ETC.STUDIOS was asked to become the creative resource for Golden Leaf Records back in 2009 and has slowly been working on it’s branding, not only for the label as a whole, but also for each of it’s artists. Initially that simply meant creating the GLR logo mark along with a clean splash page in order to establish a small internet presence as we build up some working capital. It also meant creating and streamlining each of it’s 3 artist(s) myspace pages: Midwest (Lancing, MI) rapper Jordis, European (Oslo, Norway) Pop sensation Michelle Purvis and local (Venice, CA) Rock quartet Anatomy of Her (AOH). Below is the first photo session we did to establish a strong look and feel for AOH. Although it may have felt low-budget on set (and believe me, it was), the band I met multiple times to discuss concept and direction. We ended up doing a late-night, impromptu, set shot inside Venice hideout ‘Townhouse’, just steps away from the famous Venice lights arching over the Windward entrance to the heart of the Venice Beach Boardwalk. We were lucky enough to have another photographer, Sean MacCuish, join in last minute to help get more images for the bands promotional uses. His help was intricate in our success. Thanks Sean. We are more than happy with the outcome. Hope you are too…
CHAYA FATHER’S DAY
And for Father’s Day… Poor Dad, still getting the same old same old! Since the ‘New’ Old Spice advertising campaign is all the rave right now with their way-more-awesome-than-awesome creative, we decided to take a small bite from them and play off the nostalgia of the wondrous gift of scent we used to all give our Patriarch year after year. sigh.
CHAYA LIMITED EDITION PRINTS FOR SALE!
200 Signed and Numbered, Limited Edition Posters for CHAYA Venice’s 20th Anniversary & CHAYA Brasserie’s 25th Anniversary for sale. Each Poster is 22 x 38. While the CV20 is Limited Edition Lithograph on heavy bond paper, the CB25 is silk-screen by hand on super heavy stock. Both come signed and number by the artist. Who? Me! Yay!!! Hope you enjoy and desire to frame and hang them on your walls.
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CHAYA Mother’s Day Brunch…
And here we go with the art for Mother’s Day. Thanks to Christy Salcido at Chaya for knowing direction she wanted from day one! Wasn’t sold on it at first, but I am really happy with how it turned out in the end. Check it! Love it! Share it!
Man, I do love pink!
CHAYA VENICE 20TH ANNIVERSARY
Had so much fun creating the CHAYA Brasserie 25th Anniversary art that I was anxious to get onto the upcoming CHAYA Venice 20th Anniversary art for the event coming up on April 25th, 2010. In relation to the visual merge between the French and Japanese styles for the Brasserie art, I wanted a merge between between Japan and the Venice beach theme… thus the re-illustration of the famous Hokusai waves combined with Mermaid holding their signature drink. Pretty happy with it, hope you are!
Mermaid’s who drink Pineapple infused vodka Martini’s during a tsunami are cool…











