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Design: John Henry Pitts, III
Client: Washington Heights (Band)
Product Type: Vinyl Album Jacket
Tools Used: Adobe Photoshop CS2, Adobe Illustrator CS2,
Digital Canon Rebel EOS

I definitely feel like I achieved the sort of “visual synthesis” that I’ve been attempting with my more experimental work throughout the past year. For this band, I wanted to capture the area that many of their shows are held (Thai Town, Hollywood, CA). It’s a very colorful area that I’ve been familiar with since I was in high school, so it was easy for me to understand the type of feel that the band wanted to express. The idea of the work “revolving” within itself where each element points to another within itself was the end the goal that I felt confident in achieving.

Design: John Henry Pitts, III
Client: Maverick 23 (Band)
Product Type: CD Album Artwork (Interior)
Tools Used: Adobe Photoshop CS2, Adobe Illustrator CS2,
Digital Canon Rebel EOS

I’ve always felt that many “technical” hardcore metal bands choose the all too easy (and too obvious) visual motifs that plague many lesser bands. I wanted to place the prospective listener in the proper mindset by visually preparing them for the chaotic, bewildering, yet obtusely beautiful sonic experience that awaited them.

Design & Photgraphy: John Henry Pitts, III
Client: Kim Soo Jung
Product Type: Promotional Card
Tools Used: Adobe Photoshop CS2, Adobe Illustrator CS2,
Digital Canon Rebel EOS

Simplicity and elegance. The main challenge was in creating something that would be attractive to the young, Korean female audience. My main solution was in utilizing the iconography of the brand, yet still placing it within a edgier, modern context (by the use of the more suggestive photograph).

Design: John Henry Pitts, III
Agency: HLF Brandtailers
Product Type: Magazine Advertisement
Tools Used: Adobe Photoshop CS2, Adobe Illustrator CS2,
Digital Canon Rebel EOS

The client originally wanted a much more sterile (read: masculine) motif until we presented him with the above concept. It was an easy method to illustrate the different aesthetic styles that appeal to the opposing sexes.

Design: John Henry Pitts, III
Client: Confidential
Product Type: Book Jacket
Tools Used: Adobe Photoshop CS2, Adobe Illustrator CS2

This was one of several design concepts I presented for an encyclopedia-like book that would have expanded upon the worlds and characters found within the Matrix trilogy. Unfortunately, the project was canceled due to undisclosed reasons.