Monday, January 25, 2010

Five Iron Fun-Pak

About a month ago I received an e-email from Peter Rollo who was working with Five Iron Frenzy, a defunct ska-core band from Denver, on their upcoming DVD. I had done a "bootleg" concert DVD of their performance at the Cornerstone Festival in 2002 and they were asking my permission to to use footage from my technically illegal DVD for their very legitimate DVD. So of course I had no problem with letting them use it. He thanked me and then told me to let him know if I wanted to be involved in any other way.
I was sort of pumped upon reading that."Any other way? Let me design the packaging!" I sent them a link to my page and even though I didn't quite wrangle the packaging job (that was being done BY the band) I was offered designing a t-shirt that was going to be sent out with special pre-orders bundles, the "Five Iron DVD Fun-Pak."

So here's what I submitted. Originally the design was three colors and on a cranberry colored t-shirt, but Peter told me that the record label could only afford one color and they wanted it to be on a black tee. So I gave them a couple options and these were the top two picks. I still don't know what they decided on. I guess I'll just have to see when I get mine.
I think the "Fun-Pak" pre-orders are all sold out but you can get just the DVD if you're interested. You get it from Asian Man Records.
UPDATE: Apparently Interpunk bought a bunch of Fun-Paks and is selling them from their store. Here's the link.

2 comments:

Rob said...

I bought your "illegal" dvd and I hope I am not going to be watching a lot of something I already have. I would be highly disappointed. Nice work on the t-shirt.

Michael said...

Well thanks for buying my Five Iron bootleg all those years ago. You'll be pleased to know that I spent your money on candy.

I assure that the offical DVD will be two discs chock full of stuff you've probably never seen.