http://tellittellit.com PREACHER: Commissions and Other Design Works Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:46:43 +0000 http://tellittellit.com en http://tellittellit.com/A-New-Hope http://tellittellit.com/following/tellittellit.com/A-New-Hope Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:46:43 +0000 PREACHER: Commissions and Other Design Works 2469347 <img src="http://payload8.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/2469347/a new hope_millineum falcon_portrait_fin_960.jpg" width="864" height="648" width_o="864" height_o="648" src_o="http://payload8.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/2469347/a new hope_millineum falcon_portrait_fin_o.jpg" data-mid="12448540" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload8.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/2469347/a new hope_millineum falcon_landscape_960.jpg" width="960" height="540" width_o="1152" height_o="648" src_o="http://payload8.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/2469347/a new hope_millineum falcon_landscape_o.jpg" data-mid="12448550" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload8.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/2469347/a new hope_millineum falcon_detail_fin_960.jpg" width="864" height="648" width_o="864" height_o="648" src_o="http://payload8.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/2469347/a new hope_millineum falcon_detail_fin_o.jpg" data-mid="12448561" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload8.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/2469347/a new hope_x wing_portrait_fin_960.jpg" width="864" height="648" width_o="864" height_o="648" src_o="http://payload8.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/2469347/a new hope_x wing_portrait_fin_o.jpg" data-mid="12448565" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload8.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/2469347/a new hope_x wing_landscape_960.jpg" width="960" height="540" width_o="1152" height_o="648" src_o="http://payload8.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/2469347/a new hope_x wing_landscape_o.jpg" data-mid="12448566" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload8.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/2469347/a new hope_x wing_detail_fin_960.jpg" width="864" height="648" width_o="864" height_o="648" src_o="http://payload8.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/2469347/a new hope_x wing_detail_fin_o.jpg" data-mid="12448571" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload8.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/2469347/a new hope_y wing_portrait_fin_960.jpg" width="864" height="648" width_o="864" height_o="648" src_o="http://payload8.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/2469347/a new hope_y wing_portrait_fin_o.jpg" data-mid="12448575" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload8.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/2469347/a new hope_y wing_landscape_960.jpg" width="960" height="540" width_o="1152" height_o="648" src_o="http://payload8.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/2469347/a new hope_y wing_landscape_o.jpg" data-mid="12448579" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload8.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/2469347/a new hope_y wing_detail_fin_960.jpg" width="864" height="648" width_o="864" height_o="648" src_o="http://payload8.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/2469347/a new hope_y wing_detail_fin_o.jpg" data-mid="12448584" border="0" align="left"/> We're pretty much always looking for projects that our inner ten year old would love, but C'MON.. "[A New] Hope" is a privately commissioned holiday card series and serious geek cred garnering play off the old Peace, Joy, Hope season's greeting card standard. The collection presents a trio of beautifully refined, intricately detailed and delicately illustrated snowflakes.. that are made up of starfighters [and the Millennium Falcon] employed by the Rebel Alliance to destroy the Death Star in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. What? Ask your Dad. Tweet !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs"); We're pretty much always looking for projects that our inner ten year old would love, but C'MON.. "[A New] Hope" is a privately commissioned holiday card series... http://tellittellit.com/Hispaniola-wordplay http://tellittellit.com/following/tellittellit.com/Hispaniola-wordplay Thu, 07 Apr 2011 15:34:48 +0000 PREACHER: Commissions and Other Design Works 808804 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/808804/110406_kitchen island_06B_960.jpg" width="960" height="540" width_o="1600" height_o="900" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/808804/110406_kitchen island_06B_o.jpg" data-mid="6186516" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/808804/110406_kitchen island_01C_960.jpg" width="960" height="540" width_o="1600" height_o="900" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/808804/110406_kitchen island_01C_o.jpg" data-mid="6186512" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/808804/110406_kitchen island_13_960.jpg" width="960" height="540" width_o="1600" height_o="900" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/808804/110406_kitchen island_13_o.jpg" data-mid="6186518" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/808804/110406_kitchen island_23_960.jpg" width="960" height="540" width_o="1600" height_o="900" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/808804/110406_kitchen island_23_o.jpg" data-mid="6186916" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/808804/110406_kitchen