(mostly cross posted at okaygreat)
So not too long ago I reminded all of my fellow Durhamites that the third annual DOUGHMAN is coming (and yes, it must always be capitalized – style guide y’all). A lot of you were probably thinking, well, that’s pretty damn cool, and all the eating stuff sounds awesome, but I could do without all the running and biking and water activity-ing and the what-not. Well fear not couch crusaders, because the DOUGHMAN is for lazy people too.
On the evening of May 29th, after all the competitive eating has completed, and those participating have had enough time to digest, the DOUGHMAN hEArTS Durham Banquet will take place at the Durham Athletic Park. Tons of great local restaurants (Piedmont, Toast, Fosters, Tosca, Locopops, etc) will be offering various dishes and local beer (Foothills, CBC, etc) will be flowing as well. Music, good people, good food, and a great cause – the Durham Inner City Garden and SeeSaw Studios will be the benefactors of the event.
The poster was an extension of the race poster’s aesthetic, so that a viewer who has seen the race poster around town for the last month or so will easily recognize that this is a new poster. The orientation changed, making it immediately noticeable that although it’s the same look and feel that it’s a new poster. Knowing the poster was going to be logo heavy with all the various sponsors and restaurants, I decided to make the top half fairly heavy as well to try to keep balance. Again, similar to the race poster, I wanted to create something that would demand your attention and force you to have to go up and read it, but that would also get the main information out there quickly. I’m looking forward to seeing it around town.
Pick up a ticket soon, cus they will most definitely sell out. See you all there, fat & happy.
(click poster to enlargificate)
Thanks to everyone who has stopped by this year! More great stuff to come in 2010, including this years’ 
Durham Book Rally Poster
Been a while since I’ve posted here – sorry folks – of course, you can find me every Thursday over on OkayGreat.
Anyway, I wanted to share a poster I did recently for the good people over at Urban Durham Realty. They organized an event to raise money and gently used books for the Durham Public Schools and asked me to help them promote with a poster. For some reason, which I’ll probably never understand, as they were telling me about the idea, the first thing that popped into my head was a pirate ship being suspended by a huge flying book. They said that they had no preference about what the poster looked like, as long as it had all the relevant info on there, so I pitched the idea to them and they said go for it.
I love it when clients can totally trust the designer – I’m under no illusion that this is an easy thing for them, but it’s certainly an honor when it does happen. And honestly, I think it’s not only an easier path for me, the designer, but also for the client as well. Letting me breathe and create freely often allows more interesting, fun, and creative solutions to emerge, and thus, more visitors, clicks, purchases, whatever. So a big thank you to UDR for being such an awesome client. Go buy a house from them (they are good at that too, I know from experience).