Brandon Rike

26 years old

Westerville, OH

Male

About

I used to rock the mic. Now I rock the mouse. I've been full-time graphic designer for a few years now, operating under the name Dark Collar. While I hate the name, I bought the .com and cannot think of anything else, so I've embraced Dark Collar. Oh well.

I like to think of myself as a fairly versatile designer. If I do have a particular or signature style - I don't see it. I try my best to do any style pretty well. While the majority of my portfolio is music merchandise, I am always working towards being active in as many disciplines as possible, and always learning new things.

Life is good. I have a beautiful wife that I adore, a new house that I'm constantly trying to improve, a beautiful city, and no complaints. I was able to fulfill my rock n roll dreams at young age -- so now I'm a perfectly content, and fulfilled dude in my mid-twenties - living the freaking dream.

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Nov 15, 2007

Do Work.

I've posted some selected work I've done over the past few years. Check out Dark Collar. Full on, all-encompassing blog/portfolio site is still in the works. This will suffice until I get my act together.

Design Vomit

I use VIRBº to network with other designers out there. So, in that spirit, I figured I would post a design-oriented blog entry.

As many of you may know, I make a ton of band shirts. Band shirts make up about 85% of the projects that come out of Dark Collar (My …

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Jul 10, 2007

Good Tunes Is Good Tunes.

I've been wanting to do this for a long time. There are several albums that when I hear them, I realize how many memories and influences are tied to each one.

My Favorite Albums of All Time (In no particular order)
These are the albums that I consider great. …

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eleven2 Hosting, Apr 22, 2008:

virb loves you, man. and so do we.

Zach McNair Loves Your Face, Mar 20, 2008:

rike. let's resurrect the dead, man! freaking, let's bring virb back!

fixedbroken, Nov 4, 2007:

Good Work on all the stuff with ortega dude, i love it!
thanks for making my photos good!!

adamx

TannerC, Sep 1, 2007:

I miss Ohio.

phil shay, Aug 24, 2007:

Dude.

You're welcome to come down here anytime!! I can't promise you'll get to see my play drums though...I haven't even been seeing much of that lately...

Zach McNair Loves Your Face, Aug 23, 2007:

bro, i have a couple of crazy random stories to share. one involves Iron & Wine. both include Jesus.

Zach McNair Loves Your Face, Jul 17, 2007:

hey man... thanks for the message/friend request. i must say, your recent listening is definitely some good stuff, man. i love kensrue's solo stuff and am quite anxious to hear the new Thrice stuff.