Hatch Show Prints

Just caught this. "Preservation through Production."

Cream City Brick

I took Greenfield and National from Highway 100 to 1st street the other day, and drove by La Perla on 5th. I've never eaten there, but I must have driven by it before, right? Maybe not. I was struck by the nice cream city brick the place was, and the black trim they used to accent it. Just gorgeous. Then I got to thinking about how nice of a color palette that makes. I'd like to try and emulate it in some of my pieces, but I guess I'll just have to wait until I have the right ones to do it with :D What could be more Milwaukee than white brick, right?

PS- I love love LOVE the Joseph & Vera Zilber Building (Hillel Center)- absolutely breathtaking in person.

Photos used from Dave Reid's flickr stream.

Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics

Spurred on by Google's friendly image reminder (which was awesome in it's own right), I looked a little into the branding of the Vancouver hosted Winter Olympics. Done by Vanoc (the Vancouver Olympic Comittee), the design was spurred on by a green friendly look at the city vs. wilderness that is Canada. I like the illustrations, soft gradients, nice color swatches, and subtle textures. However, I think the pictograms look like 20 year old clipart.
Also, check here for a great wealth of images between the 2010's and the past Canadian Olympics.

Valentines

Made 3 different valentines to hand out this year. Posted on Flickr.

Typeface Documentary

So I caught this from the folks over at Handmade Nation, and I can't stop watching this video.

In Two Rivers, WI, the Hamilton Wood Type Printing Museum stands as a testament to how print shops used to run. Dedicated to the all but extinct craft of hand carved wood type, the museum offers free admission to those who want to delve into the countless drawers and shelves filled with individual block letters of innumerous types and fonts. Occaisionally they open the place up to workshops where designers- professional, educational, or people with no experience at all can let it loose and print off a couple pieces of hand set type. Awesome. I have to go there.

Yulia Revisited

I did a post on Yulia Brodskaya almost exactly a year ago, and I was revisiting her portfolio site. She has a wealth of really impressive work now, and has expanded greatly into her vertically standing paper cut forms. Definitely worth another look.

David Pearson

David PearsonI'm starting to think that a great pinnacle in the illustrating career would be to work for Penguin books. The history of class and style are so iconic and have even had a recent internet design meme revival that the Penguin Logo is quite hip (if it hasn't always been). Pearson has an awesome portfolio site, and I'm a huge fan of the collections that he has done such as the Great Ideas, Great Loves, or Great Journeys in which there are 13 or so books to a set, and he sticks with a monotonous color scheme for each set. Just Awesome.

Motivational Posters

Here's a set of continually growing motivational posters I've been working on. Just quick little exercises based on a strong motivational concept, limited shape forms, and my color scheme at the moment. Some are better than others, but making things constantly is the best way to get better. All posted on my Flickr stream.

A la- Make Something Cool Everyday.

Latest

Here's my latest.

Evangelical Lutheran. Frederick, MD

Original photo by Gina Cairney.

cardboard frame measures 10 x 13 in.

Greg Lendeck

Greg Lendeck
Lendeck uses wax paper as a medium, which gives most of his work a ghostly translucent flavor, but works so well because then you can see the layers and added depth that each one gives to the piece. Really awesome stuff, his Flickr page is all I can find of his work. He confesses to continuously re-working his technique, sometimes using glues that bind and wrinkle tha paper, sometimes using translucent tape to get it all together. I think it adds a nice "homemade-gritty" feel to the work.