JP Valdes

I did this one at the height of Kanye “Stronger” Glasses’ popularity, which was about a 3 week window sometime in late 2007. I thought I was so clever when I made this poster.

I also once had a pair of those glasses. I ordered them from shuttershades.com and this was before the fire really caught on. I wore them to the club once and they got destroyed because too many bitches kept trying to take them off my head.

Notice the friend running interference to distract me (in the black hat) while the chick gets her picture taken with the glasses on. Dude on the left is like “YEA BOIIIIIII!!!”

This was a poster I created when I was still new at DHM. I enjoy the somewhat “3D” effect with the text, as well as the colors. It’s pretty hipsterrific.

Fastlife Thursdays at Rebublic. Definitely one of the best nights to catch in Vancouver on a Thursdays. The patio is regularly nuts until 3 am.

Working with text only creatives is a bit tough because there’s no imagery to carry the creative, so it forces you to step up your typography game a bit. I hope I managed to convey that with these posters. Version 1 on the left and 2 on the right.

My ode to (the old) Facebook. It was a Valentine’s Day party starring Expendable Youth.

This is one of the cleaner designs I have created. If there was one thing I could change about it, I would add the schitzpopinov logo at the bottom.

A new club opened up recently called Pop Opera. I ended up doing the initial branding for the weekly events at this new spot. Here’s the result of that.

We ended up going with a consistent look with similar image tratment for all 3 nights, bright high contrast colors and similar titling.

The first poster was created back in May 2008. The second was done in August. Just updated the look of the flyer to.. you know… keep things fresh. I wasn’t sure if they would go for the legs in the graphic, but they ended up liking it, so I’m happy.

This is the first job I did for Donnelly Nightclubs. I’m pretty proud of it. Because of this poster, I’m now working at the DHM office 4 days a week and having a blast making these club posters.

If I could change anything about this poster, I’d make it more consistent with the club/company branding because back then, I really had no idea what I was supposed to do as far as branding went with these flyers.