The record is killer! You can buy it here. And check out the Pitchfork review!

We took Carter’s white medieval font design and pulled some of the colors from the album art’s furry background to make a logo for the site which would pop out over the new photos, and we tweaked the site graphics throughout. We also added Songkick for the tour, made a transparent background for the tour blog, and added some new video.

Jason shot all new photos for the band, too. And we got it all turned around in a week– just in time for South By Southwest!

Here’s a bit more…

Some of Jason’s photos from this shoot are also featured in this month’s Georgia Music Magazine in the story “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Futurebird”
Check out more of Jason Thrasher’s music photography here… and don’t sleep.

Brantley Senn, (pictured far left) is the bassist and songwriter for Dead Confederate and Thrasher Photo & Design’s newest lead programmer. He also built the new DC Site.
You should check it out.

And for more about Dead Confederate read their bio and some of what the press is saying about them.

Read the full Stomp and Stammer article featuring Jason’s photos, Southern Men:
Dead Confederate’s Ragged Glory, here.

Dead Confederate’s new album, In the Marrow, can be ordered here.

Here’s another pic from Jason’s shoot

Check out Dead Confederate on tour!
And don’t miss their newest video featured on SPIN this month, Vacations, directed by Jordan Noel.

Stay tuned to our blog for more about the sites Beth and Brantley have been creating for Thrasher Photo & Design.

This month a sketch Beth made of a Chinese Luna Moth set the theme–

Prose reader John Pence (who’s also known to us via Rabbit Box and Write Club) is a Kung-fu expert, poet Julia Maher emotes about her experiences in China, and one of our personal favorite crooners, Jacob Morris, has a new bag, named Moths.

Lightning is Beth’s favorite kind of weather, and inspired by the new video work by Thrasher Photo & Design alum, Eddie Whelan, for Proenza Schouler and Alexander McQueen, she ran a pink glitch on her photo.

Come check out the New Town Revue at Avid Books next Friday– it’s always interesting, and with the full program just under an hour, it’s never too long.

Here are a few more of Beth’s NTR posters from the past few months..

Jason Thrasher

The CD and accompanying promotional calendar was designed by the Wertzes of Wertzateria for 429 Records and features Jason’s photography (see below).

Buy La Costa Perdida HERE!

Here are a few more photos from Jason’s CVB shoot at Ciné:

and here’s Jason’s Flagpole cover of Camper Van Beethoven:

Read the full article at Flagpole, David Lowery on ‘Freehadists,’ 30 Years of Camper Van Beethoven

Our oldest daughter’s very young feet are the star of the Hotel Indigo Gallery’s latest show, curated by artist, Didi Dunphy: WISH.

If you missed the opening last week, the show is still up through March 2013!

Jason’s photography series of our girls hanging out in the backyard (Ruby Reds, pictured here) is represented in the group show, along with his photos of the ceiling of the Fabulous 40 Watt and the red curtains of the new Georgia Theatre. You can check out more of Jason Thrasher’s Rock and Roll Photography here, at his website.

The WISH show has been written up by the Athens Banner-Herald:
ABH: Wishes Warm the Weather at Hotel Indigo Exhibit

and the ABH also wrote this piece about the Indigo’s WISH installation in the Glass Cube
by artist Martijn van Wagtendonk:
ABH: Landscape Lights the Night ; see more at Martijn’s website here

Full List of Artists Represented in the WISH show:

Wish features the work of 9 Athens-based artists and designers, with photography by Thom Houser and Jason Thrasher, jewelry by Mary Hallam Pearse, textiles by Jennifer Crenshaw, paintings by Joshua Beinko, Claire Joyce and Margaret Morrison, and lastly a work from by Nikki Nye and Amy Flurry, also known as the Paper Cut Project duo.

For more information, please contact:
Didi Dunphy, Gallery Director and Curator
galleryhotelindigoathens@gmail.com
706.255.3224

Facebook Event Page for the WISH show

View the photos and read the Style Me Pretty Post here.

Beth came up with the design for the Hedgerow Farm logo and brand, based on Lisa’s wish for an original mark which would carry the name of her family farm into all media.

