This week, in collaboration with my good friend Simon Walker, I launched a small website for the makers of Gold Top cider, Austin Eastciders. It’s a minisite that uses the beautiful typographic branding that Simon created to share the vital information of their business and promote their first drink, Gold Top.
The minisite was designed to feature Austin Eastciders’ latest beverage and their twitter stream on the home page, while the About Us, Availability, and Blog pages handle the heavy lifting of sharing the company’s info and news to their fans. All in all, I’m really pleased with how this project turned out, and grateful for the opportunity to collaborate with Simon on such a great new brand. It was also equally enjoyable to work with Ed to further promote and grow his local beverage company. Cheers all around!
I think it’s fair to say that I should have made this resolution last year, but I think now is as good a time as ever. I have the tendency to take on too many side projects at once, so it’s my hope that I can correct this in 2012. Here’s to the New Year, everyone. Cheers!
Recently, Morgana and I collaborated on three illustrated 11″x17″ 2012 wall calendars, which are now available for purchase over on our Satchel & Sage Etsy shop.
Check them out here: (1) Patchwork, (2) Blossom, (3) Artifact Series
Today, with Austin-based developer Josh Kemmerling, I announced the upcoming release of a new app called TastyTrailers in early 2012. The brainchild of Josh, TastyTrailers is a helpful app that lets users find delicious food trailers near their location. Users can browse food by cuisine type and distance, and share their favorites with their friends. I’ll post more specifics and screenshots of the app itself when it releases, but for now, enjoy this initial launch of the branding and webpage!
You can follow @tstytrlrs to get updates on when the app will be available in Apple store, and see more of the work as it unfolds over on this work page in my portfolio and in this Dribbble bucket. Happy eating!
Here’s another print that I recently finished called The Holiday Venn. Loosely based on my original Venn by Penn series, this 5×7 print is the perfect gift that will make your home festive for the holidays! It can also double as a card that can be sent to (and saved by) your loved ones. It’s available for purchase on Satchel & Sage now!
Hi everyone! My wife and I were invited by West Elm and Etsy to participate at one of the many upcoming holiday mini-markets happening in stores across the nation! We’ll be at the West Elm in downtown Austin on December 1st (Thursday) from 6 pm till close, selling a variety of our design goods to help you in your holiday gift buying! If you can make, sign up on their Facebook event page. Here’s the official poster that West Elm and Etsy put out about the event:
So, today we decided to launch a few new products for our Etsy shop, Satchel & Sage, as we continue to create for the upcoming holiday market! In summary, Morgana created some custom Christmas cards and a new feather print, and I made custom gift tags and some new prints based off my contour line drawings from my Pupils & Ink Tumblr.
Here’s the run-down of this first batch of new products, with links to buy them online:
Custom Christmas cards (set of 4 per pack, 2 of each design).
Custom holiday gift tags (14 originals per a pack)
Black Feather 5″x7″ Print
MAKE 8″x8″ Print
Artifact Series: The Writer 5″x7″ Print
Artifact Series: The Tailor 5″x7″ Print
Artifact Series: The Naturalist 5″x7″ Print
Artifact Series: The Lush 5″x7″ Print
Artifact Series: The Beachcomber 5″x7″ Print
If you want to keep tabs on everything we’re up to, make sure to follow Satchel & Sage on Twitter (@satchelandsage).
A little over a year ago, on November 4th, 2010, I started a Tumblr blog called Pupils & Ink. I started the Tumblr blog to share my weekly contour line drawings of small objects. After 365 days, I had 173 drawings. That’s just shy of about one drawing every other day. That’s not too bad considering I did most of the drawings on Sundays.
Also, I have to point out that the most “liked” contour line drawing I made during this first year of Pupils & Ink was of two Double-D batteries. Pretty strange.
Well, I started giving more thought about why I really started the Tumblr blog, and discovered that my real intention was to create a space that would hold me accountable to practice drawing on a regular basis. So, in order to mix it up and keep myself growing, I’m going to change the style and subject matter of my drawings every year.
For the second year of P&I, I’m going to dive deep into hand-lettering typography. I’ve been doing more illustrative typography in my personal and commercial work, but I haven’t really allowed myself the full range of play and experimentation that I think needs to happen. So, here goes nothing!
When people tell me that all design is going to be digital in the future, I start digging around the internet for examples that show the potential of print and paper when used creatively. It’s true that the majority of marketing and advertising is moving towards a digital/media dominated landscape; however, printed and non-printed paper design is also moving – towards deliberate and unique artistic applications.
I found the art of Jen Stark and was floored. The rich layering of colors, movement, and space within her sculpted paper compositions is absolutely stunning. Their three-dimensional and tactile nature give the brain playful fodder to contemplate within. Her work is so good, that back in 2008 Banana Republic stole some of it.
Here’s one of my favorites from Jen’s paper sculpture works:
Stark also dabbles in drawing, installation and animation. Go check out more of Stark’s mesmerizing work on her site. In addition, you can watch a video about her work here or dive straight into her Vimeo account and watch her paper sculptures animate to life.
Artists who make complex creative ideas out of paper really fascinate me, and I’ve begun to notice that a new wave of the paper-craft movement has started to pick up steam again recently. With a quick search, I found more than a dozen paper-crafters here for your additional browsing pleasure.
Well, the 40th poster collection has finally come to an end, and my fourth poster design contribution to the series is up on the microsite; it’s titled “#2 – Building Idea City.” For this poster concept, I hand-illustrated layers of pen work to create a rich and simple look.
To celebrate their 4th anniversary, Spruce is hosting a wonderful party on October 14th at their new store (which is next door to their first store)! I designed and illustrated a small invitation for them to promote the public party. If you’re in Austin, come join in the fun and celebrate this creative upholstery studio this Friday!
The concept for this invitation was to illustrate the new storefront which I also designed, and do add some elaborate typesetting for the party details on the back. I’ll post photography of the storefront soon.