Back in December, we presented to you the illustrations we did for New World Arts‘ 14th season. Today, we are happy to unveil the posters! The general identity was created by Andy 2 years ago, based on the famous covers of Penguin books. We decided to keep that, as we liked that approach a lot….
2012, the busy year Hello there. We wanted to write a quick post about what’s going on at Studio Ace of Spade (and to show you that we’re not slacking). So here’s what’s happening, in no particular order: We’re working on the Early Upgrade web app. More about this soon! We unveiled new prints for…
The story behind the prints Let me apologize in advance for the length of the story behind the poster, but these have been long in the making. I’ve been playing guitar for a little over 8 years now (and I’ve become really skilled… or not). Right when I started playing guitar, I also started to…
Happy new year! By the time you’re reading this, it should be January 1st, 2012. The whole team here would like to wish you a happy new year, and all the best for your endeavors in this fresh set of 365 days (that is if the Mayan calendar thing isn’t true) that’s ahead of us….
We’re only a couple days away from New Year’s Eve 2011 is (almost) dead, long live 2012! Well, the year is coming to an end, and it has been an incredible one for Studio Ace of Spade. It has seen, in no particular order: Our first full year in business, and the one year anniversary…
Before We Get Started Hello, dear readers! We’d like to take a minute to do something that we’ve been looking to do for quite some time now – provide you all with a run down of our processes on our projects. Today, we have an opportunity to unveil a case study of our recent project…
A bit of background information We’ve said it before, but we’re absolutely thrilled to tell people that we’re the designers for New World Arts these days. It involves show posters, event programs and other various things here and there. But what’s New World Arts anyway? New World Arts is Goshen’s theater. Not the one were…
Hello there, everybody! Today we’re releasing our contract that we use here at Studio Ace of Spade. From those that have seen it, we’ve received a lot of compliments on it. It’s simple, straight to the point, and covers everything that designers and web workers commonly run into during projects. We figured that it was…
The story In the past couple years, there has been a renewed interest in textures in design. It’s gone beyond being a trend, and has been a wonderful tool in the designers and artists toolbox to add visual depth and interest to a project (we wrote about that over at Smashing Magazine). The next step…
Some backrgound informations Wilson’s Reservoir is one of the local bands in Goshen IN that we love. Sadly, they’re calling it a day soon. To celebrate what they accomplished and their wonderful songs, we did this commemorative poster. The amazing train picture is from the US National Archive. The poster