Three Bears Design

Blood Brother

charliebear — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 22:45:53 +0000

We’re proud to be helping our friends at Endeavor Media with some visuals for their new film, Blood Brother. I first met the movie’s main character, Rocky, when we both lived in Pittsburgh. Go check out their brand new site.

Let Yourself Be Huge

charliebear — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 22:38:42 +0000

Here is our cover for the new Cloudkicker album Let Yourself Be Huge. The album is being released on CD & limited edition 10″ colored vinyl. You can purchase the CD, as well as a t-shirt and poster we made, right now on Bandcamp. The vinyl will be out in a few weeks.

Gig-Posters for Sale

charliebear — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 20:58:55 +0000

Lately I’ve been screen-printing plenty of Gig-Posters for some bands that are friends of ours. Most recently I’ve finished a poster for Dark Dark Dark. These prints are all very limited, of no more than 50 copies each. I’ve just made them available to you in our online store. Go check ‘em out!

La Dispute Website

charliebear — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:13:00 +0000

This project has been in the works for almost a year now. Working with a band that has internationally toured for the last 9 months out of the year, can well… prolong these things. But, finally, we’re proud to have launched this new website for La Dispute. We’ve timed the launch alongside their new album Wildlife, which is due out in October on No Sleep Records. Go check it out, and respect the awesome programming-magic that Stevebear was able to make a reality; horizontal sliding, background image transitions; custom scroll-bars; damn.

Additionally, the band was featured on NPR’s All Songs Considered today, debuting the first track from Wildlife.

mewithoutYou Gig Posters

charliebear — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 20:39:06 +0000

If you couldn’t make it to mewithoutYou‘s show last night in Akron, you definitely missed out. But you can still have a piece of the evening, as a very small quantity of the gig-posters are now available online. The image is based from lyrics to their song Cattail Down. Aaron Weiss and I originally had a similar idea for a t-shirt design last summer, but we ended up pursuing other ideas. So I decided to re-visit this concept to use for a poster. The closing verse to the song is written out along the bottom part of the image.

The prints are 25″ x 19″ on French Speckletone Cream paper, 100wt. 3-colors, hand-printed, limited edition of only 50 prints, signed, stamped & numbered. The posters are available to purchase in our online store, here.

Frightened Rabbit Poster

charliebear — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 18:16:47 +0000

Grant & Scott from Frightened Rabbit asked me to make a poster for one of their shows on this upcoming tour, so I gladly chose Cleveland. For the image, I referenced lyrics from their song Skip the Youth, “I’ve been digging that hole tonight, on my knees beneath the moon…” You can grab a silkscreened print at the Cleveland show of their current tour, or our online store after. Limited to 50, hand-pulled copies. See more images on my personal blog.

Buzzbin Interview

charliebear — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 19:32:58 +0000

If you’re in Northeast Ohio (where we are), there’s an interview with Adam & I in the current issue of Buzzbin Magazine. Our friend Aaron Fowler was kind enough to interview us for a Designer Spotlight in the Art section. The article is also available online, here. Also check out or friends Low in the Sky on the cover story (page 26) and Trouble Books & Mark McGuire on page 44.

The Great Lakes Collective

cherylbear — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 03:27:10 +0000

I recently finished up this shirt design for a record label out of Michigan called The Great Lakes Collective. I have to say, sometimes I really enjoy the challenge of working for a client and solving the problem of creating what they’re imagining. In this case, a wise blue owl nestled in a tree shaped like Michigan.

Making the Netherlands proud: Lea Vervoort.

adambear — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:59:04 +0000

We recently had the distinct pleasure of being asked to act in an advisory role by the talented Lea Vervoort, an illustrator, designer, and student at the Academy of Art and Design St. Joost, in the South of the Netherlands. For one of her classes, Lea was required to re-design the packaging for a favorite album of hers. Apparently, Lea’s not afraid of facing down challenges – she chose to re-design Takk by Sigur Ros (also a favorite band of ours), an album whose layout is already considered by many to be a fine example of beauty in packaging.

Encouraging Lea in her creative process was a blast for us – she genuinely took our suggestions and made them entirely her own, creating packaging that we would have been proud to feature in our own portfolios. Great work, Lea! Needless to say, we’re hoping that her instructors give her high marks – she deserves it!

Joy Kills Sorrow

adambear — Mon, 30 May 2011 01:49:20 +0000

We’d never previously had the pleasure of working with a ‘modern American string band’, and so had few preconceptions going into things when Emma Beaton of Boston-based Joy Kills Sorrow contacted us about creating the artwork and design for their new album, This Unknown Science. After listening to the record, it became readily apparent to us that the band seamlessly and with great ease fuses elements of bluegrass, rock, pop, and jazz into their own distinct contribution to a thriving international folk scene, creating an album that is a joy to listen to. In addition, the five members of Joy Kills Sorrow came to the table highly prepared with a definitive aesthetic vision for the artwork that should accompany the songs they’d worked so hard on, something that we always find refreshing in our line of work. It was decided that the imagery of the album should pay homage to the ancient, strange, and decidedly esoteric roots of modern science, leading to the inclusion of everything from illustrated archaic microscopes to hand-drawn astrolabes (oddly beautiful instruments used by seafarers in older times).

Thanks again to Emma and the rest of our new friends in Boston for the opportunity to work with them on this release! Be sure to check it out!