Here are a couple of drawings, one is from this weekend, sitting in a coffee shop looking across the street. I keep finding old buildings around here that I had not noticed. There are a ton of character homes, one day I’ll spend a day and ride my scooter around and draw a bunch of [...]
This is a quick sketch of a brick building on Van Horne St. I had a few minutes to myself on Sunday and decided to draw a cool building. I’m running out of cool buildings in Cranbrook to draw, going to have to do some road-tripping to draw stuff soon. For now enjoy this little [...]
In my first post I covered some nice typography that I found in alleys in the downtown core of my hometown. Here I want to cover some others that linger in the shadows of Cranbrook waiting to be discovered. This first sample appears to be sand-blasted or hand-carved. It is at the back of a [...]
Every day I stare out my window at one of the more interesting ‘architectural’ landmarks in Cranbrook. Standing out above the usual sea of box-stores, industrial complexes, and low-lying retail spaces, Salvador Ready Mix has been gracing the local sky-line for decades. The nice towers and silos give it some great negative space, and I’ve [...]
A few months ago we were contracted by the Cranbrook Public Library to design a new website for them. The exciting part is the group in charge of the design have been on board with something that is forward-thinking. As a whole, libraries have terrible websites. I find this to be counter-intuitive. My brother has [...]