Steve Duncan at The Lake House Studio: Ephemera

About Steve and The Lake House Studio

Steve Duncan is an award-winning Artist. His Lake House Studio specializes in vintage-style design and illustration. Currently Steve is an illustrator developing stationary lines for Carta Bella Paper Company. Along with his work at Carta Bella he accepts freelance projects. His past client list includes Disney Consumer Products, Universal Studios Parks, Williams-Sonoma, Scholastic Books, Inc., Gerber Chidrenswear, October Afternoon, Basic Grey, ModifyInk, and many more. He has served as Art Director at FingerPrints of California and Rebel Entertainment Arts and Licensing, and Creative Director at Suzy's Zoo and Agenda 9.

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Saturday, February 4, 2017

Let's Cruise

These illustrations are some of my most favorite illustrations that I've created at Carta Bella. I loved doing all the research for this line of papers.

Metropolitan Girl Stickers and Ephemera

Illustrations ©2016 Carta Bella Paper Company

It's always fun and challenging to design and illustrate retro ephemera and stickers.

Mimicking Vintage Magazine Spreads, Books and Maps

Illustration ©2017 Carta Bella Paper Company

One of my favorite things to do when creating a paper line is to mix things up. For the paper I created a series of boarder strips that mimic pages from vintage travel magazine, maps and books. It's always a challenge to get everything to look as if it was pulled from an actual page of an atlas or magazine.

Are We There Yet? Stickers and Ephemera

Illustrations ©2017 Carta Bella paper Co.

When I design a line of papers for Carta Bella Paper Co. one of the most challenging parts of the process is the design and illustration of the accompanying stickers and ephemera. In some cases its easy to just pick up an element out of one of my paper illustrations. But in many cases I have to create something new that works with the entire line. This can end up taking hours of research, illustrations and design. But in the end it's always exciting to see how everything comes together in a cohesive and stylish manner.