Stormy Growlers..

The Site.

 The trimmings

The long 3 layer journey 

The details

La fin

So over the last few weeks a project has been in the works and it was a slow arduous process that finished with great result. Unique to my normal clean designs, this one was raw, made of wood, steel and lots of labour, and not only mine. It was with metal work and laser work from Storm sources. With having my day job, and not able to take on the full install, it left for the Culture Crawl deadline of November the 15, 2013, which meant Storm Brewery to take on the complicated task of installing the sign themselves, in the stormy weather the wet coast is known for. Perfect for branding and it's namesake yes:)

So, with interests, pull up and grab a growler, you won't be sorry:)

UpCycled

Somewhere along our pasts come to meet us, again and again. I often go on about the fantastic people in my life, and my past, and the history and experiences we have together having dynamic if not levels of vibrancy in our own personal growth. Years ago I met Christina and was lucky enough to spend a lot of time getting to know her before she moved back out east. Years went by, and as one could imagine, we re-connected through Facebook and ideas were passed on for a Mothers gift, so she could share her creations to the World. Creating a logo that represents taking action, yet keeping a simple, elegance in relationship to bike products being passed on by previous users was a tricky one, but, like the energy cycling can bring to ones soul, I got switched on, it all made sense!

*A mother-daughter team on a mission!

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Everyone has passion. My mothers happens to be creating all forms of art. Her travels have brought much inspiration to her work throughout her life-long career. Her recent rendezvous to Jamaica have brought her a new love of up-cycling EVERYTHING! Bicycle inner tubes are often discarded by bike shops to end up in a land fill, but this durable, soft, leather-like materialis perfect for her latest obsession... UPCYCLE Couture!

*(website direct).

www.upcycleforever.com

May the 4th be with you.

Some years ago, 2006 specifically, I sat down to draw this little Yoda based on the animated movie, now a full blown series is probably better then the movies in depth and darkness yet is still highly underrated due to being animated. The stories are the inside in-between of Clone Wars (2nd), and Revenge of the Sith (3rd) and explains a lot of the story of how so much change came about in the last movie. Now, i was never a die hard star wars fan, but, i have always loved the original series right down to the first time i saw Empire Strikes Back in the theatre (pretty sure my first one). I remember sneaking out of the seat and running down to see the At At's up close by sitting right down on the floor in front of everyone and looking up in complete awe of how big this big robots were (not connecting the drivers of course;).

This little drawing was made into a clear coroplast birthday card wrapped up in hemp cord and tattered fabric, to symbolize the rugged condition, yet humble materials of a Jedi, who has seen and been through so much. I have no pictures beyond this one scan left, and there was blood spattered around with intense reds, and greens and Yoda in a much younger, angrier era, before he found the calmer sense of being we all learned to love.

Good things come in 3's

It's kinda fun when you can finish off a great ride with a beer, wearing shirt, and lean up against a beam in one of your favourite Pubs, and say you designed for all three:) First time I can actually say this since designing:) NSMBA fortified trails, Raven Skate Shop T-shirt and Storm Brewery flavour all in one place at the Raven Pub in Deep Cove.

Tomorrow i get to finish the new Deadly Couture's new store with window and door graphics. Opening this week officially, Deadly Couture's Owner Jennifer Wong has broadened her Horizons in recent years with adding new product and expanding only a few years ago (2008) and now once again in 2012. Peg Design doesn't just sit in the office but visits clients for the details like measuring and complication considerations like, cracked glass, dirty instal sites, and high difficult areas for install.

 installing in such areas is a challenge, but with time and skills, it is a task fully embraced for a very classy effect.

 with no product yet in the display area, the final install is yet to be decided, but this is the current look, a clean, easy to view inside, soon to be placed with all kinds of tight and fun outfits:)

Deadly Couture Latex, Corset and Fetish Boutique

We're non stop unpacking new amazing product for the Deadly Couture shops. http://www.deadlyfetish.com/product/38-045

This killer shrug is killer for the upcoming Restricted Entertainment Sin City Fetish Night Black and White Ball. Come in and check out all the new product and let the Deadly Girls help you put together that perfect fetish outfit. ♥

https://www.facebook.com/events/407401839328687/

The Greener Steam Thinking..

The Green Steam.

In all the years i have been designing vehicle graphics or any other series of design where the details were to be produced with vinyl, I have never produced a vehicle wrap. I have worked for a few companies where the marketing appeal and obvious visual impact of a giant rolling billboard would be a fantastic way to do two things, pass on information, assuming you are parked at an event or driving along a highway somewhere when you are not able to stop and speak with the people who might be interested in your product being advertised.

I can speak for myself here in that from an early age I wanted to produce "green" design. Not environment friendly products per-say, but just items that do not visually mess up the background yet still catch ones attention in an otherwise dramatically over designed World. Then there is of course, the environmental factor. The designs we produce, and in the era of green designers left and right, oddly do not consider the waste of the design production itself, is, to me, terribly ignorant.

I See environmental companies over designed wrapping jobs on almost everything. Grass, trees, forrest and ferns masking the grey cold steel we used to protect our circuits and electrical devices to power our very own computers to design and said products. The vehicles drive around showcasing "clean" with the hybrid power of such and such a brand, yet the wrap itself (that usually is exchanged with another campaign in just a few months) leaves about 15 yards of un recyclable waxed paper backing that is simply thrown out in the bin, along with all the other acrylic and polyester products our industry uses for these Green programs messages.

I understand we use these products in tandem with many others, and hopefully those are used a bit more to reduce the costs, as there are  lot more becoming more and more available based on recycled post consumer products, but simple, cleaner design will always reduce the visual clutter and by production waste of the very same, cluttered designs. I can personally say, I love the easy use and versatility of a lot of synthetic products, but if given the choice for something more simple with less waste AND my target market could actually read my message, I could not see why I would say no! 

The day the Canon IPF 500 arrived it sat on a desk for sometime due to some very tricky inks not included, at least the right levels anyway. A not so large format printer that can do a lot given the right kind of mind and creativity, and perfect match for Peg Design. In order to test the IPF, i decided to grab the art of Mark Ryden, an artist featured on the current issue of Juxtopoz I had sitting on my desk. The Art was literally drag and drop from his page and re-sampled to fit the new size of 13x19 (A3+) from a 72ppi image.

I set up new colour overlays or the full colour spectrum and decided on Violet to match the new parlour wall I began.

The first test.

The prints turned out amazing and the next thing was to find or create a frame to suit the wall and the image. Well no sooner then the hunt begun then did My lovely partner in creative crimes found on the wall of Gino, a man who left for Belgium and wanted us to take up as much of his belongings as we could, at a reasonable cost;)

The Finished Piece.

So here we have now a colourful yet soft and classy art print to display what a mere drag and drop 72ppi image can be upgraded to and quality test for principle small production fine art form the IPF 500.