Just out … I revisited the hand-drawn type from what used to be Elizabeth Boyd’s “Dish” logo. I’m aiming for an eclectic, funky, deco feel from the custom type treatment. Check out the inspirational vintage deco ashtray.
Fresh off the drawing board, the new summer league design. If you’re in Memphis this summer, come out and play.
Harvey Kay, in the post he made on Friday said, “I would like to see the strife and struggle that Memphis has had to face.” That got me thinking about alot of things, the most interesting to me being the idea of human struggle, more specifically, wrestling. Harvey said he was disappointed in the current Seal of the City of Memphis, because it lacks any representation of that strife and struggle associated with our city. That raises the question, what would give our seal more of that? I think the concept of wrestling is an idea worth discussion.
Wrestling is interesting to me because of the primitive, humanistic quality of it and more than that, the tension and symbiosis intrinsic to the struggle. It takes two to wrestle, and each one’s move is determined by the move of the other. It’s a “get to know you” kind of thing, a flesh-on-flesh working out of different forces, a “with you” activity. A final conclusion is always met. But the process of getting there is a dance … powerful, beautiful at times and ugly at times, tense and confusing and full of raw energy.
Kinda reminds me of a city I know.
Definitely reminds me of the city I want to live in.
My daughter.
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It just didn’t seem right in graphite.
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This sketch is dedicated to Jon.
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Just for fun. Here are several different explorations of the Greek god Mercury, sketched during the brand identity development process for Mercury Investment Properties.
Check out the finished product.
Calamari anyone?!?
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Here’s a working brand identity for the Memphis Ultimate Disc Alliance.
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The image on left, as opposed to this, is an academic crest we’ve recently finished. It’s part of a brand identity being created for a new School in Greenwood, Mississippi. The typeface and flourishes are based on the works of American master typographer Frederic W. Goudy.
We’d like to take this opportunity to wish Redeemer Classical School the very best in all their future endeavors.
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