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 Clint “Do you feel lucky, Punk?” The all-time tough guy, Clint Eastwood, in stunning black & white. Strong illustration of a piece of chiseled cinema graphic greatness. This stunning black & white image gave great life to this piece and style with the solid black and white areas in the hair. A real challenge to not show every strand but still convey the brillo-pad look of Clint’s Dirty Harry character.
I hope you enjoy this month’s featured piece and please leave me a comment with your thoughts! Watch for next month’s featured piece coming soon.
Thanks!
 Logo selected for new web site, Museum of Cinema, which is scheduled to go live later this year. Click the logo to visit the Facebook fan site. Congats to Museum Curator, Blake on his new endeavor!
Trade show exhibit solutions on the fly. The thing that is interesting about the hand sketched trade show exhibit solutions below is this. I was flown to Florida for a day long meeting with the event organizers and after a full day of meeting, was left in the conference room to create concept sketches before I left. No pressure. Created the sketches, flew back the next day and modeled the finals.
Illustrationmundo.com Accepts Illustrator Kevin Beck
 I am proud to be listed among other highly talented illustrators on Illustrationmundo.com. The site, a resource for the creative industry, highlights illustrators from around the world. They receive hundreds of applications every day and hand select talent to be listed. I am proud to a part of Illustrationmundo.com
Click here to visit my profile page.
TypeFace the Movie In today’s RUSH RUSH world it is refreshing to pause and reflect on the artisans of the day and the people that brought us the amazing type faces we peck away into our computers without a single thought of where they came from. Enjoy.
Dysautonomia Awareness Group Selects Logo
 Final logo selection The Texas Association of Dysautonomia Awareness (TADA) contracted KB Design to develop an identity for them. The group exists to accelerate and promote awareness, support research and provide education and information for autonomic nervous system disorders (Dysautonomia) with accurate information using various technology mechanisms to facilitators, hospitals, physicians, educators, universities, schools and medical and national communities.
Congratulations to TADA on the selection of their new logo.
12' wide x 16' tall SEG Graphic Creating a high impact graphic can be a challenge. How do you support the image, how do you produce the image, and most importantly, how do you ship something that BIG? Simple. Tension Fabric Graphics.
Almost all of today’s aluminum extrusion makers (Octanorm, AGAM, etc.) have a gasketed graphic retainer. This is a small groove in the extrusion that accepts a silicone rubber gasket. The gasket is sewn into the perimeter of a tension fabric graphic which can then be inserted into the extrusion retainer. Kind of like making a window screen, or for you old-timers, me included, like stretching a screen for screen printing.
The beauty to this tension fabric system is that it breaks down for shipping, and your graphic ships folded in a small package vs rolled onto a long tube. “But it will wrinkle!” you say. All the fabrics used in this process must have a small amount of stretch to make the system work. Wrinkles, if any, will fall out in a few hours after installation. The graphic shown here shipped folded in a box that was 24″x18″x18″. It took 2 men 1/2 hour to install it, and that was mostly being moved around, up and down on a forklift. (3 men if you count the forklift driver).
Don’t shy away from tension fabric images and don’t think that printing on fabric is less than desirable. Fabric ROCKS! The advances in fabric printing have been outstanding. Look to your vendors for samples of the latest fabrics and printing techniques.
Happy graphicing!
This is what you get when you spend $40 on a cheap banner stand. This after one use. The aluminum on this unit is so thin that I can twist the stand by holding each end and twisting. What has happened in this photo is the receptacle that holds the pole upright, is now bent out of shape. When placed into the hole, the pole now wobbles and the graphic will lean back too far. Spend your money wisely. Spending a little more up front will save you a lot in the future.
Banner stands are basically a hyped up version of your Grandmother’s roll-up blinds, just reversed.
If you look at the ends of your banner stand, you will notice a small rectangular “tab” sticking out of one end. This “tab” is what keeps your graphic retracting. What happens is this. You have taken down your display, graphic neatly rolled up inside, soft shipping bag in hand, and you slip the end into the bag and drop it in. Innocent enough. When your banner stand came to that abrupt stop on the floor, you drove that tab into the banner stand and released the tension of the spring inside. Now, at your next event, your graphic suddenly will not retract. The tab is probably still in place and looks normal, but what has happened inside can only be repaired with the proper tools and patience. Most are repairable.
When purchasing banner stands, look for designs that have the ends protected. Spending a little more now will save you costly repairs and frustration in the future.
When setting up your files for output, try to work 1:1. If you can’t, at least add a note in the margin or edge of the file stating the scale factor the file has been created in. For example, “This file is 1/2 actual size”. This will help us in determining the final output size more easily.
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