A great deal of my illustration and design work has been connected to the music industry. I am myself a musician, who has often been commissioned to do posters and marketing pieces for music groups I have been involved with, as well as for my own releases. This gallery is a sampling of my design and illustration work for CD and album releases, concert promotion, and other music-related materials.
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Letterpress Printing
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Artwork and Painting
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Graphic Design for Print
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Illustration
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Music Design & Illustration
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Typeface Design
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Fine Art Photography
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Green Man: poetry chapbooks & prints
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Scattered Leaves: Poetry Chapbook
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Five Stone Garden
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Embrace: Prints & chapbook
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Design Process: "Naked Man"
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Design Process: LGBT poetry event
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Design Process: Silverwood Art Installation
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Brushwork & Calligraphy
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Spiral Dance
During the pandemic lockdown of early 2020, I decided I would create an online album, Shelter In Place, writing and recording one new track per week, for the duration. The album is available for free ("name your price") download on my Bandcamp store. The album is a compilation of various musical moods, styles, and a wide variety of instrumentation chosen from my home recording studio. It's a musical diary, of sorts, that has kept me actively engaged with music during self-isolation. You can find the album at:
https://arthurdurkee.bandcamp....
I designed the cover art from a photo of a park shelter on Lake Michigan, digitally manipulated using a randomizing "visual noise" generator to evoke a technical mood.
The typeface used is my own Brush Oblique font.