Gregory Korn

Personal · Ongoing

Artwork & Illustration

Digital drawings and paintings made in Procreate and Adobe Illustrator. Mostly hyperdetailed psychedelic maximalism and the occasional diagrammatic self-portrait, plus a few bits of print and poster work from across the years.

Medium

Procreate, Adobe Illustrator

Print

Poster Design, Book Design, Album Art

Years Active

2009–Present

The Secret Tea of Experience

Drawn and colored on an iPad Pro with the Apple Pencil in Procreate.

The Secret Tea of Experience

Self-Portrait

A maximalist attempt to render my life story so far in diagrammatic form.

Self-Portrait, a diagrammatic life story

Sing to Modify the Scarcity of New Landscapes

Drawn and colored on an iPad Pro with the Apple Pencil in Procreate.

Sing to Modify the Scarcity of New Landscapes

SF Acid Test

Posters for a series of house music events in San Francisco produced by the great Tyrel Williams.

SF Acid Test: Traxx @ The StudSF Acid Test: D’Marc Cantu @ Monarch

The Book of Salt

A page from a fictional holy book, given as a gift to visitors at our old Burning Man camp in 2017. The text came from training Andrej Karpathy's char-rnn neural net on passages from ancient holy books about the desert and visionary prophecy. After a lot of hand-editing, I ended up with some strange verses that felt ominously resonant with the event.

The Book of Salt coverThe Book of Salt printed page

Train Through the Video Game

Cover for a chapbook by Cayuga poet Monty Campbell Jr.

Train Through the Video Game chapbook cover

Hard Metal Cantüs

Album design for American composer and electric guitar soloist D.J. Sparr, whose music has been performed and commissioned by the Washington National Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras, the Albany Symphony Orchestra, eighth blackbird, and the Dayton Philharmonic.

“This album is about places, real and imagined. The trajectory of a melody lost among church towers. The cardinal points that orient human activity. The multiple dimensions of superstring theory and a melody from a nearby universe. The idea of a place – the afterlife – and a piece of music written as a gesture to help my old dog Lloyd navigate the bardo. And then our internal place, our world within our own mind, which if you learn to control yourself, you become irresistible…”D.J. Sparr
Hard Metal Cantüs album cover
Hard Metal Cantüs interiorHard Metal Cantüs back coverHard Metal Cantüs full layoutHard Metal Cantüs discs

Misc. Illustration

Golden Civil SignalThe Logical Persons & The Worries that They Had
Birthday CardIcon Recycler

Graceland movie poster

Promotional poster for Ron Morales' film Graceland, runner-up for the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival Audience Award.

Graceland movie poster