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Cape Cod Roots and Blues Festival 2019

Cape Cod Roots & Blues Festival 2019 – Poster Art

With more than 2000 visitors the very first annual Cape Cod Roots & Blues Festival in 2018 was a big hit. In consequence of that success the event organizers decided to launch year 2 of the music festival. The second CCRB festival took place at Nauset Beach (Outer Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA) on September 14th, 2019.

Again, I was responsible for the art direction of the festival. I created visuals like a poster, merchandise, the stage backdrop, a festival map, banners and flags, the visualization of the festival website and some more of the CCRB corporate design as well. This time we used a classic car and the local piping plover birds as a key visual illustration. There is also a rendition of G. Love & Special Sauce drawn as birds who are driving along the shore in their truck to meet a bunch of celebrating birds on the beach. Also surfing and the love to the sea and the nature are an essential and recurrent theme again.

I truly appreciate his trust in my work and the opportunity to be a part of the team! THX, G.!

Please visit the website capecodrootsandbluesfestival.com for further information. The 2019 lineup was G. Love & Special Sauce, Citizen Cope, Chadwick Stokes & The Pintos, Mihali (of Twiddle) and Clearcola.

Follow the CCRB fest for news on: Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.

Also you can find videos of the #ccrbfest 2019 on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/360259775 (by Paul Cass) and https://vimeo.com/361351658 (by Lower Cape TV).

© 2019 Cape Cod Roots & Blues Music Festival and Bálooie Illustration. All rights reserved.

Credits:
Poster mockup created by Mats-Peter Forss
T-shirt mockup and the brick wall texture created by GraphicBurger
Icons used for the festival map by freepik.com


Cape Cod Roots & Blues Festival 2019 – Poster Art

Cape Cod Roots & Blues Festival 2019 – Poster Art

Cape Cod Roots & Blues Festival 2019 – Official Festival Map

Cape Cod Roots & Blues Festival 2019 – Official Festival Map

Cape Cod Roots & Blues Festival 2019 – Stage Backdrop Design

Cape Cod Roots & Blues Festival 2019 – Stage Backdrop Design

CCRB Festival 2019 – Merch

CCRB 2019 – T-shirt CCRB Festival 2019 – T-shirt

CCRB Festival 2019 – Website Background Image

CCRB Festival 2019 – Website Background Image

CCRB Festival 2019 – From draft to the final illustration

From the first draft to the final illustration

Thanks for watching!


Kooks Surfing Magazine #4

Kooks Surfing Magazine No. 4 Surf Art Cover Illustration

Hey there fellow surfer kook*!

I have to disappoint you dude, but this brand new gnarly surfing magazine doesn’t really exist. Unfortunately! It’s just ficticious and serves as a canvas for a series of free surf art works I create from time to time. But I could imagine that such a satirical surf mag would be fun to read.

The characters come alive while I doodle with no specific plan 9 in my mind. The general appearance is inspired by a humorous look at the surf culture paired with a gentle stylistic nudge from the Eighties. And my respect to the legend Rick Griffin who influenced my work as an surf artist.

This is part four of the series. Follow the links to find further cover illustrations:
KOOKS #1 •  KOOKS #2 •  KOOKS #3

Purchase a license

If you are interested in purchasing a license for the use of this graphic e.g. for a real surfing magazine cover, surf art editorial or maybe a poster, please feel free to get in touch.

*KOOK – Surf slang for “poser”. Find a definition on Livemore Magazine.

Credits:
Magazine mockup created by thislooksgreat. Poster mockup created by Mats-Peter Forss. THX!
KOOKS Surfing Magazine Cover by Bálooie is licensed under a Creative Commons 4.0 International License.


Kooks Surfing Magazine No. 4 Surf Art Cover Illustration Kooks Surfing Magazine Cover Illustration No. 4 Poster

Kooks Surfing Magazine #3

Kooks Surfing Magazine Cover Illustration No. 3 Mockup

Hey there fellow surfer kook*!

I have to disappoint you dude, but this brand new gnarly surfing magazine doesn’t really exist. Unfortunately! It’s just ficticious and serves as a canvas for a series of free surf art works I create from time to time. But I could imagine that such a satirical surf mag would be fun to read.

The characters come alive while I doodle with no specific plan 9 in my mind. The general appearance is inspired by a humorous look at the surf culture paired with a gentle stylistic nudge from the Eighties. And my respect to the legend Rick Griffin who influenced my work as an surf artist.

