Plainspoke

Promotional booklet for artist Kim Faler featuring a range of installation, sculpture and photography projects. Digital printing with varied page sizes and singer-sewn binding using blue thread.

204-page monograph published by photographer Michael Winters. Case bound with matte finish cover wrap. Silk coated paper stock with several fold-outs. Center section is printed on uncoated stipple finish paper.

A range of publication and print design projects supporting both admission and development efforts at a private all-girls school in Boston.

Brand identity and supporting print items for an art foundation and museum based in both the United States and France. Interchangeable wordmarks identify both the Foundation (United States) and Château (France) while sharing color palette and overall design scheme. The symbol is derived from a monogram that sculptor Henry Clews carved into his works that are on view throughout the Château.

A large-scale branding, publications and environmental graphics program for Simmons College in Boston. The project scope includes refinement and standardization of the Simmons wordmark, development of typography and color palettes, art direction of photography and illustration. Our work also included the design and production of a wide range of publications for all five of the College’s graduate schools, undergraduate admissions, the president’s office, and other initiatives across the college.

The endowment campaign logo, identity and publication design program we created for this important national museum in Washington, DC conveys the same sense of respect, intensity and seriousness of purpose that the Museum’s architecture and exhibition design accomplish so successfully.

Catalog designed to accompany an exhibition at Miller Yezerski Gallery of video still images created by photographer Bill Burke. Full color throughout with saddle wire binding.

Identity, graphics and limited edition folio for an exhibition of collaged photographs by artist Julee Holcombe. Made in Chimerica merges original photographs by the artist from travels in China and America into imagined landscapes that embody the “angle of totality” ideal of depicting multiple perspectives, traditionally found in Chinese landscape painting.

A catalog of images and related writings from the Reverend Ambrose Mattingly Photographic Collection created for the Center for Western Studies at Augustana College and the American Indian Culture Research Center at Blue Cloud Abbey. Commissioned by Kodak as a demonstration document printed on a NexPress digital press.

Campaign identity and publications created to support Transcending Boundaries, a capital fundraising effort for the liberal arts college located just outside Baltimore, Maryland.

112-page catalog created to accompany an exhibition at The Parlor at Plainspoke — a gallery space we established in the building where our design studio is housed. Wish/Regret is an ongoing project by conceptual artist Lauren Gillette and features the wishes and regrets of 70 subjects — all expressed as pairings of black and white mugshot-style portraits made with a Hasselblad camera. Personal statements from the participants range from spontaneous and humourous to introspective and heartbreaking.

A catalog for the photographer’s first solo exhibition featuring provocative large-format portraits. The use of dramatically contrasted images and narrow pages partially obscuring images behind them, reinforce the “revealed” theme throughout the publication. Designed and published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same title hosted at The Parlor at Plainspoke gallery.

Exhibition catalog containing nearly 250 drawings of a stripped down antique armchair by Boston artist William Flynn. The series of drawings chronicle the evolution of the artist’s thinking about the Iraq war over a span of more than four years. 96 pages; casebound with die-cut, raw paperboard cover; exposed cloth spine.

The third installment of In Plain View, a visual journal designed and published by Plainspoke, presents a series of large format black and white photographs by New Hampshire based photographer Cheryle St. Onge. The publication includes gate-fold covers with tri-tone reproductions printed offset on uncoated paper. Natural Collections was released at the opening event for an exhibition of the photographs at The Parlor at Plainspoke gallery.

Depictions of the osprey, commonly sighted on 400-acre Chewonki Neck, have been a recurring symbol of this environmental education organization for nearly 100 years. The new symbol we created — part of a comprehensive branding initiative — is derived from a copper weathervane that sits atop one of the original campus buildings.

A viewbook publication was created to introduce the new identity and support student recruitment efforts for the Semester School. In keeping with the program’s mission, only FSC-certified and 100% post-consumer recycled paper stocks and soy-based inks were used in its production. Handwritten typography and design elements suggest the hands-on, do-it-yourself spirit of the school.

Booklet featuring portraits of quirky New Englanders photographed by Frank Clarkson. Alternating letterpress text pages and full color offset printed photo pages. Singer sewn letterpress cover.

Campaign identity, publications and various print items created to support Passion for the Climb, a capital fundraising campaign.

Photographer's identity and print items.