mark and adam over at steel city pizza are just about ready to invite you in to enjoy some fine pizzas and more. we are proud to have been contracted to create their identity from start to finish. within their identity we created various marks to get this brand on the right foot. as things progress, i will post more pics of this project. the pizza is good fer sure.

on a recent trip down I95 i stopped to fuel up at a very interesting gas station/store/everything and inside they had a whole rack of these vintage travels stickers. ten cents each! i got a bunch. they are cool. i din’t realize maine was the pine tree state. this ones for you p-frank.

huge barn jam on wed. perfect evening for some fine fine tunes. live music folks. get in the car. go. starts at 6. no excuses.

tonight at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art is the opening of Aggie Zed – Keeper’s Keep. An amazing artist, Aggie grew up on Sullivan’s Island and produces work that is beautiful, intriguing, unusual and thought provoking. we are proud to have been asked to design the book/catalog for the show by our good friend mark sloan, director of the halsey. At 110 pages, this book showcases aggies work from painting to sculpture. please try to make the opening, but if not, the show will be up for a while. check out the video. music by bill carson and directed by john reynolds. don’t miss it!

take a bus, a car, a bike, a tractor, a lawnmower, a 4 wheeler, a snowmobile, a motorcycle, a skateboard, a skooter, a friends car, a taxi, a camel, a segway, a hoverboard, anything. just get out there. rawk.

this is a video about my friend, alex collier. produced by the cool kats at lunch and recess, great little doc about what alex does on the side. very cool, very sweet. awesome.

art by quashie

iIt’s 7am, icelandic time and i have been in my little room at Oddi 24hrs now. pulled an allnighter. we had 18 more forms to finish so Oddi brought in another pressman to work through the night, Sven, and he did a great job. a ittle adjustment here and there but basically right on. my plane leaves today at 5pm so i will see the final forms this morning when Ingi comes in. below is a beautiful photo of reykjavik by my friend grimur kolbeinsson (a fellow golfer, photographer and Oddi man) and a sample of the hardcover of the book. i probably won’t post again until next week(unless something interesting on my travels home pops up). the icelandic people i have met this time and the old friends(thank you diana and marteinn) from before have always been gracious, fun, open and willing to laugh at a southern boys jokes(maybe it’ just the accent). so lets give the icelandic toast:

Our land of lakes forever fair
below blue mountain summits,
of swans, of salmon leaping where
the silver water plummets,
of glaciers swelling broad and bare
above earth’s fiery sinews —
the Lord pour out his largess there
as long as earth continues!

cheers everybody, see you soon. g

photo by Grimur Kolbeinsson ©2011

well it’s day 4 here in iceland and the project is going swell. had a break yesterday and was able to leave a little early, 8pm. tonight is a different story. looks like i will be proofing past 1am or so. but we have got to get it finished and get it right. my flight leaves tomorrow (friday) at 5 so i will be in here bright and early tomorrow morning to see the final forms. the folks here are extremely accomodating and rival the irish for friendliness and hospitality. as they say in iceland, “a man without a book is blind.”

The fine folks here at Oddi Printing in reykjavik, felt i was spending too much time press checking so they set up a northern lights tour for me last night. Superjeeps.is picked me up from oddi at 8pm and with 5 other compadres, two from london and three from australia, we proceeded to go search for the northern lights. after about 40 kilometers into the frozen tundra we stopped and searched he skies. nothing. we proceeded to move and search, move and search. around 12:15am everyone decided that it wasn’t going to happen and we headed back toward reykjavik. 10 minutes into our return, our lead jeep stopped and everyone looked north. dancing on the horizon was the famed aurora borealis! everyone exited the jeeps to get a better view. below are a few of the photos i took with no tripod.(hand held, very slow speed, very high iso) the bottom pic is of me (cold) taken on a tripod by our guide ingi. he said, “stand there. don’t move.” pretty freakin cool. we arrived back at the hotel around 2:30am. back on press at 8am this morning. it’s gonna be a long day. i can sleep when i’m dead.