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Here’s a piece I created for the Boy and the Bear coffee shop to become this mural in their green store in Pasadena. Connectivity of all things from air to land to water. The great jaguar speaks to the green parrot while it’s tail becomes an anaconda, reaching for water or possibly a fish. The plants lean in, as if listening to the animals. The magical surrealism of fauna and flora. Beautifully painted by @christopherlorddesigns. Great time working with the amazing team at @theboyandthebearco!

Here’s a piece I created for the Boy and the Bear coffee shop to become this mural in their green store in Pasadena. Connectivity of all things from air to land to water. The great jaguar speaks to the green parrot while it’s tail becomes an anaconda, reaching for water or possibly a fish. The plants lean in, as if listening to the animals. The magical surrealism of fauna and flora. Beautifully painted by @christopherlorddesigns. Great time working with the amazing team at @theboyandthebearco!

A lot of new followers so I figured it was time to share my face and tell you all a little about me...

🤘 My first design project was a poster for Widespread Panic’s New Year shows at the Fox Theatre 1996-7. I created it using art pens, metallic paint pens and white out in my college apartment. This was before the interweb was the robust monster it is now, so I relied on snail mail and driving it down to Athens for review. At the time I was an English major and this changed the trajectory of my career.

🎯 I love creating visual identities for clients. Creating a logo, then carrying it out with colors, typography, design elements and photography is my sweet spot. When I’m creating a logo, I’m always thinking past the logo to what elements, shapes, etc. can be pulled and expanded to help build the visual brand.

💿 I started collecting records at an early age, riding my bike to FantasyLand Records every week and spending my allowance on whatever band I was into at the time. I’ve got around 2,000 records now and am quickly running out of space. Getting to work with so many different bands has been the intersection of everything I want to do as a designer.

Thanks for following along. It means a lot and I appreciate all of you.

A lot of new followers so I figured it was time to share my face and tell you all a little about me...

🤘 My first design project was a poster for Widespread Panic’s New Year shows at the Fox Theatre 1996-7. I created it using art pens, metallic paint pens and white out in my college apartment. This was before the interweb was the robust monster it is now, so I relied on snail mail and driving it down to Athens for review. At the time I was an English major and this changed the trajectory of my career.

🎯 I love creating visual identities for clients. Creating a logo, then carrying it out with colors, typography, design elements and photography is my sweet spot. When I’m creating a logo, I’m always thinking past the logo to what elements, shapes, etc. can be pulled and expanded to help build the visual brand.

💿 I started collecting records at an early age, riding my bike to FantasyLand Records every week and spending my allowance on whatever band I was into at the time. I’ve got around 2,000 records now and am quickly running out of space. Getting to work with so many different bands has been the intersection of everything I want to do as a designer.

Thanks for following along. It means a lot and I appreciate all of you.

A lot of new followers so I figured it was time to share my face and tell you all a little about me...

🤘 My first design project was a poster for Widespread Panic’s New Year shows at the Fox Theatre 1996-7. I created it using art pens, metallic paint pens and white out in my college apartment. This was before the interweb was the robust monster it is now, so I relied on snail mail and driving it down to Athens for review. At the time I was an English major and this changed the trajectory of my career.

🎯 I love creating visual identities for clients. Creating a logo, then carrying it out with colors, typography, design elements and photography is my sweet spot. When I’m creating a logo, I’m always thinking past the logo to what elements, shapes, etc. can be pulled and expanded to help build the visual brand.

💿 I started collecting records at an early age, riding my bike to FantasyLand Records every week and spending my allowance on whatever band I was into at the time. I’ve got around 2,000 records now and am quickly running out of space. Getting to work with so many different bands has been the intersection of everything I want to do as a designer.

Thanks for following along. It means a lot and I appreciate all of you.

A lot of new followers so I figured it was time to share my face and tell you all a little about me...

🤘 My first design project was a poster for Widespread Panic’s New Year shows at the Fox Theatre 1996-7. I created it using art pens, metallic paint pens and white out in my college apartment. This was before the interweb was the robust monster it is now, so I relied on snail mail and driving it down to Athens for review. At the time I was an English major and this changed the trajectory of my career.

🎯 I love creating visual identities for clients. Creating a logo, then carrying it out with colors, typography, design elements and photography is my sweet spot. When I’m creating a logo, I’m always thinking past the logo to what elements, shapes, etc. can be pulled and expanded to help build the visual brand.

