OVERHAUL DESIGN SHOP

The launch party

Thanks everyone for coming out to our studio launch party. If you missed it, most of our art will be up throughout the month, please feel free to stop by and check it out. A special thanks goes out to Joel for providing us with hours of great music.

The invite incident

So we wanted to create an invite for our studio launch party that tied in with our art show; featuring a series of illustrations constructed out of black artist tape. Erik came up with the idea of wrapping boards with tape and screen printing on them. "They would be super custom and hand-done; totally Overhaul's style." So everything was going as planned; the printing went smoothly I even heat set the ink just to be extra sure that it would stick. I stacked them, wrapped them and brought them down to the studio to mail out. As I unveiled them to show Erik, it became evident that our lovely invites had been blessed by the happy accident fairy. Who would have guessed that it probably isn't the best idea to print on tape specifically design for masking off painting projects? So if you happened to be one of the lucky ones to receive our "custom hand-done invites" and found that some key information had flaked off in the mail…enjoy! Overhaul Launch Party, Thursday, April 1st, 7-10pm, 412 NW Couch, Suite 411. Hope to see you there.

Aries 2010
time for a tetanus shot

Rust and Metal. Two of our favorite things at Overhaul and why we couldn't have been more excited to be involved with the Aries Project. Aries 2010, was an extensive archival project commissioned by Nike Snowboarding’s Michael Hernandez and curated by Nemo's Trevor Graves meant to commemorate and educate on the history of snowboarding. We were contacted to design supporting display and propping solutions for the event held in Vancouver, BC during the Olympics. Display tables, large image bases, propping elements and mannequin stands were designed and fabricated with a unique assortment of found and re-purposed scrap metal and equipment. This structural language drafted on the Aires 2010 Time Capsule designed by Brian Addison Elliot. The event was a huge success. Everyone was happy and we got a chance to hit the junkyards and turn otherwise discarded materials in to some pretty cool display pieces.

defcon 2010 catalog

Here are a couple of our favorite spreads from this year's Defcon catalog. We went with a punk rock zine look and feel. Custom Sharpie type courtesy of "Angry Erik".