DOPE Style Maker

politics…UPTOWN blog

DOPE Style Maker — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:11:02 +0000

Political blog customization of a WordPress premium theme for UPTOWN Magazine, endorsers of the Barack Obama Presidential Campaign.

Click here to view the full size image.

Client: UPTOWN Magazine
Date: July 2008

Step into a world: FROM THE SOURCE, session one

DOPE Style Maker — Fri, 09 May 2008 11:33:15 +0000

If you missed FROM THE SOURCE last night, not only did you miss out on an opportunity to take in music from three, diversely talented women, but also deprived yourself of the chance to expand your repertoire.

Mixing genres, sounds and cultures, FROM THE SOURCE made a clean break from the standard performance series. Forcing audience members to step outside their comfort zones, the show gifted willing ears with the perfect opening for growing auditory ranges.

Housed at small, but inviting Brooklyn watering hole Smooch Cafe and Wine Bar, FROM THE SOURCE delivered three sets as different from one another as apple pie and crème brûlée.

The South African birthed voice of Yolanda Zama, backed by the beat of heart thumping djembe drums, was followed up with what can only be classified as pure acid funk from an always transforming Sarah White. Finally, wrapping up an already stellar show, mold-breaking Eagle Nebula proved what’s old is new again with her east coast meets west coast blend of hip-hop.

FROM THE SOURCE reassures us that Claude Grunitzsky’s brand of transculturalism is the way of the world, while allowing us to experience it from our doorsteps. Do yourself a favor and infuse yourself in it.

Photo: Protius

Client: DOPE SWAN
Date: May 2008

My Dream of All Dreams (2008)

DOPE Style Maker — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:13:07 +0000

Digital watercolor dedicated to my neice Mya, 8, who is one my biggest influence. When I am with her I not only find motivation to do what I do, but find inspiration for my creativity.

A few years ago, before visiting me in New York, she told me her “dream of all dreams” was to see “lady liberty”. My dream of all dreams is to work towards a world where she can realize all her dreams.

Client: Personal
Date: February 2008

Bloom Magazine Logo

DOPE Style Maker — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:09:53 +0000

Logo concepts created for Bloom Magazine, a lifestyle magazine for young women and girls. Provided to client as an example of the fresh direction I thought the magazine should take.

Client: Bloom Magazine
Date: January 2008

Style Fiend Logo

DOPE Style Maker — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:08:05 +0000

Logo for Style Fiend, a fashion and lifestyle website featuring a online video makeover series.

Client: Style Fiend
Date: November 2007

Mid Hue Mamas Logo

DOPE Style Maker — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 14:52:12 +0000

Logo concepts created for the community arts initiative of New York-based community arts organization, DOPE SWAN.

Client: DOPE SWAN
Date: November 2007

2K Sports Custom MySpace Page

DOPE Style Maker — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 04:43:48 +0000

Custom MySpace overlay designed to promote 2K Sports video games. Features a flash header and embedded video. MySpace CSS and HTML coding provided by Kyle Barron-Kraus.

Client: 2K Sports
Date: November 2007

Toofly Banner Pack

DOPE Style Maker — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 04:00:30 +0000

A set of banner advertisements created to promote Toofly’s new online store. Ads feature images from her Fall 2007 line and were created in three sizes: 468×60, 1125×125 and 160×600. Click here to view the 160×600 banner ad.

Client: Parallel MVMT, Toofly
Date: July 2007

Next Stop Hollywood Press Release

DOPE Style Maker — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 11:09:23 +0000

NEW YORK, NY – June 2007 – In an effort to bring more short stories to the big and small screens, Next Stop Hollywood (St. Martin’s Press) executive producers, Steve Cohen and Jonathan Davis are opening the 2007 submission period with a call for original short stories. To be compiled in the next edition of the annual anthology, submissions will be judged by a panel of Hollywood insiders in search of hidden gems and overlooked page-turners with definite film or television adaptation potential.

Partnering with St. Martin’s Press since 2005, Cohen and Davis have used Next Stop Hollywood to continue the tradition of short story adaptation successes like Brokeback Mountain, Good Will Hunting and Minority Report.

Download the full article: Next Stop Hollywood Press Release (.pdf)

Client: Parallel MVMT
Date: June 2007

MORE FEAR Exhibit Press Release

DOPE Style Maker — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 11:00:43 +0000

Brooklyn, NY – March 3, 2007 – The Gallery at Harriet’s Alter Ego hosts MORE FEAR: The Final Call, a visual diary of the finest and most nadir moments of a people neglected, featuring work by Brooklyn photographers Akintola Hanif and Jamel Shabazz. The show will run from April 8 - May 4, 2007 with an opening reception on Sunday, April 8, from 3:00PM – 6:00PM.

Using their lenses as a tool to unearth society’s successes and failures, both Hanif and Shabazz have been recording the lives of underappreciated and misrepresented peoples in and around the New York City area for several years. Through MORE FEAR they aspire to light a match of influence that will provoke communal change and evolution.

Download the full article: MORE FEAR Exhibit Press Release (.pdf)

Client: Akintola Hanif, Jamel Shabazz
Date: March 2007