GIDEON NÄF print art

Monday, March 19, 2012

Luxy Farm Logo

Here are some logos I designed for my brother Jonathan and his lovely wife Daizy for their organic farm and CSA in St. Albert Ontario. The top two posted here are the ones we all like the most, however there are some good ideas in all of them. Special thanks to Nik Dudukovic for all the help and patience with my poor-ass photoshop skills. I will be featuring more of his work on the blog soon regarding the killer print production he has been working on at the Wallace studio.

Check him out here http://pilot5.com/

And of course the coolest farmers ever http://www.luxyfarm.com/

Monday, March 12, 2012

New Etching!

Oi, here's some new work from my the studio. This piece is called Down by the Bay. Soon to be printed in an edition of 20, this is the first of a continuing series that I am currently working on. It's about deep seeded psychological torment, the contemporary gaze, and how hard I like to laugh. More of these plus new woodcuts in the works. Yeah! Hugs & Kisses, High Fives & Personal Celebratory Dances,

-Gid

Thursday, February 23, 2012

More Commercial Works and so on...

As promised, here are some more examples of letterpress, design and illustration work of done over the last little while. As always all photographs have been taken with permission of my clients and are not to be used in any fashion unless authorized. Let's party.....

This is Khala Foster's business card. She is an incredible seamstress and fashion designer based in Ottawa. Her these cards were designed by the equally incredible Julie Hope. They were printed in two layers from polymer plates on 90 lb Mohawk Brilliant White and Staples Cardstock. They were then duplexed, folded and trimmed. Thank you Nicholas Kennedy (kick ass local letter-presser) and Essi Oenal (kick ass local bookbinder) for your assistance in this endeavour. Cheers!

Khala's link: http://khalamorgan.com/

Julie's link: http://www.countingwaves.com

Nicholas' link: http://tripprintpress.ca/

Essi's link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/booksbyessi/

Here is a sample illustration I'm doing for The Morals. If you haven't heard them yet, do yourself a favour:

http://www.themorals.ca/ & http://themorals.bandcamp.com/

They're from Barrie and absolutely rule.

Here is a last minute wedding/concert invitation I designed and printed last month. It was printed on 110lb Strathmore Soft White as two separate 5 x 7 cards.

Oh yeah, here are new business cards I ran for myself recently. Notice the umlaut? Yeah, it took me a complete different run to put them in there as they were printed from handset type. Geez, the things we'll do for pride, eh? Don't forget to check my etsy store and buy stuff, ya cheap b*stards! http://www.etsy.com/shop/gidnaf

Monday, January 23, 2012

Custom Works!

So for the last couple of months I've been busy doing custom art and printing jobs. For the record, all photos are intellectual & personal property of my clients and myself. These have been uploaded with their permission. Thanks so much!

Actually this first piece is a thank you card I made about a year and half ago for my wedding. Linocut with 18pt Old English handset type, printed on 110lb Strathmore Ultimate White paper.

This is a custom etching job I did for the very talented Yvonne Moir. She had me make this as a Christmas present for her boyfriend, the very talented John Elksnitis.