Reptile Brain Music

 

BoomArtwork produces an album cover for Swedish rock band Imperial State Electric.
Nicke Andersson; former front man of The Hellacopters approached BoomArtwork to create the art for the vinyl album of his new band. He asked for something bold and vintage to illustrate the record title 'Reptile Brain Music', so BoomArtwork set to work using his fabulous design and illustrative skills and made this punchy retro visual, he says "... First I drew the hand of Zeus with my brush and ink, and then the crocodiles eating each other's tail. In Photoshop I placed everything together and then started with the typography. Instead of using an existing typeface I thought it would make the album more special to create custom lettering. After finishing I added some filters to make it look like it was released in the 70's. It was so much fun to illustrate an LP album cover, as it is such a cool, tactile canvas to work on."

BoomArtwork's Solar Weekend

 

The final  piece

BoomArtwork's lettering

 Eric at work

Boom Artwork aka Eric Van Den Boom recently participated in a music and arts festival entitled Solar Weekend 2013. Working alongside Maarten Berkers, Eric created an installation consisting of an interactive mural. Eric says "This year's theme was 'experiment'......(the installation) allowed festival visitors to create their own fantastical creatures by rotating three circular boards with different body parts illustrated on them. Visitors could place their heads through the holes in the mural, making a perfect photo opportunity". Eric used his skills to complete the lettering on either side, whilst Maarten created the central illustration for this theatrical piece.

Patronaat Bar

This rather gorgeous bar has been designed by the multi talented Eric Van Den Boom of BoomArtwork. The Dutch venue Patronaat in Haarlem asked Eric to design this drinker's heaven from scratch, so with rough dimensions, a brief that it should have a fairground/church theme and two weeks to come up with the goods, Eric began with sketches of the shape, details, lettering and decoration. He says "When I had the sketch ready I art-directed the 3D artist Jasper Hesseling to create a 3D digital model of it, giving the client a good image of how the venue should look. The builders constructed the bar from these 3D images, and they did an amazing job". We'd love to have a drink there (or two)!

The Art Of Winning Awards

BoomArtwork was featured in Computer Arts recently and the issue is now online. If you'd like to read about BoomArtwork's Dieline Award for his DrNo Effects designs go here .

Subway

BoomArtwork has completed quite a set of 'chalk board' style images for Subway. Commissioned by advertising agency Upshot in Chicago, the images have been used as promotional signs in the windows of Subway restaurants in the US. With new promotions each month, the result is an abundance of appetising offers!

Dieline Awards 2012

BoomArtwork is thrilled to have won 3rd Place in this year's Dieline Awards with his DrNo Packaging designs. This award is the result of a worldwide competition devoted exclusively to the art of brand packaging.
Featuring in the Electronics, Technology, Movies and CDs category, BoomArtwork was just beaten by the album artwork for Lou Reed and Metallica in 2nd place and album artwork for Jay Z / Kanye West in top position. He says "Recently I created packaging design and artwork for DrNo Effects, a range of vintage guitar effect pedals...........Unfortunately I wasn’t able to come over to Boston and except the award in person; therefore DrNo and I created with the help of my friends at Konacoast a short ‘award acceptance speech’ video that was shown during the awards in Boston." See the video.  Huge congratulations for this very deserved award.

Patronaat Posters

BoomArtwork has done a great job with these 2 posters for the Dutch venue Patronaat. The illustrations are to promote two 'post-punk-psychedelic-space-rock mini festivals'. BoomArtwork says " I choose to go for a psychedelic school-board chalk treatment to make these posters really stand out when put up on walls around the city. They are going to be printed with a matt varnish to make them really look like a blackboard."

DrNo Vintage Guitar Effects

BoomArtwork recently created the logo artwork and packaging design for DrNo vintage guitar effects. And a very pleasurable job it was, as he thrives on mixing graphic design, custom lettering and illustration, all of which were required for this commission. Initially BoomArtwork did some rough sketches and then set out six different vintage visual routes, one for each guitar effect. Reflecting the sound and style of the effect within the artwork, he finally placed the sketches in illustrator, traced them and added colour. Custom letters were also created to make every effect unique and special. BoomArtwork says "As I'm a guitar player myself I have to say these vintage guitar effects are truly amazing and really take you back in time. All effects are made with the best components and materials that are available, and every stomp box is 100% handmade by DrNo himself."

Aretha Franklin

BoomArtwork was asked to create a portrait of Aretha Franklin for the Xerox Rochester NY International Jazz Festival which took place in June. The portrait was used in brochures and posters around the event and also for a book which Xerox, the sponsors, gave away as part of a competition. Festival-goers were also invited to complete the book by collecting printed materials from around the event for a chance to win a prize. BoomArtwork says "I created a design in an artistic style which taps into the classic look of the jazz genre and conveys Aretha's longevity and sophistication."