About tRAVIS L WHITE

I was born in San Diego in 1978 and earned a BS in New Media/Graphic Arts from Platt College, San Diego in 2004. I began freelance designing early in college and I have worked with clients like Fox Television, San Diego State University and UC San Diego. The most rewarding projects and relationships have always stemmed from the collaboration that comes from combining my love of music and visual art. I’ve created album covers, screen printed concert posters, logos and merchandise designs for bands such as The Killers, High On Fire, Earthless, Circles Around the Sun and Fucked Up. Inspired by a long tradition of creative typography in the genre of poster art (especially the psychedelic designs of the 60s and 70s), hand lettering became a large focus of my work. It’s a skill I continue to utilize and grow in my current job as a sign artist, with freelance jobs and in my personal art pieces.

An obsession with painting followed shortly after rediscovering drawing and I realized I could make art to express my own ideas, thoughts and emotions. From 2006-2017, while using the art moniker Teddy Pancake I created bodies of work, participated in art shows, I was published in books and magazines and made public art pieces. Since then I have ditched the nickname but continue to make new art and I am working on precise stipple ink drawings, violent palette knife paintings, and allowing myself to follow where the Muse leads.