one more this year

don't miss it. awendaw green barn jam. drink it up--the music that is.

tighten up

well christmas has come and gone and i know we all got cool stuff, great memories and funny stories to tell. i sure do. one in particular: my niece, emily, drew my name this year (the shuler family side) and she surprised me with a kickass belt buckle. a sumo wrestler! literally kickass! i will be wearing this throughout the new year and beyond. she also gave me the jackie brown collectors dvd. one of my faves. thanks em.

barn jam wed., dec 22

yall put on some warm clothes, pack ya some coolies, or hotties whatever you like, and saunter on out to the weekly awendaw green barn jam tomorrow night. there will be some fine music and general comaraderie will be there too. oh and merry christmas.

hipstamatic scrooge

arrrrgh.

miss the fair

as you can tell i am just going through some older photos and posting them for the hell of it. i missed the fair this year. first time in 25 years. dammit, i love the fair. especially these two ticket chicks.

words are not needed.

its that time of year...

eatin! i pull this photo out about once a year--christmas time--since it is a shot of the greatest pastrami known to man created in katz deli nyc. this was from christmas day a couple years ago and it still makes my mouth water. you can actually have them ship you some of this amazing pastrami. go get some!

a clio!

my long time, awesome hilarious friends, sean & brandy sullivan, gave me a freakin clio for my birthday! how about that? i got a clio! i know it came from a flea market in nyc and it is for a public service announcement from 1996 for a partnership for a drug free america (you gotta love irony)by some ny agency--but i still have my own clio. thanks yall!

wine & food festival

i decided this year to try for the wine and food festivals' poster contest. i had some time, and idea i liked and mark and i decide to silkscreen for the competition. well, we didn't win, we got an honorable mention. oh well, win some, lose some. a very talented seth deitch won. congrats bro. great work. anyway, attached is a pic of the idea we had that mark and i screened. ideas get in your head and you just gots to get them out!

big 5-0

on november 26, 2010 i turned a corner. fifty that is. my amazing daughter, tillye turned 21 on the following day, the 27th, so we celebrated with a shuler chalet gathering around the fire pit, rockin hard live music in the garage and blowing up 4000 firecrackers in 10 seconds. sweet! (thanks heather!) it was big fun. the picture here is an undescribably amazing gift my right hand man and design compadre, mark lawrence, created, designed, silkscreened for this momentous b-day. what a great surprise. thanks mark.

big ups!

to eddie white and his amazing group of friends, volunteers, musicians, and on and on who helped make the festival a success. i love working with eddie and his folks and creating the art for his projects. if anybody out there wants some merch, i'm sure you can contact awendaw green and get some. get some! thanks again eddie for letting us be a part of your world. rock on my friend. g

awendaw green music festival

i got all this canning done so there could be a poster for the big awendaw green music festival.
yall come on out an support local music as well as the wando high school band, the red cross, and lots more good causes. we designed tshirts too so bring some cash. eddie white is keeping this town in live music mode. we love you eddie.

just have to

brag a little. a couple weeks ago at the aiga inshow we had some work selected to appear in the show. check em out. great clients get great work. we love you guys. g

on the way to the wall

on the way to the wall, we stopped to urinate, get some gas, etc. while in the bathroom (and i always take some sort of camera with me, you never know what you will see) i noticed the prophylactic dispenser and their were these 3 items for sale. genuine horny goat weed? never heard of that. must be the new spanish fly. and genuine too. someone wrote in "sexual positions" i guess that they thought it was a voting booth. and the tingler ring: "diamonds are out! give her the tingler ring!" the color/design makes it feel industrial, maybe it was some sort of new flexible metal or something. great illustration though. anyway, they made me laugh. so maybe you will--maybe not.

roger waters "the wall"

last thursday me, robin and our good friends, robin mcadam and david richards headed to atl for the roger waters, the wall at philips arena. if you have a chance to see this show, run don't walk to your nearest cpu and order those tix. i have always loved the album, the wall, by pink floyd so i was stoked to check this out. well as a designer, this was a wet dream. sonic perfection mixed with surreal and stunning visuals, technologically flawless, on a huge scale, this concert kicked some giant ass! the photos attached i shot with my iphone so down't expect much but it will give you a feel for scale. i also included a shot with the house lights up after the wall had been torn down. i am so glad my buddy dave talked me into buying these tix several months ago. it was a true unforgettable experience.

hold your head high

this past friday was the annual aiga-sc inshow awards. we were lucky enough to have several pieces chosen for the show but i am proud mostly of our intern, jay bush, who scored the big best of show-student award for his black crowes poster. i asked him to design it for the show a while back and then him and mark commenced to silk screen it. great job. great work.

a fragile tomorrow

new poster for the highly talented band, a fragile tomorrow, who will be making an acoustic duo tour this january. if there is anybody reading this, next time you hear about these guys playing around town or in a town near you, go see them. you will be better for it.

rubber worm molds

found these a while back. i remember when i was a kid my dad used to make his own rubber worms by pouring the hot colored rubber into molds like these. these look like some weird chart. the would make great graphs. i thought they were cool, its probably just me.

artist market this saturday

kristen at the music farm decided a couple years ago that we have such amazing craftsmen here in chucktown that the world famous music farm should have a market day. mark designed and silkscreened the poster for the event. head to the farm saturday (10am-3pm) and check out all the cool stuff for sale. the holidays are around the corner and my birthday is in a couple weeks.

the road of ideas keeps goin

working tirelessly over here on some great jobs. alot of cool printed work to show you guys but my damn camera is crapping out on me. anybody out there have a suggestion for a good camera to shoot table top stuff? always open to ideas.

