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One of my friends recently asked me to design a label for a beer that he just brewed for his school’s beer club competition. The name comes from a combination of Point Break combined with his friends’ slang term for beers. I tried to design the logo so that it can transition over to other brews. I see a White Ale, an Amber Ale, maybe even a Winter Ale in the future…
This interview was just posted today on the Design*Sponge guest blog- fitting, since I only just discovered Yee-Haw. The photos of the shop look so interesting and it looks like they have an awesome type foundry! It would be really cool to see their studio in person. I will definitely have to see what I can pursue in the area of printmaking; it’s something I’d like to try my hand at, even if I have to rig up my own little print studio or revert back to lino-cuts.
Lately, I’ve become somewhat enticed by letterpress and printmaking. I think it’s something that I would like to look into in grad school and maybe carry into my career. At my school interview, they said that they have a new printmaking studio, but no one ever has time to use it (hmmm… well I’d at least like to check it out before the craziness begins).
The only printmaking I’ve ever done was in high school with linoleum blocks, but I really enjoyed it. (Interesting, given my later summer stint at the Speedball factory.)
I was googling letterpress looking for some companies that work in the field and hoping to find some artwork for my future home office, when I ran across Yee-Haw Industries. I really like their prints- so many of them, in fact, that I can’t decide which one I want to purchase.
I’ll be moving back home to NC in a few weeks and I’ve been doing some serious internet “window shopping” for weeks now. One thing I’ll need once I’m settled in is some flatware- the set I use now belongs to my roommate. After browsing the internet, I decided to go check out some silverware in person and took a trip to the Chinatown Bed, Bath and Beyond. I had already settled on a brushed, matte finish and wanted a more modern handle. When I saw the Meridian set (made by Robert Welch, but a cheaper version), I really liked their look- that is until my eyes fell on the shape of the spoon.
In the half hour that I stood at BB&B staring at the wall of flatware, I kept coming back to Meridian, thousands of questions flying through my head about (what I previously thought was) the simple spoon. As it is not clearly visible in the picture, I can only describe the shape of the head of the spoon as “whomp-head”. Now, one of the things I like about a spoon is it’s tip- it’s great for eating ice cream in small bites or sipping soup. Alas, these spoons have no tip, but they had everything else I’m looking for. Oh how I wish you could test a spoon out in the store, just to see if you would actually like eating your cheerios out of it.
I ultimately decided that I would keep looking for my flatware, but I did have quite a time weighing the finer points of, what I’ve now concluded, is the most important utensil. I now know that the design of a spoon could kill an entire meal and I just can’t risk it…