This is part three of the series. Follow the links to find further cover illustrations:
KOOKS #1 •  KOOKS #2 •  KOOKS #4

Purchase a license

If you are interested in purchasing a license for the use of this graphic e.g. for a real surfing magazine cover, surf art editorial or maybe a poster, please feel free to get in touch.

*KOOK – Surf slang for “poser”. Find a definition on Livemore Magazine.

Credits:
Magazine mockup created by thislooksgreat. Poster mockup created by Mats-Peter Forss. THX!
KOOKS Surfing Magazine Cover by Bálooie is licensed under a Creative Commons 4.0 International License.


Kooks Surfing Magazine Cover Illustration No. 3 Kooks Surfing Magazine Cover Illustration No. 3 Poster

Kooks Surfing Magazine #2

Kooks Surfing Magazine Cover Illustration No. 2 Mockup

Hey there fellow surfer kook*!

I have to disappoint you dude, but this brand new gnarly surfing magazine doesn’t really exist. Unfortunately! It’s just ficticious and serves as a canvas for a series of free surf art works I create from time to time. But I could imagine that such a satirical surf mag would be fun to read.

The characters come alive while I doodle with no specific plan 9 in my mind. The general appearance is inspired by a humorous look at the surf culture paired with a gentle stylistic nudge from the Eighties.

This is part two of the series. Follow the links to find further cover illustrations:
KOOKS #1 •  KOOKS #3 •  KOOKS #4

Purchase a license

If you are interested in purchasing a license for the use of this graphic e.g. for a real surfing magazine cover, surf art editorial or maybe a poster, please feel free to get in touch.

*KOOK – Surf slang for “poser”. Find a definition on Livemore Magazine.

Credits:
Magazine mockup created by thislooksgreat. Poster mockup created by Mats-Peter Forss. THX!
KOOKS Surfing Magazine Cover by Bálooie is licensed under a Creative Commons 4.0 International License.


Kooks Surfing Magazine Cover Illustration No. 2 Kooks Surfing Magazine Cover Illustration No. 2 Poster

Slightly Stoopid T-Shirt

Slightly Stoopid Apple Pipe Band Merch T-Shirt Slightly Stoopid Apple Pipe Band Merch Illustration Slightly Stoopid Apple Pipe Band Merch Color Variants

Band merch T-shirt for Slightly Stoopid

Slightly Stoopid is an Ocean Beach, San Diego-based band formed in 1994 and discovered by Bradly Nowell (RIP), frontman and voice of iconic reggae, ska punk band Sublime. My work is inspired a lot by Brad and the music of both bands as well.

This year (2018), I was super lucky to create a band merch T-shirt artwork for one of my favorite bands. If one knows the Stoopids, I’m sure that one will recognize the apple pipe themed illustration. The tee will be soon available for purchase in two color versions on Stoopid’s official merch store.

Find Slightly Stoopid on slightlystoopid.com or listen to their music on spotify.com/stoopidofficial

Credits: T-shirt mockup created by GraphicBurger; photography is my own work (shot nearby Biarritz, France)


Cape Cod Roots & Blues Festival Poster Art

#ccrbfest 2018 G. Love x Bálooie
Cape Cod Roots & Blues Festival 2018 Poster Art for G. Love & Special Sauce

Poster art

Art work for G. Love’s 1st Cape Cod Roots and Blues 2018 Music Festival

I was asked to create a rock show poster, several merchandising items and the key visuals as well for G. Love’s first ever Cape Cod Roots & Blues Festival in Nauset Beach on September 15th, 2018. The new music festival celebrates family, live music, community and the natural environment of the Outer Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

The poster should have a traditional summer festival look with a family friendly, beach and summer theme including surfing elements. The illustration was used for various merch products like poster, festival t-shirts and tanks, for entrance, ticketing and merch banners as well as the backdrop of the stage.

#ccrbfest 2018 lineup: G. Love & Special Sauce, Citizen Cope (Solo Acoustic), Ripe and Ron Artis II & The Truth.

Please visit capecodrootsandbluesfestival.com or read Jeff Gorra’s article on Artist Waves for further information.
Social links: Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.

Find videos of the #ccrbfest on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/290479760 (by Paul Cass) and https://vimeo.com/292403836 (by Lower Cape TV).

© 2018 Cape Cod Roots & Blues Music Festival and Bálooie. All rights reserved.
Credits: T-shirt, tank and poster mockups by GraphicBurger.



Cape Cod Roots & Blues Festival 2018 – The Stage

Cape Cod Roots & Blues Festival stage. Photography © 2018 by philadelphonic.com

Cape Cod Roots & Blues Festival 2018 – Backdrop for the stage

Backdrop for the stage

Cape Cod Roots & Blues Festival 2018 – Windwing flags

Logo variant and windwing flags

Front banner for the stage

Front banner for the stage

Banner for the beverage booth

Banner for the beverage booth

Banner for the ticketing booth

Banner for the ticketing booth

#ccrbfest 2018 merchandising

#ccrbfest 2018 merchandising

Cape Cod Roots & Blues Festival 2018 – Details

Details

Cape Cod Roots & Blues Festival 2018 – Previous poster drafts and scribbles

Previous poster drafts and scribbles

Cape Cod Roots & Blues Festival 2018 – Logo WIP

Logo WIP

Cape Cod Roots & Blues Festival 2018 – Logo

Cape Cod Roots & Blues Festival Logo

Cape Cod Roots & Blues Festival 2018 – WIP

Making of (WIP)

Cape Cod Roots & Blues Festival 2018 – Final poster art

Final poster art

Cape Cod Roots & Blues Festival 2018 Cape Cod Roots & Blues Festival 2018

KOOKS Surfing Magazine #1

Kooks Surfing Magazine Cover Illustration No. 1 Mockup

Hey there fellow surfer kook*!

I have to disappoint you dude, but this brand new gnarly surfing magazine doesn’t really exist. Unfortunately! It’s just ficticious and serves as a canvas for a series of free surf art works I create from time to time. But I could imagine that such a satirical surf mag would be fun to read.

The characters come alive while I doodle with no specific plan 9 in my mind. The general appearance is inspired by a humorous look at the surf culture paired with a gentle stylistic nudge from the Eighties.

This is part one of the series. Follow the links to find further cover illustrations:
KOOKS #2 •  KOOKS #3 •  KOOKS #4

Purchase a license

If you are interested in purchasing a license for the use of this graphic e.g. for a real surfing magazine cover, surf art editorial or maybe a poster, please feel free to get in touch.

*KOOK – Surf slang for “poser”. Find a definition on Livemore Magazine.

Credits:
Magazine mockup created by thislooksgreat. Poster mockup created by Mats-Peter Forss. THX!
KOOKS Surfing Magazine Cover by Bálooie is licensed under a Creative Commons 4.0 International License.


Kooks Surfing Magazine No. 1 Surf Art Cover Illustration Kooks Surfing Magazine Cover Illustration No. 1 Poster

Surfrider Foundation Europe

Surfrider Foundation Europe – Riverine Input Project: Street Art Stencils Overview Surfrider Foundation Europe – Riverine Input Project: Jeter à terre c'est jeter en mer

Surfrider Foundation Europe – Riverine Input Project: Doors to the ocean

The project “Riverine Input” aims to collect data on the plastic pollution in watercourses. These data are supposed to help municipalities to prevent the pollution before it reaches the ocean. Rain water collection systems are main pathways for litter to reach the rivers and the ocean.

The Surfrider Foundation Europe performs actions during public events like festivals to raise awareness about plastic pollution (currently in France). Manholes will be tagged with several graphics to indicate that these are “doors” to the ocean. The tags will be accompanied by the French slogan: “Jeter à terre c’est jeter en mer” (which means: to litter on the ground is to litter into the sea).

For these actions I created several street art like stencil templates. The action will take place during the Mont-de-Marsan festival fêtes de la Madeleine for the first time.

Surfrider Foundation Europe – Riverine Input Project: Ocean view through a keyhole (color variants)

Surfrider Foundation Europe – Riverine Input Project: Ocean view through a keyhole (color variants)

Surfrider Foundation Europe – Riverine Input Project: Ocean view through a keyhole (b/w variants)

Surfrider Foundation Europe – Riverine Input Project: Ocean view through a keyhole (b/w variants)

Surfrider Foundation Europe – Riverine Input Project: Ocean view through a keyhole (frameless single illustrations)

Surfrider Foundation Europe – Riverine Input Project: Ocean view through a keyhole (frameless single illustrations)

Surfrider Foundation Europe – Riverine Input Project: Ocean view through a keyhole (street art mockup)

Surfrider Foundation Europe – Riverine Input Project: Ocean view through a keyhole (street art mockup)

Surfrider Foundation Europe – Riverine Input Project: Welcoming octopus cartoon (b/w illustration)

Surfrider Foundation Europe – Riverine Input Project: Welcoming octopus cartoon (b/w illustration)

Surfrider Foundation Europe – Riverine Input Project: Welcoming octopus cartoon (street art mockup)

Surfrider Foundation Europe – Riverine Input Project: Welcoming octopus cartoon (street art mockup)

Surfrider Foundation Europe – Riverine Input Project: La mer doorbell (color variants & b/w illustrations)

Surfrider Foundation Europe – Riverine Input Project: La mer doorbell (color variants & b/w illustrations)

Surfrider Foundation Europe – Riverine Input Project: La mer doorbell (street art mockup variant 1)

Surfrider Foundation Europe – Riverine Input Project: La mer doorbell (street art mockup variant 1)

Surfrider Foundation Europe – Riverine Input Project: La mer doorbell (street art mockup variant 2)

Surfrider Foundation Europe – Riverine Input Project: La mer doorbell (street art mockup variant 2)

Surfrider Foundation Europe – Riverine Input Project: Welcoming dolphin cartoon (b/w illustration)

Surfrider Foundation Europe – Riverine Input Project: Welcoming dolphin cartoon (b/w illustration)l

Surfrider Foundation Europe – Riverine Input Project: Welcoming dolphin cartoon (street art mockup)

Surfrider Foundation Europe – Riverine Input Project: Welcoming dolphin cartoon (street art mockup)

Surfrider Foundation Europe – Riverine Input Project: cartoon marine animals (color variants)

Surfrider Foundation Europe – Riverine Input Project: cartoon marine animals (color variants)

Surfrider Foundation Europe – Riverine Input Project: Jeter à terre c'est jeter en mer (slogan typography)

Surfrider Foundation Europe – Riverine Input Project: Jeter à terre c'est jeter en mer (slogan typography)

© 2018 logo and claim by the Surfrider Foundation Europe. All rights reserved.


A Whale Tale

Plastics are omnipresent. And plastic garbage in the oceans (and plastic pollution in general) is one of the greatest man made problem of our time. Marine animals eat plastics, humans consume plastics. Some organisms adapted themselves to the new condition and found a new habitat. But most of the effects on the environment are unambiguously negative.

With “A Whale Tale” (pun intended) I want to address this topic in a critical and ironic way. For this I used plastic bags as an esthetically stylistic device. The fact that I needed a relatively huge amount of plastics to finish a digital (!) illustration is both interesting and a bit scary. The computer mouse, the monitor, some of the inner workings of the computer (except the case which is made of steel), the graphic tablet including the pen and the keyboard – all these things comprise plastics. But hey, my coffee mug is made out of steel and porcelain enamel (the manufacturing process not in mind).

Yes, I also produce garbage. No, I don’t have a solution. I just try to make my small contribution by giving up the use of plastic bags at the grocery store where it is possible, by leaving some packaging directly there and by carrying at least one handful of garbage (mostly plastics) to the next trash can after each surf session in my vacation. Every little piece counts.

Comments, critics and discussions are always welcome.

Thanks for watching!

Poster Mockup by GraphicBurger

A Whale Tale Poster Mockup Variant 1

A Whale Tale Poster Mockup Variant 1

A Whale Tale Poster Mockup Variant 2

A Whale Tale Poster Mockup Variant 2

A Whale Tale Poster Variant 3

A Whale Tale Poster Variant 3

A whale tale illustration process step 1 A whale tale illustration process step 2
A whale tale illustration process step 3

Illustration Process

A whale tale illustration details

Illustration Details

A Whale Tale Poster Final Illustration

A Whale Tale – Final Illustration (b/w)

A Whale Tale Poster Final Illustration

A Whale Tale – Final Illustration (color)

A Whale Tale Poster Variants

Poster Variants

Thanks for watching

Surfing Titan T-Shirt

Surfing Titan Threadless T-Shirt Illustration Mockup Surfing Titan Threadless T-Shirt Illustration

The Surfing Titan illustration is inspired by vintage travel poster ads and my fascination for astronomy. Just imagine you could surf the liquid methane and ethane seas of Titan, the largest moon of Saturn 😉

Featured on Club of the Waves – a showcase blog of surf focussed art and photography (THX!).

Also available as a t-shirt on balooie.threadless.com

T-Shirt Mockup by GraphicBurger


Vintage Surf Art

Vintage Surf Art Poster

Vintage Surf Art Poster

Vintage Surf Art Poster Process

Vintage Surf Art Process

Digital surf art for a longboard/skateboard.


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