more husk

i totally spaced on one of the giant cogs that kept the gears moving with getting husk up and running. buff ross, owner and emperor of alloneword design worked with me and the folks at husk to create the husk website. a stellar job, i must say. sorry for the delayed kudos buff, you know i love ya.

farm to table

opening on monday will be the long awaited debut of Husk Restaurant, the new restaurant from the neighborhood dining group featuring chef sean brock of McCradys fame. this restaurant is the brainchild of chef brock and david howard that celebrates seans' hand-picked purveyors--all from the south. the menu will change daily, depending on the fresh ingredients he has received. we have really enjoyed working with david and sean on the branding and identity of this amazing eating establishment. other premiere folks involved in getting this thing up and running were melany mullens of wagstaff (pr kings), david richards architect (personal friend and a real smart hokie),
and tommy brooks of brooks sign. yall try and visit this place soon, it will be worth it.

back in the saddle

well, i'm back from our outer banks annual fishing trip. we went north this year, chicamacomico, to be exact. first time in 25 years we have stayed there. we thought the fishing was going to be stellar up north but those damn fish went south on us, literally. so i can tell with certainty that we will be back fishing with our friend jay cavanaugh, on hatteras island, on the bite me this spring and next fall. although the fish were not there and the wind was blowing a gale all week we managed to have large, large time. thanks OBX, see you soon.

obx bound!

when the goin gets tough the tough head for the outerbanks of nc for our annual good ole boy tuna fishing and other stuff tour. yep folks, i will be outta town all next week enjoying the outdoors, catching fish, and general camaraderie with some of the best. we have been bustin ass over here creating some great stuff for some great clients but i need this break away from the pointin and clickin. i will have my trusty sketch book, but where we will be, electronics don't work. which is good for you...sometime. no new posts til i get back. hopefully posts with pics of lots of fish. later yall.

barn jam, wed. oct.20

once again, every week, eddie white and the boys at awendaw green bring out the tunes. come this weds and enjoy.

my main man

here at gsgd i have been fortunate to have amazing employees throughout the years. my main man, senior designer (his title) mark lawrence, has been vectorizing, conceptualizing, drawing, hanging and havin fun over here for many years. recently mark came across a call for entries for the the knology/musc hollings cancer center 3rd annual 5k pajama run/walk. he decided to enter. being the smartest designer here, he came up with the brilliant idea of making posters out of pajama material with a tyvek sheet(just like runners attach to their shirts) pinned to the poster. mark screened the tyvek sheets and made 5 posters to enter. his intention was to produce 50 or so, all by hand. the costs was a minimal and probably equal to what it would cost to print posters. 5 to 8 different pajama pattern flannel material glued to a piece of chipboard. needless to say, he blew the mind of the folks responsible for judging the poster contest. they loved it but did not understand the process at all or how cool this promotion would be. needless to say, he didn't win. i think this idea is amazing and really cool, so i took some pics of the 5 he created and posted them here. enjoy.

equality baby equality

going up this week is the first of 3 billboards we created for affa. the alliance for full acceptance.
these guys are working hard to help people realize that even though we may all be different, we are all human and deserve to be treated that way. a great organization and i was truly proud to be asked to create this series. each billboard has a specific web link to inform and add some humor to this serious subject. our amazing friend and seriously talented writer, jenny badman, was a huge part of this. thanks jenny, for everything. anyway, the 3 boards will not be going up all at once, so stay tuned...

great weekend

glad to be back at it. here are 3 logos we just finished for the great folks at stevens towing company. we also created a tradeshow booth and some cool printed materials that go with it to help these guys keep transport big things. bos smith has been awesome to work with and you know how much i enjoy working on big heavy metal machinery jobs. these guys deal with giant --i mean giant (500-1000 ton stuff) things. the stevens transprot is for their ship, the coastal venture. so, real soon you will see that logo on the bow of this unique shipping vessel. keep moving the big stuff boys.

busy busy busy

things are rockin around here. workin on many cool things, logos, posters, packaging, art and more art. dog party this weekend. and its shaping up to be a good one.

things are rockin around this town

barn jam, wed, oct 6, more kickin music from the never tired folks at awendaw green. this town is brimmin with talent so go out and support them. my barn jam posters are going to start movin in a direction that i haven't figured out yet. so keep an eye to the shed blog here because you may see something you truly detest. rock on my friends, it's october, the greatest month between september and november.

garage cuban band

i was pleased to be asked by my friend, the incredible multi instrumentalist, bill carson to design and screen a poster for the garage cuban band featuring Jack Burg, Bill Carson, Jonathan Gray, Nathan Koci and Ron Wiltrout. make sure you don't miss their show at the pour house sun, oct 30. cuban food and some smokin hot cuban jams.

a socially responsible company

just finished a new identity for equiscript, a socially responsible pharmacy program that generates revenue their clients can use to help your neighbors afford their medications. great company and fun people to work with. everything we are working on will be coming live soon. look after your neighbors, we're all in this together...

the relic hunter

spent all day saturday diving the edisto river fossil and relic hunting with an old college friend, gary koger, who has been a professional history relic and fossil hunter. him and i went to a spot he has been before on the edisto and we dove for 2-3 hours. we burnt a couple tanks each and snorkeled in some shallower water as well. from his perspective, we didn't do so well but i thought it was great. at right is a sharks tooth i found in about 8-10ft of water. it is small by most standards, approx 2" tall. found a few of these, gary found a big meg, around 4" tall. we also found, sawfish teeth, ray plates, whale vertebrate, tuna tails, sunglasses, lost key rings, a cell phone and countless other schwagg. it was a fun and educational day. i look forward to more relic hunting real soon.

spotted on google earth?

now this would be a first. to have logo we designed to be photographed from a satellite? it could happen. and it might. its all part of the halloween corn maze where some really smart folks used gps to carve the new identity and slogan into the corn field. pretty freakin cool.