We also custom-designed this sign for the farm, working closely with the folks at Apex in Athens. It’s a beautiful all-cedar sign featuring the new logo. After a lot of head scratching, we realized it’s pretty darn difficult to find a true wood sign– nearly all the “wooden” signs out there in the world t0day are made of plastic. Apex can make one for you, just the way you want it, out of wood!

Also for this project, Eddie sketched and painted dozens of plants, flowers, vegetables, fruit, trees and…
BEES!

The Fig Preserves labels, for big Bell Jars and tiny jars, too! Featuring Eddie’s watercolors of Lisa’s figs. Did you know that figs only appear for a few weeks a year– so if someone gives you a fig or a jar of fig preserves, they must really love ya!

Beth designed labels featuring Eddie’s paintings for the farm’s honey, fig preserves and eggs. We think they turned out pretty amazing. And again, thanks to Apex for printing the water resistant labels– they are best known for their work printing automobile and amp-friendly stickers for Athens’ touring bands, and they are located right next to our pals at Chase Park Transduction.

and then,

T-Shirts! Lisa says that folks stop her far and wide (last weekend on St. Simons!) to ask “Where did you get that T-shirt?!

We spent quite some time finding the softest organic cotton T-shirts, and again applied our HF brand and logo–
Our friends at Satisfactory printed them with soy-based inks– eco-friendly and super, super soft… We did a summer version on ivory short sleeves!

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Stay tuned! We’ve been working on linen postcards and greeting cards featuring Jason’s incredible photos of the farm, as well as herb and pecan hang-tags with carved silk screened images, and a comprehensive website which features Jason’s pics and Eddie’s watercolors.

More soon about this really fun project….

Beth and Eddie built the Futurebirds’ first website back in the fall of 2010, as a demo– it was a simple site, with a cool design which complemented their current release at the time, Hampton’s Lullaby. But after a busy 18 months of touring, recording and shooting videos, the band needed a site with more bells and whistles.

So a few months ago, Thrasher Photo & Design built the Futurebirds a brand new mac-daddy all-custom WordPress website which includes feeds from FaceBook, Twitter, Itunes and Soundcloud, and a tour module which keeps fans up to date… along with videos, photos (see below for photos from TP&D’s Eddie Whelan and Jason Thrasher) and a tour blog– just in time for SXSW. Carter and Thomas hung out with Beth for a few hours and poof they were gone, off to Austin and then on tour, and this is what she did while they were on the road with the massive blood sweat and tears of Beth and Darilee– we got the whole thing built from start to finish (what usually takes a few long months) in just over two weeks.

If you haven’t had the chance to catch these guys live, you HAVE TO, but their studio records, produced by our pal Drew Vandenburg at Chase Park Transduction, are just beautiful…

Photo: Eddie Whelan

Here’s a grab of the home page– it has a super cool feature which allows the visitor to scroll down while keeping the background in place…Beth picked the mountains because… well, she’s not sure why… and added the static. It’s easy to change out as are the photos so it will may well have changed by the time you are reading this.

We customized the ugly grey newsletter signup button and made a favicon icon and blog post icon based on Carter’s birdhead logo…

Here are some of Jason Thrasher’s photos of the band playing live at the beautiful new Georgia Theatre in Athens, GA

For each design, Beth had a vague notion of what she wanted (“let’s base this on an old burlesque show posters from Paris at the turn of the century” or  “how about using this photograph by surrealist artist Claude Cahun as a launch pad?”) then her designers set to work finding source images and constructing the new graphics, then they put the finishing touches on the posters together in the studio.

Al Dixon and Deirdre Sugiuchi created New Town Revue at our new local indie bookshop, Avid, to help promote the writing community in Athens, and as a way to illustrate that “readings don’t have to be boring.” If you haven’t been to a New Town Revue yet, you are truly missing out– they are short and sweet (good thinking Al and D!) with the entire program running around an hour.

Past New Town Revues have featured readings by David Lowery of Camper Van Beethoven, the poets Jeff Fallis and Sabrina Orah Mark, and music by Madeline and Old Smokey, to name just a few.