💿 I started collecting records at an early age, riding my bike to FantasyLand Records every week and spending my allowance on whatever band I was into at the time. I’ve got around 2,000 records now and am quickly running out of space. Getting to work with so many different bands has been the intersection of everything I want to do as a designer.

Thanks for following along. It means a lot and I appreciate all of you.

A lot of new followers so I figured it was time to share my face and tell you all a little about me...

🤘 My first design project was a poster for Widespread Panic’s New Year shows at the Fox Theatre 1996-7. I created it using art pens, metallic paint pens and white out in my college apartment. This was before the interweb was the robust monster it is now, so I relied on snail mail and driving it down to Athens for review. At the time I was an English major and this changed the trajectory of my career.

🎯 I love creating visual identities for clients. Creating a logo, then carrying it out with colors, typography, design elements and photography is my sweet spot. When I’m creating a logo, I’m always thinking past the logo to what elements, shapes, etc. can be pulled and expanded to help build the visual brand.

💿 I started collecting records at an early age, riding my bike to FantasyLand Records every week and spending my allowance on whatever band I was into at the time. I’ve got around 2,000 records now and am quickly running out of space. Getting to work with so many different bands has been the intersection of everything I want to do as a designer.

Thanks for following along. It means a lot and I appreciate all of you.

PRINT IS SOLD OUT 🛑 Got my 25! Correct answer was “Bread and Puppet Theater” Folks will be notified once I wrap work at 5:30. Today around 3:00 pm EST I’ll have foils available. I still don’t have my store up unfortunately, so we’ll do the email thing again. I’m going to post a question in my story here on Instagram - send the answer to briansteely@gmail.com. First 25 that email me the correct answer will get the info on how to purchase. This should keep the posters out of flippers hands. After that I will have no more posters for sale, so please don’t ask. Thanks for all the love on this one. It’s been fun to get to do something for such an epic event!

If you ordered a regular poster from me, I have them in tubes and am going to do my best to mail them out tomorrow.

Much love to you all. Definitely the best fans any band could ever hope for!

Great way to start the week sharing this real bucket-list project for me.

Garden & Gun took a chance on illustration for this cover—the first time they’ve used something other than photography—and I’m incredibly honored to have been a part of it.

The piece was created around the idea of Southern music towns connected through a wrought-iron gate inspired by the South itself. The guitar worked into the gate becomes both instrument and map, tracing the towns featured in the story. From there, I layered in climbing flowers, birds carrying music notes and guitar picks, highway markers and little details meant to reward a closer look.

Really grateful to the team at Garden & Gun for the trust and collaboration on this one. 🙏

It was a real pleasure working with the @terrapinbeerco team to bring a couple of their new can designs to life. Each label pulled inspiration from a different Grateful Dead album, so this project felt especially close to home. A few thoughts on the label designs below…
When I design a beer label, I treat it like a portal, an invitation to peek into another dimension. The goal is always the same: tell just enough of a story that the viewer can finish it themselves.
With Cerveza, there’s a lot happening. The spark for this one was the Grateful Dead live album people lovingly call Skull & Roses, the one with Bertha huge on the cover. From there, I built my own twist: a Mexican Bertha tucked inside a building, quietly pulling the strings, literally controlling a couple of terrapins like puppets, while two griffins stand guard at the entrance.
And what’s on the other side of that door? A delicious Mexican-Style Lager. Cheers 🍻

Super honored to have worked on this one for @gregoryalanisakov for his two shows at Radio City Music Hall with the Colorado Symphony.

Slide through to see both prints and some of the inspiration.

I’ll share photos of my AP posters tomorrow ahead of the webstore drop — regular and rainbow foil, singles and a few uncuts.

Some notes on the print below:

In creating this diptych I wanted to merge the natural world with a man-made icon into a single visual language. The sweeping Art Deco geometry of Radio City Music Hall became the foundation of the piece, its layered arches and rhythmic lines reinterpreted as a rising sun over a mountainous landscape. Gregory Alan Isakov’s music often takes me to a specific place, and when paired with the symphony, it gives me a feeling of movement and flight that I wanted to convey. By blending architectural structure with organic forms, the prints reflect a sense of harmony between human design and nature.

Super honored to have worked on this one for @gregoryalanisakov for his two shows at Radio City Music Hall with the Colorado Symphony.

Slide through to see both prints and some of the inspiration.

I’ll share photos of my AP posters tomorrow ahead of the webstore drop — regular and rainbow foil, singles and a few uncuts.

