The Back Catalog: Media Design for Professionals

In an attempt to catch everyone up, we've decided to publish some highlights from our work over the past couple years here at doublescoop design.

Enjoy and be sure to send us an email if you'd like to see any of these samples in their larger versions.

Part Six: Media Design for Professionals

Page from an Asuka Book, copyright kpstudios, 2008

Probably doublescoop's most popular arena, the vast majority of our clients lie somewhere in this category. Unfortunately, it is the hardest to explain and the trickiest to show. Everyone from local photographers, to college universities, to international businesses have hired us to design various and needed graphic materials.

For example, Clearsnap, Inc., a large rubber stamp and craft company, hires us quite often to accomplish various design related tasks. We do everything from making templates (and making use of existing templates) to send to mold designers, printers and stamp plate makers, to designing and updating their packaging and labels, to keeping their annual wholesale catalog up to date, to acting as graphic liaison between their freelance artists and their manufacturers. Sounds lively, eh? But you and I both know it's these things that must get done and doublescoop's not above any task, great or small.

Photography studios hire us regularly, as well, to design print materials for them. We've made DVD covers, Thank You cards, custom coffee table books, price sheets, photo collages, and more. McGill University even hired us to design the DVD covers for their documentary, The Nutrition Project, after seeing work we had done for local photo house, kpstudios.

Below are some highlights.

Cover and sample pages from "Courtney & Brady" a wedding Asuka Book, copyright kpstudios, 2008
view the whole book here

Cover and sample pages from "Expecting Evelyn" a pregnancy Asuka Book, copyright kpstudios, 2008
view the whole book here

Senior photo collage, copyright kpstudios, 2008

DVD Covers for McGill's University's Nutrition Project, copyright 2008 & 2009

The Back Catalog: Photography & Illustrations

In an attempt to catch everyone up, we've decided to publish some highlights from our work over the past couple years here at doublescoop design.

Enjoy and be sure to send us an email if you'd like to see any of these samples in their larger versions.

Part Five: Photography and Illustrations

The Backyard, 4x5 film with computer manipulation, 2008

Which came first for doublescoop is debatable; the art or the design? With classic training in photographic technique and a liberal arts degree, heavy on the arts, our design team certainly can swing the bat when it comes to artistic expression. Specializing in large format photography, multi-media projects, screenprinting, and pen and ink illustration, we can range in output from realism and documentary to psychedelic and abstract, depending on which muse or client we're answering to on that particular day. Here's a sampling from current and recent projects.

Triptych from The Forest Lands Series, 4x5 film with Poloriod texturing, 2008
Another from the Forest Land Series; 4x5 film

Clubhouse Stagecoach, 4x5 film, 2008

Illustration commissioned for Anderson's General Store on Guemes Island, Pen & Ink, 2008
Illustration commissioned for Seattle University, Pen & Ink, 2007
egg in grass, digital image, 2008

The Back Catalog: Music Design and Layout

In an attempt to catch everyone up, we've decided to publish some highlights from our work over the past couple years here at doublescoop design.

Enjoy and be sure to send us an email if you'd like to see any of these samples in their larger versions.

Part Four: CD Design

Photograph from Karl Blau's Nature's Got Away, K Records, 2008

As artistic directors of knw-yr-own records we have had extensive experience in all aspects of designing and preparing music for sale (we even have a P.R. department!). From taking the photos to laying out the art work, from preparing the inserts to manually stapling each and every last one of them, we know what it takes to make music look good and hand-crafted. Depending on budget and aesthetic, that can mean screen printing or letterpressing it ourselves, setting up the work for an offset printer we trust, or even sending it to the local copy shop. We have decided to exclusively work using the most ecologically friendly means available to us here at knw-yr-own. That means using recycled cardstock "Arigato Packs" from Stumptown Printers in Portland, packaging that requires no glue or wasteful plastic. We use water based inks, instead of those based in plastic and utilize local printers who we know and respect.

As designers, though, we have worked in other, less noble, mediums as well. Most notably for independent music powerhouse, K Records, in the design of Karl Blau's latest album, Nature's Got Away.

