MODCOM by Minnie Moskowitz

I designed the wordmark on the cover of Modcom, the new EP by French electro-pop band Minnie Moskowitz. Go give it a listen, they’re coolissimes!

Arbeit Macht Fries

Here’s a rather sillier poster than the last one, to protest the brutal suppression of chips by McDonald’s in the London Olympics.

I fear it may have missed its ideal cultural moment, but it was a special request, so I couldn’t abandon it. Especially not after my wife came up with the amazing pun.

Tax the Rich

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To celebrate the UK financial industry’s £92 million of lobbying last year, how about some political messaging? Anyone who follows me on twitter knows that I’m tiresomely interested in politics. For some time now I’ve been thinking about combining that interest with design by making some freely available political posters.

Anyone remember UK Uncut? I loved the simplicity of their message: don’t cut public services. Every other important principle for the Left right now follows logically from that. Austerity solves nothing. The government creates value. Firing people makes things worse, not better.

Any suggestions in that direction are shouted down with incomprehensible gibberish about bond yields. But there is a simple alternative to both cutting and borrowing. Tax the rich, you idiots. You say they’ll leave? What good are they doing here anyway if they don’t pay tax? It looks like the only thing approaching an economic plan that the Tories have is to convert Britain into a tax haven, where the idle rich can live in luxury, but the council can’t afford to collect the rubbish.

So here you are. Take my pig poster, and do what you will with it. It’s A3 size, in either colour or black and white.


Tax the Rich by Stephen Crowe is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Partition Poster

I just finished this poster for Partition, a short film directed by Emile Rafael, and screening, as you can see, in Prague on February 10th. If that’s where you are, then this is where you should be going! There’ll be booze!

I was really happy to get a chance to use some of the open source fonts provided by the amazing League of Movable Type. Those guys are great! I also would have been lost without Manfred Klein’s Ultra Condensed Sans.

Schlapenticklish

Thanks to Sabrina Chap for passing on this photo of the Schlapentickle family merch table, featuring my design for their family crest and logotype! (photo taken by Cassie Truskowski.) Get more information on this great act at www.schlapentickle.com!

I have been working

I was filled with a pride to be asked by the depraved members of the Schlapentickle Family to design their coat of arms, along with lettering for their name, for their forthcoming burlesque/musical tour (which I believe is how they’ve taken to referring to their perpetual run from the law).

As you can see, I adhered to the traditional imagery of this storied clan: Argent, on a riding crop sable bendwise a quill argent bendwise reversed, charged with an S sable. I can’t wait to see it printed on women’s underwear!