Recycled Sadness are de-motivational posters. I hand-lettered each one then screen-printed them on to Goodwill paintings.
Printed with the help of my friends over at ShirtNerdery.com
Available for purchase at in my shop
Occasionally I get asked to do a show poster. This section will be updated over time.
As an artist, so often you are are asked to work for "exposure" as payment. This piece was my answer to those offers.
This is kind of a meta piece. The symbol inside the heart is the punctuation mark for irony. It reads literally: "I Ironically Heart PDX," which seems very Portland to me. More over, not a lot of people know the irony mark automatically, so it's a little elitist as well....also pretty Portland. Lastly, I did it in a handwritten type that references wood block, retro type, so...perhaps a bit on the overly cool hipster slant...Portland again. None of this is meant to be insulting. I love this city, but loving it is embracing these things.
It was also very satisfying to get pictures of something I designed with folks like Haley Joel Osment, Lorenza Izzo and Eli Roth.