Lumpen 105 - Jason Hardy




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Description - Magazine Cover

••• This is a cover I did for a Chicago-based zine. Lumpen covers art, music, politics, film, opinion, etc... Rad people doing radness, it was a pleasure to work with them on this cover. I basically just worked off of the theme of communication, so I have my designer/engineer guy and he is working on a giant speaker, under him the word "Message" is broken into "MESS AGE" which is a little commentary on the state of communication in these crazy times. But there he is, trying to fix it.


 

Follower: Dead Decade - Jason Hardy




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Description - CD Packaging

••• This is a spec album. I imagined this band, Follower, to be a pretty thick sounding post-hardcore type of band. I wanted the imagery to be sort of ominous and spiritual but portrayed in a bright and warm setting.


 

100 Suns: River Of Kings - Jason Hardy




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Description - CD Packaging

••• I love music. I've been playing music in a variety of bands since I was 16 and recently I was looking for a design challenge to exercise my creativity so I decided to create a series of CD packaging designs for ficticious or as of yet un-created bands (you never know, I might have to start one of these bands just to record the album and produce the packaging).


 

Composition 101 - Jason Hardy




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Description - Design Explorations

••• I love to learn. I like to experiment and try new things, new ways of working and find new approaches to projects so one thing that I often do is to give myself a project with some tight parameters and see how I fare. For this project I created a series of Photoshop brushes from photos that I've taken while traveling and textures that I scanned in. Then I gave myself a limited color palette and a time limit for each one and set out to create a series of compositions.


 

Bibliography - Jason Hardy

••• Bibliography is a 2:50 video piece comprised of a series of clips showing empty spaces in an apartment. I wanted to imitate the surreal nature of memory and to hint that in these spaces, at one point or another, someone felt something and that in and of itself is important. The title is a metaphor for the collection of experiences and emotions that have contributed to my current state of mind. Once compiled, I videotaped the playback of all of the clips off of my television. This technique was used as a direct reference to memory - our way of recording experiences. It also makes the images less tangible, more open to interpretation.

Bibliography was part of the Thoughtfarmers "Multiplex" show on December 1st in downtown Lincoln. The image above was taken during setup and features the truck that we used to all all of the TVs to the location. That thing is a beast to drive, but very fun.

Divide and Conquer - Jason Hardy




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Description - Posters

••• The chips are stacked against us from the get-go. That's just a fact. So pair up, work hard, divide, conquer and repeat. Eventually our place will present itself.


 

PLACE - Jason Hardy

••• This is an oldie. I think I first made this video 3 years ago or so, maybe longer, as a Flash experiment. Since then I've tweaked and expanded it into a little video piece. Its about the hustle and bustle of life. About finding our place despite our constant movement.

Uncouple - Jason Hardy




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Description - Fine Art

••• Meaning: open to interpretation. I have mine, but yours is more important.

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Freedom Of Space - Jason Hardy




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Description - Skateboard Deck

••• Joey Lynch asked me to do some artwork on a blank skateboard deck for a show/silent auction at Tugboat on May 26th. The event was part of a screening of the documentary "Freedom Of Space" about skateboard culture and public space that was shown at The Ross. The sale of the decks was to raise money for a public skatepark in Lincoln.

Thanks to Dave from Secret Penguin for the gallery photos. Dave did a board as well and you can check it out here.


 

Perpetual Devotion - Jason Hardy




Description - Poster

••• This is a self-promotion poster (or "Self-Promoster" in newspeak) and it will also be in the TMF webstore soon. It is in the same style as the Because I Love You series. The copy reads "Perpetual devotion to meaningful communication."


 

Because I Love You - Jason Hardy




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Description - Posters

••• I recently created some digital artwork for a benefit art show at I?S (site by me and my brother Jared). Half of the sale of each item goes to the American Cancer Society. I did a limited run of 10 prints of each design and the remaining prints will be available in The Match Factory store when that goes live.


 

Depth Charge - Jason Hardy




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Description - Snowboard Graphics

••• This was a series of snowboard graphics that I designed as part of a contest for Salomon Snowboards. The inspiration for using underwater imagery was two fold. One, because snowboarders are sort of like deep sea creatures in that they inhabit treacherous locations. Two, I was thinking about global warming and what would happen if all of the snow that snowboarders use for recreation were to suddenly melt. It would be a lot of water.
Ultimately my designs did not win, but I was okay with that because I knew it would be a tough go from the beginning, I just wanted to design something different for a change. The winning designs were outstanding and well-deserved.

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Every Day - Jason Hardy




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Description - Posters

••• This series was made for an online publication that has yet to publish them (which I understand - these things take time). The theme is "Every Day" so you can use that to decipher where I was going with these.


 

Scandinavia: December 2004 - Jason Hardy

••• I took a journey with Justin Kemerling to visit Dan Spider in Sweden. Along the way we spent some time with Craig Turnwall. It was a memorable and beautiful time.
I shot all of the sequences with my digital photo camera (although it took half the trip before I remembered that my camera could shoot small bits of video footage). The music is by Sigur Ros (mostly from Hlemmur) and is used without permission.

Blanc Fixe - Jason Hardy




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Description - 7" Vinyl Packaging

••• As part of my creative outlet I try to spend a decent amount of time making music. Most of it is electronic based and I thought it would be cool to release a digitally recorded/produced group of songs in an analog medium. The pairing of electronic music and vinyl records is something I find very interesting. The songs are done, the packaging is designed, but I have yet to actually produce it.


