Today’s a big day for Fitz & The Tantrums. Their new album, Pickin’ Up The Pieces (which we did the design and art direction for) is out today on Dangerbird Records! Much love to Noelle, Fitz, the rest of the band, Lisa & Brian, and the Dangerbird crew! We had a blast working with these guys and we think they are the bee’s knees!

If you’re in Hollywood today, swing down to Amoeba Records at 7pm for a Fitz & The Tantrums in-store. We’ll be there too if you want to say hey.

Fitz & The Tantrums - Pickin’ Up The Pieces

Also, check out the video for MoneyGrabber by Michael Mohan, inspired by the pacakge.

Chris Shiflett is a long time friend and client of ours. We’ve worked with him on a variety of projects, from Foo Fighters merch and single packaging to Jackson United merch and album packaging, and now his new side project, Chris Shiflett & The Dead Peasants.

Album is scheduled to be released July 13th in CD, Digital, and Vinyl formats. Preorder it here. This one turned out great, drawing on Chris’s Santa Barbara roots throughout the package. We’ll post product shots once we have it in our hands but for now, here’s the cover:

Chris and the boys have been playing a bunch of warm up shows up and down the west coast. Played a great show at the Bootleg Theatre here in LA last night actually. If you’re in Long Beach tonight, go see them at Alex’s Bar. Show starts at 9pm.

Digging in the archives a bit… Haven’t gotten around to posting this but realized well, we should.

We just finished the Clarity vinyl reissue for the Jimmies. Because of our work with the Sonic Youth reissues, we were brought on to reconstruct and reinterpret the original artwork. We wanted to stay true to the original, but give it a slightly more sophisticated and updated look & feel. These reconstructions are always a little tricky because you rarely get all of the original art assets you need, but this turned out fantastic. And the actual prints look amazing!

Look for this in store at the Jimmy Eat World Online Store and on tour during the 10 x Clarity tour coming at the end of February. There will also be a bunch of reissue and reinterpreted merch coming for the tour as well.

Sam’s new album, entitled “Don’t Do Anything,” is in stores this week! We did the package design for this one, as well as the primary art direction and branding for the entire campaign. We’ll post more images of the fold out insert and the digipack as soon as we get them from the label.

Here are a few package comps we did last year for the +44 package. They ended up going another direction,
ya win some ya lose some.

The cover of a little AFI European CD Single the label needed our help with.