GHOZT - BAUTISMO
xlx - Various Event Posters
Jane Remover - REVENGESEEKERZ
fraxiom - THE ADVENTURES OF JESTER JACKALOPE
avas - data
Brewster Durbin & Fairys - FLASH EP
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Music video directed by Ava Nuich, photos throughout the video are shot and edited by me.
Final Cover.
Brewster Durbin & Fairys - FLASH EP
Lead Photographer on
'I Want It All'
Fairys and Brewster Durbin were shooting a music video shoot for their single 'I Want It All' but did not have a photographer for the shoot. Working together on a previous project, they chose me to take photos that they would disperse throughout the video.
Music video shot, directed, edited and produced by me.
'S&G ft. sinny n0va' single cover featuring the crosshair logo we designed to signify BAUTISMO.
Final Album Cover.
We set up a Google Voice number and used the voicemail message to tease singles for the album. When people call the number, they get a snippet of a song from the upcoming release.
GHOZT - BAUTISMO
Lead Creative Director
Brief
Ghozt was preparing for their debut album BAUTISMO and needed striking visuals and marketing to accompany.
Problem
Since we're both doing this for the love of the music, we barely had any budget to put into the project. We got a quote from an engineer that it would cost $2000 to mix and master the album, while the maximum we could put down was maybe a few hundred. Along with covering flights and studio rentals for photoshoots, it would've been a huge cost we wouldn't be able to take as independent artists if we weren't smart about it.
Insight
We had to pinpoint ways to stretch our budget to make the most impact, realizing low budget doesn't always equal small was a big part in this. We had to coordinate times that both of us would be in the same cities for shows or other events to take our first round of press photos and we used built up SkyMiles in order to the music video for 'S&G'. We often shot in public for more striking visuals and a candid look.
Design Intent
We wanted the album visuals to be edgy and transgressive, taking notes from Madonna's early-to-mid 90's output (Erotica, specifically), the movie 'Carrie' and low-budget movies such as The Blair Witch Project and 28 Days Later. We shot the music video for the lead single 'S&G' on a MINIDV camcorder to give a sharp, lo-fi look that accentuates the song's themes of giving into your desires in the club.
Outcome
With the songs we've released so far, we have had many people wonder if we have label funding and we have received placements in Resident Advisor and All Music Mondays. The album is due to come out on May 15.
Album cover shot by me. Comic drawn by Josh Valentine.
A shot from the original photoshoot that we decided didn't represent the album.
fraxiom - THE ADVENTURES OF JESTER JACKALOPE
Lead Creative Director
Brief
Fraxiom was planning for her debut solo album and needed a visual style to match the chaos of her music.
Problem
We originally did a photoshoot in April 2025, but while reviewing photos we thought they didn't represent the album like we wanted to. We had to create new assets that better represent and album and can be used as promotional material.
Insight
We had to think of something that would scream "iconic" and needed a locale to match. She thought of shooting in a hotel room and we looked for boutique hotels with unique rooms. We landed on the Saint Kate in Milwaukee and used built up rewards points from touring in order to lessen the costs.
Design Intent
The hotel room is colorful and overstimulating, it was like stepping into a whole different world and we wanted the cover to accentuate that. We used what was in the room to our advantage and kept the lighting props in shots to accentuate the "performance" feeling of it.
Outcome
We were very happy with how the photos turned out and have gotten compliments on the visual world of the album.
This poster was designed digitally by me using Illustrator and Photoshop. I then printed the layers out onto clear projector paper, stacked them together, laid them on top of a lightbox and took a photo with my DSLR.
Since it would be more expensive to print out on full color paper, I designed a black and white version to use for street postering and printed that onto colored paper to still give the "pop" of the digital version.
Stage design.
This poster was designed similar to the one above but I designed extra versions to wheatpaste around Chicago. Getting large prints was too expensive for our budget so I used 11x17 paper and spread the design across multiple pages so we get a larger print without using the cost of a large format printer.
I designed this poster using Illustrator and Photoshop and then printed it out onto a colored sheet of paper. I got a friend to make crude doodles which I then traced with a pen. I used a scanner to scan the page back digitally.
This one was made by me using Illustrator for the text and logotypes while using Photoshop for FX.
xlx - Various Event Posters
Lead Creative Director
Brief
'xlx' is a Chicago-based electronic music label and club night that I operate along with a few other people. In 2024-25 we had a run of events that we needed to market effectively.
Problem
We needed to make our flyers eye catching and stand out in Chicago's huge music market. Why should people go to our underground shows instead of a big nightclub?
Insight
I decided that we needed to make our visuals stand out in order to garner attention. I realized that a lot of the show posters in Chicago looked the same. In order to make us stand out more we took notes from London-based Trance Party's posters as well as NYC-based Capacity.
Design Intent
We wanted the design to be striking, colorful and human. My intent was to use bright colors, experimental design and textures into a poster in order to catch people’s eyes. A lot of the posters we did were designed digitally and then printed out physically and scanned back.
Outcome
We had a huge run of shows and sold 2500+ tickets. We brought in around $20,000 in ticketing revenue from underground shows where the max venue capacity was 250. I attribute part of that to the poster design.
Jane Remover - REVENGESEEKERZ
Lead Photographer on
'Dancing with your eyes closed'
Jane was shooting a video for her third studio album, 'REVENGESEEKERZ' and I was asked to do photos for the shoot last minute. We shot at a newly-opened venue in Chicago called Bookclub. I shot around 1200 photos and had to spend an all-nighter editing them and whittling them down to 700. One of the photos was used for the main cover art and a lot are dispersed throughout the video. The video currently sits just below 2 million views and since then Jane has growing at a rapid pace.
avas - data
Lead Creative Director
'data' was the debut ep I made under the alias avas. I wanted the design to be clean but have a touch of purposeful "chaos" that shows the "perfect" human imperfections in the creative process.For the CD design, I wanted the packaging to look unique and catch eyes at a merch table or in a record store. I used holographic stickers for the front and back labels and left the CD mostly blank in order to contrast the mostly white and black tray card with the reflections of the CD and stickers. I was partly inspired by the different layers used in Oneohtrix Point Never's Age Of CD design.