x
04.11.2010
FOUND TRUTHS
Thanks, Harvard
Ultimately our work evolves around nature as visual pleasure and play; we are like cats tossing mice into the air.
x
03.03.2011
OMG @TWITTER
Let us entertain you. For FREE.

Follow us / @thedyelab
@tonyadouraghy
@alannamacgowan
x
06.20.2011
In GOOD Company.
Alanna MacGowan and TDL featured in the company of GOOD Magazine's Designing Women: 25 Female Designers & Illustrators We Love. #flattered Read more here.

x
09.21.2011
TDL's Lusty Design Ladies
Look out ladies, here we come! Tonya Douraghy + Alanna MacGowan featured amongst some impressive creative ladies on Quite Strong's Lust List.

Check out the full list here.

x
11.06.2011
Nerd Alert
We got techy with Design*Sponge for their What's Your Tech Setup series!

Check out our interview + wishlists here.

x
10.02.2012
Published!
You can check out thedyelab.com in Jason Tselentis' new book, Graphic Designers Electronic Media Manual.

Grab a copy here.
x
10.02.2012
GRAFT
Alanna MacGowan teamed up with the incomparable Cassie Klingler to recreate the letter T for AIGA Portland's Graffiti Type Showcase.

Details here.

x
01.01.2013
ADOBE TV
The wonderful team at Adobe Design Center invited us to be part of their Behind the Design features.

Watch our interview here.

x
01.21.2013
FRESH
Many thanks to Communication Arts for featuring us in Fresh Online.

See it here.

THE DYE LAB
SEATTLE / NEW YORK
about
The Dye Lab is an independent graphic design studio based in Seattle and New York. We work across a wide variety of media, including print, web, motion, printmaking + textiles.

We are available for design, consultation + art direction individually and as a collaborative team.
Tonya Douraghy
td@thedyelab.com
cv
WORK
Freelance Art Director + Designer / New York

Art Director / Print Magazine

EDUCATION
MFA / Designer As Author, School of Visual Arts

BS / Visual Communications + Textile Design / UC Davis

EXHIBITIONS
Support / HATCH Projects Chicago

Print's 20 Under 30 New Visual Artists, Curation Phaidon / New York

Art Director's Club 88th Annual Exhibition / New York

Smart Matter / UW Division of Design / Seattle

Unleashed / Visual Arts Gallery / New York

The Hello Poster Show / Seattle

Happy / SVA Gallery /
New York

CompostModern 09 /
San Francisco

AWARDS + PUBLICATIONS
Art Director's Club 88 / Bronze Cube, Motion design

Graphic Designers Electronic Media Manual, Web design

New Ornamental Type, Typeface design

Fingerprint No.2, Motion design

Print 65.2 April / Editorial, An Afternoon Skype With It's Nice That

Select work featured in Fast Company, Core 77, New Scientist, and For Print Only.
NYT Magazine

The New York Times Magazine

Editorial design for The New York Times Magazine.

Design Director: Arem Duplessis
Art Director: Gail Bichler

NY Magazine

New York Magazine

Editorial design for New York Magazine.

Design Director: Thomas Alberty
Art Director: Randy Minor
Deputy Art Director: Josef Reyes

DETAILS

DETAILS Magazine

Editorial design for Details, a leading men's culture and fashion magazine.

prd

PRINT Magazine Redesign

Complete redesign of Print Magazine, including new logotype, typography, and interior structure. Launched in February 2011.

February issue cover by Project Projects

prid

PRINT Magazine Identity

New logotype and visual direction for the Print brand, launched concurrently with the magazine redesign.

RDA

Regional Design Annual 2010

Print magazine's Regional Design Annual is the most comprehensive survey of graphic design in the United States, containing 200 pages of award-winning work, and the only design annual organized by geography.

The country is divided into six regions: Far West (judge: Lucille Tenazas), Southwest (judge: Randy Hunt), South (judge: Leland Maschmeyer), Midwest (judges: Gary Fogelson + Phil Lubliner), East (judge: Jennifer Kinon), and New York City (judge: Ken Carbone).

Using Google maps, urban and rural landscapes from each region were sliced and formed into color-specific patterns.

