Letterpress Wedding Invitation

Don't you just love the look of letterpress!?! I think it is my favorite printing style. This spring I was able to create this invitation for a lovely young bride.

The mother of the bride wanted a little flourish to adorn the return address. I got a little carried away but she loved it.

To create the flourish, I drew half of the design with a pointed nib and sumi ink on white paper. I scanned this into Adobe Illustrator, cleaned up the image, and then mirrored it.

Pointed pen sketch

Finished flourish

The names on the invitation were also scanned and imported into Adobe Photoshop, where the remaining wording of the invitation had been arranged.

Detail of names.

Three P's In A Pod Shop Logo

Three P's In A Pod

shop logo came together quite easily.

That doesn't happen often, but I love it when it does.

The first sketch was brought into Illustrator, cleaned up and vectorized.

Slant and curvature of the lettering was modified as well.

Then the shadows and embossing was added in Photoshop.

And voila! Shop logo.

Original sketch was written with sumi ink and Hero #40 Pumpkin nib.

Final Trachouse Logo

This is the final version of the Trachouse logo. 

Some of the preliminary ideas were shown in an earlier post here.

But this idea was the look that the client wanted.

In addition to the logo, the client also needed designs for four of the guitar pedals. 

The design needed to be edgy and a little funky, so a graffiti look was selected. 

Below are the four pedal names.

These were fully created in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop using a Wacom tablet. 

It was a great change of pace to play outside the box and create something with a different medium and a different look.

And here are three of the four pedals at their final stage.

If you are a guitar player or know a guitar player, check out the Trachouse website. 

David Aucoin makes a great product. 

Trachouse Logo Sketches

Recently, I have been working on a logo and artwork project for Trachouse.com. They will be launching the new look of their guitar pedals sometime in June 2011.  David Aucoin is a very talented musician and creates some of the best guitar pedals on the market.

Below are some of the early conceptual sketches.

These were then imported into illustrator and cleaned up slightly.

From here the client and I can talk about which look is heading toward their vision. 

The logo that was chosen is not shown here so as not to spoil the launching of their new look.