Artist: Brandon Rike

 Since Brandon Rike could hold a crayon, he was in love with art.  He "wanted to be an artist when he grows up" ever since he knew what growing up meant.  In elementary school he took special art classes for advanced kids, and when in high school he was taking college art classes.  When he was 13 years old, him and his friends started a band.  That where he began his band design career.  He was constantly making flyers for his band by hand, or creating them in Microsoft paint.  His first real band logo was done on a piece of graph paper in Geometry class.  It was until later that he found out that this was called "graphic design."

After high school, Brandon went on the road with his band.  He spent his "college years" living in a van, traveling around the country, playing rock and roll for anyone that would have him.  They even managed to get signed to a label in Seattle, and put out three albums.  Over these years, he made friends with a number of bands, which allowed him to start designing shirts for more than just his own band.  Somewhere around 2002, he began getting paid to design shirts.  In 2006, his band stopped playing together, and Brandon started his full time career as a graphic designer.  He has been designing band t-shirts ever since.

Besides band shirts, he does an occasional logo or poster.  But his true love is in the shirt designs.  he enjoys most "tweaking letters around, getting them just right, and being able to come back to it, some time later and still be tickled with my work."