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tweet wall
I like what twitter does. You can keep track of people, places, businesses, tagged words, events and on and on. I also like the idea of bringing tweets into a more public setting. This idea is an...
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Plywood prints
This was a Christmas present to a certain someone, but now I’m thinking of doing a series on Birmingham buildings. Screen printing on plywood has a nice feel and I hope to do more in the future.
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Collision sculpture
Sometimes it’s good to step back from functional and verbal mediums and just make a sculpture. This is a piece for a show the Birmingham Art Collective put on a few years ago. The inspiration came...
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Bici turns 2
photo credit- cary nortonI was happy to design a poster for Bici Coop’s 2nd anniversary race and party. I got really inspired by communist propaganda that glorifies the working man. I’ve noticed that...
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Coffee AND Books!
It’s cool when people you are friends with start businesses. It’s even cooler when you can help. And coolest of all is when you can help and get free coffee in return.Working on Church Street Coffee...
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Booth Table Top (the making of...)
Urban Cookhouse commissioned Jared (an architect friend) and I to design and build a table top for a booth in their new restaurant. The top is laminated oak and is supported by two “L” shaped struts...
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Table for Eating
Urban Cookhouse has opened a new store in the Summit! Jared and I were asked to design and build a table and two benches for the eating area. We were inspired by a design from Pielab but wanted to use...
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Peanut Depot
Show me someone who doesn’t like peanuts…and I’ll show you someone who doesn’t know what they’re talking about. The Peanut Depot is a Birmingham staple…serving up origional and cajun recipe for as long...
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The Bed
This project started with a commission: build a bed pretty similar to this one but use local reclaimed wood for the headboard. It sounded like a good time.I knew someone in town who has a yard full of...
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Bike!Bike!
Bici asked me to create a logo for Bike!Bike! Southeast which is a conference all about non-profit bike shops!!!! (is there any other kind??….yes, there is…) I’ve been wanting to do a poster/design...
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Goldsprints
Bici got some goldsprints going for Bike!Bike! weekend. By this time I already had a theme going- xacto blades…paint….free chip board from UPS store…. So here is the first Bici poster I’ve ever done...
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Bar
Urban Cookhouse commissioned a bar to be installed at their Summit restaurant. Jared welded up some braces that allowed the bar surface to be cantilevered out without showing supports. The whole thing...
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Farm signage
I always wanted to paint a sign. Something about it seems right. So when Kelly Householder asked me to help with Jones Valley signs using her great new logo- I said yes. It took waaaaaay longer than I...
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be inspired! (once a month or so)
Inspiration Thursday- as seen here - now has handout card deals. oh snap! The origional idea was to cut up cereal boxes and weird stuff and stamp them too- which will still happen. Shown here as just...
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Custom Cut
(It’s important for good design shows to use alliteration in their titles…) This show was all about the advantage that computer aided manufacturing gives to small scale producers. The designs in the...
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Ply-lamp & ply-chair = best-friends
These two pieces were featured in a design show called Custom Cut. The idea was to design cool stuff using only a CNC router or laser cutter to produce the designs. This lamp and chair come from the...
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100 or so rivets later....
This light was deisgned for a show called Custom Cut. I’m a fan of Buckminster Fuller- it’s no lie (although Critical Path is kind of a huge book….and I only made it through one chapter..) so naturaly...
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Chair Cut
It’s a simple chair- only takes a mallet to put together (but you do have to beat the crap out of the plywood with said mallet before the slots fit in). Byron Sonnier painted the boards- he does a lot...
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It's just a chair
It’s a bent ply seat & back with walnut legs. No big deal. The design may not start an aesthetic revolution, but the process of making it is the fun part. There may be easier ways, but using a...
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Die cut dome light
This light was made by screen printing chip board and then die cutting the pieces out on a Heidelberg printing press. The pieces are arranged in “P” and “H” for pentagon and hexagon- or “1” and “2”...
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