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Happy Holidays!

tony — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 03:21:33 +0000

Here’s the scoop: these Manila X-Mas albums are filled with favorite non-traditional wintry holiday songs I’ve collected over the years. There’s a new mix for 2009 along with a reissue of the original 2003 and 2007 albums for those who don’t already have them. Each album is roughly an hour long and 100MB in size, and for the most part they’re family-friendly fare. But like life itself there are occasional swear words and adult themes, so if you’ve got kids you might want to take a preview listen first…and go ahead and just toss the last track on each disc. They put the blue in Blue Christmas.

In the way back, I used to distribute these as CDs. My, the times they have changed. If you’d still like a custom manila CD folder like the one below just hit me!

Greetings From Beverly’s - Frank Cosmo
Winter Skies - Ohio Express
Mothman Christmas - Pet the Pig
Mrs. Santa Claus - Joy Electric
Something For The Girl With Everything - Sparks
Jesus Christ - Big Star
Cold December - Matt Costa
Holiday - Olympic Hopefuls
Freezing - Flys
There Ain’t No Sanity Clause - Damned
There Ain’t No Santa Claus On The Evening Stage
- Captain Beefheart
Christmas In Prison - John Prine
Baby Freeze Queen II - Cotton Mather
Warm Baby - Lovin’ Spoonful
I Know What You Want For Christmas
- Kay Martin & Her Bodyguards
(Everybody’s Waitin’ For) The Man With The Bag
- Brian Setzer Orchestra
It’s Christmas Time Again - Chris Klondike Masuak
If You Came On Christmas Day - Captain Polaroid
My Last Christmas - Dirtbombs
Everything’s Gonna Be Cool This Christmas - Eels
New Year’s Resovolution - Donovan
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Santa’s Got A Bag Of Soul - Soul Saints Orchestra
You Gotta Get Up - Five Iron Frenzy
I Don’t Intend To Spend Christmas Without You
- Claudine Longet
Rain, Sleet, Snow - Paul Revere And The Raiders
Running Snowmen - Crushers
Every Day’s A Holiday, Every Night’s A Party - Saints
Rocket Ship Santa - BellRays
I’m Mad At The Fatman - Ray & Clover
Don’t Believe In Christmas - Sonics
Christmas Tree On Fire - Holly Golightly
Xmas Cake - Rilo Kiley
Good For Joey’s Nerves / Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want To Fight Tonight) - Ramones
Get Behind Me, Santa! - Sufjan Stevens
Party For Santa - Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
Santa On The Roof - Reverend Horton Heat
Frosty DMC - Samflanagan
The Man In The Santa Suit - Fountains Of Wayne
Christmas Is Cancelled - Long Blondes
I Know What You’re Getting For Christmas - Nerf Herder
Velvet Snow - Kings Of Leon
Have Yourself A Filthy Little Christmas
- And What Will Be Left Of Them?
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Christmas Rappin’ - Curtis Blow
Archie the Red Nose Reindeer - Tapper Zukie
The Little Drum Machine Boy (Part 1) - Beck
Christmas In Hollis - RunDMC
Oi To The World! - No Doubt
Holiday Sunrise - Rancid
Holiday Cocktail Lounge - Bouncing Souls
If I Was Santa Claus - Atmosphere
Shiver - Horny Toad
Back Door Santa - B.B. King
Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis - Tom Waits
Santa Claus Goes Straight To The Ghetto
- Snoop Dogg & the Dogg Pound
Slick Nick, You Devil You - Fishbone
Don’t Eat The Yellow Snow - Frank Zappa
I Did It For The Toys - Dance Hall Crashers
X-Mas Card - MU330
Land Of Misfit Toys - Voodoo Glow Skulls
Fairytale Of New York - Pogues
The Holidays - One Man Army
Shed Some Skin - Slow Gherkin
Christmas Wrapping - Waitresses
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Wisconsin Film Fest Ads

tony — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 13:39:11 +0000

These print ads are the smallest pieces in the 2005 WFF collection, but without question they pack some of the largest visual impact. Lacking the found imagery of the other campaign pieces–newsprint does not lend itself to the intricate collages–these rely on headlines alone and feature some of the sharpest copy writing in the campaign. The two nude bodies ad was even deemed too risqué for some publications.

Contact Information

tony — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:02:30 +0000

Questions? Comments? Concerns? Hit me!

Tony Cooke
525 W Madison St
Lake Mills, WI 53551

tony@hexbreak.com

t: 920.648.5748
c: 608.279.5529

Ian’s Pizza Welcome Week Posters

tony — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:12:29 +0000

Keeping with the visual theme established by the Ian’s Welcome Week t-shirts: More Cooper Black. It’s fun, familiar and easily legible at a distance. Coupled with some sharp jabs at freshman predictability, these storefront posters are perfect for luring wide-eyed (and pie-eyed) students to Ian’s.

Design Madison Brochure

tony — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 04:25:11 +0000

The graphic design community can tend toward the skeptical at times, so marketing to it can be a difficult task. This illustration for the back of the accordian-fold Design Madison Brochure is a collage of dozens of photographs taken on the 6th Floor of Humanities at UW-Madison–the home to quite a few soon-to-be-skeptical young graphic designers. The first panel is itself a verbal collage of quotes from each of the event speakers for the year. The piece helped bring in a lot of new faces to DM, and the season was a hit.

Ian’s Pizza Welcome Week T-Shirts

tony — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:15:22 +0000

Cooper Black: Serving up t-shirt chic for over forty years. Cheapshot headlines in a cheapshot typeface, but that’s the point of the free Welcome Week tees destined to adorn the UW student body for months to come. The “mac”–for the uninitiated–refers to Ian’s famous Mac and Cheese slice. Seriously? It rules. The last two shirts are nods to UW Badger fans and their…way with words. Enjoy.

Relentless Skateworks Identity

tony — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 21:30:34 +0000

Identity for Relentless Skateworks and its sister company, Subversive Skateworks. An interesting exercise in pushing the limits of what is and what is not branding in a product category that has been blurring that line for a quarter century. A handful of the stream-of-consciousness design studies for this project constitute some of my favorite work as a graphic designer.

Wisconsin Film Fest Marquee Posters

tony — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 13:38:04 +0000

Found photography and stream-of-consciousness collage copywriting form the basis for the 2005 WFF campaign, and the promo posters as the marquee piece. Inspiration comes from everywhere (including mom’s old photo albums) and reflects the thematic–at times chaotic–diversity of the Festival’s film lineup. The posters promote the Festival by poking fun at it–the film titles are fictitious, and the stars range from family (mom looks good in hot pink) to pets to an unnamed Milwaukee Brewer whose snapshot I found lying on my street. One of Harvey’s Wallbangers, no doubt.