Shawn served as lead graphic designer, while Aaron became the president of the company. After a year, they decided it was time to start their own venture, and Pen & Pixel was born. In 1992, Shawn Brauch and his brother Aaron were working for Rap-A-Lot Records as a graphic designer and general manager, respectively, when they began getting outside requests to do album covers for local artists like Trinity Garden Cartel and 8 Ball & MJG. Today, over a decade after the company folded, the art style that made these covers famous is now being used for a new purpose-to sell clothing. In an era when most rap covers were dark and dull, Pen & Pixel created images that were the polar opposite with their over-the-top depictions of the luxury and violence that ruled the Southern rap scene in the late ‘90s and early 2000s. Diamonds, fire, expensive cars, and women all accented by blinged out fonts are just some of the elements that have become the Houston-based company’s calling card. There’s no mistaking an album cover designed by Pen & Pixel Graphics.
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