Peter Westermann - Art and Design

Deftones Magazine Cover

(repost from November 29th, 2006)

The December issue of Maximum Ink magazine will feature the Deftones, along with cover art I put together on extremely short notice. I was asked to do this with only a handful of hours left to go before the magazine went to press, and was considering watching South Park reruns and eating junk food instead. My love for the Deftones inspired me to stay up late pounding mountain dew energy drinks and handed in my work about half an hour before the deadline. Go caffeine!

For those of you who are into the Deftones' style of metal, I strongly recommend their new cd Saturday Night Wrist. I've been playing it for a while now, and it's definitely becoming one of my favorites.

posted by Peter at Wednesday, January 03, 2007 0 Comments

TOOL Cover Artwork for Maximum Ink

(repost from September 1st, 2006)

Through a string of seemingly random connections I was asked to create some original art for an issue of Maximum Ink featuring an exclusive interview with Tool. Being one of my favorite bands, I attempted to work my way into the interview somehow, but failed to come up with a good way of getting to Los Angeles. Either way, I was more than happy to take the chance to create something for a band that has created so much for me.

Click on the image for a fullsize desktop picture. The piece I put together is much larger than the magazine layout would allow, you can see the full version here.

posted by Peter at Wednesday, January 03, 2007 2 Comments

First Post / Welcome

WELCOME! - The means by which you managed to stumble upon this page doesn't matter. The important thing is, you are here. First off, I'd like to introduce myself. Hi, I'm Peter. Nice to meet you, too. So, uh, you come here often? Yeah, me too. Great.

Now I'll try to vaguely explain my reason for having this page to begin with. Above all, this is the place where I will share my creative endeavors with whoever cares to experience them. I don't make things for myself, I make them for everyone else in this world who might care in the slightest about visual art and design. If I was the last person on earth, I can guarantee you I wouldn't be spending most of my time trying to furthering myself and my skills. What would I be doing? Thats a great question - probably smashing a window at the nearest Ferrari dealership so I can finally drive one recklessly while listening to "Straight Outta Compton" at full volume.

I also wanted to mention that I'm going to refrain from posting boring and meaningless details of my life. I'm not going write about having a bad day, I'm not going to write about my relationship problems, and I'm certainly not going to bitch about how life isn't fair and nobody understands me. If you were hoping for these things, let me introduce you to your new best friends - MySpace, LiveJournal and Xanga.

I realize I am not a genius. I'm not going to write about things I don't know very much about. This is solely for my philosophies on art, design, perspective and the ways in which they can affect our life. I hope you find something you can enjoy and connect with. I hope you can go away with something new and possibly even be inspired to think or see things in a different way. If you don't, thats okay too.

posted by Peter at Tuesday, January 02, 2007 2 Comments