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.
Recently, fires devastated Bastrop and other areas in central Texas. During the fires, I was glued to weather satellites and news channels as I tried to send over information to my mother-in-law who lives in the Bastrop area. Fortunately, her neighborhood were spared, but the overall devastation in the area (and other places in Texas) was alarming. I knew that I wanted to help in some capacity.
Local design agency AIRSHP put together a charity microsite that is selling designer shirts to raise relief for the victims of the fires. I contacted them and was able to contribute a design titled “Bootstraps” for the second batch release of shirts, which is happening today!
Order one now here!
Here is the first poster I designed in the GSD&M 40th poster series, #33 – Over 1,000 Awards. I created a grid of icons that represent prominent awards the agency has won and anchored a vintage channel letter of the number one in the center as a self-proclamation of the agency’s success and legacy.
And, here’s the original sketch:
For GSD&M’s 40th anniversary celebration, the group creative directors tasked the design and creative teams with illustrating posters of “the 40 best things that we ever did.” To display this collection, I designed an interactive gallery microsite that uses responsive techniques to serve up the posters properly across desktop browsers, iPads, iPhones and the like. The development was done in-house by the talented Joel Parr, and the logo was designed by Simon Walker.
We used responsive techniques to display the gallery properly across the iPad and iPhone browsers, creating a seamless experience.
The home page is a gallery of thumbnails that have been cropped in interesting ways to encourage users to click into the details pages to see the entire posters; we used CSS3 to add a nice rollover effect. The posters are planned to release for 40 days leading up to the actual celebration date.
Detail pages allow users to move through the posters with an easy sub-navigation, and share their favorites on Facebook or Twitter.
I’m excited to announce today that Prova, my first typeface, is available for purchase here. I poured a lot of time, energy, and passion into this typeface, and learned so much so quickly. Now, it’s time for a proper nap.
The word PROVA means “test” in Italian and “proof” in Portuguese. It was chosen to commemorate this release as the first of many typefaces I hope to design. PROVA started from tight sketches and evolved into a full, international character set. The primary intention was to produce friendly, condensed letterforms that contained the occassional charming quirk, but function as a hand-drawn workhorse display font that could compliment illustration and interactive work.
Special thanks to my wife, who supported and encouraged me through one too many nights of tedious kerning and tweaking.
I hope you enjoy using it as much as I enjoyed creating it. If you make any work using Prova, please rebound the Dribbble release shot or send me a message so I can review your submission for possibly inclusion on the typeface release page. Cheers!
With a short timeline, I took on the challenge of designing a new website for the band, GIVERS. Built on WordPress, the new site I created allows them to update their content from the road, integrate media from Youtube and other social platforms, and act as a central hub for their fans. Check out the live site or view my work page to learn more about this project. Also, the site was featured on TheBestDesigns here.
Lately, I’ve been working on this Muppet shirt illustration for a competition put on by Disney on Threadless. The competition was focused on the theme of friendship, so I created conversations between the Muppets as common points of interest. While there are a few key commonalities, they’re all connected by big musical sing-a-longs, slap-stick humor, and goofy personalities. You can see some of the progress of the shirt as I drew the individual characters over on dribbble here, and vote for the shirt on Threadless here.
