Photo by Scott Kinkade

Photo by Scott Kinkade

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Shea Hardacre is a Midwest bred multi-format designer. Specializing in unique aesthetics for brands and musicians, focusing on the bold and impactful. Utilizing techniques from underground music, avant-garde graphic design, analogue sources and clean sensibilities, S.Hardacre is able to carve out a niche where his work can shine.

Following art and design classes through high school and attending a vocational school specifically for graphic design, Shea enrolled at the Art Institute in Chicago for Media Arts & Animation, before then continuing on a self taught freelance career as a Graphic Designer. He has since worked with Whole Foods Market as a Store Graphic Artist for over 3 years honing his craft of commercial and promotional design, illustration, and display building. 

Within his music community Shea has created numerous concert posters, album artwork, and t-shirt graphics. He runs his own music label No Coast / No Hope creating and designing everything in house. As well as collaborating with Octostache Crafts creating t-shirt, button and sticker design, and also working with Tokyo based shirt company Dismantle. Recently launching Disperse Press to act as a sister company to Dismantle, doing bootleg style original shirt designs for horror and genre films.

 

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Commercial Work: Whole Foods Market, Universal Pictures (Jordan Peele/Monkeypaw Productions), ReNEWyou Counseling Center, Kaffrin’s Coffee, Malleus Sound Productions.

Music Labels: Sub Pop Records, No Coast / No Hope, Nerve Altar Records, Feast of Tentacles, Skin Trade Recordings, Anthems of the Undesirable, Born Wrong Records, Phage Tapes.

Bands/Musicians: Clipping, Disrotted, Ted Byrnes, Stay Asleep, Rust Worship, Sea of Shit, Lowhangers, Even Thieves, STCLVR.

Wrestling Talent: Kris Wolf, Yuu, Tyler Colton, Delilah Doom.