Read over on Yewknee (a favorite place on the internet) that Yee-Haw Industries letterpress studio was closing up shop. This news was and is sad. We tried to make a studio trip down before the doors closed but the news came too fast. We couldn’t make it, so I bought the print above instead:  Mary Huff’s Do [...]

Tom and I took a little bit of time on Friday to create our own concepts and print them before the work whistle blew. You know how an idea is better in your head than in reality? … Essentially my concept was very low brow with mixed entendres. At the end of the day, it [...]

Bakelite radios (and a Backgammon set) on display at the 20th Century Cincinnati event. I went to this mid-century modern pop-up shop / convention in the last hours on closing day. Things had been picked through and while there was lots of nice stuff, I had a mission and did not deviate from the shopping [...]

Friends don’t always remember our studio is named Wire & Twine. A handful have mentioned they’ve been out wearing our shirts and when asked where to get one they search for a tag or some branding with no success. Shame on us. We’re working on changing that with a little tag that has a logo [...]

Picked up this old sheet music at Duck Creek Antiques for the lettering. Every stroke is excellent. See for yourself: Zoom out to see all the details.  

In the past I’d complain about what I call “Logorot” — when companies update their identity with displeasing results. Under Consideration came about with their Brand New blog which did a much better job at presenting new ID’s with some meat, context, words, and consistency. Flashback: I was in Michaels right before Christmas a month ago, getting some art [...]

Tina (you may know her better as SwissMiss) asked if I’d throw in a tattoo design for a new thing called Tattly. I said sure because I like her and thought it’d be fun. Now I don’t have a tattoo myself, but if I did get one, my first would probably be something simple, very likely [...]