Concept, art direction + editorial design by Tonya Douraghy
Pattern illustrations by Dave C. Frankel

nva

20 Under 30 New Visual Artists

Poster and custom typography for Print magazine's 2011 New Visual Artists exhibition, celebrating 20 artists under the age of 30.



CP

Cheap & Plastique

Poster and custom typography commissioned by art and photography magazine Cheap & Plastique for the launch of issue 10.



LB

Little Black Books

Editorial design for the October 2010 issue of Print magazine, for a feature article about Moleskine.

Art direction + editorial design by Tonya Douraghy
Opening art by Helga Schmid
Opening photography by Christine Navin

TIME / PLACE

TIME / PLACE

TIME / PLACE is a book series as well as a digital archive designed to document subjective accounts of what war is like from the point of view of ordinary citizens.

TIME / PLACE explores the political history of modern border conflicts through personal narratives.

Each book in the series focuses on one conflict. The first book of the series is TIME / PLACE: 1980-1988 Iran AND focuses on the Iran-Iraq War. The conflict is presented in three layers of depth: Facts, which builds a framework through timelines, maps, and data; Voices, personal stories from the war, annotated with relevant history, dates, and translations; and Landscapes, which uses photographs to document what the conflict really looks like on the ground.

Conceptualized, researched, designed, printed + bound by Tonya Douraghy for the graduate thesis at MFA Design, School of Visual Arts.




Fabrica

Fabrica / Omar Vulpinari

Poster set for a lecture by Omar Vulpinari, the Creative Director of Visual Communications for Fabrica. Designed for the School of Visual Arts MFA Design department.

First Day

First Day

Winner of the Art Director's Club 88th Annual Awards Bronze Cube for Television & Cinema Design: Music Video.

Typographic music video for the song "First Day" by the Futureheads, using only black and white type. The video was designed in After Effects using original hand-drawn typefaces Darn and Jerky.

[Instructor: Gail Anderson]




Unleashed

Unleashed: MFA Designer As Author

Poster set designed for the 2010 Thesis Forum at the School of Visual Arts MFA Designer As Author program. Using the existing theme and title of "Unleashed," we illustrated synonyms of the word with images from pop culture.

[Designed in collaboration with Matthew Stipano]

Unlucky Crushes

The Unlucky Crushes of a Shy Girl

A personal infographic detailing all the crushes I've had which I never acted upon. Circles indicate the duration of each crush and color intensity relates to intensity of feeling, while solid and dashed lines indicate their romantic relationships with others.

[Instructor: Scott Stowell]

NYCB

New York City Ballet

A fundraising poster designed for New York City Ballet's Dancer's Choice 09 event, featuring the photography of NYCB dancers. The pattern was created from the DC 09 logo. The poster was sold at the DC 09 fundraising event, and also in the NYCB Gift Shop.

Design Ethics

Design Ethics

Poster advertising an AIGA NY discussion exploring the intersections between design and ethics. The vernacular of a Venn diagram is used to suggest that designers can find common ethical standards.

[Instructor: Milton Glaser]

Lady Chatterley

Lady Chatterley's Lover

Book cover designed for D.H. Lawrence's 1928 novel. The cover is constructed out of printed and hand-sewn cotton, overlayed with type printed on sheer silk organza.

[Instructor: Stephen Doyle]

Canstruct

Jim Polk / Canstruct

Poster set designed to publicize a visiting lecture by Jim Polk of Canstruct at the School of Visual Arts MFA Designer As Author program.

Collaboration
hello@thedyelab.com
about
COLLABORATION
All work in this section has been created as a collaboration between Tonya Douraghy and Alanna MacGowan.


yif

Adobe / Youth In Focus

Commissioned by Adobe to design print and iPad publications for Seattle non-profit Youth In Focus.

Click here to download the Youth In Focus App

BSDA

Buy Some Damn Art

Custom type, animated logo, and e-commerce site for Buy Some Damn Art, an online resource for affordable original art.

Programming by Alan Oliver

DS

Design*Sponge Summer 2011 Newspaper

Commissioned by Design*Sponge to design their Summer 2011 Newspaper.

This limited run of 10,000 was distributed in various locations in 25 cities across the United States.

Visit www.designsponge.com to find a location to pick up a free copy.

Smart Matter

Smart Matter

Commissioned by Studio Matthews, three 16"x16" panels were created to illustrate the advantages of using sustainable design materials. Using birch veneer, honey, found paper, and custom rubber stamps, these panels encourage designers to use materials they can find in their everyday environment.

