Just arrived home from sunny Florida! We spent the weekend on Amelia Island, holding down a booth at the 49th Annual Shrimp Festival.
We had a wonderful weekend surrounded by fellow artists and some of our family members, who conveniently happened to live in the area. Inspiration and Love… doesn’t get much better than that.
Art show season is in full swing. This year we’ve decided to drive ourselves mad by booking two of our biggest shows on back to back weekends. Our first appearance will be in Fernandina Beach, FL at the Shrimp Festival We hit the road this Friday!
Beach themed decor for the locals…
Bring on the open road – this will be the longest we have traveled for any (art) show.
One of these days we’ll have to create our own Etsy treasury. But until then…. we are oh-so-delighted to have our products featured in everyone else’s.
“Eco friendly and stylin’!” featuring our Custom Typography
“Etsy Iron Works Industry” featuring our Custom House Numbers
“Spell it Out” featuring our Custom Typography
“Tennessee Love!” featuring our Stately Coat Hanger
And lastly, in honor of tax season…. a treasury featuring our Custom Typography.
Read MoreLast weekend we took a day trip over to Chattanooga to deliver a set of our cantilever bar stools. Our customer had just recently renovated her kitchen with gray tones. Our metal stools were the perfect complement to the room’s relaxing color palette.
So many amazing creative collaborations have taken place since our last post. Here are a few highlights from the past month that include both Drop Metal and Farm endeavors…
We got a new puppy!! Her name is Willow – aka – Little Terror.
Willow settled right in as project manager; ensuring that supplies are ordered and deadlines are met.
Signage for Asbury UMC in Madison, AL – this signage incorporated both metal and barn wood that we rescued from an old barn down the road.
Oodles of new apartment number plates for our friends at Urban Village Development in Omaha, NE. These in particular will adorn The Selma, The Unitah, and The Portland.
We also took on the challenge of photographing the amazing jewelry designs of Connie Ulrich, in preparation for her appearance at the 2012 Smithsonian Craft Show.
Our creative collaborations with historical fiction writer Erich Stefanovich proved to be most fruitful. Together we created a customized entry sign for his farm, and a multi-purpose desk / storage space.
Last, but certainly not least, we became official alpaca farmers! We now have 5 lady alpacas, 1 male, and a guard llama. Soon we will add 3 more boys to the herd.
Cheers to a productive month!
Read MoreWe’re currently working on two very large apartment number and signage projects. These collaborations have allowed us to examine numbers like never before, and to appreciate particular fonts for their “ease of merging” characteristics. (I have come a long way from using papyrus on my website.) In honor of these new challenges, we have designed several number plate options for further household number orders. We are going to try our best to move away from individual house numbers, and move towards these number plates. They’re much more fun to design, and there are literally hundreds of combinations. We’re ready for a change, so we’ve spiced up our “bread and butter” house numbers and will soon be offering number plates instead. Get ‘em while they’re hot!
Here are the work-in-progress layouts, along with some information about each option. We’re going to officially launch this on our website soon, but wanted to throw it out there to see what everyone thought first. P.S. Information Designers: Layout will change. Suggestions are encouraged.
Since designing this little synopsis of options, we have already come up with a few more to add to this list… but we feel these three are a good starting point.
Plate design options are limitless. These are just the beginning.
Here are a few links that showcase Urban Village Development’s effort to revitalize buildings in Omaha. We’re delighted to be collaborating with them on the apartment renovations.
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Although we have been blessed with a severely mild Winter, we are highly anticipating Spring. It looks like we aren’t the only ones who feel this way.
Thanks much to Nadin Art Design for including our Beyond Neptune Series sculpture in this Treasury Listing!
It’s finally out! We made a special trip into town just to make sure that our typography had actually made it into the Spring 2012 edition of Martha Stewart Wedding Magazine …. much to our surprise there were several pages that included our rustic metal typography as a backdrop to the lovely assortment of stationery. Check it out!
A big thanks to Cassidy Iwersen for being such a pleasure to work with.
Read MoreRecently we had the honor of designing and fabricating the 2012 Addy Awards.
“The ADDY® Awards represent the true spirit of creative excellence by recognizing all forms of advertising from media of all types, creative by all sizes and entrants of all levels from anywhere in the world.”
(taken from their website)
We also provided the table decorations for the award ceremony. These vases will be part of our Spring product line, which will soon be available on our Etsy page.
The award ceremony will be featured in The Huntsville Times and Event Magazine.
Details coming soon!
Read MoreThroughout the years, Craigslist has found us jobs, places to live, concert tickets, and now… an awesome truck and flat bottom boat. Last week we traded the VW Golf for this awesome teal machine… and the guy threw in the flat bottom boat to seal the deal. Not too shabby.
Now, we’ve got a vehicle of our own to take to shows. Let’s just hope she makes it to Florida!
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