Experiment with vectors and type! For the New York Times article “Big Price Tags Attached to Even the Littlest Leagues” by Mike Tanier. The piece talks of the changing face of sports, how more money pouring into university programs is affecting everything down the line. Parents aren’t just seeing little league baseball as fun activity for their children anymore, but as a possible career path. Scholarships and professional sports are ever-enticing in a tough economy, and parents are dishing out to give their kids any possible advantage.

Read the full article here http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/24/sports/big-price-tags-attached-to-even-the-littlest-leagues.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Made these today with some serious assistance from Meredith @wonderfair. #letterpress #printordie #print (at Wonder Fair Art Gallery)

Deconstructionalist theory

Got to draw @nkpappas today!

Some endearing doodles from our UK friends Luke Drozd and Graham Polling. #SXSW #flatstock

Quick illustration to commemorate my beloved childhood cat Boo. The neighborhood was his kitty kingdom, and he defended it without fear. Every couple of months my dad would have to hold him on the backyard deck as we poured hydrogen peroxide into some ridiculous wound he got fighting a raccoon or possum or sometimes a stray dog. He was enormous and incredibly strong, and he loved my family and all the other pets that came and went in our household.

Color pencil and ink bits (at Willow Creek Manor)

Holy good gravy its my old sketchbook from high school! Note the shorts with flaming pockets and barrels of belts fighting vanilla scented candles.

Brickwiches, now with real whole grain brick!

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” -Mark Twain 

Hand lettering with rybread

thenoventum:

++VIBES by Ryan Sowers

I’m working with The Noventum to make positive typography posters. This was inspired by a trip to Kansas City’s Vahalla Studios this past weekend. I’m hoping to get more involved with letterpress and serigraphy!

Deathburger 1

The start of some new lettering for our senior show. (at Art and Design Building)

I was lucky enough to design the 2013 spring programming schedule for the student radio station at the University of Kansas. I’ve always loved these posters around Lawrence, so its very exciting to get this opportunity!

And I return (Taken with Instagram)

Some custom type for a poster contest I’m entering.

Missing you (Taken with Instagram)

Workstation today.

House Facades: Lawrence, KS

A photo series to connect with my town, my father, and myself through my love of old cameras, bicycles, and houses.

I developed film today. My life is complete.