When hand-lettering is involved, everybody wins!
The past couple days has been spent working on some gift packaging for a Polish vodka company. They were looking for a few different directions and one involved flourishes…you know what that means. Time to get out the pencils and paper. I wish I could show more, but we have to keep this one under wraps for a little bit.
Just got back from a long weekend of rest in the Dominican Republic. I traveled through the Island a bit from our resort to the local villages. Here are a few pictures displaying the tremendous difference of how the people really live on the Island compared to what you see in the resort areas. Also a picture of the awesome hand lettering typical of what you see all over the small towns.
Just playing around with some lettering options and colors for the Brooklyn Circus.
Just a little sneak peak at a project we’ve been working on for the Rich Yung Society. What you see here is a bit of reverse-engineering of the current logo. It will make sense, I promise.
We were intrigued today by something we saw in the somewhat daily email from The Lomographic Society, and were compelled to try it out to break the monotony of the projects we have been working on as of late. It is a Treatment Bath of salt and water used on (developed) negatives to give a somewhat unique look to them (link to try at home.) We decided to use a medium format negative shot with a Kiev Camera (Hasselblad knockoff.) Unfortunatly the end result wasn’t exactly what we expected and turned out to be an epic waste of time. (We ended up with just a dirty negative, oh well.) Hopefully you’ll have more luck. Before & after and process shots after the jump.
We just got a sample run in of these coffee mugs we designed inspired by German WWI propaganda posters. We have a few more products coming in the near future that will be featured in a new online boutique.
Go, man! Go!
Clients would be a lot more fun if they didn’t have guidelines and opinions!!! …haha. Gotta love having the opportunity to work with inks though! We got another shot of some of the lettering variations after the break.
Recently we were working on a project in which we were asked to use the font “Licious Script” by Baseline. Now if you know anything about us, you know that we absolutely LOVE working with type and lettering, so we’re up for any project that requires the creative usage of a font. The unfortunate side to this project is that Licious Script is by far one of the worst fonts I have ever seen. Forget about the technical aspects of tracking, kerning, leading, and the like…let’s focus more on the fact that it appears to have been run through Illustrator’s “live trace” function about ten times. How could a font be sold at such poor quality? If you examine the font a little bit more closely, you’re able to see exactly where the problems lie.
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