Panels exist in a collection of over 20 panels, created by various designers, as part of the Smart Matter installation to be displayed permanently in the Division of Design at the University of Washington and at Studio Matthews in Seattle, Washington.

Project to be completed in 2011

Jenny + Drew

Jenny + Drew

Silkscreen wedding invitation set.

Hello

HELLO: Sweet Greetings

Silkscreened poster made of 12 perforated seasonal postcards designed to be detached and mailed as a friendly greeting to someone in your life, one for each month.

The poster was designed for the Seattle-based exhibition The HELLO Poster Show. The theme of the exhibition called for open interpretations of the greeting 'hello.' The design encourages open communication and interaction with the poster, supporting the dynamic nature of this simple greeting.

For Hire

For Hire

Custom stamps designed for each member of The Dye Lab.

art is war

artiswar.org

Website for recent design graduates to share work and experiences with their peers. The site is divided into three sections which are layered and scroll independently of one another. The site contains additional pages for archiving old posts, as well as a space for users to sign up for an account and post original content.

[Site coding by Alan Oliver]

CheeseCream

CheeseCream

Identity for San Francisco accessories design duo Cheese Cream, with graphic elements inspired by the company's hand-made aesthetic. Includes business cards, letterhead, envelopes, and merchandise tags.

pttv

Paper Tiger Television

Splash page for NY-based public access television station Paper Tiger Television.


arc

ARC Horticulture

Website redesign, including splash page, for American River College Department of Horticulture.

WEB.ARC.LOSRIOS.EDU/~HORT

Alanna MacGowan
am@thedyelab.com
cv
WORK
Lecturer / Design / University of Washington

Freelance Designer / Seattle

EDUCATION
MFA / Design / University of Washington

BS / Visual Communications and Textile Design / UC Davis

EXHIBITIONS
GRAFT / AIGA Portland / Portland

Support / HATCH Projects Chicago

Smart Matter / UW Division of Design / Seattle

JamFest 2010 / Seattle

2010 UW MFA Thesis Exhibition / Henry Art gallery /Seattle

UW Design Show 2010 / Jacob Lawrence Gallery / Seattle

The Hello Poster Show / Seattle

ATypI 2009 / New Mexico

TypeCon 2009 / Atlanta

AWARDS + PUBLICATIONS
Palette 01: Black & White: New Monochrome Graphics / Victionary

Graphic Designers Electronic Media Manual / Jason Tselentis

Designing Women: 25 Female Designers & Illustrators We Love / GOOD Magazine

IdN Magazine Feature Cover Article / v18n4: Mono-Graphics Issue

Kenneth L Striker Award / University of Washington /Seattle

Eat/Gather Thesis / Blurb.com
pilchuck

Pilchuck Glass School

Summer catalog/poster, brochure and related pieces of print for Pilchuck Glass School, one of the most prestigious glass centers in the world.

In collaboration with Kristine Matthews, Art Director and Cassie Klingler, Designer

graft

GRAFT / T

Stamping just got serious with this oversized custom rubber stamp. We took to the streets and ransacked our studios gathering an array of found paper to brand with our T-shaped mark. A collection of these prints were bound into a monstrous notepad for AIGA Portland's Graffiti Type Showcase.

Our rendition of the letter T is one of the 26 letters of the alphabet created by various artists/designers for AIGA Portland's GRAFT: Graffiti Type Showcase, during Design Week Portland, 2012.

Designed in collaboration with Cassie Klingler.
Laser stamp magic thanks to Sean Douglass.

Custom rubber stamp / Found paper / Ink / Mayhem

dear

Dear Seattle

Dear Seattle is a storefront pop-up space designed for the Seattle Design Festival. Four different interactive features let you contribute your ideas about design and the future of the city.

Designed in collaboration with Cassie Klingler and Kristine Matthews.

ak

AK Benefit Poster

Promotional poster for The Andy Kotowicz Foundation Benefit, commissioned by The Crocodile, Seattle.

