Joshua Silveira

My good friend Ferris Plock was contacted by Microsoft to put together a team of artists. The purpose of the group was to submit designs for new background skins for MSN Messenger. So Ferris hit me up and asked me to submit five designs. And this is what I came up with. Below are the original illustrations next to the final colored versions.

MSN Messenger Skins link

Since I met Asia and Walt (Asia’s Manager) in 2004 it’s been nothing but good vibes and cool projects. The first project was Asia’s first documentry dvd which covered the past few years of his carrer and travels. It’s a dope dvd, you should definitley grab a copy.

They had approached me about designing the dvd and since I did most of Asia’s photography for 2005 and early 2006 it seemed like it’d be a fun project, not to mention i’d have a chance to use pretty much all original photography of my own so that made it even better. Below is the layout for the actual dvd sleeve and dvd graphic. Along with that are the original photos I took.

Purchase DVD here

Planet Asia link

Walt Liquor (manager)
Walt@Liquor-Barrel.com
Liquor-Barrel Mgmt. link

I was fortunate to be approached by Synthesis Magazine and asked to do there Jan/Feb 2006 cover. The main article was on E-40, so naturally that was gonna be the focus for the cover. Being from Northern Cali myself as well as a big E-40 fan, I couldn’t resist such an offer. Below I posted the original illustration next to the final image fully colored. I also included the final design I presented even though they changed it for the final version. They didn’t like my color choice of the olive green, but what can i say, I love earthtones! I guess they just wanted to rock the red, white and blue instead.

Synthesis Magazine link

E-40 link