Posts Tagged ‘Rich’

Sad Bird Now Fits In Your Wallet

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

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I ordered our business cards with a couple different options. I can’t imagine not ordering more, as I’ve always thought business cards or calling cards are cool. These are the first of, I’m sure, many to come.

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Its all printed with the bird, our physical location in the world, and our footprint on the web.

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Sad Bird Design SpecialIssue/1 (also seen in first image)

I also got a bunch of blank cards to stamp the bird and name on. It makes for a cool look. The bird, alone, sitting in the empty void of the card, is showing us his sadness. Then, on the reverse is the name and locale.

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The blank cards actually came from the idea of hand writing each card as I gave it out. I still think it is a cool idea.

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-Rich

Color Palettes brought to you by Sad Bird

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

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Lately I’ve been working on a few color palette ideas and looking for inspiration. Obvs, I turned to those who knew color well. The masters, if you will. In the first issue, Color Palettes vol. 1, I look at paintings by Magritte, van Gogh, and Lautrec.

I broke down what I saw as eight key colors from the paintings into their RGB and CMYK values with the latter being in their respective percentages.

Hey, I don’t know why I made them, but the idea is that if you, a designer, like an artist or painting, well, then here is a little palette to make incorporating them in to your design easy and not obvious.

Does that sound cool at all? Are there other artists you would like to see? Or, is there other information you would like to see included? How would you use it? I would absolutely love to read your comments. There is nothing I would love more.

-Rich

P.S. It was a big decision on color vs. colour. In the end I tried to not be pretentious.

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It’s here.

Saturday, December 5th, 2009

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This is something I’ve been wanting to try for a while – the blurry tree. It also has the desaturated border that I used on a thanksgiving invitation (below) which I’ve been liking lately.

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-Rich

THE WHITE HOUSE

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

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I get it that the White House sends out letters for everything and getting one isn’t that big of a deal, but I still think this is cool. It’s from the 60’s! And the return address is just “THE WHITE HOUSE.” I think now they say Washington DC too, so this one is cooler.

I love how simple that is. In both the envelope and the letter there is no fluff. Its straightforward and tells it like it is. Like Roseanne.

Click here to view the full set please!

-Rich