19x26" / silkscreen on kraft stock

Designed in collaboration with Benjamin K Shown.

eat / gather

Eat / Gather

This thesis explores new systems of gathering and archiving the complexities of cultural traditions and personal relationships. Specifically, the role of food as an amplifier and catalyst for these relationships was investigated.
Eat/Gather illustrates this parallel in a book series chronicling the making of seasonal Japanese American foods. In each volume, personal stories told by the Nisei (2nd generation Japanese Americans) are woven together to narrate the shared process of making one specific traditional food.

The accompanying exhibition and website offer interactive experiences for people to discover these traditions and share their own experiences. These two resources not only serve as an alternative place of discovery but also as a tool for gathering new information for further investigation.

Conceptualized, researched, designed, printed + bound, installed, and programmed by Alanna MacGowan for the MFA Design graduate thesis at the University of Washington, Seattle.

To purchase the Eat/Gather thesis book, visit: BLURB.COM
This book details the entire thesis project and is separate from the three Eat/Gather volumes.

For more, visit: EAT-GATHER.COM

goodbye

The Bird and the Bear

Promotional poster for The Hello Poster Show / Goodbye Edition. 19x26" / silkscreen on kraft stock
Designed in collaboration with Benjamin K Shown.

For more, visit: hellopostershow.com

Positive Post

Positive Post

Write On! is a roving exhibition offering the public a chance to spread some positivity by mailing a hand-silkscreened postcard, free of charge, to a friend or foe.

In collaboration with Marisa Mickelson, Kimberly Shedrick and Benjamin K. Shown

For more, visit: POSITIVEPOST.ORG

Instructor / Kristine Matthews

The HELLO Poster Show

The Hello Poster Show

In November 2009, Benjamin k Shown and Alanna MacGowan started The HELLO Poster Show, a fundraising exhibition featuring over 30, 19x26" silkscreened prints inspired by the greeting 'hello.'

The call for entries for Hello poster designs is open to all. Participants have included UW students, faculty, alumni and professional designers worldwide.

All posters from the exhibition are available for purchase with proceeds benefitting local Seattle charities. To date, posters have sold to a worldwide audience raising over $6000.

In April 2010, the juried Goodbye Edition of the show opened in Seattle to an enthusiastic crowd of Hello Poster Show enthusiasts and newcomers.

The show/benefit model is open to all who wish to organize their own Hello Poster Show. The show has recently been adopted by Leisha Muraki in Melbourne, Australia and is set to open 15 December 2010.

Past Hello beneficiaries /
Wellspring Family Services.
826 Seattle.
U-District Food Bank
ROOTS Youth Shelter
Circle of Friends for Mental Health

HELLOPOSTERSHOW.COM



Plush

Plush

Branding consultation and identity design for event coordination company, Plush. Originated color scheme, logo, and layouts to create the business card, letterhead, envelope and website.

plushweddings.com

Website programming in collaboration with Alan Oliver

A Curious Yonsei

A Curious Yonsei

A series of info graphics exploring over five generations of Japanese American immigration and assimilation.

Instructor / Karen Cheng

Superfund Typeface

SUPERFUND TYPEFACE

Original typeface design inspired by toxic US Superfund sites. This unicase face includes numerals, symbols/punctuation, and 15 alternates.

Instructor / Karen Cheng

Positive Post

Tally Ho

An original Alternate Reality Game created to challenge the way humans interact in their everyday environments. Tally Ho challenges people to seek out existing groups of four objects or shapes within the environment and tally that group with a fifth line.

In collaboration with Benjamin K Shown.

Advisor / Dominic Muren

Manifesto

A 300 Word Design Manifesto

A 300 word personal design manifesto. 300 descriptive characteristics were printed on individual pieces of kraft stock and fabric, then sewn together end-to-end. The piece can be neatly wound up or unraveled to reveal the ordered chaos that lies within.

Instructor / Kristine Matthews

Seattle International Film Festival

Seattle International Film Festival

Marketing materials for the 35th Annual Seattle International Film Festival. The program included: 2-sided folding poster/mailer, program booklet, 20 second promo bumper, tickets/press passes, environmental components, and a takeaway item.

The theme of the program was Find Your Moment, a sentiment visualized with a simple icon made of three dashed lines used to emphasize the place and time when your SIFF moment was realized.

Instructor / Annabelle Gould

Design + Activism

Design + Activism

Promotional brochure and order form for the Seattle-based lecture series, Design + Activism. Event information and featured speakers were among featured spreads.

Instructor / Karen Cheng