Graphic Arts
I’m not sure I have an identifiable design aesthetic. Some of what I do is inspired, some miscellaneous, some serve a client, a brand, or work as a user interface or user experience element. Most of my work is a playful combination of photography, graphic design and vector graphics. All of it is fun to create.
Beer Labels
My wife and I have been brewing beer since 1995. Our first labels were created with a now extinct application called SuperPaint before moving on to Photoshop. The question is always – which will turn out better the label or the actual beer!
XIPA
Description.
The XIPA is our eXperimental IPA as we try different recipes to brew the perfect IPA. Each version of this beer is different and the label has a different “chalk” date and saying each time we brew. I don’t know what possessed me to use my photo of a rusty tank and set of tire hubs for a beer label. It was probably because I wanted to emphasize how fresh and clean our beer is. In any case the background is from a photo of mine to which I’ve applied a bit of Photoshop posterize filter. I’ve taken our K&D logo and created a metal version of it that I was able to merge (weld?) into the tank itself. And of course the Chalkduster font is the perfect font to cap off the whole effect.
The “K&D” logo appears on all our beer labels. I created it based on an old photograph of Daine and I in front of one of Diane’s quilts.
Information.
- Title : XIPA
- Style : Experimental India Pale Ale (IPA)
- Main Font : Chalkduster
- Medium : Graphic Design, Photography, Photoshop