LONG UPDATE: As many of you already know, I’ve been pursuing graphic design work for the last few years—what started as a few gig posters quickly snowballed into an actual way to support myself financially and creatively, and I feel so lucky to have worked with some truly remarkable people and organizations (tagged) in the short time I’ve been doing this. It’s such a thrill to see that I’ve been nominated by my peers in the @chicago_reader Best of 2024 voting!!! I really am a total rookie at this stuff and I’m nominated alongside some personal heroes of mine, folks who have been absolutely central to the Chicago music landscape for many years. @mikaelajane , @mr_ryanduggan & @catdroool are all absolute superstars and inspirations and I cannot decide who to vote for!!!! If you’d like to support me, please consider checking out my new website!!! I’ll be selling things there in the future (bumper stickers!! prints? shirts?) and you can find my email where I’m always looking for more design work (commissions, part-time, contract, etc!) ALSO I will be posting my design work periodically here on @designbysamuelaaron — there’s a lot of work I’m proud of that deserves a place on Instagram, so I will be making my way thru my backlog of work and sharing selections + new work on this new archive page! Thanks a bunch if you’ve read this far, and stay tuned for some big music announcements coming soon!! -Sam