Silver Maple Construction is a high end builder located in New Haven, VT. They are known for offering a progressive approach to custom construction of residential and commercial spaces. Their work is beautiful, thoughtful and elegant.

To reflect the voice of Silver Maple, our design direction included inspiration from architectural drawings, classic architectural periodicals and magazines, combined with a distinct art deco vibe resulting in an exciting visual expression of how the Silver Maple brand has evolved in the last 10 years.

Art direction, design and development.

Yellow Bird Aviation recreates flight experiences from a golden age of flying. Take a look at their Stinson and Biplane fleet. Your pilot and captain, Andy, is one of the top commercial pilots in the U.S. and his enthusiasm for flying these planes was contagious.  We were inspired from vintage flight manuals, airline graphics and travel ads, we built our site to reflect the same excitement and feel.  

Art direction, design and development.

Courtland Construction are specialists in infrastructure including roads, storm water and pipe work. Think heavy equipment construction. They joke that most of the hard work they do is never seen as after they are finished as it’s covered up again. But, it’s vital.

We took the great CCC branding that was created by Ruthless & Wellington as a guide to design and develop the site with the goal of creating something that reflects (to paraphrase from the owner) “a company that is relatively young and scrappy, but successfully competes with much larger ones. ” So, in considering the typography, photography, video and textures, we imagined excavating a CCC job site and welding these elements together with code and character for a distinct look. If only we had the ability to allow you to smell fresh dirt, asphalt, diesel and concrete while on their site. It’s not all about looks either. Functionally, this site serves as a recruiting tool for potential new employees to easily apply for available jobs.

PS – We learned a cool new term during this project “paver screed”.

Art direction, design and development.

An annual Pacific Northwest summer snowboarding competition held on Mt. Hood and sponsored by Burton Snowboards which lasted several years. We were involved in designing and illustrating event graphics (posters, flyers, site graphics and web graphics) and awards. 

Art direction, design and illustration.

Cornerstone is a New York City based creative agency that specializes in connecting brands to culture. Cornerstone also create the music media platform The Fader. In the early 2000’s, they produced a remarkable series of promotional music compilation CD’s called “The Player”. It was distributed to top music industry tastemakers and influencers ie. “players”. We worked on nearly every volume, creating a consistent brand identity for 70+ releases.

Art direction and design.

Before he was Kaskade, he was just Ryan to us. The cool and friendly A&R guy who was our main contact at San Francisco’s Om Records helping produce all of the releases we designed.  We were happy work on his first releases as Kaskade. He eventually became a world famous and grammy nominated artist, DJ, producer and remixer with millions of Facebook and Instagram followers headlining sold out arena shows and Las Vegas residencies. Crazy.

CD and vinyl art direction, design and illustration.

Founded in 1969, Chicago based McDavid Inc. designs and markets sports medicine, sports protection, and performance apparel for active people and athletes. They are known for creating the first widely used protective knee brace for football. Today, McDavid products top the recommendation lists of pro athletes, sports medicine professionals and athletic trainers.

When we were approached by the brand, they were starting to promote their product more to the general consumer via their professional athlete brand ambassadors including Dwyane Wade (NBA), Corey Maggette (NBA), Ryan Boyle (professional lacrosse player) and Francisco Toldo (professional soccer player).

Art direction, design and illustration.

A collection of our logos covering clients from action sports, music, technology, entertainment and small business. 

Xbox logo done with inhouse team at Cinco Design, PDX.