In trying to prevent my friend from being hit by 6 crazy guys I got duffed in the skull and my female roommate had a chunk of hair removed from her head. I’m beggining to think Rochester NY is unsafe!

Chris Lyons' 2009 Poster

Chris Lyons Illustration

I was at the  Lilac Festival the other day walking around and I started to wonder how I could market DRKMTTR gum in this context. We’re in tough economic times and thousands of people were walking around enjoying the free festival. These handouts could be a nice touch, they’re small, light on content and copy. Plus, they have a coupon on the bottom.

I took the photograph and the model is my cousin Cristina.

Heliocentric cosmology might be a little too heady of a concept for the tag line though…it just means revolving around the sun. As opposed to the geocentric diagram (around the earth) that was commonly accepted pre Copernicus.  Heliocentrism is something he stole from a dead Greek guy named Ptolemy. Maybe I’ll simplify the tag line.

Allegories representing Sight, Taste, Hearing and Mind.  I’ll let you decide which one is which.

Looking south from atop the High-Falls parking garage at 3am while a train rushes by at 50mph. Triple exposure HDR.