island_15_960.jpg" width="960" height="540" width_o="1600" height_o="900" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/808804/110406_kitchen island_15_o.jpg" data-mid="6186519" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/808804/110406_kitchen island_16B_960.jpg" width="960" height="540" width_o="1600" height_o="900" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/808804/110406_kitchen island_16B_o.jpg" data-mid="6186520" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/808804/110406_kitchen island_12_960.jpg" width="960" height="540" width_o="1600" height_o="900" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/808804/110406_kitchen island_12_o.jpg" data-mid="6186517" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/808804/110406_kitchen island_24_960.jpg" width="960" height="540" width_o="1600" height_o="900" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/808804/110406_kitchen island_24_o.jpg" data-mid="6187192" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/808804/110406_kitchen island_17_960.jpg" width="960" height="540" width_o="1600" height_o="900" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/808804/110406_kitchen island_17_o.jpg" data-mid="6186523" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/808804/110406_kitchen island_21C_960.jpg" width="960" height="540" width_o="1600" height_o="900" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/808804/110406_kitchen island_21C_o.jpg" data-mid="6186524" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/808804/110406_kitchen island_22_960.jpg" width="960" height="540" width_o="1600" height_o="900" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/808804/110406_kitchen island_22_o.jpg" data-mid="6186525" border="0" align="left"/>Okay, full disclosure, this one's for family, and given the high percentage chance that PREACHER top brass will see more than one sunrise eating pizza rolls and drinking Guinness from the vantage point of this piece, we're kind of doubly vested. We'd like to take full credit for this two in one kitchen island concept [get it?], but the idea here was really born out of necessity. The existing floor area was simply not big enough to accommodate an island AND a traditional freestanding table. The solution is both [we love when compromise means getting everything!], a full size kitchen island with a conjoined twin that provides twice the prep area, counter seating for four and the fun expanding capability to take the party outside, literally; the abutted banquet table, along with a family of hidden counter stools, is designed to be separated and pulled to the garden patio just outside the kitchen for, say, family picnics, late summer barbecues.. or Oysterfest! The materials are radically simple.. 100% recycled glass and local felled Hickory, hand finished in clear or iridescent stains and whitewash.. And absolutely everything from the custom sink basin to the expression of the wood grain to the louvered cabinet fronts are tailored to elongate the lines of the piece.. just because we care about things like that! Now, what's for dinner? Tweet Okay, full disclosure, this one's for family, and given the high percentage chance that PREACHER top brass will see more than one sunrise eating pizza rolls and... http://tellittellit.com/Urban-sports-coop http://tellittellit.com/following/tellittellit.com/Urban-sports-coop Thu, 25 Nov 2010 03:09:52 +0000 PREACHER: Commissions and Other Design Works 808802 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/808802/101206_urban coop_2M_revised_960.jpg" width="960" height="540" width_o="2048" height_o="1152" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/808802/101206_urban coop_2M_revised_o.jpg" data-mid="3995776" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/808802/101206_urban coop_5M_revised_960.jpg" width="960" height="540" width_o="2048" height_o="1152" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/808802/101206_urban coop_5M_revised_o.jpg" data-mid="3995777" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/808802/101206_urban coop_8S_revised_960.jpg" width="960" height="540" width_o="2048" height_o="1152" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/808802/101206_urban coop_8S_revised_o.jpg" data-mid="3995779" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/808802/101206_urban coop_9S_revised_960.jpg" width="960" height="540" width_o="2048" height_o="1152" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/808802/101206_urban coop_9S_revised_o.jpg" data-mid="3995784" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/808802/101206_urban coop_11S_revised_960.jpg" width="960" height="540" width_o="2048" height_o="1152" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/808802/101206_urban coop_11S_revised_o.jpg" data-mid="3995794" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/808802/101206_urban coop_13S_revised_960.jpg" width="960" height="540" width_o="2048" height_o="1152" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/808802/101206_urban coop_13S_revised_o.jpg" data-mid="3995802" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/808802/101206_urban coop_15S_revised_960.jpg" width="960" height="540" width_o="2048" height_o="1152" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/808802/101206_urban coop_15S_revised_o.jpg" data-mid="3995808" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/808802/101206_urban coop_16S_revised_960.jpg" width="960" height="540" width_o="2048" height_o="1152" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/808802/101206_urban coop_16S_revised_o.jpg" data-mid="3995813" border="0" align="left"/>The Pacific Northwest