pig roast! pig roast! tickets to a pig roast! so these were actually really fun to make; its sort of hard to make out (i suffer from crappy-camera-phone-itus) but each section (two per side) features a watermarked pig in the background, my favorite of which has all the butcher’s cuts demarcated on him (so rad!).
ps. yes. i see the “suasage” typo. client content! client approved! what can i say!?!?!
so chris goes, “hey, we should make ashley some shirts for her birthday, but like, for ‘Smashley Demolition Services’ and it should say “WE BREAK THINGS!”.
within maybe 3 days we had a logo settled on, a screen burned, and 12 shirts made.
too bad they were a) rediculous expensive and are b) sold out. not only is this level of geekery super right up my spigot, but its like a veritable treasure trove of typo-answers!
ie, the negative bit in an 0,b, or any other confining shaped letter or number is called a counter. so, ive always asked, whats the dot above and i or a j called? according to this poster, its called a tittle.
learn more here.
absolutely fantastic
via boingboing via design related.
Monica’s hair salon needed to get outfitted with a lightbox (backlit printed thing), banner, and a number of door signs, all with a “pink and green” color scheme that frankly hurts your eyes. trying my best to negate those harmful effects, i delivered:
the main sign:
the announcement banner:
the outside front door sign:
and the inside front door sign:
but they undesigned it to be
main:
banner:
cut lettering for the door:
and four other stickers for the door:
otherwise known in the “industry” as a ‘car wrap’, essentially you take a very two dimensional idea and superimpose (for better or worse) onto a real life, honest to god, tangible object – in this case, some sort of ford van. big, off-white, and otherwise boring.
until now.
Welcome, Captain America and your Car-Pool Associates.
that last picture features Steve, my multitalented and endlessly skilled production artist, who turns dreams into vinyl-covered car realities.
heres a new section ill be updating every now and then when i get the real doozies: crappy ideas from people who i then update, clean or otherwise improve (normal), only to have them un-design it and go with their microsoft word layed out crap (not normal).
first is caldarazzo’s pizzeria; the orders were burgundy text, yellow background. they picked the lower.
second, we have caddyshack expresss: they picked three pms colors for their 4×12 banners, a brown, cream and rust. i proofed, and they rejected every color (and spacing, and fonts), opting instead for a two color scan of their place mat instead.
Spike Press do some wicked illustration, screen printing, over printing and design. so good, in fact, my mom is jealous. shame about the helvetica, but, whatever.
here.
nice illustrations, great colors, and of course, dead people – everyone loves dead people!
these two – whose work appears indistinguishable, at thonuka.com and http://www.tropicaltoxic.blogspot.com – make some awesomeness, and were mostly responsible for 2008′s “waltz with bashir.” slight juniors to, but essentially contemporaries of peter chung – of course famous for his aeon flux franchise – they all seem to have stolen a few pages from short lived and aloof, egon schiele who was, in turn, a protege of gustav klimt.