All work. All custom. No templates.
The Dub Hub.
For everything YOUNGDUB
The ultimate creative portfolio.
Merch by Dub.
A look at the range of custom products, apparel, and one-off pieces designed through YOUNGDUBSTUDiOS.
Most of these pieces were made specifically for individual clients and may not currently be available for purchase. This gallery is here to show what can be created for you.
Music by Dub.
The newest YOUNGDUB releases, official audio, music videos, rough drafts, and long-form bars.
Media by Dub.
Featured video, animation, promotional media, visual storytelling, and motion work.
Branding by Dub.
Logos and identity work for local organizations and creative brands, including Groton Recreation and Iron Horse. Explore the work, then bring your own vision to YOUNGDUBSTUDiOS.
Graphics by Dub.
Posters, illustrations, cover concepts, experimental designs, and everything that refuses to fit inside a template.
FLYERS
Kyle Dake · Lansing / Ithaca · Flyer design
Enter The Vault.
The full archive lives behind the door: older projects, deep cuts, experiments, and the work that built YOUNGDUBSTUDiOS.
Open The VaultBEFORE THE PROMPT
Photoshop. No Generative AI.
I didn't start creating when generative AI showed up.
Long before I could describe an idea to a machine, I had to figure out how to build it myself — layer by layer, cutout by cutout, usually without knowing the ‘right’ way to do any of it.
I'm self-taught. I never learned Photoshop from YouTube tutorials or took courses in it. I used Photoshop for roughly one project during my senior year of high school, then went more than a decade without touching it.
When I eventually bought Photoshop again, I started creating. No lessons. No roadmap. Just ideas and a willingness to figure out how to make them exist.
Some of this work is rough. Good.
It shows where I started.
TIMES SQUARE TAKEOVER
One of my first major Photoshop projects.
Right before starting this piece, I had just purchased Photoshop again after not using it for more than a decade.
The idea was to take Times Square and replace every advertisement in the photograph with something I had created.
Every advertisement you see was manually replaced by me.
Some were actual logos and artwork I had created for real people. Eventually I ran out of finished work to fill all of Times Square.
So I waited.
I'd create something new, reopen the Times Square file, replace another advertisement, and save it again. Sometimes weeks would pass before another piece was ready.
I kept doing that for months until Times Square was mine.
I didn't watch tutorials showing me how to build it. I didn't know the most efficient Photoshop techniques. Looking back now, I'm sure there were much easier ways to do a lot of what I was doing.
Some of it is rough.
That's exactly why I want the original preserved.
It shows me learning in real time.
Years later, generative AI can help create an image like this in minutes.
This one wasn't created that way.
Every billboard was placed there by me, one at a time.
— YOUNGDUB
THE TOOLS CHANGED.
THE ARTIST DIDN'T.
YOUNGDUBSTUDiOS has always been about taking an idea that doesn't exist yet and figuring out how to make it real. The tools will continue to change. So will the work.