practically invented the modern Do It Yourself subculture, so for those reppin Portland, Oregon DIY tends to be a little more ambitious than place mats and Christmas tree ornaments. Folks out here bottle their own seasonal ales, generate their own local energy surpluses, homegrow their own pharmaceuticals [shhh!] and, yes, raise their own chickens [almost sounds easy compared to the energy generation thing, we know]. FYI, the City of Portland currently allows three hens per household [no roosters.. haters!] without a permit, so with that do it yourself spirit burning from within and Johnny Law practically turning a blind eye to the whole endeavor, the only thing really holding anybody back from full throttle urban egg farming has GOT to be the coop architecture. It's bad. Real bad. So when PREACHER was challenged to create a new look alternative to, well, everything that's currently available, we just started from scratch. The result is all common sense innovation dropped into a low slung chassis frame. There's over sixty square feet of roaming room overall, with a "green floor" of removable buffet trays that can be seeded with grass or filled with scratch and a club level hen house; a lower level feeding trough pulls out for composting of food scraps and waste refuse. The skin of the coop is comprised of interlocking wood slats that can be infinitely arranged to create openings and trellis shading vines, allowing for full customized control of heat and natural light intake, regardless of orientation. The roof system, made up of bent recycled aluminum sheet metal panels, funnels rainwater through a drainage slot directly into a narrow profile reservoir tank under the roof where it is stored as drinking water for the chickens. A similar compartment on the opposite end is for tool storage. There's so much more! We haven't even gotten to the find-them-anywhere construction materials, the inside jokes, the killer paint scheme ideas! But, if this goes on long enough, you know we're going to resort to cross the road jokes or off color bird puns; it's probably best that it ends this way. Tweet The Pacific Northwest practically invented the modern Do It Yourself subculture, so for those reppin Portland, Oregon DIY tends to be a little more ambitious than... http://tellittellit.com/A-calling-card-for-Bonnie http://tellittellit.com/following/tellittellit.com/A-calling-card-for-Bonnie Sun, 26 Sep 2010 18:11:53 +0000 PREACHER: Commissions and Other Design Works 660454 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/660454/plate craft_calling card_01_fin_960.jpg" width="960" height="540" width_o="1152" height_o="648" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/660454/plate craft_calling card_01_fin_o.jpg" data-mid="12457702" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/660454/plate craft_calling card_02_fin_960.jpg" width="864" height="648" width_o="864" height_o="648" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/660454/plate craft_calling card_02_fin_o.jpg" data-mid="12457706" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/660454/plate craft_calling card_03_fin_960.jpg" width="864" height="648" width_o="864" height_o="648" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/660454/plate craft_calling card_03_fin_o.jpg" data-mid="12457708" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/660454/plate craft_calling card_04_fin_960.jpg" width="960" height="540" width_o="1152" height_o="648" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/660454/plate craft_calling card_04_fin_o.jpg" data-mid="12457709" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/660454/plate craft_calling card_05_fin_960.jpg" width="864" height="648" width_o="864" height_o="648" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/660454/plate craft_calling card_05_fin_o.jpg" data-mid="12457711" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/660454/plate craft_calling card_06_fin_960.jpg" width="960" height="540" width_o="1152" height_o="648" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/660454/plate craft_calling card_06_fin_o.jpg" data-mid="12457716" border="0" align="left"/> It's not often that we get beat at our own game, but for plate | craft owner Bonnie Perhac, simple is a credo, not an adjective. Early concept sketches for a calling card for her hotly in demand catering service were mostly met with a polite nose crinkle and a charge to make the design more simple still. To her credit, the final design, honed by that insistence on simplicity, speaks volumes about her work with plate | craft. There are some nuanced design considerations here, like the subtle reworking of the classic Garamond typeface and the supersaturated eggplant color, but really this is all about tone, evoking plate | craft's unpretentious, heavily researched and thoughtfully crafted [and, yes, simple] approach to food. Anybody who's ever sat down at Bonnie's kitchen table for Sunday Night Dinner knows exactly what we're talking about. But, if you've never been lucky enough to get an invitation, don't worry; you can still hire her to recreate the experience at your house. Just ask for her card. All photography copyright 2011 Neil Bartley Tweet It's not often that we get beat at our own game, but for plate | craft owner Bonnie Perhac, simple is a credo, not an adjective. Early concept sketches for a... http://tellittellit.com/A-tasting-table-for-Caryn http://tellittellit.com/following/tellittellit.com/A-tasting-table-for-Caryn Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:54:59 +0000 PREACHER: Commissions and Other Design Works 609846 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/609846/100901_diageo_community