It’s always an honour to be asked to design something for a local business, but particularly so for a restaurant that has appeared in the Michelin Guide for two years in a row. They asked me to draw something that looked “a little metal” and I obliged, also incorporating visual elements from the restaurant itself and from the packaging of their line of sauces.

This was a fun little graphic I completed for the back of a VHS compilation of the Paranoid Anxieties series – a totally analogue commission drawn in ink on paper for another piece of analogue media.

El Rey is still producing and selling this t-shirt and sweater design four years after I completed it, and it is always a delight to see people wearing them around town. I heavily focused on the agave plant, as El Rey is a mescal bar, and found that this imagery fit well with my psychedelic lettering and motifs.