All of our printed work will be featured here. Everything from posters to postcards, photos to illustrations, and everything in between.
RageHaus Promotional Postcards (Derek & Kim)
As our venture grew, we decided we’d better have something to promote ourselves. We constructed some letters from cardboard, had a photo shoot, added some layers, and we had our cards. These come free with any order from our Etsy shop and also feature a personalized note to the buyer. Pretty awesome.
Very, Merry UnBirthday Invitations (Derek)
Derek has been throwing me an Unbirthday celebration for the past two years. This year, he designed an invitation. The front design of the invite is based off the note in the Mad Hatter’s hat. Beautifully typeset and all screen printed.
S’amuser Avec Le Français (Derek)
This project is a set of five prints, each showcasing a different French idiom and each with it’s own distinctive flourish. The flourishes are inspired by the cover of this 1959 Dictionary we picked up awhile back. The prints measure 5.5″x4.25″. In gold ink, the phrases are screen printed on five different colors of French’s 100 lb cover stock. In all, there are 170 sets. Each set is wrapped in parchment paper and sealed with wax bearing the RageHaus monogram. The back of the package includes literal translations, which may seem familiar because these particular French idioms have similar English counterparts. Overall, my goal with this project was to create a playful juxtaposition between the decadent visual elements of the prints and the literal translations of the idioms. So, I welcome you to learn a little French, enjoy a touch of decadence and snicker at the absurd. Click here for the full post including the phrases.
Trust Me Poster (Derek)
“Trust Me” (25″x19″) Screen Print on 100lb Speckletone Starch Mint. Limited set of 20 prints — Hand signed and individually numbered.
It’s old news that We (the United States) are in troubled economical times. The value of the dollar is down, debt is at an all time high, and bankruptcy is around every corner. This print is a reaction to the handling of our nations money on all levels. The Peoples’ trust was betrayed.
The phrase on the top is written in our chosen political and financial vernacular, Latin. Meant to sound official and even mysteriously intimidating, the phrases literally translates to, “Hell calls to Hell” or “One Hell summons another” One bad deed leads to another. The phrase at the bottom is most commonly the precursor to some sort of dubious or calamitous action. Meant to be reassuring, but often causing more unrest to the recipient.
The Government’s response to the money problem is ironically more money. Spend more, print more. And that’s exactly what we did, print more. Trust me, we do this all the time.
Zombie Jesus (Kim)
Did Jesus come back as a zombie? Who knows, but while you ponder that question check out this print that is a spoof of the infamous 1978 Dawn of the Dead poster. This two color print measures 7″ x 10.5″ and is screen printed by hand in our studio. Printed on 100 lb cover weight French’s paper in Speckletone, Madero Beach. Run of 50, numbered and signed.
VPAR Awards Program (Derek & Kim)
This is an awards program for the Virginia Peninsula Association of Realtors. Each year they have an awards ceremony based on salesmanship and our company designs the program. The board for VPAR always chooses the theme and this year they went with masquerade. I ended up designing most of the booklet but Derek gave me a push in the right direction with the cover design he proposed.
This year it went down an entire signature making it 12 pages. Although we had less to design, it was still hectic trying to work on this and close a magazine.
Spread the Love (Derek & Kim)
Derek and I wanted to start the new year off by focusing on doing more independent projects that satisfy our creative needs. So, we thought we would take advantage of the upcoming holiday, Valentine’s Day. With these valentines we are trying to capture the nostalgic spirit of when we received valentines as children. Each envelope contains a valentine written to that person as well as three blank valentines and envelopes for them to do with as they wish. We screen printed both sides of the cards and hand wrote each message. We ask those who receive these to help us Spread the Love. We ended up sending these out to about 50 people including family, friends and those we admire.
Ambigram (Derek & Kim)
We are very late at getting this project posted but with the holidays and the new year we have been extra busy. This is a business card that Derek and I designed for my mother back in December as a Christmas present.
My mother has been an artist all her life and has explored a variety of mediums. For the past few years she has gotten into working with glass. She primarily focuses on creating collages out of layers of glass, some of it being fused. Most of her pieces include wire wrapped in organic shapes around her pieces. In a few words her work is abstract, colorful and bold.
