Today is over four months in the making: I’ve got a new shop with new products! Ever since I finished Prova last year, I couldn’t help but indulge and chase my curiosity in creating typefaces.
I sketched some new letterforms and explored layering them with flexible embellishments. Beyond hand-drawing type, I explored clean type in this offering (and for future releases too). To top it off, I’m also offering a graphic metal swatch pack. Read about each of the new offerings below by heading over to my revised shop here.
Notch is my first clean, display typeface. It’s a nod to (and modern take on) historic industrial letterforms with two-pronged terminals, sturdy stems and an optional inline. Learn more about Notch and get it here.
HandSlab is a hand-crafted extended slab serif with charming touches and an optional block drop shadow. It’s a fresh take on a typeface style that’s recently had a small revival, and I wanted to take it to a hand-drawn place to make it warmer and more friendly. Learn more about HandSlab and get it here.
Jaywalk is a hand-drawn rounded square display typeface that is balanced, bright and cohesive. It’s also got an optional line drop shadow that can be used to craft unique headlines and messaging. Learn more about Jaywalk and get it here.
Metal Swatch Pack is my first graphic asset pack offering. Earlier in my career, I designed a lot of signage and environmental elements, and found a beautiful pack of metal swatch bars that I couldn’t resist scanning in at high resolution. There are forty (40) metal bars scanned at 600 dpi as TIFs. Each file is approximately 8 MB, and could be used as repeating backgrounds in both print and web design projects. Learn more about the Metal Swatch Pack and get it here!.
To get the community excited about SXSW, I was tasked with illustrating a custom digital background for GSD&M’s promotional efforts online. I adapted the original illustration into a variety of sizes to serve up as a free digital wallpaper for Phones, Tablets, and Desktops.
Each download pack includes the black and red themes shown. Feel free to download whichever you like. Enjoy!
Phone Download: (Android, iPhone3 and iPhone 4)
Tablet Download: (iPad, iPad2)
Desktop Download: (27″ iMac, Others)
Over the weekend, a site redesign that I’ve been slowly working on with Adam Holzband (developer) for local Austin foodie legend, The Soup Peddler (client) had a soft launch. Check it out here: www.souppeddler.com.
The new website features custom hand-drawn illustrations that were conceptualized out of the soup peddler’s history of hand-crafting soups and delivering them by bike to hungry patrons. The story of this business is fascinating and inspirational. The new look that I created is based off of adjectives such as accessible, interesting (quirky) and family-friendly which are all part of David’s larger food (and brand) philosophy.
I also wanted to add that Prova was created for (and inspired by) this project. My intention was to sprinkle it alongside other hand-crafted fonts (i.e. Clumsy) throughout the site to create cohesion with the homepage rotator, functional tools and important information.
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!
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).
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.
Continuing my contributions to the poster microsite collection for GSD&M’s 40th anniversary, I illustrated two posters that are being released today.
Poster #27 – The Good to Great Client Event. The agency had Jim Collins come speak to clients, colleagues, and employees about the future of the business, so I wanted to emphasize the purpose of the gathering with a big, bold typographic treatment that would communicate greatness – aspirational diagonal angle included.
Here are some of the original sketches for #27:
#25 – Our Friends, Bill and Hillary Clinton. I decided to illustrate silhouettes of the former president, first lady, and two of the GSD&M founders. Their relationships started around the ’72 McGovern presidential campaign here in Austin, so I created a frame wall of memorabilia surrounding the time they spent together at the beginning of what is now a long, enduring friendship.
