Back Dat Bass Up Sons!
So it’s been a few weeks and we’ve finally recovered from Orlando Creative’s First Annual Fishing Tournament…
It was an amazing dusk till dawn affair chock full of wicked sunburns, great logo design, row boats littering creative spaces, and an all around great excuse to work outside… Ever screen print t-shirts on a loading dock before?
Two-man/woman boats. No motors. 2 paddles and 4 lakes. Catch and release. It was a dusk to dawn affair that we co-hosted with the oh so rad Fiction.
As is it was a gathering for/by creatives – we had to have a stellar logo. If the logo caught your eye, know that it was illustrated by the super rad Brian Boesch of Itchy Illustration. Type treatment by our very own Austin Petito.
Brian takes up residence at the sauce in his very own cubicle. You know all of the Colt 45 you drink? Yeah, he did the mustang rearing up on the side of that ice cold can of goodness. No big deal.
Next years tourney promises to be even bigger and much badder. If you’re an Orlando creative – make sure you’re on our list to get the invite. Perhaps the best way would be to befriend the tourney on Facebook.
Keep Fishin’
The Sauce Boss.
The Poster Cause Project
A few months ago a guy named Anthony contacted us about full color poster rates for a website that uses limited poster releases to raise money for assorted charities. Using the arts for good. Well, the designs started coming in from Anthony and we printed them… And, it seems that it was a hit.
The Poster Cause Project is it’s name, and it’s the newest, greatest place to shop for your wall art. It’s super easy shop and just as easy to see just how well each poster does by it’s respective beneficiary.
As far as I know, we’re their official printer, and we couldn’t be more proud to take part in what they do.
Take some time to see just what it is that they do.
To screen print Orr not to screen print.
Clark Orr is a bad boy. That’s all I really have to say.
Check out this 24×36 behemoth that he sent our way to
print for Everygreen Terrace’s 10th anniversary show in
Jacksonville, FL and see if you agree…
Love for the large format
So our main man Chase over at Fiction hired us to print some 1 of 1 photos on our Glicee large format printer that documented his year in photographs. The 24×36 behemoths covered everything from the inauguration to B10 bombers and scuba diving. Each was finished off with a hand screen printed 1 of 1 tag and signed. You may have noticed Chase’s acute eye in the mini-doc he did on our Kluge earlier in the year. The guy has mega talent and a rippin’ Canon 5D MKII.
The deadly combo makes great prints and stunning video. Look out for flying dogs.
CHASE HEAVENER 2009 YEAR IN PICTURES from Northern Lights on Vimeo.
Sealed with a kiss… And some glue.
I have a confession.
It’s an embarrassing one. One that would be hard to admit, that is if I hadn’t had to confess it at least once a day for the past two years. I say again, two years… That’s how long I’ve been a printer without a business card. That is exactly how long it’s been since our staff of trained professionals, who specialize in creating these seven and half square inch handy (literally) little sheets of ink and reclaimed cotton and/or tree pulp, have been operating without cards of our own.
How does one in this profession get away card-less for so long? I can’t even imagine a dairy farmer without milk in his icebox, or a taxidermist without at least one moose head over his fireplace. But then again, there is that old adage, ‘The cobbler’s children have no shoes.’ I guess that applies to printers too?
Well not anymore. This cobbler’s kids got some shoes, baby. Some rad, letterpressed shoes. Clearly put, we finally carved out some time to design and print our own cards.
Being that it was a long time coming, we thought we’d go a little over the top. A two-color letterpress card duplexed (fancy talk for glued) to a chocolate brown french paper backing… Hit number one is a light hotdog colored kiss print, which is a slight graze of ink to the surface of the paper, leaving the surface’s original dimension in place. The second hit is a deep punch of light brown that ads the 3rd dimension, which the modern letterpress printing technique has become known for… The bite if you will.
Note the two-tone sides and brown back duplex.
We’re stoked on them…
Looking for a ‘one hit’ wonder? Check out the print we rocked right after the sauce card… A simple and elegant design done by and for our good friend Aaron Martin from Superwindy. Aaron has been wanting to do business cards since we met him ages ago… Being a designer – it took awhile to get it done. I guess we’re all cursed in this area? Working for others doesn’t allow us the time to do for ourselves? Well, It has finally happened for Aaron too – and word on the street is that he’s diggin on his new beasts.
Gone Fishin’
Today we went treasure hunting… No fishing… No wait. I’m not sure how to describe searching through Winter Park Fish Co. to find inspiration for our latest branding gig, but I’m sure you can see from the pictures that this place is chock full o character.
Winter Park Fish Co. has been a work in progress for some months… And what started as a great big blank slate quickly turned into an astonishing assortment of seafarers delight… Although we’ve been privy to the entire process thus far, the building and design has been in other capable hands – our good friend Blair Sligar over at Hog Eat Hog. It is only now that we have officially begun the task of tying everything together with a cohesive brand. Nautical antique, wharf, Amityville… This great little seafood restaurant can go a million ways. Stay tuned to see how the hitting of this baby with a little bit of mama’s secret sauce turns out.
Check out some of the sweet randomness floating around this soon to be staple in Orlando’s dining scene… Doors are expected to open in December. Finally we can draw from our old bay experience.
credit where credit is due… sign built by Hog Eat Hog Orlando, FL using local wood dredged from the st. johns river after aging for a good 150 years…
Check that fine print(ing)….
A few months back our good friend Anna at Rifle Design approached us to screen print a piece that she was asked to do for Martha Stewart Weddings Magazine – and for a few months we’ve thought her to be a complete liar. Turns out though, she’s not. See the photographic proof. We took the liberty of circling the fine print containing the sauce shout out. Martha’s definitely big enough for us to be stoked about our name in small print.
Screen printing = business cards not being crap.
I’m hoping you’ve seen the ‘you’re business card is crap’ video…
If not – search it in youtube. I fear posting it here would just make us
look like we’re terribly behind the times… Well, we’re not, I swear.
Moving on… The cure for crap business cards? Well, I don’t think you necessary
need to die-cut, emboss, foil, score, and do everything else to them like the
aforementioned video prescribes… Heck, I’ll even go as far to say that you don’t
even need to letterpress them. Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to letterpress your cards.
But, it doesn’t always prove the best option for the design.
Case in point. Check this Maven designed card that we screen printed and had laser-cut…
A screen printed card can accomplish the near impossible (white print on black card stock) while providing a more cost effective way to make something truly unique.
photo credit. www.jonpauldouglass.com
It’s like printer’s porn…
Our good friend Chase came by to document a Letterpress job we had on press. What he produced from his time in our shoppe is stunning. I hope you agree.
Also – a very special thank you to G Johanson, Printer and the Florida Pioneer Settlement for the Creative Arts, Inc.