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Art direction and design for Secretly Group
(Dead Oceans, Jagjaguwar, Secretly Canadian) and Tension Division
Moonlighting as an electronic musician:
Metavari
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Ferocious Art & Fiction
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Design Logos/Letters Album Art
Okay Kaya "Ascend and Try Again"  
Jagjaguwar
Design, Direction
Korn The Nothing  
Elektra/Roadrunner
Design, Co-Direction
Khruangbin Rules b/w Cómo Te Quiero  
Dead Oceans
Design, Direction
Alex Cameron Miami Memory  
Secretly Canadian
Design
Metavari Unravelled Exegesis  
Lynchland
Design, Direction, Composer
Tim Heidecker What the Brokenhearted Do...  
Jagjaguwar
Design, Direction
Metavari ABSURDA  
One Way Static
Design, Direction, Composer
Metavari "The Alphabet"  
One Way Static
Design, Direction, Composer
Better Oblivion Community Center  
Dead Oceans
Design, Direction
Stella Donnelly Beware of the Dogs  
Secretly Canadian
Design, Direction
Too Close To Touch I'm Hard to Love But So Are You...  
Epitaph
Design, Co-Direction
Weezer Weezer  
Crush/Atlantic
Design, Co-Direction (w/ Brandon Rike)
AFI The Missing Man  
Ex Noctem Nacimur
Illustration (Design: Brandon Rike)
Shipwreck Karpathos Bring Down the Sky (Metavari Remix)  
Shipwreck Karpathos
Design, Direction, Composer
Sharon Van Etten Remind Me Tomorrow  
Jagjaguwar
Design
Sharon Van Etten Remind Me Tomorrow  
Jagjaguwar
Outtake
Evangelicals The Halloween Song  
Dead Oceans
Design, Illustration, Direction
Night of the Living Dead OST 1990  
Strange Disc
Design, Illustration, Direction
The Smashing Pumpkins Shiny and Oh So Bright, Vol.1  
Napalm
Design, Illustration, Co-Direction
The Blob Original Soundtrack  
One Way Static
Design, Direction
Phosphorescent C'est La Vie  
Dead Oceans
Outtake
How Much Darker b/w Street Smarts  
Mind Over Matter
Design, Direction, Composer
Lonnie Holley MITH  
Jagjaguwar
Design, Direction
Joey Dosik Inside Voice  
Secretly Canadian
Design, Direction
Joey Dosik Inside Voice  
Secretly Canadian
Outtake
Florian Fricke Spielt Mozart  
One Way Static
Design, Direction
Durand Jones & the IndicationsLive Vol. 1  
Dead Oceans
Design
Julie Doiron Désormais / Heart and Crime  
Jagjaguwar
Design
Ganja & Hess Original Soundtrack  
Strange Disc
Design, Direction
Klaus Schulze La Vie Electronique Vol.1.2  
One Way Static
Design, Direction
Klaus Schulze La Vie Electronique Vol.1.1  
One Way Static
Design, Direction
Beartooth Disease  
Red Bull Records
Design (Cover: Brandon Rike)
usLights Love Will Tear Us Apart  
Mind Over Matter
Design, Direction
Klaus Schulze La Vie Electronique Vol.1.0  
One Way Static
Design, Direction
Metavari Symmetri  
One Way Static
Design, Direction, Composer
Metavari Metropolis Re-Score  
One Way Static
Design, Direction, Composer
Hundred Suns The Prestaliis  
New Damage
Design
Hundred Suns The Prestaliis  
New Damage
Outtakes
Marlon Wiliams "Nobody Gets What They Want Anymore"  
Dead Oceans
Design, Direction
Alex Cameron Forced Witness  
Secretly Canadian
Design (Outtake shown, Final here)
Vinyl Moon Vol.19: Sacred Dust  
Vinyl Moon
Design, Direction
Vinyl Moon Vol.19: Sacred Dust  
Vinyl Moon
Design, Direction
Void Reunion EP03  
Self-released
Design, Direction
Japanese Breakfast Soft Sounds from Another Planet  
Dead Oceans
Design (Outtake shown, Final here)
Trevor Sensor Andy Warhol's Dream  
Jagjaguwar
Design, Direction
Twiceyoung Uneven Kind  
Self-released
Design
Metavari Tetra A.D. 2nd Pressing  
Mind Over Matter
Design, Direction, Composer
Califone Quicksand/Cradlesnakes (Reissue)  
Dead Oceans
Rebuild/Re-design
Metavari Tetra A.D.  
Mind Over Matter
Design, Direction, Composer
Foxygen Hang  
Jagjaguwar
Design (Outtake shown, Final here)
Small Black Best Blues Remix EP  
Jagjaguwar
Design
Metavari Indigo  
Vital Shores
Design, Direction, Composer
Trevor Sensor Starved Nights Saturday Stars  
Jagjaguwar
Design, Direction
Alex Cameron Jumping the Shark  
Secretly Canadian
Interpreted for Cassette
Savoir Adore The Love That Remains  
Nettwerk
Design, Direction (Outtake show, Final here)
Heaven's Gateway Drugs Rubber Nun  
Dizzy Bird
Design, Direction
Tim Heidecker In Glendale  
Rado
Design (Outtake shown, Final here)
Suuns Hold/Still  
Secretly Canadian
Design
Destroyer My Mystery  
Dead Oceans / Merge
Design
Small Black Best Blues  
Jagjaguwar
Design
Metavari Oh Diane 7"  
Mind Over Matter
Painting, Direction, Composer
Metavari Oh Diane 7" Test-Pressing  
Mind Over Matter
Design, Direction, Composer
Sharon Van Etten I Don't Want to Let You Down  
Jagjaguwar
Design
Gardens & Villa Music for Dogs  
Secretly Canadian
Design, Direction
Gardens & Villa Fixations  
Secretly Canadian
Design, Paint, Direction
Night Beds Ivywild  
Dead Oceans
Design, Direction
Night Beds Ivywild  
Dead Oceans
Outtakes
Cayucas Mooney Eyed Walrus  
Secretly Canadian
Design, Direction
Cayucas Dancing at the Blue Lagoon  
Secretly Canadian
Design
Cayucas Dancing at the Blue Lagoon  
Secretly Canadian
Outtakes
Metavari Moonless  
Vital Shores
Design, Direction, Composer
Night Beds Tide Teeth  
Dead Oceans
Design
Edgar Froese Stuntman  
Gallery piece for 33.3/Gallery1988
1/2
Edgar Froese Stuntman  
Gallery piece for 33.3/Gallery1988
2/2
A Place to Bury Strangers Transfixiation  
Dead Oceans
(Outtake shown, Final cover by Miles Johnson)
Gardens & Villa Televisor  
Secretly Canadian
Design
Happy Christmas OST  
Secretly Canadian
Unused
Viet Cong Viet Cong  
Jagjaguwar
Design
Electric Youth Innerworld  
Secretly Canadian
(Outtake shown, Final cover by Daniel Murphy)
Bill Fay Who Is The Sender?  
Dead Oceans
Design
Bill Fay Who Is The Sender?  
Dead Oceans
Outtake
Greylag Greylag  
Dead Oceans
Design
Metavari Pale Shelter “Cold Hands Mix”  
Self-Released
Design, Direction, Composer
12 Rods Lost Time Reissue  
Chigliak
Unused
Metavari Studies vol.1  
Crossroads of America
Design, Direction, Composer
Metavari Be One of Us and Hear No Noise  
Crossroads of America
Design, Direction, Composer
Got to Get a Message to You Compilation  
Wildflower
Design
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