Today, KOMBOH does for posters what Pizza Hut did for pizza. No, we’re not shoving wieners and spray cheese into every nook and cranny in sight, we’re letting you personalize the pan out of this piece of paper.

Feeling Hawaiian? Select “Sexier than Sax Man” and “Still Unemployed”. Or is Vegan more your style? Go for “Organically Greeny” and “Bland as a Potato”. Or is this loosely constructed pizza metaphor boring you to death? Grab a mouthful of “An Adult Diaper” instead.

Download your free Personal Poster today! Cheesy jingle not included.

I made some geometric patterns for everyone to use! Please enjoy! This is not an implicit license to leverage this work for commercial gain! Hurray!

Click on either image above to grab the PDF (tested on Adobe Illustrator CS6).

Click on the above to download a printable version of each!

Let KOMBOH relieve you of those frustrating social ambiguities that lead to so much anxiety in modern life. Know where you stand with these two slips — just hand them to the prospective love of your life to either start, or end a relationship.

The 100, the Calgary Public Library Foundation’s centennial magazine.

Creative Direction: Rick Thomas, Juice Creative inc.

 
Poster for Feist / Sled Island 2012 here in Calgary. Metallic (silver) ink on black. Printing by Alden Alfon.

 
Here’s a look at some of the terrifyingly ambitious thinking behind your favorite design duo from way back in 2009.

Little known fact: KOMBOH started as a school project that grew wildly out of hand — and we had to produce a process book. In a bid to pad it’s size (to better intimidate our classmates, you see) we dumped in entire passages of Orwell’s 1984. The physical book we submitted had bound with it several pages of a conveniently discarded Yellow Pages. Nobody noticed.

Warning: 50MB+ PDF download.

 
The entirety of Youth Vital Signs 2012, for the Calgary foundation. This is not actually the version that went to print, but it is the last version that I touched. The stats are actually very interesting, so I decided to put up the entire thing.

Creative Direction: Rick Thomas, Juice Creative inc.

 
Calgary is a pretty sweet city.

Creative Direction: Rick Thomas, Juice Creative inc.

A series of posters/ads for SCHMANCY – a big ol’ bash of a party at the Glenbow Museum.

Creative Direction: WAX

 
Here’s a set of iconographic illustrations I did for the Calgary International Airport’s 2011 Annual, including some (but definitely not all…) of the process behind the curtain.

Creative Direction: WAX Partnership Inc.

 
Some travel posters for various locations from Star Wars. For the 2012 Calgary Comic & Entertainment Expo.

 
Two nerdy fight-promotion posters for the 2012 Calgary Comic & Entertainment Expo.

 
Juice Creative (a.k.a. that company I work for part/full time) is heavily involved with a pretty cool initiative called Imagination150 (i150), which is a sort of committee thing that … well, I’m not too sure what they do. But they want to celebrate Canada’s sesquicentennial in 2017 which is alright by me. Here’s the logo I made for them, a spin on the geometric centennial logo that many Canadians may be familiar with.

There’s some process stuff above too, showing a bunch of rejected designs.

Creative Direction: Rick Thomas, Juice Creative inc.

 
For the ‘adult’ version of Vital Signs 2012, I developed an alphabet that drew inspiration from infographic-esque pictograms and measurement devices, including a couple alternates for common letters (E, L, S).

Creative Direction: Rick Thomas, Juice Creative inc.

 
My boss at Juice is a fan of the Peace Bridge here in Calgary, which became a bit of a lightning rod for political criticism. Some people love the bridge and think it adds something important to an otherwise drab and blocky city, while others simply don’t like the idea of City Council spending any moolah at all. Personally, as someone who actually plans on continuing to live in Calgary (and not just work here), I think it’s great. Anyways, we made a shirt which got quite a bit of press coverage for some reason. I was even interviewed by the CBC!
 
The idea behind the shirt is simply that Calgary is in a sense joining a brotherhood of other cities that have Calatrava bridges — while ours doesn’t have the towering arches and soaring lines, it still has it’s own unique charm.

Creative Direction: Rick Thomas, Juice Creative inc.

A wee little business card for small-business-bookkeeping-superstar Sandra Haniak. Superbooker?

Creative Direction: WAX
Letterpress Printing (plus above images and original post worth checking out): Studio on Fire

Icon series for McKinley Burkart, an architectural and interior design firm in Calgary.

Creative Direction: WAX Partnership inc.

Part of the collective Pin-Up show at the Untitled Art Society, Feb 2012.

I thought it would be funny to submit an image of a giant pin in the Pin-Up show. Or make a statement about the objectification of women in pin-up art. Your choice.

Also, check out Mike’s series o’ Pin-Up posters if you haven’t already.

 
Series of juvenile pieces as part of a Pin-Up show at the Untitled Art Society here in Calgary, Feb 2012.

 
Final + explorations — part of a series of typographic solutions to promoting Vital Conversations by The Calgary Foundation in Calgary.

Creative Direction: Rick Thomas, Juice Creative inc.

 
Little chameleon feller’ for the Calgary Public Library’s 100th Anniversary celebrations.

Creative Direction: Rick Thomas, Juice Creative inc.

 
Part of a package asking for major donations to finish the Trans-Canada Trail in the next couple of years. A book telling the story of the trail so far, and a map piece highlighting gaps in the trail and notable scenes from each province.

Done during one of Michael’s stints at Juice Creative Inc., collaborative work.
Creative Direction: Rick Thomas

 
A logo for the YYC Whitehatters, those friendly vest-and-Stetson wearing folk who greet you at the Calgary Airport and welcome you to our fine city.

Creative Direction: WAX Partnership Inc.

 
Naming and identity development for wedding photographer Brendan Klem.

Letterpress printing by Studio Z.

 
Brochure design and technical illustration for Bayer Cropscience.

Creative Direction: Juice Creative Inc.
Design / Illustration: KOMBOH

 
KOMBOH promotional mailer begging pleading groveling asking for work. Sent to a wide range of studios the world over, selling our services as creative guns-for-hire — print, web, illustration, and general smart-assery. Few replied.

 
Promotional mailer for EducationMatters, a local educational charity that helps local schools provide extra-kickass classes for students that otherwise wouldn’t have the opportunity. Done during MM’s tenure at Juice Creative.

Art Director: Rick Thomas

 
Poster for Hey Rosetta!, a band from Newfoundland who made the 2011 Polaris Prize shortlist. Ch-ch-check it out.

 
We were kindly asked by the team over at Sled Island to design fellow Calgary homeboy Chad Vangaalen’s poster for said festival. Mason Hastie, curator of this year’s Sled Island poster show, had a nice little Q&A with Avenue about the show. You can check out all the posters here. This post drops hyperlinks like hyperbombs.

A community site for Best Buy to communicate with their customer base with custom content, fresh ideas, and technology tips. Houses a variety of content (video, text, and image galleries) that encourages the community to discuss current events in the consumer-electronics space. Built during Michael’s tenure at Critical Mass.

Art Director: Jaymie Senga. Creative Director: Jordon Mowbray.

 
A compendium of shaggy dog stories for The Believer. Illustrations by Michael DeForge.

Identity design for Critical Mass, a full-service interactive marketing agency. Created during MM’s tenure there.

Creative Direction: Jordon Mowbray

 
Identity development for BBOLD PR.

First design post.