Design

Samples of Design, Art Direction, letterpress printing & Publishing.

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Limited edition boxed set. Includes 6 different multi-colored splatter records in a handsome foil-stamped slipcase. Features 12 sonic representations of Mark Mothersbaugh’s Mutated Flora (artwork included). A mutant audio greenhouse for the sleepwalker in all of us! Limited to a numbered edition of 1000 copies

Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers &; Bastards is a limited edition LP & CD set by Tom Waits, Art Direction & Design by Johnny Brewton. Released by the ANTI- label 2006

Mark Mothersbaugh – MYOPIA – AKRON OHIO. 2016. Mutmuz Records – Vinyl, 12″, Limited Edition. Graphic Design, Art Direction – Johnny Brewton. Limited to 300 copies for the Akron Art Museum. Random colored vinyl.

Mark Mothersbaugh – Hello!. Mutmuz Records. Vinyl, 12″, Single Sided, Etched, Limited Edition 2016. Design [Graphic Design] – Johnny Brewton. Record Store Day exclusive release. 3000 pressed

Neil Hamburger / Pleaseeasaur – Souvenir Record. 2008. Label: Million Dollar Performances – MDP-003. Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Limited Edition. Genre: Rock, Pop. Artwork – Mark Mothersbaugh. Letterpress – Johnny Brewton. Limited Edition of 500 copies.

White Pee + White Hills – “in love but not committed” Live at the Retox Lounge. Label: Bright Yellow Records. Format: CDr, EP, Limited Edition, Numbered. Released: 2015. Design – Johnny Brewton, X-Ray Book Co

Mooseheart Faith Stellar Groove band Face on Mars Blotter 7″ Record Sleeve and Label Behemoth Records Sleeve and label design by Johnny Brewton Perforations by John Held jr.

Tom Waits, Seeds On Hard Ground, 2011. Limited edition chap book of the unabridged poem “Seeds on Hard Ground”. Designed and published by Johnny Brewton, X-Ray Book Co.

Tom Waits – True Confessions. 2008 Glitter and Doom promo, Tom Waits interviews himself. Glitter and Doom tour. Designed and published by Johnny Brewton, X-Ray Book Co.

MOTHERSBAUGH, Mark. Rugs During Wartime and Peacetime: The Rug Art of Mark Mothersbaugh. [Culver City]: Scion (2007). Art Direction & Design: Johnny Brewton.

Hunter S. Thompson Mistah Leary-He Dead San Francisco/ New Orleans X-Ray Book Co. Chapbook, hand-sewn. 300 numbered copies. Two pages are Hunter’s obituary for Timothy Leary. Designed by Johnny Brewton, X-Ray Book Co.

X-Ray Magazine Number 4. Published by in Spring 1995 – limited to an edition of 226 copies 200 numbered and 26 lettered, some signed by Hunter S. Thompson. Front cover (picture of Marilyn Chambers shot with a .45 and kissed with Chinese Red lipstick by Hunter himself. For full list of X-Ray Issues 1-10 visit http://www.xraybookco.com

Xmas in Woody Creek by Hunter S. Thompson. Included in X-Ray Magazine No. 8, Designed and published by Johnny Brewton of X-Ray Book Co. 2001

Letterpress limited editions designed and printed by Johnny Brewton, published by X-Ray Book Co. Artwork by Mark Mothersbaugh

X-Ray Number 8 Published Summer 2001 by X-Ray Book Co. This issue packaged in a small 5 x 5 box. Limited to an edition of 126 copies. 100 numbered and 26 lettered and signed. Letterpress wrapper and many letterpress broadsides. Contributors include Hunter S. Thompson, Bukowski, Dan Fante, Billy Childish, Michael Montfort, Bern Porter, Gerald Locklin, A.D. Winans For full list of X-Ray Issues 1-10 visit http://www.xraybookco.com

In Search of Yage A William S. Burroughs Pictorial. This edition consists of 26 lettered copies. The photographs were reproduced from the original negatives and are the only prints that will be made from these negatives. Published by Skyline Books Design/Assembly by Johnny Brewton Printed by Artnoose

The first issue was published in 2005. Bagazine is a branch of the X-Ray Book Co. tree. Bagazine explores the assemblage landscape and modern subculture of Bagism and creative Happening. For bagazine galleries visit http://www.bagazine.com

X-Ray FotoProject No. 1 (poop!) 13 Colour Photographs of Charles Bukowski by Michael Montfort This edition consists of 100 Numbered copies. Each box contains 13 color 5 x 7 photographs of Charles Bukowski. Photographs by Michael Montfort. Includes letterpress broadside POOP X-Ray Book Co. Design/Assembly by Johnny Brewton

Timothy Leary piece included in X-Ray Number 5ive. Published Winter 1995. “Timothy Leary’s ‘One Word Piece’ came about because Tim’s secretary wanted one dollar per word so I asked for One Word. Tim liked the idea and chose the word Chaos” -JB

the sudden fart of billy childish* Billy Childish Printed letterpress with hand-sewn binding. 4.25 x 5.50. Limited to 126 copis. 100 numbered and 26 special lettered copies A-Z. Lettered copies contain original woodcut print by Billy Childish and are signed by the poet. For full list of chapbooks and broadsides visit http://www.xraybookco.com

Desire in a Bowl of Potatoes Richard Brautigan (numbered copy) 2005. 2.5″ x 4.25″ letterpress mini chapbook; paper wrappers with printed covers and hand sewn binding. Written in Oregon in the mid 1950s. This previously unpublished manuscript is a rare glimpse into the mind of Brautigan as a young man hopelessly in love with a girl named Linda. Contains fourteen poems. Limited edition of 250 numbered copies and 26 lettered hardbound copies. For full list of chapbooks and broadsides visit http://www.xraybookco.com

Me and my Doings Bern Porter This tiny chapbook was Published as insert in X-ray No. 8. Printed letterpress and limited to 226 copies. A-Z are signed by the poet. For full list of chapbooks and broadsides visit http://www.xraybookco.com

Neil Hamburger Heckle cards. Letterpress printing and design Johnny Brewton/X-Ray Book Co. Copyright ’73