Our Wilco Calendar Design for 2013.
Wilco recently tapped us to help them design this year’s calendar. There were several attempts to create a photo mosaic out of every single poster from last year, but it never seemed to gel to a point where everything worked well together…maybe next year. The style that won out features a 17″ x 28″ hanging…
Read MoreNew Poster for Eric Church, “Lightning”.
A local hero around these parts, Eric Church had a recent concert in Columbia, SC, and we were asked to design the poster for the event. Eric wrote a song called “Lightning”, some of the lyrics go as follows: “They strap me in this chair I hope she forgives me For leavin’ her this way…
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…
Read MoreBefore and After with Wilco.
It’s interesting to see the rough thumbnails that eventually become actual printed merchandise. BEFORE: Here’s our pencil (very) rough thumbnail concept for Wilco‘s recent show poster at Big Sky Brewery in Montana: AFTER:…and here’s the finished art/design: Some background on the locale: Obvious ones, like Montana being known for “Big Skies”, we knew the sky…
Read MoreLogo Design On Kick Drum, Boom-Boom, Da-Boom.
Bands seem to like our logo design work enough to keep making these great kick drum stencils and prints. The latest is for our fave Dublin lads STAND.
Read MoreFirst Images of Album Gatefold Design for Everest!
We could not be happier to show the first vinyl record samples of the design we did for Everest! So nice to see it LARGE ON A VINYL RECORD SLEEVE (12″). Wow. The print work is really sharp and shows some nice details on the uncoated paper stock we opted to run this one on.…
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreFirst 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…
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 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…
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