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they’re up

savitao — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:03:07 +0000

They’re up on the wall and Salts Cure is up and running. We went over the weekend for brunch and it was delish. Fav was the smoked albacore appetizer.

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Canele Menu Board

savitao — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:16:14 +0000

Finally got around to chalking up the menu board. I used liquid chalk which looks better, is easier to apply but close to impossible to remove. Hopefully they won’t need to change the items anytime soon.

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Salt’s Cure Wall Photography

savitao — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:32:34 +0000

I was recently commissioned to come up with an idea for the wall art for Salt’s Cure, a butcher shop/restaurant set to open sometime next month. Had a lot of fun with this. Took a little trial and error finding the right size grains of salt and making the stencils so they would impress a clean imprint. I decided to go with the 3 animals they cure the most. These shots will each be blown up and hung across the main wall.

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lovely old letterheads

savitao — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 22:30:49 +0000

Found this website for letterheads: www.letterheady.com

(Oh and while I was looking around I found a great design blog by James Phillip Williams who has some cool typographic and design collections – www.amassblog.com)

A few of my favorites…

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Vintage cook booklets

savitao — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:47:26 +0000

Here are the cooking ones…

“Brandywine canned mushrooms and how to serve them” – 1946
“Mogan David: Recipes the whole family will enjoy” – 1950
“21 new ways to serve hamburger” – 1960′s
“Doxsee’s clam recipes” – ?

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Vintage Wine Booklets

savitao — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:26:37 +0000

Had great find at the thrift store today. Sitting on a the shelf was a stack of vintage cooking and wine booklets from the 40′s to the 70′s. Here are the two best wine ones. The first one, “Wine is Fun”, is from 1943. The second, “How smart are you about wine?”, is from 1945. Both are lithographs. Both are totally hilarious. Take a close look at the pics below.

My friends Sacha and Jason who are designers and also have an amazing wine blog (Swirl Smell Slurp) are going to inherit these two. They are calling their names.

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waiting in airport

savitao — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:54:09 +0000

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waiting in costco

savitao — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:59:57 +0000

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Rebranding and packaging of Peter and the Wolf

savitao — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:02:32 +0000

I recently designed this double CD (English and Mandarin) of Peter and the Wolf, a classical music children’s CD in which animals represented by different instruments take a musical journey. The story is narrated by notable names such as Bill Clinton and Sophia Loren. Peter and the Wolf had to be completely rebranded so I went with a modern title treatment and color pallet that matched the feel of the forest without being too dark. Such a fun project. Ruel Pascal did an amazing job with the illustrations.

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Underwood Typewriter

savitao — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 02:15:40 +0000

Found another typewriter at an estate sale. I swear I’m not obsessed with typewriters or estate sales. It’s just that the two sales I’ve been to both had a beautiful, irresistible machine. Maybe I’ll start collecting them? Besides stickers and erasers I’ve never collected anything and probably shouldn’t now (plus Ravi’s not fond of the idea) but these are just too good. From what I’ve discovered, this is an Underwood Noiseless 77, 1939 and was the same model that Hemingway used. Sweet.

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