Communication Arts
Tools of the Trade…
Here’s a little preview from a photo shoot we did with Darin Back recently. Darin has shot a lot of photos of a lot of things, many of which are people, like Paul Westerburg (best known as the lead singer, guitarist and songwriter in The Replacements), Charlie Mars, Mark Olson (one of the founding members…
Read MoreMake Your Best Work Available, Because…
Because “You never know”… If you make your creative work available, there’s a chance somebody out there may just dig it. That’s what happened with some images we shot in New York City earlier this year that caught the eye of one of our favorite design blogs, ‘Design Taxi‘, TAXI is the global creative network…
Read MoreMassimo Vignelli, Design Hero.
Our homage to one of the greats in the craft of graphic design…Massimo Vignelli died today at 83. “Inspiration Never Dies” is our nod, the rest are quotes of Mr. Vignelli’s. // Click on each image to enlarge // @Pfahlert Creative Labs, 2014
Read MorePerhaps the Largest Art Gallery
The famously anonymous British graffiti artist, Banksy, caused quite a sensation this October by using NYC itself as a canvas, daily creating pop-up street art in various locations around the boroughs with zealous fans and curious onlookers practically stampeding to catch a glimpse of, photograph, and yes actually deface, the latest work. His site www.banksyny.com…
Read MoreAkua Line of Inks Rebranding Complete.
We can finally show you some of the process from the rebrand project for Speedball Art Products. Akua® inks are professional quality, water-based inks created by two professional printmakers who were motivated to create safe, fume free inks. Once the unique product line was purchased by Speedball, it needed a major upgrade from where the…
Read More10 Year Anniversary Goes to 10 States…and Worldwide.
This year marks our 10th year in business! As a small token of our appreciation, we sent out a bunch of little packets full of some goodies, including a free USB drive, some sweet new mini-business cards with 10 different background images (details taken from several design projects) and HUGE thank YOU to our clients.…
Read More…And The Professors Project.
Here’s a great clip from the recording sessions for And The Professors upcoming album “Postmortem”. This is one very unique band that describes their music as “Orchestral Pop Rock. We were hired to help shape the band’s album art + design and were fortunate to get to hear the album as we worked on it. Keep…
Read MorePoster Design for The National – Fillmore Performance
The National is a pretty impressive band. We were excited to finally see them live, and since we like The Fillmore in Charlotte, we opted to do a special edition ‘venue-only’ (and gift to the band) edition of posters to commemorate the special event. These were printed by Ink Floyd on super nice black stock,…
Read MoreVinyl, Vinyl, Vinyl…and Owls.
In case we haven’t made it clear, The Silent P loves designing vinyl albums for music clients. How fortunate we are to be doing music industry related design work when people have come back strong for the warm quality of VINYL. Here’s our latest effort: Album design for the band Autumn Owls. These guys were…
Read MoreNew Album Design for Brad Sucks, Who Most Definitely Does Not Suck.
Bradsucks, aka one-man band Brad Turcotte from Ottawa, Ontario hired us to help him complete his album design for the latest release “Guess Who’s a Mess”. Think Beck meets Moby, and bumps into Folk Impossion on the way to hang out with good friends. We enjoyed working along with him on this design, go grab…
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