Sweaty Money

It's not very often you get the privilege of naming a band you have no business naming, and then, that same band gets a decent following and are super creative in their promo materials... so creative in fact that the mayor and cops of their town hound them damn near weekly for their creative promo being where it shouldn't belong.. well that's just rock and roll my friends! (- Phil V)

Aljax created this slimy, boogery, monster-fied logo for our brothers from another mother band, Sweaty Money. If you ever hear of them coming around, stop what you're doing, and go go go, it's a hell of a ride.

Hot Dog Social Club - band logo/ apparel/ motion graphics

We've always felt a band logo should be iconic enough to stand alone, but simple enough that a kid can draw it on his notebook. That it looks good black and white, or ANY mix of patterns and colors.

We were real pleased with this one, too bad the band broke up shortly after this was made. sad face...

Only 20 of these shirts were produced:

Hail Hydra - Shirt design

We at Hydra like to support the arts in any way we can muster, one of those ways is by creating outlets for our growing community to display and sell their wares. 

For example, we host artist bazaars several times a year. At these bazaars, the seven of us take turns to come up with a one color shirt design to sell as a limited edition run. 

Here's a quickie one T-Bone came up with:

And here are a couple more that Aljax made

Wanna see the sketch? Well, here it is anyway:

Mr.Dark - And You, Brutus? - June, 23rd, 2018

Show poster for Mr. Dark w/ And You, Brutus? At Canal St Pub in Reading PA - June 23rd 2018.

One color on French Black paper, printed as 9" x 12" handbills

Distelink - Branding and naming

Our partners at Abnrml called us up and said "Good news! We're moving to Reading!" and we were like "YAY!" and they were like "We need a new name, got any ideas?" and so we were like "How about Distelink? It's like the PA Dutch distelfink, but none of the 'f'"

And that's how this shit gets made, children

2 Guns - Official Steelbook collectors edition

 Here is the artwork we created for the Steelbook edition of 2 Guns, starring Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg. Shout out to the good folks at Gallery 1988 for hooking us up with this sweet gig!

Arttitude - Pixel underground

Honored that a few of our pieces have been selected for another book! Look for us in Pixel underground, coming December 11th from Arttitude and Plan9 Entertainment. 

Discount if you pre-order before December 09, 2017.

https://goo.gl/x9bD7A

Hair Royalty - Branding, cards and storefront sign

Complete branding package created for our friends at Hair Royalty in Muhlenberg, PA

After we set up the vector paths for the CNC, the wood was cut by our good pal at Bartush Signs.

We wanted the natural wood to peek through for certain details, so we primed the parts that were to be colored, and then used a 4 inch brayer roller to finish it off, so as to not fill any of the wood details

After roughly 4 coats with the brayer:

We then masked off all of the natural wood parts with painters tape, and used

bright purple spray paint to fill in the cut primed sections:

Back on the brayer, it took 5 coats of black to fill this in proper:

This is a sign that will be displayed outside, so we then used an enamel spray clear coat to give it a protective finish:

The framing and installation was completed by our Hydra partner Anthony Mark and T-Bone:

And... the spot UV silk finished mini appointment cards:

New York Times shout out!

WOOOOOOW! New York Times wrote an article on the book we are in - Alternative Movie Posters, as well as some pretty in depth commentary regarding the community and ideas surrounding the art form.

Check it out here

Proposed Hydra Arts Program - Episode II

Here it is folks! Episode 2 of our show featuring emerging and underground artists and musicians from the Reading and Berks County areas. 

High Point Baptist Academy

We collaborated with Seba Films, as well as High Point Baptist Academy, to create this promotional video highlighting the student experience at High Point. T-Bone directed, Aljax wrote the script and coordinated the soundtrack and the students stories, Sebastian Nieves on cameras, Andy Jackson on sound, Jeff Walker did grip, Steven Arias was assistant camera, and Steve Kauffman did the drone shots.

Magical History Tour

New ad campaign we designed and illustrated for our local music festival "The Magical History  Tour"

Here is the intitial poster design:

Here are a few of the different size formats for billboards, periodical announcements, and social media advertisements:

And here's a spiffy wallpaper for your desktop:

Thanks to the Berks History Center and Drea for the hookup :)

Jonathan Monument - Flip the Tables

Alongside our triplet brother, Andy, and our good friend Matthew Mazurkiewicz, we shot and edited this green screen music video for Reading PA's very own, Jonathan Monument.

Check it out!

And here's a kiss-cut sticker set that we created for them:

3 eyed Jesus - latch hook / found art

Our good buddy Deric found this awfully awesome latch hook Jesus at a yard sale for a couple bucks. Aljax took the time to map a third eye by re-arranging the threads.. swapped from small sections of the rest of the piece. Here's the finished rug, which now lives on the back bar wall in our beloved Hydra:

Jubilee - VR experience

We love our friends over at Veer Goggles! We worked closely with Veer to transform the poster we created for Jubilee at Joanna Furnace 2017 into this VR experience. Check it out!

http://veergoggles.com/jubilee/

Here is the poster

And here is just a sampling of the banners that populated every angle of the festival:

Pollen Consolidated - branding

Our good friends Rich and Amy Johnson reached out to us to brand their new arts and entertainment 'umbrella company', Pollen Consolidated. 

Proposed hydra Arts Program - Episode 1

Part 1 of a 4 part series highlighting emerging and underground artists and musicians in the Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania scene.

Melvins - Club Congress - 9.21.16

New one for the Melvins! 
This Metallica "One" / Micky Mouse parody was created for their Club Congress show last night in Tuscon Arizona. Aljax illustrated this beast by matching the classic pushead style, T-bone handled the lettering. Thanks to Secret Serpents for the hookup!

4 colors on 19" x 25" French whipped cream heavy cardstock. Printed by our partners at Abnrml. 

Our artist edition goes on sale this Friday (tomorrow) at 5 p.m. EST in our store

Slightly Stoopid - Return of the Red Eye - Summer Tour 2016

New one for Slightly Stoopid, kicking off their Return of the Red Eye 2016 Summer Tour at Marymoor Park in Redmond, WA. 4 colors on 19" x 25" French White paper. Printed by our partners at Abnrml Tees. This print is SOLD OUT