Recently we've relocated to Banff Alberta to explore a growing interest in creating tangible environmentally friendly collateral through the art of letterpress.
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Happy Easter to you all from Photojojo, We Love Phoneography & our dino pals!
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Logo and letterpress business cards for SightForStyle Designs.
Design by @craigleo
View on Behance.net
Done for a friend who loves old rusty trucks. Here you go Miles.
Renders of the Interior and the Exterior of the ISBU Home. More on this project later!
This drafting project was too good to pass on, I was commissioned to help draft plans and create preliminary graphics for an 4 Unit 18 ISBU Container Home!
Verawood Real Estate is looking to get into the affordable housing market by constructing homes out of ISBU freight containers!
ISBU homes have taken off in Europe and in the southern hemisphere but has not picked up steam here in Canada. Verawood plans to change all this! Go Verawood!
New logo designed for a Canadian based Client. The challenges behind this brand was to create something bold and simple that would work well under many color profiles and fit a variety of media scenarios. Ultimately, this is the final logo that we decided on pursuing. Enjoy!
Brand created for marketing firm out of Saskatoon Sk. The font is Rockwell. Created in 1934, a personal favorite slab serif of mine.
Movable Type Cleaning day!
This is blowing my mind right now: Quantum Levitation (by ASTCvideos)
Mind… Blown… Wow, this is some crazy tech.
I spent this last weekend in my Garage renovating my new Chandler & Price ~1923 Proofing Press. If you want to see more pictures of the renovation, you’ll have to go see my photoset over on Flickr!
I’m not sure about the year. I have no real reference of date beyond a cataloged article that is no longer posted online.
The earliest advertisement I’ve been able to find for this press
dates from 1889:
http://www.galleyrack.com/temp/inland-printer-v06n05-1889-02-uw-0600grey-0414-chandler-price-galley-proof-press-scale-1024x1410.jpg (Link no longer available)
But the press was made for several decades. ATF lists them for sale
in their 1923 Specimen book.
By 1953, though, Western Newspaper Union was *not* listing them in
their catalog.-David M.
I was commissioned to illustrate a simple map for Elk Ridge Resort. This is my first pass at the design. The formula is fairly simple:
- We first broke apart the site plan pdf into simply vector lines using adobe illustrator.
- We then slap the print button.
- Grabbing a coffee and the print, we then take it over to our trusty draft table.
- We then overlay this print with an oversized piece of cover stock (Use scotch tap to hold the print in place).
- We then sketch with pencil and then ink using India Ink (Black/Sepia) and a good quill. We don’t like using ballpoint or marker in this process because we really want to capture a classic look.
- Grab some trace paper and color pencils.
- Flush in the details, cross thatch and layer.
On a side note, if this was a finished piece, I’d then scan it into the computer. Clean it up by adjusting contrast and color in Photoshop, then I’d bring it into Illustrator for the final steps. Convert the bitmap to vector using live trace at a very high setting and save as a pdf for further use. However, this is not a finished piece and we will need several iterations and passes before it reaches a make-ready state.
