Grey Bird Design

Here's a recent logo I made for a super cool friend of mine in South Africa. It was a nice time working on this logo. A fan of my work, he wanted to leave the design up to me. To get my inspiration flowing, he told me he was a big fan of traditional archery and printmaking, and I already knew that he was a fan of my hand lettering, specifically my "Thank Ya Kindly" design.

Combining the feel of the cursive-hand-written-script style of 'Thank Ya Kindly", printmaking, and archery, plus the name "Grey Bird Design", produced the logo below. Lots of fun.

I also wanted to provide a black and white version of the logo. This will come in handy any time he needs to print one-color, or make a water mark or engraving.

Here is sort of a primitive step-by-step process of how I came about drawing and designing the type for the logo. First step is a pencil sketch, second step is inking the type by hand, third is making a vector drawing of the type in Illustrator, and finally sprucing it up in Photoshop.

And finally, here is look into the process of making the wee bird:

Thank You Card Type

Recently, I was commissioned by Natalie Slater to design some hand lettering for a thank you card she plans on giving to those who have helped with her upcoming gallery show in April. We will also be selling the thank you cards at the show, so if you are in the area you can pick one up! I've talked a lot about Natalie's show, Mother Road Revisited, in previous posts, but if you are unfamiliar with the project, make sure to follow the link to the website for info. You can attend the show opening in Tulsa, Oklahoma on April 5th!

Below is the type as it is now digitally, though for the actual final cards it will be letterpressed.

Behind the scenes special feature: