Designer, Author, NYT Bestselling Illustrator & Partner at Carpenter Collective π @CarpenterCollec, a design & branding studio. My book, Sunday Suns out now!
New Work! Packaging design for QuikTrip's Quittin' Time Light Lager, celebrating 250 years of the USA. Made for backyard BBQs, fireworks & maybe a legendary QuikTrip roller dog or two. Our custom packaging available now for your Fourth of July gathering this weekend! Go get em!
graphic design is a lot like composing sweet beautiful music except our work ends up smashed in the streets after some dude crushes a tallboy but basically the same
A new district in Kansas City we have branded which includes many neighborhood upgrades is underway. In addition to this new brand system the district is getting many new murals & installs. Including this mural my wife Jessica and I designed together. More as we complete it.
Whatβs that thing where you own like 5,000 fonts but every time you start a new project you feel like you need new fonts so you go buy a bunch of new ones? I have that.
My son (6) was drawing in his sketchbook this morning and I asked, "Whatcha drawing bud?"
He says, "probably the best logo anyone has ever made".
He was right.
More progress on a new civic brand identity system we @CarpenterCollec have been working on. Includes brand strategy, naming, identity system, signage system, web, social and many environmental spaces. Various mural installs happening now...
Yes graphic design is exactly like making fine art except you have 14 people who have to approve the new color you introduced and someone named Sharon in accounting who hates the way you drew that hand.