Blues for Winter Zero

YEAR COMPLETED: 2023
PUBLISHER: Drum Machine Editions
FORMAT: cassette with digitally-printed paper labels and risograph & screen-printed j-cards; screen-printed poetry broadside
DIMENSIONS: 4 x 4 inches (j-cards), 14.5 x 24.5 inches (broadsides)
COLLABORATORS: Wes Tirey, M. Sweets, Woolly Press, Cylinder Audio Archive at UC Santa Barbara Library
CATEGORIES: art direction, print design, risograph, screen printing, music, album art, broadsides, collaboration

Art direction, design, typography, screen printing, finishing & assembly for Blues for Winter Zero, an experimental album by Wes Tirey (Asheville, NC) and M. Sweets (New York, NY).  Additional risograph printing by Woolly Press. Blues for Winter Zero was awarded Best Artists’ Book at End Paper: NCMA Art Book Fair (2022) by the North Carolina Museum of Art and now resides in their permanent collection.