JUDE DE MAYO

My youngest son one today. He was born on Cinco De Mayo. I'm working on his birthday poster. Check it.

Springfield Antique Show Finds

Found a couple of tasty type samples today at the antique show. Enjoy.

When God gives you lemons...

...find somebody who gots the sugar. These guys are amazing. It speaks a lot to delegation. In this case it's involuntary.

Hamlet Screen Print

If you're around Springfield you should come check out the Springfield Stageworks Production of Hamlet April 23-25, 30 or May 1+2. Should be really good. I design all of the promotions for Stageworks and designed this limited edition screen printed poster that will be available for sale at the show for a bargain basement price. There will only be 50 available signed and numbered by yours truly. The production will take place at the State Theatre here in Springfield. Which Coincidentally may be the new HQ of Hucklebuck. Hope to see you there.

Union Label Research

More tasty found type research for a current Hucklebuck project, this time Union labels.

Whisky Label Layouts

I've been doing some research for a project I have in the hopper. I grabbed these whiskey label layouts and thought I'd share. Really beautiful stuff!

Teddy Rux-pimp

Funny pics of clothing patterns for Teddy Ruxpin. Good for a smile on a snowy monday in April.

Ex Wex

I am a part of a unique fraternity of sorts that I like to call the Ex Wex. The Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, OH is one of the greatest institutions for all aspects of Art that we have in our state. I had the chance to intern there in 2000-2001 doing mostly film/Video promotions and so on. There are a select number of people who have all put their time in at the Wex and all are pretty amazing designers now in their own right. These are a few of my favorite pieces that I did during my time. Again, this was like 9 years ago. That's OS 9 yall - keepin it old skool

Uloric Ad Layouts

A few conceptual ad layouts I worked on during my time with GSW Worldwide. For Uloric, a Gout treatment. Try coming up with a good looking ad that has to advertise Gout treatment and include a little green submarine.

LOC find of the day - $50 Dollar Reward

Some more tasty type from the LOC (Library of Congress)

Moving History

Like many of you, I dread the idea of moving. Especially at this point in my life after amassing so much stuff. I have moved probaby 20-25 times so far. Many of them cross town moves when I was a child. I put this little image together to track my main living places over the past 30 years.

Meeting Chip Kidd

While my former business partner and I were kickin it back in the day with the Former Factory Design Co™, we had the opportunity to meet Chip Kidd in his office in Manhattan. Great guy. We had just come off of the Express Hang Tag project which Chip had also been comissioned. We met him the night before at the artist reception party and he invited us to drop by. Old pic, this was back in 03.

Impending Hucklebuck Font Studio

I am working on a type design co., once the name and branding are done I'll post the site. For now here is my latest type creation. The font studio will focus on the extraction of existing typography from our environment and extending the found characters into a True Type display alphabet. This first sample was extracted from this page that I found in an old model airplane magazine. The characters are a bit familiar, but truly unique and totally vintage.

I haven't made an actual True type font from these yet, but to download the vector set of these characters control click here

LOC finds of the week

Some new sweet finds from the LOC. The death dust pages are particularly amazing.

Cloth Alphabet Book

Found this beauty at the local Antique mall a while back. It's an antique cloth ABC book for children. Pretty rad type prints in here with some great illustrations. Enjoy

Growing Pains

What do you say here but amazing.

Westcott Poster Inspiration

The students who developed the plans that will be on display for the exhibit drew inspiration from Friedrich Fröbel, the man who developed many of the learning tools we use now for young children and the inventor of Kindergarten. One of his main learning crafts was to use paper weaving to develop creativity and problem solving. Here are a few of the images I pulled for reference. These lead me into the idea of representing paper waeving with the title typography for the event. As shown below. The architectural elements relate to the development plans done by the students.

ID and Registration Please

I was pulling some reference for a passport themed design a few years back and found a bunch of great ID scans. So many different ideas of how to construct a form and all of the different elements are really interesting.

Gettin' the LED out

Heart of the Heartland iphone Wallpapers

The first set of Hucklebuck iphone wallpapers. Comin at ya straight from the heart of the heartland.