Graphic design for print
Even in this age of screens, every marketing plan still needs essential print materials—from brochures and business cards to signage and other promotional items. yesIsaid leverages relationships with trade printers to offer premium print and promotional products at hard-to-beat prices. From concept to execution, yesIsaid is your one-stop shop for your company’s next print campaign.
projects
Core values: corporate wall art for Blue Diamond Industries
Regular client Blue Diamond Industries contracted yesIsaid to create an installation of six panels explaining and illustrating the company’s core values. Multiple sets would be…Isometric illustration for the International German Olympics (IDO)
Goethe-Institut recently hired me to create an illustration for the 2022 International German Olympics (IDO), a scholastic competition and cultural exchange for students studying German…Be the Color: creating a logo and window graphics for an immersive art exhibition
Havrilla Designs recently commissioned me to create a logo and window graphics for Be The Color, an immersive art exhibition at his storefront floral studio…
client work
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Blue Diamond Industries
In 2024, Blue Diamond Industries, a manufacturer of USA-made, industrial-grade conduit based in Lexington, KY (and part of the Hexatronic Group) – engaged yesIsaid to design various items on an ongoing basis.
We’ve collaborated on print projects in a variety of formats, including a brand guidelines document, a trade show display, a sales brochure, and a six-panel, large-format core values display printed on aluminum panels for installation in each of the company’s five locations across the USA.
Goethe-Institut
The Goethe-Institut is the Federal Republic of Germany’s cultural institute, active worldwide. They promote the study of German language abroad and encourage international cultural exchange. yes.said was the house graphic designer for the Chicago branch (one of six in the US) between 2016 and 2019.
Following the clean, colorful brand design outlined in their corporate guidelines, yesIsaid produced flyers, posters, brochures, textbooks, event signage, and even event photography—much to the satisfaction of the organization.
Bandy Ranch Floral
Bandy Ranch Floral is a family-run, sustainable flower farm based just outside San Diego, California. They provide farm-to-table flowers and foliage to retail markets and professional floral designers across the United States. Their brand is wholesome, earthy, family-oriented, and somewhat sentimental.
The folks at Bandy Ranch engaged yesIsaid to design and produce an entire package of identity collateral, including business cards, letterhead and envelopes, presentation folders, and greeting cards (not to mention a new website and a promotional video!). The pièce de résistance was a double-sided flipbook-style product catalog that enumerates the varieties of flowers and foliage produced by the farm, along with the seasonal availability of each product.
Out-U-Go!
Out-U-Go! is a pet care franchise with locations in the Chicago and Denver metro areas. Their brand is bursting with fun, color, and love, aiming to convey that their professional dog walkers and cat sitters treat their clients’ furry families as they would their own.
Beginning in 2013 with only a logo and a color palette, yesIsaid helped evolve and define the company’s brand through countless projects—including posters, flyers, print ads, vehicle wraps, signage, office artwork, promotional items, apparel, dog toys, and more.
publications
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Deep Time Chicago Pamphlet Series
Deep Time Chicago is an art/research/activism initiative formed in the wake of the Anthropocene Curriculum program at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) in Berlin, Germany. The initiative’s goal is to explore one core idea: humanity as a geological agency, capable of disrupting the earth system and inscribing present modes of existence into deep time. yesIsaid collaborated with Deep Time and the Goethe-Institut to produce this series of pamphlets, featuring writings by Brian Holmes, Lorraine Daston and Andrew Yang, Caroline Picard, Ryan Griffis, Evan Graham, Jenny Magnus, Viviana de la Rosa, Oliver Sann, Julia Sharpe, Shawn Michelle Smith, Ellie Tse, and Guanyu Yu.
Chicago Art Journal
yesIsaid had the pleasure of working with grad students at the University of Chicago’s Art History Department’s annual scholarly publication for the final four volumes of its 21-volume run. Each full-color, perfect-bound edition came in at around 100 pages, and contained various articles on that year’s theme (relational art, temporalities, architecture, transparency).
The design features geometric shapes and lines, footnotes placed on the side and rotated 90°, and the publication’s lowercase cursive masthead designed by yesIsaid when we began CAJ’s art direction.
Artwork for Music
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Straylight
Survival Unit III
CD design for Straylight, a release by Survival Unit III on Michael Zerang‘s Pink Palace Recordings.
Gnossienne
Allos Musica
CD artwork for Allos Musica Ensemble‘s Gnossienne on James Falzone‘s Allos Documents label.
For Ed Blackwell
Hamid Drake / Michael Zerang
CD Design for For Ed Blackwell, a duo release by percussionists Hamid Drake & Michael Zerang on Zerang’s Pink Palace Recordings.
Offerings
Dan Mohr / Various
Cassette artwork for Offerings, a release by Dan Mohr with Kathleen Baird, Tim Kinsella, and Benjamin Mjolsness on Obsolete Media Objects. Screen print by Ground Up Press.
Split Single
Mako Sica / Zelienople
LP artwork for a split single by Mako Sica and Zelienople on Slow Knife. Distributed by Thrill Jockey Records.
A Cradle in the Bowery
Matt Christensen
LP illustration & design for Matt Christensen‘s A Cradle in the Bowery originally on Under the Spire Recordings.
Songs from the Big Book of Love
Michael Zerang and the Blue Lights
CD design for Michael Zerang & the Blue Lights’ Songs from the Big Book of Love on Pink Palace Recordings.
Hash Eaters and Peacekeepers
Michael Zerang and the Blue Lights
Cassette artwork for Michael Zerang & the Blue Lights’ Hasheaters and Peacekeepers on Pink Palace Recordings.
Sounds in a Garden
Wolter Wierbos / Jasper Stadhouders / Tim Daisy
CD artwork for Sounds in a Garden, a release by the trio of Tim Daisy, Wolter Wierbos, and Jasper Stadhouders on Daisy’s Relay Recordings imprint.