Some notes on the print below:

In creating this diptych I wanted to merge the natural world with a man-made icon into a single visual language. The sweeping Art Deco geometry of Radio City Music Hall became the foundation of the piece, its layered arches and rhythmic lines reinterpreted as a rising sun over a mountainous landscape. Gregory Alan Isakov’s music often takes me to a specific place, and when paired with the symphony, it gives me a feeling of movement and flight that I wanted to convey. By blending architectural structure with organic forms, the prints reflect a sense of harmony between human design and nature.

Super honored to have worked on this one for @gregoryalanisakov for his two shows at Radio City Music Hall with the Colorado Symphony.

Slide through to see both prints and some of the inspiration.

I’ll share photos of my AP posters tomorrow ahead of the webstore drop — regular and rainbow foil, singles and a few uncuts.

Some notes on the print below:

In creating this diptych I wanted to merge the natural world with a man-made icon into a single visual language. The sweeping Art Deco geometry of Radio City Music Hall became the foundation of the piece, its layered arches and rhythmic lines reinterpreted as a rising sun over a mountainous landscape. Gregory Alan Isakov’s music often takes me to a specific place, and when paired with the symphony, it gives me a feeling of movement and flight that I wanted to convey. By blending architectural structure with organic forms, the prints reflect a sense of harmony between human design and nature.

Here’s the poster for tonight’s Dave Matthews Band show in Richmond, a bit of a homecoming for them. I wanted it to feel rooted in place and rhythm, like the music.

It’s built around Virginia’s state bird, the Northern Cardinal, using bold geometry and a loose Art Deco grid. There’s a nest tucked in, a few berries, stars, and a crescent moon. Little nods to home, nature, and movement.

This one gets back to what got me into concert poster design in the first place: minimal, meaningful linework. Every shape has a job.

I’lll have both a regular and a foil variant for sale tomorrow. Hope you dig it ✌️

I’ve wanted to do a poster for @wherethefuckissturgillsimpson for a long time. Amazing musician, and fellow Kentucky Wildcats fan. He and his band put on one of the best shows I’ve seen in years. It was one of those shows I left knowing I had seen something truly special. On top of all of that, the posters are for the shows at Massey Hall, which is legendary in its own right. Very jealous of all that are attending.Here’s the first print. More on the actual print on Friday when I release the APs.

Honored to do an illustration for the talented @ellalangleymusic for her #1 hit Choosin’ Texas. You can pick one up on t-shirts in her webstore (link in bio). Two slightly different versions available - slide to see. Thanks for the support, Ella! @ellalangleyhq #ellalangley

Honored to do an illustration for the talented @ellalangleymusic for her #1 hit Choosin’ Texas. You can pick one up on t-shirts in her webstore (link in bio). Two slightly different versions available - slide to see. Thanks for the support, Ella! @ellalangleyhq #ellalangley

Well, the cat is out of the bag. New Turnpike Troubadours album is coming and it definitely doesn’t disappoint! I got to work on the album cover for this one with the Turnpike team. When I got the name for the record, “A Cat in the Rain” I immediately began thinking about how to make it look as bad ass as the songs. We came up with the idea of a biker-type patch that would look tough and fit the vibe. We worked up a couple different looks and a bunch of color schemes and made them all into patches. Put the favorite of the batch on a Carhartt coat and there you have it. Such a pleasure working with @scaced and the band on this one.I’ll share sketches and such from this soon if folks want to see the process. #turnpiketroubadours #steelyworks

Here’s the labels I illustrated with @turner_duckworth for the mighty @vocationbrewery 🍻

#steelyworks #design #packaging #beer #visualidentity #brewery

Teenage Brian would’ve lost his mind over this — turns out Old Brian got to design an official poster for Oasis. Pretty surreal, and pretty sweet.

This is the second piece in a new series of specially designed artworks celebrating iconic Oasis gigs. Released 30 years on, and coinciding with the band’s return to North America, this one commemorates their sold-out show at New York’s legendary Roseland Ballroom in October 1995.

The gig came just days after the release of (What’s The Story) Morning Glory?, catching Oasis right on the cusp of global stardom. That relatively intimate Theatre District venue hosted a blistering set that’s since become the stuff of legend, with even the soundcheck recordings turning into coveted bootlegs among fans.

Roseland itself closed in 2014, but its place in Oasis history is forever. I don’t have any of these posters to sell, but you can grab one through their merch store. ✌️