With my mother’s new medium, she was in need of updating her image. We thought a new logo and business card would help. Her work can be appreciated from all angles, in fact my mother’s work has been hung incorrectly in galleries because it is so abstract. To represent this aspect of her work, Derek took her initials and created an ambigram as her logo.
I then took the ambigram and gave it some of the characteristics of glass. First, by layering the ambigram as three transparent colors that overlap to create other colors. This mimics the transparent nature of glass as well as represents the artist’s technique of layering glass to get an interaction between various colors. I also fell in love with the idea of making just the logo glossy to really make it look like glass. So, we had the card printed with a spot UV coating over just the logo so it pops against the white matte background.
The information surrounding the logo is designed to emphasize the ambigram because as you turn the card to read the bottom line of text, the logo reads the same. This forces the card holder to physically interact with the card rather than just passively read it. The other side of the card continues this concept by repeating the design rotated 180°.
Labor Of Love (Derek & Kim)
This is our wedding invitation that Derek and I designed. We decided to have a small wedding with 35 guest who were our closest family and friends. The handmade invitation was designed to embody the intimacy of the event.
We chose to create small books because of my husbands fascination with book-making as well as my desire to share our story. The piano-hinge book is completely hand-crafted, other than the printed text contained inside the book. The cover was the result of a block print that ties into the theme of making each invitation personal since no two prints are exactly the same. As you open the book it takes you on a journey, to your left the invitation and directions are tucked in the front cover pocket. Then looking to your right, the cover page of the book draws the invitee into three writings. The first two are separate accounts of our love for one another with personal thoughts and events. The third is a collaborative writing that details our engagement. With the story ending, the invitee is taken to the back cover pocket where the reply card is located. We assembled 50 of these invitations in all.
After designing the invitation we wanted the wedding program, favor and thank you card to have a cohesive design that tied them into the design of the invitation.
Class Act Cleaning (Derek & Kim)
Logo and business card design for a Class Act Cleaning.
SnoStop (Derek & Kim)
Logo design for a Hawaiian shave ice business.
Invitation for Twiddy Realty (Kim)
Invitation design for a tour of homes and luncheon hosted by Twiddy Realty.
Homes & Land Ad Work (Derek & Kim)
Here are several ad designs that we are pretty happy to share with others.
Snail’s Trail (Derek & Kim)
Business card design for a whimsical glass artist.
Derek Munn Logo/Letterhead (Derek)
Before leaving college, my last assignment was to create an identity for myself. Using Rockwell as a base, I created a symbol from my initials “DM” that resembled something of a space invader. The symbol perfectly combined my two favorite hobbies; typography and video games.
Kimberly DuFord (Kim)
Logo, resume and business card design for myself after graduating college. The organic shapes along with the fuchsia accents not only reflect my style of design, but my personality as well.
Quickie Condoms (Kim)
Product design for individually packaged male and female condoms. The design targets young adults such as college students who would not only appreciate the humor and the novelty of the product but the beneficial protection as well.
God Machine CD Packaging (Derek)
Interpreting one form of art into another is a daunting task. Using the gritty, cold, computational music and lack of lyrics as inspiration, a CD concept was developed.
Kitchen Barn Billboards (Kim)
Rough design concept for a series of billboard designs for a kitchen gadgets shop called Kitchen Barn.
Maverick Branding (Derek)
When asked to brand and position a BMX bike company, Maverick was conceived. With an attitude stemming from it’s namesake, Maverick BMX embodies the free spirit of riding for the joy of riding. Looking to make the brand family friendly and suitable for all ages, the intense and often aggressive approach was dropped in favor of a brighter color palette.
Four Humors (Kim)
These are the different pages for a simple interactive piece that simulates the structure of a website. The theme is based on the Four Humors and each is separately represented with text and imagery.
Equal Sweetener Branding/Packaging (Derek)
A few years ago, Equal got a new look. My professor took this as an opportunity to give a re-branding assignment. In hopes of giving Equal an updated look, I used a san-serif and supplemented the packets with an abstracted strawberry-heart to imply the health benefits of a sugar substitute.
Chrysler Museum Calendar (Kim)
Calendar of events for the month of August at the Chrysler Museum of Art.
