okpants x coalmine records x sxsw

adele - 1988

A xmas gift from Mick Boogie & His Amazing Friends. Consider the cover design a yuletide nugget of joy from those wily okpants design elves.

The Circuit

This Friday (or 'Halloween' as people who live fun-filled lives know it as) marks the launch of The Circuit's mixtape "For Promotional Use Only", designed by your friendly neighborhood okpants design.

Get familiar.

The Honor Roll

The Honor Roll is here! 'Honor' is right to have taken part in designing this piece.
Available For FREE Here
Enjoy.

This Week in "Making Stuff Look Cool".

A cover for my good friends The Coffin Brothers debut EP "Final Warning".
Available June 28th.


Harlem's own Jelani's debut mixtape "Wait, You Can Rap?" (June 28). An extensive update on okpants.com coming soon on the development of this packaging and logos. Shots from his newly juiced up myspace page below, graphics courtesy of youknowwho.



Canadian MC Doxx's mixtape "Uptown USA" (ListenClose Music).

memorial day weekend - some new work!

Hi all, some pieces this dropped this week I worked on - Wake The Lion "s/t", Marky "Homework 4.3" (Presented by Mick Boogie), and last but not least "Wildahead/Portibeast" by Wildabeast (feat. Sixth Sense).

Grill hard people.

Urb Interview - MCEO

Mick & Talib Discuss MCEO on Urb.com

Also Tonight In Cleveland...NERD!

talib X mick X pants

A preview of the cover I just designed for Talib Kweli & Mick Boogie's MCEO mixtape. Features Jean Grae, Strong Arm Steady, Nina Sky, KRS-One, Planet Asia, Res and more...Coming next week on mickboogie.com. Dillagence 2 is next.

Going to the NBA All Star Game...

...weeelllllll, not really. However, Mick Boogie & Terry Urban will be down there bringing the jams, and they made sure to slap some of my work on their 2008 NBA All Star Mixtape before they got outta town. Thanks dudes!

Up next: Pitch Black Forecast, Dope Couture and more.
xoxo
P

why forgetting about cool stuff makes life worth living.

Because you get to re-discover things like "The Octagonycolegyst" (sp?) all over again. And marvel at the mind-blowing, kind of x-rated, kind of sci-fi, all around wild nuts adventures Dr. Octagon spits. (And it has kick-ass pushead art!)

Seriously, I try very hard to not turn this blog into an "I LIKE THIS AND YOU SHOULD TOO-fest", but for the love of god if you are not into this guy and shit like halfsharkalligatorhalfmen wake up and smell the awesome. You don't have to be into any kind of music, just the urge to have your mind blown HARD.

In other news I have been busier than a belt in a Wesley Willis puma-whooping contest. Did mixtape art for Mick Boogie & Benzi's party jam "Motivation", check it out on URB's site. Wrapped up doing a special edition of Sole Collector that should hit the streets within weeks. Some mixtapes for Steph Floss, album packagaing in the works for the metalheads, some apparel designs for lots of kinds of heads.

Season 4 of LOST starts tomorrow, warp 10 geek boners engage. Thanks J.J. Abrams, I haven't geeked out on anything for a good decade and you've brought that streak to a screeching polar-bear infested halt.

Rest in Peace Wesley.

entertainment weekly

Caught this nod to Mick Boogie & Busta Rhymes' Dillagence in the pages of Entertainment Weekly...now about getting that sweet sweet cover in there mr. editor man...

happy birthday hov! (diamond sign with candles)

It's here....(almost). - THE NEWPRINT BY Rocafella's own Young Chris and The Pride of Clevo Mick Boogie aka The Commissioner. Cover by some wacky guy.



Terry Urban is next....this one is shaping up to be something special, visually and musically. Prepare for wildness.

The Newprint

A weekend well spent designing another mixtape from Mick Boogie...coming to an internet near you..SOON!

work!

Just posted some new pieces over at my portfolio site. In the works: Terry Urban mixtape, Killswitch Engage poster, and some new Mick Boogie mixtapes.

Life is good.

dillagence

DILLAGENCE is here! Download it if you haven't already at mickboogie.com. High fives to Mick and Busta for putting together another spectacular piece of music and keeping Dilla's legacy alive and well.

"I FUCKS WITH IT ALL THE DAY MY DUDE!"

From Mr. Busta Rhymes mouth...er, keyboard; after taking a look at this mixtape cover. Stoked is right.

Click on the image to find out more.
(photography by B+)

11.17.07

A quickie I designed, but a goodie - flyer for LA DJ Steve Aoki @ Touch Supper Club in Cleveland. Also featuring Mick Boogie, Terry Urban and more good dudes.

tushy shaking. money making.

Saturday Night (11.03.07) at Touch Supper Club is a monthly party I help some friends throw called "WYLD". Terry Urban, Mike Good Life, and Special Guest Mick Boogie will be spinning this weekend. All 3 can rock jams to the max, the bar serves cold refreshing beverages, and the halloweenery should still be in full tilt.



In other news, I just landed some cool layout work coming up for a sneaker magazine to be named in a little bit. Also received a little love from Germany on DLounge.

I also just stumbled upon the site LinkedIn, which is basically a myspace for grownup professionals. I'm still riding that wave of excitement over a site I haven't been to 42653567 times already. It's kinda text heavy but still super rich with features, and an easy way to find out whatever happened to the kid in the back of your 4th grade class that ate paste, wore pajama pants to school and smelled like cheetos, and what fortune 500 he runs.

Happy Halloween!

Hi.

Hi everybody. I am launching this blog as a tag team partner to the new and improved okpants.com. It's really happening. An outlet for me to share important issues with you in my life, likeart and design, good honest turkey sandwiches, parties, jokes...these are all things I'm hoping that are important to you as well. If not, we can work it out. Don't leave yet.

But back to my site. And projects. There's some current work up there that I just completed, Some posters for Underoath and Jimmy Eat World on their way, a mixtape layout for Mick Boogie (Cleveland mixtape guru/all around nice guy), and an online store is on its way (finally) . Also, if you have links, and you are not a dork; get them over to me, as trading links makes me happy.

I'm looking forward to making this whole thing pretty sweet, because I don't think this internet shtick is any fly by night operation at this point; and in the event that I fall short of changing the way you live (for the better), expect some archived John Belushi/Beetlejuice YouTube to be promptly inserted to save the day.

This is going to be a lot of fun. And occasionally awkward. But mostly inspiring, if not time consuming. Thanks for sticking around.
P