UX / UI Design
App design for mim.fm
Cod and Cowboy founder Ian Mentken has been developing a new model for music distribution, here are sample screen shots of the app interface.
Tools used:
Figma
Adobe XD
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Multimedia project for New Mexico PBS
While at New Mexico PBS, Cod and Cowboy founder Ian Mentken designed and developed a multimedia project in conjunction with their documentary series New Mexico and the Vietnam War: Portrait of a Generation. The project employed a carousel interface that expanded to include videos interviews, ephemera, and additional biographic content that brought the stories of the veterans vividly to life.
Tools used:
WordPress
Adobe Photoshop
Comic Art
The Homeless Tenant
An off-beat and surreal strip produced by Cod and Cowboy founder Ian Mentken that played with language and explored states of mind. Click here to see a sample strip.
Tools used:
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Pen and Ink
CD Art
Client / Band: Shiva Speedway.
An all-girl hardcore punk band, Shiva Speedway wanted me us produce CD art that was dark and nihilistic.
Tools used:
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Client / Band: Truth Detection Labs (TDL)
TDL was looking for a style that was organic and a bit enigmaic
Tools used:
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Client: MIT Symphony Orchestra (MITSO)
MITSO had assembled 30 years of the work of their conductor David Epstein shortly after his passing for the purpose of releasing a multi-CD boxed collection of all of his performances. They contracted us to produce album art for the collection.
Tools used:
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe InDesign
"Three Decades of David Epstein"
MITSO (MIT Symphony Orchestra) CD project
"Three Decades of David Epstein"
Front and Back Cover
"Three Decades of David Epstein"
Inside liner notes
"Three Decades of David Epstein"
CD label
Video
Client: iMBY Storage Project
This video was written and created by Cod and Cowboy founder Ian Mentken in support of his nonprofit organization, iMBY Storage Project, which provides storage services to the unhoused. Ian used stock video from Adobe as well as a Creative Commons soundtrack called East Side Dark Street Blues by Kana Kamitsubo-Markovic. Ian provided the voiceover narration.
Tools used:
Adobe Premiere
Garage Band
Client: mim.fm (formerly MiM: Music is Medicine)
The photos used in the video are mainly creative common images but a handful were proprietary and I secured the necessary permissions. The audio track, titled "Love is What's Missing" by Clarence Simpson, likewise required permission to secure. Cod and Cowboy founder Ian Mentken handled the voice-over narration.
Tools used:
Adobe Premiere
Garage Band
CamStudio (video screen capture software)
Photography
Client: mim.fm
Studio shot of Iraq War Veteran Alex Limkin. Part of the promotional campaign for the Vet Visions and Voices Benefit organized by mim.fm.
Tools used:
Nokia Lumia 920
Adobe Photoshop