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.