Jo Schramer

Graphic Design

This is my gallery of design work for various projects and marketing efforts.

Some common styles I work in include:

alt-culture/DIY/punkrock/glitch-core

Technical lines, comics and science fiction

Fine Art Branding

History and Poetry

I love history and used to work in a historical village during college, so I understand how to use age and history as a tool to communicate a variety of messages. History holds within it it's own authenticity, and beyond that there is a mystery and fascination within traditional techniques and technologies used (i.e. block prints, engraving).

Technical lines, comics and science fiction

Above: I designed these backdrops for the intro to Archer season 11. Each card pertains to a specific character.

Above: This assignment was another design for Krieger's van in Archer, for season 12. The assignment was to combine Jethro Tull with the sci-fi movie, Krull. The result is this corny, air-brushed van which the character is known for possessing.

Props and Environment Design

As an environment artist, I have done a lot of 3D constructive sketching, both for storytelling purposes, and for 3D modelling to reference. Here are some of my designs:

Above: This was the new design for Archer's cane in season 11. Humorously, one of the directions I was given to explore was to make it reminiscent of a panini-press.

Below: I was asked to design humorous cages for mystical animals. The movie's aesthetic approach and branding was to take historical items and do a modern, satirical spin on them. So, I researched both traditional animal cages from the period and adjacent historical periods, and combined them with more modern concepts like pet-carriers and water-bottles. Another element to play with was the British stereotypes/associations required of the narrative, and additionally there were science-fiction/fantasy elements to explore with the cages purpose having to do with fantasy creatures.

alt-culture/DIY/punkrock/glitch-core

My happy place when it comes to marketing is to strike up authenticity within alternate culture scenes. My audience are often young people who are jaded by corporate consumerism, nostalgic for a time when technology supported humanity instead of harvesting it. I have a pulse on this scene, as I am an artist who is a part of it. I market my art to people who love art and digital culture. Some of the most important aspects include diy, digital artefacts, human-created art, usage of jarring colors which buzz against eachother, and above all the most important aspect is the scrappy, imperfect human who evidently created it.