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Vintage Inspiration

We’ve been experimenting with designs inspired by vintage packaging and typography. Over the last few months we’ve collected images from around the web. Aside from the excellent resource Grain Edit, which profiles both modern, vintage inspired, design well as actual vintage design, The Product Manual Archive, as well as Flickr are great resources. Below are a few of the jewels that we’ve come across.

Found on Product Manual Archive

I love the patina that forms on some of these items over the years, the wear and tear almost become design elements themselves.

More inspiration lies behind the cut.

Paloma Chavez

High fives to Paloma Chavez. She’s a poster artist who’s screenprinting some gorgeous stuff out of Milwaukee. Be sure to check out the detail shots behind the cut.

More posters + detail shots from Paloma Chavez…

Interview: KeeganMeegan

We found out about KeeganMeegan Letterpress & Bindery on our honeymoon in Portland a year and a half ago. After picking up a postcard for an art show at Em Space Book Arts Center, we were lucky enough to find Keegan Wenkman working in his space there. He was very nice and patient with the two of us rubbernecks as we watched him print some posters on a Vandercook.

Keegan and his partner Katy Meegan have been designing and printing together since 2007. The pair has amassed an impressive amount of knowledge and equipment about printmaking and bookmaking. If they can raise the money, (and you can help!) they’re hoping to use their expertise to save an incredibly rare C&P cylinder press bound for scrap. Ever since we first happened upon them, they’ve been a huge inspiration to us, and we’re super excited that they agreed to do an interview.

READ THE INTERVIEW with KeeganMeegan

Connor Hoskings aka CRUSADES

Connor Hoskings, a.k.a. CRUSADES is a designer out of London. His collages and logo designs are excellent, but I think his experimentation with hand drawn type is the most inspiring. You can see more of his calligraphy and graffiti-esque lettering on Flickr.

More work by Connor Hoskings…

A Couple of Questions for HAM

Well, this is it. Dylan Haigh and Kristy Martino are the last couple in our interview series. Luckily, they’ve got their hands in enough projects to keep you hopping all over the internets for quite a while. OK Great is where Dylan and Kristy began blogging, and still do. After a while, a couple of the OK Great kids started their own blogs, including Dylan’s Hard Feelings. There, he somehow unearths about 47 amazing, unheard of artists every single day. Then, in a passive aggressive attempt to get Kristy to take pictures again, Dylan bought her a camera and built her a photo blog called Nothing Nice.

In addition to her fashion photography skills learned at FIT, Kristy is a killer writer. And Dylan is like an unstoppable steamroller of creativity. It’s fitting that the two chose a meat cleaver for their logo for HAM, or Haigh and Martino. HAM is a brand new creative shop that allows them to put all of their many talents to great use, together. The amount of work they’ve done while HAM is still in its infancy is astounding.

READ MORE: Haigh and Martino answer our last Couple of Questions…

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