Reading Skatepark Association - Skateboard design

Another wonderful thing about living in one of  the most down-trodden cities in the country is the old adage: When you're at the bottom, the only place to go, is up

That's what is happening in our town now, people who truly believe in something and work extra hard for little to no reward are cropping up in every corner. We still have a long way to go, but the best way to get there is to lend a hand when you can

The Reading Skatepark Association, led by some of our very good friends, have been on a non-stop mission for the past several years to bring a public concrete park to our neck of the woods. They do raffles, spaghetti dinners, all day festivals, etc.. some of which we donate art to.

We created this piece some time ago for their skate deck show and auction at the Goggle Works. It was hand painted with acrylic paints, as well as a few florescents.

Titled :Big Biz and the Tasty Treats:

T-Bone & Aljax - Series 1 Sticker Packs!

Super excited to announce that we have stickers! The 1st series (yes, there will be more) is available in a very limited numbered run of 50 packs

Each pack has all 5 stickers available inside, plus a stick of extra soft bubble gum! 

But don't worry, we have some loose ones available as well, in regular and jumbo sizes.

Slightly Stoopid - Boise, ID & Bonner, MT show posters

So humbled to be asked yet again to create show posters for the one and only, Slightly Stoopid.

It all started with this one sketch and attached concept - 

"Concept:  features Rod and Todd Flanders melting to the Quick e Mart floor after eating Slightly Stoopid brand pix e stix which is advertised on a sign behind their heads. The rest of the info is displayed on various signs behind their heads.."

Skip ahead to the finished 6 color print:

SO... they then asked us to create a show poster out of the miniature Krusty poster inset in the background for the night before in Bonner, MT:

No sweat ;)

And here are the finished printed pieces, Upright Press in Ohio did a killer job printing this 6 color Rod & Todd beast (foil pictured):

And this 4 color one was printed by Masthead Print Studios in Philadelphia:

And here's an animated thing we created from the Rod and Todd save states... easy as 1,2,3

Some old logos

Back in 2009, we created this logo sheet to showcase a few of our logos.. that was 10 years ago!!

It's always good to reflect and see how much you've grown

So here it is, a grouping of logos from our designing past, here's to hoping we don't wait another 10 years to show what we've been doing since then.

Hydra Artist Studios - stage mural

You may remember us mentioning to you folks our brother, a few of our friends and we, started an artist community in our hometown of Reading PA called Hydra Artist Studios. Proud to say that our numbers have more than quadrupled since then, and still growing.

Back in March 2018, T-Bone and Aljax, as well as a little help from Anthony Mark and Nikola Eyck, spent 10 long nights painting this massive 12.5' x 20' mural on the back stage wall (the gold pocket doors lead to the band green room, and are the same doors given to us by our friends at Saturday Night Live, used for the Paul Rudd hosted skit, 'What's that Name?')

In our typical screen print fashion (I mean... c'mon) we only used 4 colors for the entire thing. All Hail Hydra!!

The SNL skit, leave the searching to us..

SanCo - Branding and marketing

Wanted to shout out to our good buddy Mike Santarelli of SanCo Sound and Light for allowing us the opportunity to rebrand his soaring Sound and Light business. We were quite pleased with the outcome of this one.

Drew and the Blue T-shirts and Stickers

One color shirt and sticker design we whipped up for the rockabilly band Drew and the Blue:

Jon Spencer and the HITmakers - Chameleon Club - Lancaster, PA

Brand new poster for our friends at Secret Serpents for Jon Spencer and the HITmakers! Screen printed edition 50 s/n. 3 colors on French 19x25 Cement Green 100lb cover. Printed by our friends at Distel Ink. Thanks Justin for the hookup :)

Hydra - Love on Wheels - vintage commercial

Video promo T-Bone created for an event we threw for Hydra Artist Studios at Skateaway in Shillington PA - loud bands & drinking... on skates!

Thanks to all the peeps that helped out on this one - T-Bone directed, shot and edited, Roxy Jackson did the sexy voice over work, Charles Terhune recorded the V.O., and a super special thanks to Caine Stenditz, Anthony Mark, Andrew Jackson, and Schon Wanner for freezing their butts off while we being wet and half naked while an industrial fan was blowing on them in an unheated warehouse in February

Brainfruit Industries - branding and marketing

Branding we created for our good buddies at Brainfruit Industries. These guys have a solid plan for helping and building up artists in their community, and we're honored they sought us out. Check it:

And the Spot UV  silk laminated business cards we created for them

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