Here is a small sampling of our work, in templates and in reality.

Arigato Pack Template for D+ On Purpose, knw-yr-own, 2008

Inserts (front & back, copy shop printing) & CD face for D+ On Purpose, knw-yr-own, 2008

Cover of No Band is an Island; Heck Fest Comp, (2-color screenprint on Arigato) knw-yr-own, 2008

Cover of Stuart & Caan's The Mayfly Dance (offset printing on Arigato Pack), knw-yr-own, 2009

Cover and CD face of D+'s On Purpose (1-color screenprint, 1-color letterpress on Arigato Pack), knw-yr-own, 2008

Draft of insert for Karl Blau's Nature's Got Away (on Stumptown template for 2-panel insert), K Records, 2008


Draft of insert for The Jesus Chord's Kelp Bong (on Bellwether Manufacturing's template for 4-panel insert), unreleased, 2008

Work in Progress... the gift machine's goodbye/goodluck, knw-yr-own, 2009

The Back Catalog: Posters and Flyers

In an attempt to catch everyone up, we've decided to publish some highlights from our work over the past couple years here at doublescoop design.

Enjoy and be sure to send us an email if you'd like to see any of these samples in their larger versions.

Part Three: Music Posters

Ladyhawk & Whalebones poster, August 25th, 2007
11x17, color laser print out



This is one of my favorite catagories from the vaults. Sometimes the most temporal of art forms are also the most enduring. Enter the band poster. Printed on the cheap, plastered up and torn down in a matter of weeks, they can make for the best of creative devices. Here are my some of my favorites from the Backporch Cafe's run.


As often as I can, I've posted both the full sized poster and their accompanying quarter page flyers.

Ladyhawk & Whalebones flyer, August 25th, 2007
quarter sheet, xeroxed




The First Annual Blackberry Festival
w/Karl Blau, Mt Eerie, and Woelv
August 25th, 2007
11x17, color laser print out

The First Annual Blackberry Festival

w/Karl Blau, Mt Eerie, and Woelv

August 25th, 2007

quarter sheet, xeroxed

The Immaculate Machine
September 4th, 2007
11x17, color laser print out

The Immaculate Machine

September 4th, 2007

quarter sheet, xeroxed

your heart breaks, Led to Sea
November 11th, 2007
11x17, color laser print out

your heart breaks, Led to Sea

November 11th, 2007

quarter sheet, xeroxed

Triumph of Lethargy Skinned Alive to Death, Tiny Vipers
November 11th, 2007
11x17, color laser print out

Triumph of Lethargy Skinned Alive to Death, Tiny Vipers

August 10th, 2007

quarter sheet, xeroxed

Karl Blau, Dashel Scheuler, Sub Cons
June 29th, 2007
11x17, black & white xerox



















The Department of Safety, an all-ages music venue come artist in residency program, hired us to design a music poster for them in 2007. We came up with these two. They decided on the latter.



Option #1
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Concern, PHOTOSYNTHESIS, Caulfield and His Magical Flute
January 1oth, 2008
11x17 color laser print

Option #2
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Concern,
PHOTOSYNTHESIS, Caulfield & His Magical Flute
January 1oth, 2008
11x17 color laser print

The Back Catalog: Business

In an attempt to catch everyone up, we've decided to publish some highlights from our work over the past couple years here at doublescoop design.

Enjoy and be sure to send us an email if you'd like to see any of these samples in their larger versions.

Part Two: Big Business

Watertown Pub and Grill, 2008

Branding. Identity. A logo is the calling card businesses of all sizes need to quickly and easily let their customers know who they are and what they represent. Interesting enough to be noticed and simple enough to be shrunk down to any size, the logo is both one of the most needed and hardest to find items in the world of business, and a great logo is an asset not to be undervalued.

Here are a handful of logos and business cards we have designed over the years for various clients.

The Backporch Cafe, 2007

Dog Island Boat Works, 2008

Inner Light Photography, 2007

Olympic Legal Services, 2008; b&w and color

proposed series for Anacortes Farmer's Market, 2008