Bay it Forward

Beautiful party people gettin' down for a cause.

 


I co founded this Bay area fundraising group,
bringing people together to party for a cause.
We are raising money for things in Oakland,
locally, internationally, pretty much anywhere
we can make a difference. This is 100%
volunteer / pro bono work for the cause.



This all started when my friend asked me to
help him promote this successful fundraising
event in September, 2017

    https://www.facebook.com/events/118158378850268/


I designed these fliers:

Tacos for Los Topos

11 x 17" Tabloid Flier

All together we raised and exciting $10,050 for
the all volunteer, earthquake 1st responders, in
Mexico, adequately dubbed, Los Topos! (the Moles)
- whose only requirement is that you have
a sense of resolve.

Much respect to these brave people

Tacos fro Los Topos

IG Sqaure post flier

 

Big Ups to my, homie Devin Gonzalez for asking me to help in this endeavor
& to getting us all together under 1 roof!

Mil Destinos

 I had a solo art show at VAMP, Vintage Music & Art for the People,
in August 2017. I had been wanting to do an art show at this small
neighborhood record store for a while. I was happy to take this
opportunity to create some new paintings and drawing as well as
generate some concepts for new work. Having a place like VAMP to
hang work is a great. The place is cozy. The neighborhood is friendly &
I've been hanging out with the owners, Fernando and Tracy for about
3-4 years. Since I moved to the Lake Merritt, Oakland area in 2013, I've
seen some of my favorite live music performances here.








 

  


  

Shout out to my friend & artist Jon Chao for coming through & helping me hang the show!!!

 

 

 

I had prints for sale and got lucky with this 

ground score of a wooden print rack

This is the typeface I used for the show flier. I have been working on developing this typeface for a few years.

This typeface is large and monumental for images to be placed inside of the letter shapes.

MAGNARVELOUS Typeface
Rafael Tapia III

MAGNARVELOUS typeface
Rafael Tapia III

Grey version of the show flier.

Stay Dank & Slay

  

 

 

 

StayDankSlay.tumblr.com

I've been updating my visual design resume and
I came across StayDankSlay.tumblr.com blog I created to
archive the crazy amount of designs I developed while
working with Allposters(dot)com, in 2016.

I was hired as a contract designer but wore the hats of an
illustrator, production artist, and marketing team member.