Dancehall Birdhouse

King Jumbee’s Champion Sound System

This is my birdhouse for this years WeMake Open House Benifit aka Put A Bird In It. The event is part of Design Week Portland There are a lot of amazing birdhouses to check out. The event is April 19th at Tillamook Station. All the proceeds form the silent birdhouse auction got to benefit The Right Brain Initiative, a Portland-based arts education advocacy program supporting K-8 students. There will be lots of other fun stuff to do there too!

You can see more of the birdhouses and hear me talk about mine in this clip from KPTV.

More than a birdhouse

It’s not just a all-night mobile avian dancehall! It’s also a passive iPhone amplifier! No plugs or batteries! Guaranteed to blow the roof of the muther.

A video posted by Rory Phillips (@gogopicnic) on Apr 19, 2016 at 1:51pm PDT

1001 Knights : Voshem

Voshem: Dans Les Griffes De Morena

Another bonus illustration of one of my Knights from my piece for the 1001 Knights project. Voshem, 808, a Stranuki soldier in the Russian SFSR and Captain Sovka’s aide-de-camp, hunting the occult in an alternate post WW1 universe.

1001 Knights

1001 Knights is a massive 3-volume anthology project, featuring 250+ artists focusing on creating people-positive characters with feminist overtones. It’s super amazing and I’m so excited to be involved. Last week of the Kickstarter so get it now or never! Kickstarter.

1001 Knights: Sovka

Sovka Versus The Gorgon Of The Turkmen

A bonus illustration of one of my Knights from my piece for the 1001 Knights project. Comrade Captain Akilina “Sovka” Tereshkova, An intelligence officer hunting the occult in an alternate post WW1 universe. I have four knights total in the anthology and will be revealing more as the Kickstarter progresses. My inspiration was the high adventure European pulp comics I read as a kid.

1001 Knights

1001 Knights is a massive 3-volume anthology project, featuring 250+ artists focusing on creating people-positive characters with feminist overtones. It’s super amazing and I’m so excited to be involved. It is currently on Kickstarter.

Postmodern Portlandia

PDX Flash Show

My piece for the PDX Flash show that opens at Compound Gallery in Portland May 7-30. PDX Flash is a group show of Portland inspired tattoo art. My piece is a tattoo inspired reinterpreting of Portlandia from the Portland City Seal. Two Color handpulled screenprint on french paper, 19×12.5 in, image ~ 17×7 in.

Cherry Bomb

Cherry Bomb Dopplebock | 2002

I love beer, especially local beer (see this print for proof) so I was super excited to be asked to design a label for the Widmer Brothers Brewing 30 beers for 30 years project.

Initially “Cherry Bomb” made me think of lurid mid-century pin-up art. But I wanted to reapropriate that concept for 2002, with a more empowered and Portlandy female icon. My inspiration came Riot Grrrl and punk aesthetic and figures like Kathleen Hanna, Brody Dalle and Poison Ivy. But also from the broader influence of women in music in 2002; Avril Lavigne, AGSFB, The Donnas, Gwen Stephani, Pink, Saraha Hotnights et al.

30 Beers for 30 Years

To celebrate their 30th anniversary Portland’s Widmer Brothers Brewing asked 30 local creatives to design labels for 30 limited release beers. Each beer individually crafted to representing one year in their 30 year history, 30 beers for 30 years. Definitely check out the site to see all the other amazing labels, with great info and sick animations! Also check out the beer itself at your local supplier!