BND art

do you got any really big art?

A recent art piece I've been working on.

Whoa-whoa-whoa, listen to the music...

Logo design and album cover for good friend Dan Leary and his band, Quitters Go To Meetings. The band has a definite anti-corporate attitude, so it seemed fitting to use the TM to finish the band acronym. Yes, that's a genuine 12"x12" vinyl album cover; original thought was to produce a vinyl record. But economic factors may enter into whether that's still a possibility. The cover texture is a scan of a magnet I found in a MacDonald's parking lot; again, seemed terribly apropos.

Go to the Quitters' website and place your order for TalkBackDrums. Tell 'em RayBob sent you.

BND Sighting, part deux

This was brought to my attention by my wonderful clients at the University of Iowa Press. Seems that one of the covers we did together ended up on the NY Times book blog as a favorite cover of 2009. Shweet! Check it out here.

BND Sighting…

I spied with my little eye the cover I designed for Fiction on a Stick (Milkweed Editions), popping up in the December 09 issue of Minnesota Monthly, on newsstands now. I'd like to think the cover art had something to do with the book being a recommended holiday gift, but I'm sure the wonderful short stories by Minnesota authors had at least as much to do with it. Joe Bob sez checkitout.

My favorite instance of a cover I designed showing up in a national pub is when splatter fanmag Fangoria reviewed a book I had worked on. Nothing says "street design cred" like seeing your work on the same page as a photo of a zombie with an axe in its eye. Oh, Mother... the blood. The BLOOOD!

PC posters

These posters for Print Craft, a Twin Cities printer, are several years old, but they marked the first time I had incorporated my personal work into commercial applications. A couple of these posters appeared in Graphis Poster, as well as the 10x10 Show in Austin, Texas.

New covers…

Above are several recent BND book covers... the top one was created for Penn State University Press. It's a fun solution for depicting the conflict between the environment and the economy. The bottom two are University of Minnesota Press books.