Hi! I’m a designer, illustrator and screen printer in Portland, Oregon—steeped in skateboarding and music culture, I love print media, DIY publishing and building creative community, and I approach design as an art practice.
Connect
→ hello@brendan-hanna.com
Work
- Graphic Design for Apparel
- Client Work
- Music Design
- Skateboard Graphics
- Concept Work
- Motion Design
- Illustration & Lettering
©2025 👽
CREATIVE PRACTICE
I’m currently keeping a weekly video journal of my creative practice for 12 weeks while I do the Artist’s Way process. (in reverse cronological order)
WEEK 2: MAKING A BOOTLEG NIN AD FOR LURCH ZINE
This week I made a last-minute submission to a zine here in Portland called Lurch. The theme for this issue is "bite" and it made me think of some bootleg album art I made for fun, for the NiN album "with teeth."
So I dug it out from an external hard drive and expanded it into a bootleg magazine ad for a NIN world tour.
So I dug it out from an external hard drive and expanded it into a bootleg magazine ad for a NIN world tour.
I've been inspired lately by a buddy's project called Deadstock Design Drop where he digs up fairly obscure video game ads from the late 90's early 2000's and makes t-shirts out of them. Anyway watch the video and see how I did some of the actual design. I also applied the graphic as a pattern to a skateboard, which I thought turned out pretty rad.
WEEK 1: SCREEN PRINTING SKATEBOARDS
This week was a mellow one as I was experiencing heavy burnout the week before—I just tried to make a little headway with this project of screen printing skateboards. I'm not very handy, so making a jig/setup to print boards at home has been a pain in the ass, and I've just been chipping away at it when I can.
I’ve actually already printed a couple boards some months ago, but the jig and screens I was using then were hanging on by a thread and finally kind of fell apart.
Maybe I’ll do a process video at some point about the whole adventure, but for now I just want to make my weekly journal entry.
Maybe I’ll do a process video at some point about the whole adventure, but for now I just want to make my weekly journal entry.
WEEK “0”: SETTING THE CONTAINER
To start out 2025, I'm documenting 12 weeks of my creative practice as I start a new round of the Artist's Way.
This first video is just to set the container/intention: to create a new graphic every week that applies to the realm of skateboarding, music, or related culture (I guess, just something in that realm).
This first video is just to set the container/intention: to create a new graphic every week that applies to the realm of skateboarding, music, or related culture (I guess, just something in that realm).
Last year I did a weekly art practice like this where I designed 2 board graphics a week for one term at school, and put it together in this booklet.
I felt like that was a solid practice and direction for my design work, and I’m kind of coming back to it a year leater and realizing I want to get back in that groove because what I really want to do is design board graphics and participate in the skate world through art.
I felt like that was a solid practice and direction for my design work, and I’m kind of coming back to it a year leater and realizing I want to get back in that groove because what I really want to do is design board graphics and participate in the skate world through art.
