Graphic Design
Win a Free Wilcanoe Poster!
Over at our Instagram feed, we are GIVING AWAY one FREE limited edition screen print of our “Wilcanoe” poster created for Wilco. Contest rules: Show us your coloring skills by posting your color version of our page out of the brand new @wilco coloring book (available in the Wilco Store) – Tag us and two…
Read MoreBigfoot news: Sasquatch Seen On Local Trails
We love us some design, some outdoors, some music & mountain biking. Not necessarily in that order. It’s part of why we started our outdoor creative brand CRANK goods – (shameless plug). We came up with these fun, new illustrations and designs in hopes to raise awareness (and money for the trails) for Lake Hickory…
Read MoreThe Shins Go Old School
Here at The Silent P we are big fans of still doing things by hand when we are able, which with client deadlines and expectations is quite a challenge to fit into the present atmosphere that is the graphic design world. One of our favorite bands, The Shins has fittingly released one of our favorite…
Read More“Sky Has Spoken” Artcrank Poster Now Available.
We are thrilled to be a small part of the great collection of bike-centric screen printed posters over at Artcrank! As Artcrank’s site explains: “ARTCRANK® is a poster show about bicycles — a show that’s always open here on the Internet, and occasionally pops up in the real world as well. We make art as…
Read MoreSolid Sound Festival Branding, Behind the Scenes.
When Wilco was first starting the now-well loved and respected Solid Sound Festival back in 2009/2010, we were asked to do some initial concepts for how this unique festival could be branded and presented to the public. The gallery below shows some of the process we experimented with, from pencil roughs all the way to…
Read MoreWilco Has a New Ride, “The Detroit Arrow”
It’s always a pleasure to work with Wilco and management on creative projects. In this particular case we wanted something bike-centric because… well, because bikes are awesome. A study conducted back in 2007 showed that exercise boosts brainpower and that cycling is also great for your heart, helps lose fat, helps prevent cancer, reduces stress,…
Read MoreWinner – Print Magazine’s Regional Design Annual: East Coast
Print Magazine announced winners in the 2016 Regional Design Awards Winners from the East. Wilco’s book has been selected as a winner of the 2016 Print Magazine Regional Design Annual.”Beyond the Fleeting Moment: Wilco Concert Posters 2004–2014″. According to Print Mag’s site, “The Regional Design Awards is America’s preeminent design competition.” We can’t claim credit…
Read MoreThe Wilco Album You’ve Never Heard Of.
Before Wilco’s great 2011 album had the name “The Whole Love”, it had a completely different working title…”Get Well Soon Everybody”. I know this because we were asked to submit some concepts for the album in the early stages of the as-yet announced release. Kept under wraps for obvious reasons since 2011, we think it’s…
Read MoreA Family History Book That Reads Like a Thriller
Excerpted from lifeinhighres.com Michael Simon is President and CEO of Harry Fox Agency, the nation’s leading provider of rights management solutions for the music industry. He is also a dogged researcher who left no stone unturned to pull together the family histories of his in-laws, David and Lili Khabie, Syrian Jews who first emigrated to…
Read MoreRejected Logo, Hey – Go Find Yourself a Home.
Every designer has at some point thought: “Man, I could totally improve so-and-so’s logo SO much!” Sometimes that desire leaves the creative little choice but to go ahead and create their own version of the new logo and branding out of a desire typically born from appreciating what the company or brand is doing (or…
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