Messy is Good.

We were inspired to revisit making art with a xerox machine and a scanner. Here’s how you can too: Step 1. Print typography (or image) in black. Step 2. Open copy machine cover (or scanner bed) and as the scanner or copy machine is in the process of making the copy, move your print all…

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The Great American T-Shirt.

We have printed some fun graphic tees for your pleasure here. For your viewing pleasure, check out some of these beautiful photos taken by Eckard Photographic, these guys kill it! You too could potentially look THIS good in our new t-shirts…think about it.

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First Views of Everest’s New Album Print: Thanks ATO!

We just got a goodie package from our pals over at ATO records chock full of print samples for Everest‘s new release “Ownerless”. We worked on some poster designs, some postcard designs and of course, the CD package/album design. Oranges and deep reds, yeah buddy. More details to come…

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New Brewery Gets New Look.

We just finished working with the great folks over at Howard Brewing on their new brand identity and logo design. Check out their Facebook site redux (first look at logo etc) and look for their very own website coming soon! We’ll be helping with a ton of fun beer related items for these guys coming…

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Posters Featured in Wilco’s New iPad Book.

Wilco just released a new free e-book called The Incredible Shrinking Tour of Chicago that includes images of our poster series we created along with D.R. Sapperstein. It’s available exclusively through the iBookstore for iPad via the band’s own dBpm Records. The images of our poster series can be expanded for more detailed viewing. As you’d…

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Working it. (THIS IS A CONTEST TO WIN A FREE POSTER)

© Eckard Photographic 2012 In the last month or two we have been fortunate to be asked to create and design five different albums for musicians we highly respect and admire. We can’t wait to show you all the print and design details once we start to get these samples shipped to us and photograph…

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Lots of Work, Little of Blog.

The Silent P has been… a bit TOO silent. The reason for the lack of updates is a great one though: WE ARE BUSIER THAN A ONE-ARMED MAN AT A HIGH FIVING CONTEST (clap sounds). So, to bring you up to speed (of sorts), here’s a partial list of some of the projects that have…

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Appreciate the Process.

Bit of a re-post here: Highly recommend this video of the making of Gilian Welch’s latest release “The Harrow & The Harvest”. You really appreciate the work & process involved in making something unique and special. Let’s repeat that: You really appreciate the work & process involved in making something unique and special. Windmill presses, Ink,…

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Saul Bass Tells It Like It Is.

Short and (bitter)sweet this week: We lost an account that we were pitching… An account that we as a team (we partnered with another firm we love) really wanted and had a great feeling about. The project went elsewhere, and of course we feel like the decision was not in the best interest of the…

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