Crying While Eating is a brand-concept that stems from a desire for my design work to come from a more personal place. At it’s core, it’s a lifestyle brand, except the brand is myself and the lifestyle is kind of a big inside joke. The 7 original de
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It’s my hope that Crying While Eating will serve as a way to imbue very particular, personal parts of my life into my work again, while also inspiring others to take a chance on themselves and their own art.
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The first of the designs, aptly titled “Dead Dads,” is a mild jab at my own strange pull towards a lot of music that deals with the loss of fathers.
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The focal point of “William Beckett” is this image of me at 17 years old, where I weighed just shy of 600 lbs. William Beckett is the lead singer of popular 2000’s emo band “The Academy Is…” and was known for his long, lush hair and skinny frame (an
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“Headache” is up next, and it’s intent is two-fold. The first goal is for the viewer to want to read into the design and layered background. The second is to have the design itself be rather oppressive to look at with it’s stark contrast and fluores
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This design is titled “No Show,” and is about something I’ve struggled with for a long time: the fact that I do not want to go to your (art, music, talent, etc) show, and it’s only because if I do, I won’t get to stay at home and eat alone.
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“Nipples” has it’s origin in reality. This was a question I was asked once, and it was one of those questions that really stuck with me (obviously). As I was getting consultation done for a skin-removal surgery, the surgeon calmly and plainly asked
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“September Guy” may require a little legwork to really “get.” The best course of action would be to get on Instagram and search for the account called “FacebookShirts.” There’s a very strange market for hyper-specific, hyper-aggressive shirts that o
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“The Most Important Thing I Have Ever Seen” is a tribute to the art of subversion.
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