table_03_960.jpg" width="960" height="540" width_o="1600" height_o="900" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/609846/100901_diageo_community table_03_o.jpg" data-mid="2819272" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/609846/100901_diageo_community table_02_960.jpg" width="960" height="540" width_o="1600" height_o="900" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/609846/100901_diageo_community table_02_o.jpg" data-mid="2819273" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/609846/100901_diageo_community table_04_960.jpg" width="960" height="540" width_o="1600" height_o="900" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/609846/100901_diageo_community table_04_o.jpg" data-mid="2819274" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/609846/100901_diageo_community table_12_960.jpg" width="960" height="540" width_o="1600" height_o="900" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/609846/100901_diageo_community table_12_o.jpg" data-mid="2819275" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/609846/100901_diageo_community table_15_960.jpg" width="960" height="540" width_o="1600" height_o="900" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/609846/100901_diageo_community table_15_o.jpg" data-mid="2819276" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/609846/100901_diageo_community table_09_960.jpg" width="960" height="540" width_o="1600" height_o="900" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/609846/100901_diageo_community table_09_o.jpg" data-mid="2819277" border="0" align="left"/>We would never tell our client, but we think the most staggering way to drink a bottle of wine is on a futon listening to Daft Punk in the dark at 3AM. This is second. The table, designed for the Napa Valley tasting room of international premium drinks giant Diageo, is by definition still just a table, but symbolically it's more of a proclamation. There was a surprisingly considered list of program use details and object symbolism from the client with this one, but, without getting into the minutia, we'll just note that the word "substantial" got thrown around pretty liberally early on. We're pretty sure they were thinking family table. We were thinking battleship. The compromise is a stripped down, all muscle take on a traditional farm table made of bookmatched, solid felled California Black Walnut [the client wanted Redwood, but you can't party on Redwood], hand finished with boiled linseed oil. The subtle game changer? No head of the table. Oh, and we know how you feel about super graphics, but this is a refined, laser cut, hand inlaid recycled zinc super graphic of a song lyric by emo wondergroup Fall Out Boy. Still no? You're weird. Tweet We would never tell our client, but we think the most staggering way to drink a bottle of wine is on a futon listening to Daft Punk in the dark at 3AM. This is... http://tellittellit.com/A-bar-table-for-Todd http://tellittellit.com/following/tellittellit.com/A-bar-table-for-Todd Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:19:24 +0000 PREACHER: Commissions and Other Design Works 592677 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/592677/GOS_100801_constantine_08.2_960.jpg" width="960" height="540" width_o="1600" height_o="900" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/592677/GOS_100801_constantine_08.2_o.jpg" data-mid="9248231" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/592677/GOS_100801_constantine_03_960.jpg" width="960" height="540" width_o="1600" height_o="900" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/592677/GOS_100801_constantine_03_o.jpg" data-mid="9248086" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/592677/GOS_100801_constantine_04.2_960.jpg" width="960" height="540" width_o="1600" height_o="900" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/592677/GOS_100801_constantine_04.2_o.jpg" data-mid="9248087" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/592677/GOS_100801_constantine_07_960.jpg" width="960" height="540" width_o="1600" height_o="900" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/592677/GOS_100801_constantine_07_o.jpg" data-mid="9248090" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/592677/GOS_100801_constantine_09.2_960.jpg" width="960" height="540" width_o="1600" height_o="900" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/592677/GOS_100801_constantine_09.2_o.jpg" data-mid="9248091" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/592677/GOS_100801_constantine_15_960.jpg" width="960" height="540" width_o="1600" height_o="900" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/49892/592677/GOS_100801_constantine_15_o.jpg" data-mid="9248092" border="0" align="left"/>We really, REALLY like simple. And for simple, design problems don't come better than "table." There's really only the one prerequisite that someone can put things on it with the reasonable assumption that it won't fall over. So, for this table, designed for Todd Youngs of Constantine, we decided to run with the theme. Every aspect study of this design, from the materials [a single piece of reclaimed old forest White Oak and recycled white anodized aluminum], to the finish [a hand applied, biodegradable milk paint], to the singular flourish [a racing stripe lifted from the specs of an AC Shelby Cobra] were painstakingly researched, individually repurposed and then amalgamated again with a pointed attention to simplicity. Sometimes it only looks easy. Tweet We really, REALLY like simple. And for simple, design problems don't come better than "table." There's really only the one prerequisite that someone can put...