Design
Unpublished.
There are times during the course of a creative project where you end up with lots of unpublished and unused designs that sadly never see the light of day. Quite some time ago we were approached by a client to produce some album art for a recording artist that was on their roster. After getting…
Read MoreOne Month Left for “All Access”!
Just a brief note to mention to people in the Western NC area that our poster show “All Access” presently showing at the Hickory Museum of Art is up for only one more month (show ends January 5th). Hope you get a chance to pop in and experience this hidden gem of a museum that…
Read MoreThe Making of an Album Cover
We wanted to share with you some of the creative process and behind-the-scenes work that goes into creating an album cover design, this one was for one our faves, Farewell Milwaukee, who just released “Can’t Please You, Can’t Please Me (get it here!). The band had a fairly tight concept for this one, so we…
Read MoreLong Lost Wilco Towel from Japan
Finally saw the special towel print we did for Wilco’s Japan tour, hard item to find! Japanese have the custom of carrying your own personal hand towel everywhere you go. It’s considered good manners to have your hand towel when you’re out. Read more about this interesting trend here, and check out the Wilco towel…
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 MorePosters in NBC’s Upcoming Medical Drama
Just look at all those sexy doctors! We got a email recently asking for approval to use a poster of ours in an upcoming medical drama show on NBC called “The Night Shift”. The show is set in New Mexico (worked well for Breaking Bad!), apparently one of the doctors in the show is a Wilco…
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 MoreHey, Looky Here: The Silent P’s Pfoto Contest!
We are having a photo contest peeps, hope you can join us. Here’s the deal: We are giving away our “Vinyl is Killing the MP3” T-shirt to 3 fortunate winners! The contest theme is “Vinyl is Killing” so get creative! Step 1 – Make sure to follow or Like us at one or more of…
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…
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