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French Paper Sample Room

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

Image from The French Paper Sample Room

French Paper is a cool company (and one of the oldest in the country) that manufactures different paper in the US using 100% Hydroelectric power… They have a really cool selection of patterned papers, and a diverse selection of other paper products for just about any kind of print job you could imagine.

The French Paper Sample Room is a curated Blog that features some super-awesome design and high-quality printing using French Paper paper. There is a fair bit of letterpress and silkscreen printing featured on the site, which is really awesome to see (anything creative AND hands on is good stuff if you ask me) Having lived in Kansas City and being able to see the awesome potential of letterpress printing (notably from the creative engine that is Hammerpress) it’s inspiring to see people from all over getting so creative.

Tags: letterpress, Links, paper, print resources
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Home Sweet Home

Friday, May 14th, 2010

Was browsing the interwebs last night and came upon Home Sweet Home, a wonderful blog about living spaces. All of the content is submitted by users, and there is some great design involved. I would give up (metaphorically of course) some body bits to live in some of these places. The best part is that there is a tonne of DIY taking place. Sure there’s some nice furniture but most of the beauty involves re-purposing found items, and finding interesting ways to make use of limited space.

Image Via Home Sweet Home

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Carolina Skateboarding… A Logo

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

So the brief for this was; “Create a memorable logo, kind of like the Wu ‘W’ or the Rocca Wear ‘R’ “. A tall order, meant mainly for a blog/website, but simple and easily translated into one color Tee/sticker printing.

First some process, starting with hand-lettering, and then moving to the digital conception. When I first start with the hand-lettering I like to play with letter forms really freely to see if anything pops up that’s exceptional.

Moving to digital (in this case, straight to Adobe Illustrator), we’re looking for clean lines, or clear intent at least. If the lines are going to be rough anywhere they need to be rough for a reason. I stick with black and white in this stage of things to emphasize contrast and play with negative space and the balance of the different letter-forms.

And down to it, come up with this beauty. I was really stoked with the subtle play on dimensionality, what tricks your eye, like the facets of a pyramid or a steep bank-wall (obstacles that you might skateboard upon, for the uninitiated).

So what about skateboarding in the NC? It’s kind of a big deal. Wilmington is home to Eastern Skateboard Supply, one of the largest Skate/Surf distributors in the country. Check out the links below for your perusing pleasure…

Tags: Branding, branding and Identity, Logo, logo design, North Carolina, Skateboarding, Web Marketing
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