Design
Upcoming Album Design Work for Everest’s “Ownerless”!
Here’s Everest‘s new website hero page, revealing the cover for Ownerless, their fantastic new album you should most definitely pre-order. Wait till you see the inside…GATEFOLD VINYL.
Read MorePosters 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…
Read MoreWorking 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…
Read MoreLots 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…
Read MoreAppreciate 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,…
Read MoreSaul 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…
Read MoreMade in America: Our House Furniture Design
We recently finished a 126 page print catalog for Our House Designs, Inc., a furniture company based in the foothills of North Carolina. During the process of working on the project, which included on location photo shoots, interviews with employees and research, we really appreciated how special this type of company is these days: “Made…
Read MoreArt Print Concept // Paul Rand Quote
Kinda love this quote from the well known graphic designer Paul Rand. So much so that I think it will make a great art print…what do you think? You can read our entry about the now infamous story here. Here’s what we’re thinking: Two color print: White ink // Silver Metallic ink on French Paper…
Read MoreThe Band of Heathens Print and Poster Design
From Austin, Texas comes The Band of Heathens. The guys contacted us to produce a tour poster design and screen print, as well as a digital version for use as a limited online release EP cover (see images below). Great print run again from our friends over at The Half & Half. We used the…
Read More“I will solve your problem and you will pay me.”
– Paul Rand I recently finished the Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson, and besides being an insightful look into the man, it’s full of really interesting stories relating directly to advertising and design. Classics like the “Think Different” campaign are in there, the story behind the best Super Bowl commercial ever, “1984”, and Jobs…
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