didn’t get a chance to check it out already, hit up Back in Black for a recap. Shirts are no longer available, however I know Back in Black 3 is already getting some whispers. Thank you to all who attended, ordered and just supported both Chris from Pale Horse & I as we just put together a show we felt very passionate about.

One of my guilty pleasures lately has been doing event posters for Scion & Myspace via Revolt Marketing and Vahalla Studios. It’s not every day you can do as you wish on piece and develop something that will be given away at various events as well as having your name attached to it. Over this past month I’ve had the opportunity to develop posters for Steve Aoki, Peaches, Chimaira, Le Castle Vania, Dave Nada, Cut Copy, The Presets, & a few others. I am pretty stoked to see these go from digital ideas to silk screened pieces.

Just developed this font as a give-away for Back in Black 2. This font is for the taking and will only be available for the month of May.

Grab it over at Back in Black

Just wrapped up a poster this past week for Revolt Marketings next event, FUCK YESSS. This party is always a killer one and makes me want to get up to the ATL to check it out. Le Castle Vania is headlining, and Revolt is pimping. Check it out if you are in area or hit up Revolt Marketing to see if you can get on the guest list or even obtain this two color silk screen print!.

Back in Black 2 - Preview from Joshua Smith on Vimeo.

Back in Black 2. I just finished up this quick video for the event. All the shirts are live, so if you are unable to attend, but want to score a great shirt from the event, check out Back in Black. These are limited edition prints, printed per request.

One project I am pretty stoked on is this event poster for Scion via Revolt Marketing for the next Steve Aoki show in Orlando. My first thought is to do what everyone else is doing (ala the Dim Mak) style, but it didn’t make sense. I just wanted to do my own thing. If i wanted to do some weak ass doodles (and hype that they are the coolest thing ever) and pretend to be a self centered hipster with my script tattoo on my chest stating how I’m God’s gift to Emo, I could of blended this bastard right in. Instead, I thought I would enjoy doing some of the more enjoyable electro hipster trends… vinyl toy, giant eyeball, gold bling faked up, shutter shades and a nice triangle in the back. If that is not a hodge podge of awesomeness, then I am giving up design dammit! (actually, joking…)

Sorry for the lack of updates. There has been so much going on over the past month that trying to make time to even update my site seems like a extra task I would try to push on till later. Between Chris & I working on the Back in Black Show, kicking out pieces for the Offspring, Kiss, Globe and Quiksilver, I’ve realized that I have neglected this.

Well, last night with the assistance of Ryan Chase, we were able to get the Back in Black site launched. Above are my two pieces for the show. In the middle of getting the site ready for launch, I was in the middle of two IChat conversations with Maxx242 & ISO50 as well as trying to wrap up details on another deadline. I’ve gotten pretty good at muli-tasking. So anyway. A few things we have going on for the Back in Black event are some special giveaways from Anarchy Eyewear & Angel Eyewear. They are providing a great selection for Anarchy Sunglasses for guys and Angel Sunglasses for the girls. We will also have this (above) limited edition print at the show which I’ll be signing and numbering to give out. So yeah, check out the Back in Black site and see what is going on!