I’ve always been grateful to have many talented, creative friends who are willing to take Apocalypse Kow’s design jobs, especially early in our career when we didn’t have a whole lot of money. These days, we are glad we are able to compensate these talented designers for the work they do for us. I’d like to use this update to publicly acknowledge them and their work.
Our first thanks should rightfully go to Nicole Deibert of Nine Doors Design, who was gracious enough to create our first official logo when I asked her many, many years ago. It’s the one we’ve been using on our t-shirts, posters, and other media.
We’d also like to thank the designers of our CDs. The Complete First Season was designed by Jolene Ambard, while Live vol. 1 and The Greatest CD Ever were designed by friend of Kow, Lee Conrad. Our tireless audio engineer has always been the illustrious Steve McGonigle of Blackbox Studios. Our shirts have used Nicole’s logo (the logo shirts), a variation of Lee’s logo (Greatest Shirt Ever), and Stan’s reptile brain (Ceci n’est pas un kow and the Kowzoos). Our now out-of-print “Live and In Prison” shirts were done by a friend of Jago’s named Dustin, and the now out-of-print hoodies were designed by Stan. If you have a shirt design you think would fit the silly, sarcastic, and super-fun Kow aesthetic, let us know! We’re always looking for new ideas!
We can’t complete our round of thanks without acknowledging the efforts of our friend, fellow musician, and webmaster Ryan Ro, who has nagged, berated, poked, elbow-dropped, and dragged us Kows kicking and screaming into the 21st Century. Ryan designed our website, set up our online store, helped get our music online for digital sales and streaming, and gave us tons of advice on being a musician in the digital age.
Thank you to all of our designers. I hope we get to work with them again!