SPUR | Graphic Design and Illustration

PrestoBingo Shapes is now available for iPhone!

After months of designing, coding, animating, re-coding and illustrating, we're happy to announce that PrestoBingo Shapes is now available for the iPhone! We're so excited to see our app expanding and we hope to tackle more devices in the future.

You can find it here on the App Store, and if you have the time, please rate and write a review! It helps us know just how we can keep improving our app for you. Also, if you'd like to follow our progress throughout our app-venture, be sure to check out the PrestoBingo blog. Thanks!

Swords Buried Deep Opening

Saturday was the opening for Benjamin Marra's show at the Spur Gallery, Swords Buried Deep. It was excellent to see our walls full of Ben's fantastic work and our gallery full of great people. Issues of Ben's original comic series were for sale at the show and guests even got the chance to flip through his personal sketchbook, which is packed with page after page of stunning pieces.

Swords Buried Deep will run until May 25th. Ben's original pen and ink artwork, prints and comic books are for sale for the duration. Gallery hours are 9am - 5pm Monday through Friday, so if you're in Baltimore, be sure to stop by and check out the show. For more info, including contact and address, go here.

Thanks to Ben and everyone who came out for the opening! We hope you had as fun a time as we did.

Before or Since Opening

Saturday was the opening night for Before or Since featuring the beautiful work of Melinda Beck & Jordin Isip. By the time the doors opened, our walls were filled with 50+ amazing works of art, all available for sale. It was great seeing so many happy people fill our space. Melinda and Jordan were on hand and answered lots of questions. The show will run until Friday, Dec 16th. Gallery hours are 9:30am - 5:00pm Monday - Friday, so if you weren't able to make it to the opening, be sure to stop by our studio to take a look. You can still snag a show poster online at Spur Stor, or in person. Inquiries about purchasing original art are always welcome. Contact dave@spurdesign.com for details.

We weren't the only ones having a good time:

Before or Since: Melinda Beck's Screen Print in progress

Dave Plunkert

Take a look at this progress shot of screen-prints that will be offered for sale at this saturday's opening. For more info on the event, visit Spur's gallery site here.

Before or Since: Works by Melinda Beck & Jordin Isip at the SPUR Gallery

Works by Melinda Beck and Jordin Isip will be up in our SPUR Gallery as part of their joint show "Before or Since", opening on Saturday, November 19th. If you're in Maryland, nearby in DC, or if you'd like to make a trip from farther states, come and see their work from 6:30 - 8:30 pm at 3504 Ash Street, Baltimore MD 21211. If you have any questions regarding the show, please feel free to contact us: info@spurdesign.com, or, for more details about Melinda & Jordin, visit SPUR's gallery site here.

We hope to see you there!

Mark Todd

Dave Plunkert

Mark Todd's "Force Field" exhibition opens this Friday at La Luz de Jesus Gallery.  For more info, visit the show website.

Mark Todd at the Plush Gallery

Dave Plunkert

Mark's comic book paintings will be on exhibit from April 16-May 14 at the Plush Gallery in Dallas.

Children's Books by Mark Rosenthal

Joyce Hesselberth

Illustrator Marc Rosenthal stopped by our studio recently. Dave and I had a few moments to visit with him and his wife, designer Eileen Rosenthal, before they headed back home to Massachusetts. Marc is an editorial illustrator who has added children's book illustration to his repertoire. Marc's work is beautiful, with a retro feel, but very distinctively his own.

A few weeks later, a package arrived in the mail: a signed print, and three of his amazing children's books. Our son has adopted the books as his new favorites, and that's just fine with me. I am happy to look at the illustrations all day long. Our daughter had memorized Archie and the Pirates by about day three. Now she "reads" it to me. I love the opening pirate scene.

© Marc Rosenthal

Some other books Marc Rosenthal has illustrated are: Dig!, Phooey! and First, Second.