Steve Duncan at The Lake House Studio: Let's Cruise

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.

Saturday, February 4, 2017

Cruising Ephemera and Some Interesting Repeat Patterns

Illustrations ©2017 Carta Bella Paper Company

Whenever I'm on a ship I am always amazed at the designs in the carpeting. The bottom two illustrations were inspired by carpeting that I had taken photos of as a kid when I was on the original Love Boat, the Pacific Princess.

Sea Days

Illustrations ©2017 Carta Bella Paper Company

As an avid Cruise Enthusiast and having spent many days at sea, all around the world, it was easy to envision how I wanted the illustrations to be composed.

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.

It's Time For An Ocean Cruise.

Illustrations ©2017 Carta Bella Paper Company

When I was given the project to design a line focusing on Cruising I was ecstatic. I'm a huge cruise vacation fan. I've set sail on 50 of them, starting off when I was 10 years old. So this line, Let's Cruise, is filled with my own memories combined with sea forging nostalgia.

When I was five years old my parents took me down to Terminal Island in Long Beach, California to watch the Queen Mary come in to port from her last seagoing adventure. The first paper is a homage to her. The deck plan illustration is a combination of three ships that I sailed on back in the 1970's, Carnival's Mardi Gras, Sitmar's FairSea and NCL's Norway.