Thursday, February 28, 2008
ZEN SIGNAGE
No branding, Grashopper. The Villages at Sonterra (San Antonio) wanted a landmark clock tower in lieu of typical monument signage. The client loved this from day one, and without revising a single brick, has carried the design over to sister developments. It has been constructed as a two-sided and a four-sided structure. The horse with no name.
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
DON'TCH'ALL SCRATCH, NOW, BUBBA...
The first poor slob that spills a beer on this table is going to end up hanging from a tree.
LAST OF THE MIXED-FONT DESIGNS
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
after the smoke clears
This is a fledgling effort at a web/blog-presence for me. Posting and editing and all that fun stuff...It's my chance to find out if I hate it, or if I REALLY REALLY hate it...I'll know fairly quickly.
My daughter is an award-winning blogger in the real estate world, and I've embarassed her a few times on her own site via comments. Now she has to worry about watching what I may be posting, here..
My beautiful wife, Trish, will also need to monitor the site, so I'm not wasting my time posting a bunch of gooey crap for no good reason...Make me proud, honey. ILYM
Friday, February 22, 2008
Disclaimer of complete irresponsibility...
Monday, February 18, 2008
WATER SPORTS
Water features come at a hefty price, but the birds are happy and isn't that really what matters?
Sunday, February 10, 2008
A NEW USE FOR CHOPSTICKS
Happy Family Special! Facelit channels, routed/backlit cabinets, exposed 15mm clear gold, violet, and ruby red neons, and the world's largest chopsticks. See the product at the Triangle (Guadalupe @ Lamar in Austin).
Saturday, February 9, 2008
CHANNEL LETTERS WITH CURVES
(click for avi, or just look at the grey...)
Can't do much to make a medical job look sexy, except to place a 3D girl from IClone. Seems like all their models are built by 14 year old boys. None of them look like Ellen Degeneres or Barbara Bush...thank the stars.
"IT'S COOL INSIDE"...
a cool design from JankeDesign. I fleshed out their ai. files and made this baby hot...
Friday, February 8, 2008
Thursday, February 7, 2008
DONE DEAL
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
MARQUEE MARK
(click for animation)
East Sixth Street, Austin. A new club slated for the 200 block. The historical district requires adherence to a "period" look. I guess it all depends on which period you mean... I remember the signs on sixth street back in the early 60's. Many were hand painted, and full of bullet holes, just like the store and tavern windows. Most of East Sixth street wasn't all that romantic, or historically exciting, just really rough. So rough, my mom would make us roll the windows up in the car, and she'd run the red lights.
I've designed an open-face channel letter v-sign with exposed neon, and sequenced incandescent chaser lights at the bottom of the cabinets; Marqueed cabinets with ZipaTrack lettering, white plex backlit panels, and tubular aluminum accents finished gold. Gold mirrored Chemetal laminated soffits around lamps; Open face "spade" with clear red 15mm neon;
There's an existing blade sign that may also be refitted. We'll see. Aces has the dubious honor of a tree-covered storefront. One of the few on sixth. Sign vs. Trees... Sign usually loses...