Dave Halili is a contemporary American fine arts illustrator

Illustrator

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 and graphic designer

Graphic designer

A graphic designer is a professional within the graphic design and graphic arts industry who assembles together images, typography or motion graphics to create a piece of design. A graphic designer creates the graphics primarily for published, printed or electronic media, such as brochures and...

 of album cover

Album cover

An album cover is the front of the packaging of a commercially released audio recording product, or album. The term can refer to either the printed cardboard covers typically used to package sets of 10" and 12" 78 rpm records, single and sets of 12" LPs, sets of 45 rpm records , or the front-facing...

 paintings, poster

Poster

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s, logo

Logo

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s, T-shirts and other graphical merchandise. His best-known works are the album covers for Body Count

Body Count

Body Count is an American heavy metal band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1990. The group is fronted by rapper and actor Ice-T, who founded the group out of his interest in heavy metal music, taking on the role of vocalist and writing the lyrics for most of the group's songs. Lead guitarist...

 (Body Count

Body Count (album)

Body Count is the eponymous debut album of American heavy metal band Body Count. Released in 1992, the album material focuses on various social and political issues ranging from police brutality to drug abuse. The album presents a turning point in the career of Ice-T, who co-wrote the album's songs...

, Born Dead

Born Dead

Born Dead is the second album released by Body Count. Among other tracks, the album features a cover of Billy Roberts' "Hey Joe," performed in the style of Jimi Hendrix' recording of the song, as originally featured on the Are You Experienced album. Body Count's cover of the song was first featured...

), Ice-T

ICE-T

* Ice-T, an American rapper and actor* ICE T , a tilting model of the German InterCityExpress series of high-speed trains...

 (Home Invasion, VI - Return of the Real

VI - Return of the Real

VI – Return of the Real is the sixth studio album by American rapper Ice-T, released June 4, 1996 on Priority Records. The title is play on words based on the movie Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi, with the "VI" referring to it being his sixth album. The album features production by DJ Ace,...

), The Skeletones (Skeletones Red) and California Ska-Quake that have earned him 4 platinum record awards, 3 gold awards and 2 gold Europe awards from RIAA. His artwork on the cover of Body Count became to embody the band's song Cop Killer

Cop Killer (song)

"Cop Killer" is a song by American band Body Count, from its 1992 self-titled debut album. The lyrics are sung from the point of view of an individual who is outraged by police brutality and decides to take the law into his own hands by killing police officers...

that was widely criticized by the authorities, raising questions about the boundaries between artistic freedom and censorship. This controversy and the disagreement over Halili's design for the cover of Home Invasion forced Ice-T to leave Warner Brothers Records. He released the album with Halili's original illustration by his own record label

Record label

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 Rhyme Syndicate Records.

Besides the above-named, Halili has also worked with N.W.A, No Doubt

No Doubt

No Doubt is an American rock band from Anaheim, California that formed in 1986. The ska-pop sound of their first album No Doubt , failed to make an impact...

, Donald D

Donald D

Donald D is a rapper originally from North Carolina. In New York, he started his career as a rapper, as part of The B-Boys, working with Afrika Islam and Grandmaster Flash. He relocated to Los Angeles as a member of Ice T's Rhyme Syndicate and started making records with old school luminaries such...

, King Tee

King Tee

Roger McBride, mostly known as King Tee , is an American West coast rapper from Compton, California.-Career:...

, Everlast

Everlast (musician)

Erik Francis Schrody , better known by his stage name Everlast, is a Grammy Award-winning American rapper and songwriter, known for his solo hit "What It's Like" and as the front-man for rap group House of Pain. He is also part of the hip-hop supergroup La Coka Nostra, which consists of members of...

 and others. He resides and works in Orange County

Orange County, California

Orange County is a county in the U.S. state of California. Its county seat is Santa Ana. As of the 2010 census, its population was 3,010,232, up from 2,846,293 at the 2000 census, making it the third most populous county in California, behind Los Angeles County and San Diego County...

, California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

 where he runs a print shop

Print shop

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'Halili Style Graphics & More'.