Illustrator & Designer
www.arikroper.com
Arik Roper

Arik Moonhawk Roper was born in 1973 in New York City, grew up in Richmond, Virginia, then returned to New York to attend the School of Visual Arts from 1991-1995. Since then he has built a universe of strange and familiar fantasy, horror, surreal, and psychedelic imagery. After starting out creating record and CD covers for a variety of bands, he has continued onward and into more diverse areas of poster design, graphic illustration, and animation. Arik is currently a contributor for Arthur magazine and recently created a book titled Mushroom Magick.

Low or High Tech

Low Tech

Early Influences?

Rick Griffin, Dave Sim, Frazetta, V Courtland Johnson

Personal Work vs. Commercial Work

I’ve managed to combine the two, for the most part.

Favorites

The hours between 4-6 am.

The Future

A geodesic greenhouse in the mountains.

Roper Image

Culture Squad Artist, Arik Roper, created a 99 Slim shoe and a “Altered  Tee” for the Fall ‘10 line

Check out the photos:

99 Vulc

99 Vulc

Altered Tee

Altered Tee

For more information on Arik Roper, visit www.ArikRoper.com

hofArik Roper’s High on Fire album art is now available as high quality archival giclee prints from Shirts and Destroy in a numbered edition of 100.

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VICE_RoperCover

Arik Roper designed the cover of the latest VICE Magazine. He is one of our new Fall 2010 Culture Squad artists.
You can see more of his work at www.arikroper.com