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Jittery Joe’s & Widespread Panic collaboration, “Proving Grounds” coffee release.
I recently had the pleasure of doing a collaboration with Athens, GA-based Jittery Joe’s & Widespread Panic to help design the look for their new joint coffee, Proving Grounds. This being their 2nd team up with the band, Jittery Joes has always been known for their cool graphical coffee tins and interesting collaborations with different bands, restaurants, organizations, etc.
The design features a fleshed out version of a character from the bands old school logo, known as “The Note Eater” which in this case is now “The Caffeine Eater”. The actual logo is more of stick figure and had never really been fleshed out in previous iterations. A couple months ago I actually took on that task for a Widespread Panic poster from last years Sweetwater 420 Festival and thought this would be the perfect opportunity to bring it back.
The coffee is currently available on the Jittery Joe’s website. Along with the cans we created a run of T-shirts and limited edition screenprinted posters which were initially available through Widespread’s website.
I currently have a small run of Artist copies available (run of 35… signed/numbered) as well as a small run of Rainbow foil variants (run of 20) up in my Store.
Widespread Panic Milwaukee run poster. Return of the Wook.
This past weekend was Widespread Panic’s big annual run of shows in Milwaukee, WI (Riverside Theater) and I was fortunate enough to be asked to design the merch for the weekend. This being my 4th time designing for their popular Milwaukee shows I really wanted to steer clear from repeating earlier concepts. It being a brewers city and close to the time of Oktoberfest, beer imagery has always pops up a lot which I didn’t want to overdo this time around. The Milwookie character that is synonymous with these shows so initially I wanted to experiment with creating a piece focusing in on him.
I tried both a hipped out Festival Wook as well as a Wookie Fonz (reference to “Fonzie” statue on the Riverwalk). Alternatively I also toyed w/ a version with what I call the “Milwaukee Goddess” which in the end we decided to go w/ the Goddess leaving the Wookie Fonz design to appear on some of the other merch (shirts, coin, etc.) The overall layout was a nod to classic beer labels and I thought this was a perfect opportunity to include a “Hop Eye” appearance.
Along with the show print the artwork was used for a slew of different merch including koozies, apparel and commemorative coins. This is something that Widespread Panic has started doing recently which I love. They are solid and surprisingly capture a lot of detail. I will have a a couple coins available in the Store at some point next week.
Along w/ the Original print (Artist Edition run of 60) that was available at the shows I will have a small run of “Emerald Green” color-variants (Artist Edition run of 35) available on Oct. 29th @ 11am (EST).. Both prints will have a limited run of foil variants for each, (Original – run of 30… Emerald Green – run of 25) also releasing the same day.
The String Cheese Incident lands in the Bay Area
The String Cheese Incident were in my old backyard last week with a run of shows in San Francisco & Oakland… including their return to the famous Fillmore Theater.
I knew I wanted to come up with something eye-catching, almost blacklight-esque and explored the concept of a kind of cosmic cyber-hooper. The original color scheme ended up being a bit repetitive from a previous design the band & I had worked on so we altered it to reflect “Fall” a bit more while keeping it somewhat fluorescent.
I will be releasing my copies on Oct. 8th @ 11am (EST) which will include 25 Artist Edition (signed/numbered) copies. Props to Good Thoughts for the great print job.
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