 

Reminders - Jason Hardy




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Description - Posters

••• Poster One: HAVE TICKET WILL TRAVEL - I was thinking about traveling and about how much I'd learned by visiting other countries when I made this poster. The person in the suit is one of my best friends of all time, Chris Bartek. He travels a lot and is a real inspiration to me. The boat image is one that I shot when I was in San Diego. I hung this up in my apartment and when I walk by it makes me that much closer to walking out the door, getting in the car and hitting the road.

Poster Two: BELIEVE IN SUNSHINE - There are some simple truths in life. Sunshine is one of them. I believe in it.

Poster Three: AIM - This is a digital collage that I made useing some photos that I shot of my friends. Pretty simple, just reminds me of good times, sunny days, rock music, etc...


 

Something - Jason Hardy




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Description - Collage

••• Advertising/television/marketing/etc... is sometimes very sickening to me. Messages become arbitrary and secondary to commerce. People's fears, desires and attention spans are prayed upon. We need to ask ourselves what messages are being sold to us and what this all means.


 

Ghostrunners - Jason Hardy




Description - Flyer

••• This is a flyer for a show my band played with our practice space-mates Ghostrunners. For some reason I was really into gun related imagery, despite being a pretty staunch gun control proponent. I found these two images of a cop with a gun and a guy singing his guts out and put them together. The message is pretty simple, and nothing new, but still pretty powerful.
That message is: Fuck the man.


 

Fusebox - AIGA - Jason Hardy




Description - Advert

••• This is an ad that my employer, Fusebox, placed in an AIGA publication. This project came at the perfect time. I was working on a project that I wasn't very excited about and one morning I was having trouble feeling motivated to work on it. So then I get a couple hours to do this ad and after that I felt much better.


 

Flight - Jason Hardy




Description - Poster

••• This is a poster that I made for my younger brother Jared when he graduated from college.


 

Why - Jason Hardy




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Description - Photos

••• These are a few samples from a series of themed photos that I put together in a book for my wife. In the book each image had a single line of text that answered the title question.


 

Weeks At A Time - Jason Hardy




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Description - Photos

••• I took these images with a Holga toy camera. I can't remember when, I just shot a lot of random photos over the past 8 months and these were some that seemed to tell a story. The first shot is the sidwalk in front of my work, where I was spending a lot of time. The second shot is from a trip to San Diego for a design conference. The third is of my wife Sue and one of our dinners. The fourth is of my friend Aaron and the fifth is of an amp I bought from him.
My life in a nutshell.


 

80s Night - Jason Hardy




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Description - Flyers

••• A couple flyers for 80s night at the Bricktop. The concept for the Halloween flyer was "Like-a-Virgin" era Madonna mixed with 80s slasher movies - like "Friday The 13th." The idea for the Valentines Day flyer was inspired by the scene in "Sixteen Candles" where the "nerd" holds up a pair of panties. I thought it'd be cool to use the woman's arms from the first flyer and hold up men's underwear instead, just to flip it up a little.


 

Glossy - Jason Hardy




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Description - Digital Photos

••• Normally I can't stand this Laundry Land, it just reeks of nacho cheese and oppression, but its close to home so I tough it out now and then. On this particular day I decided to shoot some photos. It was a weird atmosphere. I was the only customer but there were three employees, all sitting at the counter eating nachos. One of the ladies asked me what I was doing. She said the other one thought that maybe I was a terrorist.
No ma'am, just a vagrant.


 

Content - Jason Hardy




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Description - Digital Collage

••• A series of photo collages made from a combination of personal photos, illustrations and some free stock images. I've been thinking about the concept of fear as a deterrent and explored those ideas here. At first I was on the fence about using free stock photos, but the fact that they come from other designers and non-professional photographers and are available to everyone turned me on because someone else could use the same images I used and make something completely contradictory to my message.


 

Family Portrait - Jason Hardy




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Description - Posters

••• My wife and I moved into an apartment with a fireplace. So there's a big empty wall above the fireplace and we decided that we needed something there. Initially we bought a giant canvas and were going to paint something, but we got too intimidated by its blinding white surface, so we created these on the computer. So much safer.
So basically, these two posters represent the impact that our marriage has had on each of us as individuals. The space above the fireplace is pretty big so in order to fill it we hung the two posters side by side (which is how they were designed).


 

Face For Radio - Jason Hardy




Description - Flyer

••• This is a flyer for a show my band, Call In Call Out, played with another Lincoln band Face for Radio. The show was pretty eclectic because Call In/Out is pretty hardcore/postpunk and Face for Radio is kind of screamy emo but then we had Newsense, a rapper, and The Show is the Rainbow, who can only be described as a one man, pop freakout.
The flyer's cyclops face makes reference to having a face for radio but also gives the flyer a disjointed theme that was echoed by the variety of music being performed at the show.


 

Alli - Jason Hardy




Description - Photo

••• This is a photo of my younger sister Allison. I finally made her laugh enough to shoot me a real smile. I love her more than she probably knows.


 

The Sprinter Inserts - Jason Hardy




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Description - DVD Packaging Inserts

••• A few leftovers from The Sprinter DVD Packaging. I came across these the other day and liked textures and colors. The blurry images in the background are stills from the film. The copy was written to reflect our intentions in making the film.