The next New Town Revue will take place, as it always does, at the awesome indie booksellers, Avid Bookshop on
Thursday, September 27th around 630 in the evening and will feature:

Kristen Iskandrian who will read a short story recently published in Tin House

Stephen Brooks who will read an essay about his distinctive Southern accent,
which recently appeared in storySouth.

Music by Stephen Brooks and Zach Wright from Junker.

We’ll show you the new poster, here, next week after we get it designed!

Our most recent, FOURTH poster for New Town, is Beth’s favorite. She’d been in Chicago for a conference and saw the image pictured below on the left, a photograph by cross-dressing surrealist Claude Cahun, at the Art Institute. We took an Iphone pic of Beth’s hands on the right, into which we dropped the wood-carving-looking eye– then our designers added the blue sky and big stars…Our favorite of all the posters so far:

When Al and Deirdre asked if we would come up with a logo and some “flyers” for New Town we said sure! We wanted the posters to have a “revue” feel… sort of like those old dance shows from days of yore in Cuba or in Paris, and we wanted to do reprises of vintage show posters.

The FIRST New Town poster was inspired by the Folies Bergere dance revue in Paris. We recreated the dancer in Illustrator, added the NEW TOWN logo we created, plus some spiffy hearts and stars, and voici…

the SECOND New Town poster, (for the evening during which Beth made her fiction-reading debut, were you there?) was based on a vintage french film poster. Again we redrew everything in Illustrator from a scan of an old poster, added a red accent, blush, the New Town logo we designed and voila…

for the THIRD New Town poster, our intern Callie found a bike poster to spin-off of, online, itself a nod to another depression-era poster of a bike..making ours a virtual nod to a nod…

Stay tuned for more New Town Posters designs!

Next up music benefit for the skate park, phase two:
Don’t miss our favorite video artist, songwriter, friend and sometimes-Thrasher Photo & Design-er,  Eddie Whelan and his Grass Giraffes, plus our pal and man about town, Josh Mckay with Abandon the Earth Mission on the roof of the Georgia Theatre on August 28th

Thrasher Photo & Design made the cool poster design based on Sam Davidson’s shhhhakin’ skater illustration, and of course to all the bands and the venues who have been involved so far in helping make skateboarding such a big part of our local community!

Happy Birthday to Jason Thrasher today!
He might be old, but he can still shred.

And with that… the Thrasher gang is full on with the Endless Summer of SPOA!

We are jumping on fundraising efforts, along with our great town of Athens-Clarke, its skaters, and those who love them, for Phase Two of the Skate Park of Athens. The Endless Summer is underway with art shows, auctions, and MUSIC! Stay tuned to SPOA’s Facebook page for details on rock shows coming up at Farm 255, Caledonia, 40 Watt, Georgia Theatre and Hotel Indigo, now through October.

Two of our Thrasher Photo & Design team, long-time TP&D editor/designer/illustrator Eddie Whelan of Grass Giraffes, and our newest-on-board webster Brantley Senn of Dead Confederate will play shows for SPOA. Plus our favorite clients, the Futurebirds (yes, we built their web site!) have signed on (right, Jay?!) PLUS dozens more Athens bands including Twin Tigers, Abandon the Earth Mission, Thayer Serrano, Manray, Tater Zandra (we’ll post the full list here real soon) . We already thought they were all awesome humans, but now, we think they’re even better.

Check out some of the boards created for the Endless Summer of SPOA’s Board Room show at Hotel Indigo featured on the cover of Flagpole this week! The Board Room is up through the summer of 2012 at Hotel Indigo’s gallery, with an auction of the boards to benefit the Skate Park in early fall.

And go check out the photo show, Concrete Culture, at Cine through July 18, featuring skate photos by 6 Athens photographers (see the list below!) plus our friend David Franklin from SF who’s spent some time skating and shooting here in Athens (check out some of Dave’s photos for this cool SF mag, the Bold Italic.)

PLUS Marilyn Estes wrote a great article about the Skate Park of Athens’ Summer of SPOA for Flagpole. Check it out here.

Or you can download the Flagpole spread here.