Vanifest Destiny

Logo for a new Willamette Week column about a dude that lives in his van. He recently quit his crappy coffeeshop job in Ohio, bought a van, drove it to Portland, and is going to live in it all summer. 

They went with a slightly different logo w/ solid lettering. The column is going to appear 2 or 3 times a week on the website with highlights in the paper. You might roll your eyes at "coffeeshop guy living in a van in Portland" but hell he's really doing it, and I'm definitely excited to check it out every week. 

Also it was just kind of awesome to have an excuse to draw metal lettering and Uncle Rico vans. 

Philly Phoodie Hoagie Art

Commissioned piece for Thad of Philly Phoodie, an awesome local blog that covers all sorts of food but lots and lots of hoagies. I thought I ate a lot of hoagies but this dude definitely rivals or exceeds my hoagie intake, keeping it in check by cycling to most (all?) of his sandwich destinations, hitting all sorts of incredible spots that you've never heard of all over the city.

This painting is mostly based on the awesome looking sandwiches from Jack's Place in the northeast - never been but check out the Philly Phoodie post for info.  HUGE thanks to Gabrielle (Thad's girlfriend and official blog photographer) who commissioned this one for his 30th birthday.