Today we're featuring a set of coasters made by Sean Tice.

CM: Thanks so much for sharing your coasters with us! What a wonderful way to hold on to the summer. Can you tell us a little about the photos you chose?

ST: Sure! I run a company called Brooklyn Slate, which manufactures slate cheese boards and coasters for restaurants and entertaining at home. The business keeps us really busy through the summer, so my girlfriend and partner Kristy and I usually tie in a little vacation time to any business trips we take. These photos are from those trips. This year we were fortunate to spend time in Vermont and Montauk, NY.

CM: Wonderful, who's the dog on the beach? 

ST: That's Garp, our English Labrador Retriever and company mascot. He loves playing fetch, so we hit the beach early that day to maximize play time.

Have you got some amazing sets of the summer too? Don't let them slip away, get them on stone coasters.

Written by Tash Wong

School is back in session! First year students at my alma mater, SVA IxD (more formally the MFA Interaction Design at the School of Visual Arts) got a special treat to welcome them. Christine Aaron, Assistant to the Chair and all round amazing person, hand lettered everyone their own personal coaster. 

 

 

 

Christine was kind enough to share a little of her process with us:

"I created these playful custom coasters for each of our incoming students to help welcome them to the MFA Interaction Design department during orientation week.

First, I sketched each student's name, and scanned the drawings in. Relying heavily on Adobe Illustrator, I initially began tracing all of the lines with the 'Pen' tool in Adobe Illustrator, and soon realized that we could preserve more of the original hand of the drawings (and save time!) by instead tweaking settings with the 'Image Trace' tool, which interprets raster images into vector. The vibrant colors are pulled from the MFA Interaction Design department's identity."

 

 

Thanks Christine! They turned out beautifully, those first years sure are lucky.

Want to make extra special coasters too? Just drop us a line!

Written by Tash Wong