Aaron was born in 1973 and grew up in California thrashing 'round on bmx bikes and skateboards, spray-painting walls, riding waves and getting into the expected amount of teen trouble. In the mid 80s, punk rock sparked a serious passion in him for music, as well as human and animal rights. With a lit fuse, Aaron toured the United States many times over performing in or working for traveling bands. After a lot of broken guitar strings—and some hearing loss—he changed his audio focus to visual, studying fine art at VCU in Virginia and then graphic design at AIPH in Pennsylvania. Aaron has art directed for newspapers, magazines and record labels, designed merch for bands, musicians, artists, and created logos for clients all over the planet.
ART DIRECTION:
SIZZLE PIE PIZZA
SOUTHERN LORD RECORDINGS
THE STRANGER NEWSPAPER
STATUS MAGAZINE
iROCKETSHOP DESIGN FIRM
WILLAMETTE WEEK NEWSPAPER
THE ROCKET NEWSPAPER
EDUCATION:
ART INSTITUTE OF PHILADELPHIA
Visual Communications & Graphic Design (1996)
VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY
Fine Arts (1991)
VIRGINIA BEACH VOTECH
Advertising Design (1989)
The short client list:
20 Buck Spin Records, Alice in Chains, Eagle Twin, Earth, Eyehategod, High on Fire, Katy Perry, Metalblade Records, Ozzy Osbourne, Pelican, Prosthetic Records, Relapse Records, Sleep, Southern Lord Records, Tee Pee Records, Murder City Devils, VegNews, Victory Records, Weedeater, Wolfbrigade, Xibalba, YOB, Zeke.
The looooong client list:
1-2-3-4 Go! Records, 20 Buck Spin Records, 2 Men Dead, 3 Inches of Blood, 800 Octane, Absolute Monarchs, A Chance Without, Acephalix, Advent Records, A Fragile Shade, Alice in Chains, Agony Scene, Aiden, Akit Evlleh, All Hallows Clothing, Alpinist, Alternate Society, Amenity, Anatomy of a Ghost, Anchor Records, Anonymous, Atreyu, Aurora, Autumn, BFN, Backside Disaster, Balaclava, Baphomet Bicycles, Baptists, Bible Black Tyrant, Black Breath, Black Cobra, Black Circle Secret Society, Blackcloud, Blackout Records, Bleeding Through, Blood Buddies, Bluebird, Bobby Hellfire, Body Graphics Tattoo, Boris, Briz, Brothers of the Sonic Cloth, Brutal Fight, Bureau of Elevation, Burning Love, Canyon of the Crescent Moon, Cascabel, Catalyst, Christ, Church burner, Clarity Process, Clifton, Closed Casket, Countdown to Life, Crosstide, Crown and Throne Ltd., DC Vegetarian, Dakessian, Darkest Hour, David Bowie, Day of Less, Day of Lions, Dead Again, Dead Teenager Records, Dead in the Dirt, Death By Stereo, Doomzig, Drainland, Drop Six, Drown Mary, DSGNS, Dualesc, Dwell, Eagle Twin, Earth, EMI Records, Early Graves, Earth Crisis, Eat Your Heart Out, El Cerdo, Emerald City Tattoo, Enter the Race, Eshas, Everything That Kills, Everything Went Black, Excursion Records, Eyehategod, Fall from Grace, Fearless Records, Fight Scene, Figure 4, Fister, Flintlock, Fontanelle, From Ashes Rise, Gaia Coffee, Gatsby's American Dream, Generally Nautical, Genuine, Go Booking, Golden Saddle Cyclery, Goodfellow Records, Gorilla Mind Society, Grenades, Grievous, Grip, Handlebar Mustache Apparel, Harbor Island Mutiny, Harkonen, Hauler, Heart, Hell Promise, Hell's Kitchen, Hellephant, Hellvetika, Her Candane, HiFi Wheels, High on Fire, Himsa, Iamthethorn, Ichabod, Indecision Records, Inked in Blood, Izaguf, J Shogren, JoWood, Josh Bragg, Katy Perry, Lahar, Lebanon, Les Gants, Lighthaus, Loincloth, Longshot Records, Los Angeles County Coffee Connoisseurs, Lumbar, Man of Multnomah, ManWoMan, Mark D., Martyrdöd, Mercy Ties, Metalblade Records, Microsoft, Middian, Might as Well be Dead, Minor Fret, Misantropic, Monster Skateboards, Moth Attack, Mountain of Teeth, Mouth of Maggots, Mudshark Studios, Murder City Devils, Myiasis, N.C. Punchout, Neverstop, New Age Records, Night Church, Nihilist, Noothgrush, Note Farm Records, Nuclear Death Terror, Obliterations, October Audio, Off!, Of Feather and Bone, Ohmega, Oiltanker, One Last Thing, Ozzy Osbourne, PRSfit, Paul Speer, Peer Pleasure Podcast, Pelican, Peril on the Sea, Phemüt, Planks, Poison Idea, Porkchop Screen Printing, Potential Idol of Destruction, Process Black, Prosthetic Records, R Styles Records, Rainstorm Records, Ramprasad, Rapid Fire Process, Rat City Rollergirls, Raw Umber, Reproacher, Requin, Revelation Records, Revenge of Me, Rise Records, Roareth, Rocketstar Records, Relapse Records, Rote Hexe, Running Wild in Cordova, S2C, SanDisk, Sarabante, Set of Standards, Seven Sisters of Sleep, Sewnshut, Shadows Fall, Shamelady, Siris Records, Skarp, Sleep, Snow Patrol, Sonny Dada and Moloch, Southern Lord Records, Spoken Word, State of Grace Records, Steve Carter, StonerRock.com, Structure 24, Summon the Crows, Sunn O))), Swallowing Swords, Swearengen, Tee Pee Records, TKO Records, Temperance Records, The 6-Minute Heartstop, The Accused, The Alliance, The Burden and the Blessing, The Butt Frenchers, The Cassettes, The Cinema, The Entirety of Suffering, The Escaped, The Great Anti-listen, The Horde, The Lumbar Endeavor, The Red Sect, The Rocket Newspaper, The Solo Project, The Stranger Newspaper, The Vegan Shoe Store, They Shall Take Up Serpents, This Time Tomorrow, To See You Broken, Trial, Tricycle, T.R.O.M.I.C., Tsuga, Unlovable Inc., Upness, Urban Khaos Clothing, Varsity Finish Line, VegNews, Victory Records, Vicci Martinez, Watch it Burn, Weedeater, West of Zero, Willamette Week Newspaper, Winter, Wolfbrigade, Woke Up Falling, Wolves Again, Xibalba, Yama-Uba, YOB, Zeke, Zoroaster (did I forget anyone?).