Compendium
The Middle Ground Compendium holds a special place in my heart, in many ways is my ture creative playground.
What's more, The Middle Ground Compendium has bene through many permutations over the years, currently, its a thriving collection that recieves updates at least a few times a month. I love making things that exist regardless of thier ability to earn a return on investment or become a product. This is my collection of things I've made just because.
[86] entries, newest to oldest
Another exploration for the Gridular Typeface. This time for a mnemonic device for the phrase man shall not live on tech alone.
New badge for the brand, love how everything locks up. Good stuff!
Gridular is low-tech in-house typeface made for bold offline statements. More to come!
A super flourished hand lettering peice for all those tricky bags
A custom Ultimate Frisbee Disc for Middle Ground Made, 8 years in the making
The feeling of camping under a night sky and glowing moon
A lone backyard pine
A very coolorful mountain
A flag for Middle Ground Made, in accordance with GFBF standards
Every couple years a new Middle Ground Shirt is in order, this is the laest to spring forth.
My second attempt at a stained glass illustration, bit less abstact this go-around.
My first shot at a stained glass illustration, honestly, I love how this turned out.
Every so often I come across an idea that is central to Middle Ground Made, when that happens I make an icon. These represent a calendar and my slogan
As is the case with other entries, every so often I update the Middle Ground Made script hand lettering styling this si sthe first entry to include the word "made"
A few badges for a few snippets. Maybe I'll continue this trend...or maybe I won't
I guess I could have combined this with entry 208 but who's counting??
A brand kit for a place that doesnt exist
To Make Smooth
A family tree for the Hayes. I once tried to make this a sculpture, and learned first-hand how hard joinery can be
Funky lettering for a funky word
Nope! Don't wanna hear it!!
Rand a 50 Mile Backyard Ultra, only felt right to make my own badge for it
My third book release, what aspecial project for enrty 200
A brand Kit for the anual Hayes family Turkey Trot. All are welcome, not all survive...
A simple poster for a self-hosted 50k Fun Run
A simple poster for a self-hosted 50k Fun Run
For those who make things elsewhere...
Few of my works got accepted into Logo Lounge 15
Home, Sketch more scroll less, shopping, reading, elsewhere, writing, Snippets.
Perfectly sized for a bookmark!
Simple, effective, classic
Avoid the social media trojan horse
Latin for Never Lost Among The Trees
A quote from the infamous Dragn of the West
if I ever have a bookshop, this will be the primary badge
Just a couple of pencil shaped Ms
Weho knows what you'll make next
Stamp design for all those books I apparently be reading
A logo for a stamp, nothin' to see here
If you're a graphic designer and your family doesn't have a crest, what are you even doing??
An icon for your pocket sized journals
Hourglass eight pinted star, 'nuff said
An icon for an intentionally inefficient practice
An icon for this entire collection of work
An icon for the Ground Up Newsletter
An icon for all of those observational essays and fantastical myths I be writing
An icon for a failed expirement in posting on socail media
A brand kit for my tendancy to sprint steep hills
A badge collection for a Snippet I refurse to forget
A lock up including all the things
A couple of icons for my deepest held values for Middle Ground
An icon that combines two great things
An observational essay about truths
A small illustration for my Golden Birthday Marathon
A book about our questional relationship with modern media
An icon and badge for all those forgotten projects, not too dissimilar from these...
A recipe and recipe card for making batch-bre style coffee for two from a Hario v60
A bunch of icons for that Analog Hour thing I do
An essay about doing the things we find important
A brand kit for all my coffee related endevors
A short word, for when we can't stop the scroll
A brand kit for a small desk calendar
Cranberry Dash year one, see entry 199 for a year-two update!
A Brand Kit for when your brain is at its best
A Brank Kit for a podcast that doesn't exist
Script lettering for the third anniversary of Saturday Type Club
A brand kit for an in-house to do journal
An icon for being anchored by your home
A fat bird icon
An icon for your heart and soul
An icon and badge for a helpful reminder, made for the Helene Hurricane in September 2024
The first design for those in house to do journals
A small badge for a small truth
Fancy leaf, basic action
An icon for a fundamental cooking concept: mise en place
Brand Kit for THE BEST PLACE EVER
A lock-up for my neighborhood
Good badge, good icon, good saying
Get out there and start exploring!
Badge / lock up for all those projects I make
Cool stamp for all my books
Green and yellow sun, for green and yellow days
Sturdy lock-up for a flimsy idea
Like, what else could you even ask for??
The entry where it all began...
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