In August 2014, I won a contest to redesign the awning for a great Chicago dive bar called Cork Lounge. The original artwork from concept to completion took only a few days; however the process to get the actual awning installed took months, finally getting up on the building at the end of December!
BIG THANKS to my friend Erin for pointing out the contest, to Cork Lounge for appreciating my artwork, to PBR for being a source of inspiration and consumption, and to Chesterfield Awning Co for doing the gruntwork of printing and installing this beast!
As for the technical artistic process: I draw all the linework freehand, colored it in Photoshop CS6, and cropped and vectorized it using Illustrator CS6.
Here’s the awning in action…
The original linework…
Details…
