Steve Heller and My New Book, Lettering Large

I just received an advanced copy of my latest book with Steve Heller, Lettering Large: Art and Design of Monumental Typography, published by Monacelli Press. The book will be released at the end of October.

It is one of the first books to chronicle letters as presences in the urban landscape. There are examples culled from sites across the US and throughout the world. The book contains over 700 images of monumental typography projects.

This book was dedicated to Milton Glaser and Mihajlo Arsovski.

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Joule Hotel In-Room Compendium Set

We designed a new set of in-room compendiums for the Joule Hotel in Dallas, Texas. 

There are two different colored versions (red/gold and blue/green), one for suites and one for regular rooms. The set consists of an in-room directory, a bar menu, and a notepad holder. 
Each design features old patented drawings of machinery that were often used to drill for oil, crystals, and minerals. On the bar menu, we used patent drawings of a cork screw. This is part 
of an on-going project with the Joule Hotel. 

You can see more of our work for the hotel on our website.

Matija Dedic's New CD

A few weeks ago when Croatian jazz musician Matija Dedic asked me to help him out and quickly design a CD cover for him, I was delighted. My first LP cover design was for Rimska Ploca by Arsen Dedic (Matija's father). When I first met Matija while working on the Rimska Ploca design, he was only 7 or 8 years old. In time, I designed quite a few more of Arsen's LP covers, but this is the first time for Matija.

Here is a sample of Matija's music from Sentiana, by Blue Bamboo Music Inc.

First Born Films Animation

The UK-based blog "Logo Designers" just featured our identity design and logo animation 

for First Born Films.

Read more on their blog: http://www.logo-designer.co/identity-design-for-first-born-films/

You can watch the animation here.

GDUSA Fist to Face Review

Graphic Design USA, a news magazine
for graphic designers and creative professionals, published a nice review
of Dejan Krsic's Mirko Ilic: Fist to Face in their
May/June 2013 issue.

HMF at The Breakers Hotel

HMF is a restaurant that is part of the historic Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida. The letters are the monogram of the man who established the hotel in 1896, Henry Flagler.

We inherited the logo and created a playful pattern incorporating colors from the interior designs of renowned hospitality designer Adam Tihany.

Collateral includes: Lunch and dinner menus, wine binder, matchbook, umbrellas.

Surfside Lounge Menus

These are our menu designs for Surfside Lounge at the Crowne Plaza Melbourne Hotel in Florida.