It’s been a big year (so far) for Thoburn Design & Illustration. On August 1, I left the safety and comfort of my “day job” to support this business full time. It’s a direction I was quietly being nudged in, but a plunge I was reluctant to take until I was pushed. I had grown […]
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Bass Coalition
The Bass Coalition is a summer workshop for Bass players and enthusiasts. One of their sponsors, NoTreble contacted me and asked if I could design a logo for the coalition. One of the biggest challenges that they mentioned was that it needed to appeal to both kinds of bass players, classical and electric. I was […]
Branding the Tea Party
Here’s a post sure to touch a nerve. For starters, I’m an artist and this is a blog about art, not politics (there’s plenty of those out there). Personally, I think art is much more interesting and is less likely to cost friendships. Within the past two years a movement started sweeping across America known as […]
Mechanics Logo
When I was asked to design a logo for the “Mechanics” something very different immediately came to mind then the final result (All I need is a miracle began bouncing around in my head). Designing this logo required some digging into American History. In the days before the Revolutionary War, Paul Revere organized the Mechanics, a group of […]
Scot Lienke – Professional Drummer
Scot, a professional drummer well seasoned in multiple styles (roots rock, rock-a-billy, blues, classic soul, old school funk, redneck jazz, contemporary Christian music, all flavors of country – honky-tonk, alt and contemporary) asked me to create a logo for him. We had worked together in the past on some promo posters for his band “Oz […]
Winchester Star Article
Our local paper, the Winchester Star did a little write-up on our design studio.