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From start to finish—designing a poster to celebrate The Gateway Arch’s 50th...
The Arch on its 40th birthday. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the “topping out” of Saint Louis’s incredible Gateway Arch. On a warm, sunny day in October 1965, a custom-built climbing derrick...
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From start to finish—Part 1: The research
Every week the Tremendousness creative team meets to share ideas, seek help, and get feedback. Sometimes we shows works-in-progress, sometimes we talk about interesting side projects or links we’ve...
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From start to finish—Part 2: The concept
Part II of V: The concept With a general idea of what we wanted to say—and specifically to get a good deal of discrete, lesser-known Arch facts into the piece—I began doing rough napkin sketches. This...
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From start to finish—Part 3: The blueprint
Part III of V: The blueprint So what’s a blueprint? It’s basically the design without the design. Well, to be specific, it’s the design without the final illustration and typography. That means we’ve...
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From start to finish—Part 4: The illustration
Being a side project, we fit the work for our tribute to the Gateway Arch in whenever we could. We’d started at the end of last year, so weeks and even months would pass with no progress. But back the...
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From start to finish—Part 5: The flightcheck
Part V of V: The flightcheck It takes a lot of sweat, a lot of time, often a lot of money, and possibly some blood and tears, but most every project eventually reaches that home stretch where you’re...
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Get your Arch posters here, folks!
We’ve been working on this for a while and it’s finally ready—and just in time. Posters are temporarily unavailable, sorry! Gateway Arch 50th anniversary poster 50 YEARS / 50 FACTS Love the Arch?...
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