High Wide & Handsome commissioned Steven Noble to help create the brand marks for Redwood Hill Farm’s packaging. The illustrations included 4 different breeds of goat Lamanchas, Alpines, Saanes, and Nubian for use on all their product lines that includes yogurts, and other dairy products. The illustrations were created in a scratchboard woodcut style and helped in connecting the consumer to the organic process that their products originate from located in northern California.

Affinity Creative commissioned Steven Noble to create these two uniquely original custom landscape label “hand-drawn”etched illustrations for Rodney Strong’s Estate Vineyards that include Cooley Ranch and Knights Valley. These two illustrations represent the specific appellations located in Sonoma County California. A map was also illustrated showing the typography of the area. Cooley Ranch is located in rugged northwestern Sonoma County and is mostly planted on volcanic soils that are rare in this part of the world but are ideal for growing Bordeaux varietals.

Kraken Leatherworks commissioned Steven Noble to render a new custom illustration for the logomark. This small business specializes in custom leather goods and this new mark had to include the kraken as the primary subject matter attacking a galleon ship. The illustration was hand-drawn in a classic scratchboard woodcut style and hood the correct amount of line detail to be able to reduce in size for different applications.

Shadow Ranch commissioned Steven Noble to create a life-size illustrated portrait of the “Sheriff” for use in a point of sale and shippers cardboard cutouts for in-store displays in Costco, Total Wine, Safeway etc… to help draw attention to the wine. The illustration is to be used on textured paper with a worn, rustic and handcrafted feel. The artwork was meticulously rendered by hand using an X-Acto blade knife onto scratchboard and stands several feet high at full body length.

REDWOOD EMPIRE: John Muir was a great champion of nature and the redwoods. The greatest trees have all been given evocative names and it seemed appropriate that these illustrations created by Steven Noble combined the likeness of Muir with the redwoods he loved. Each illustration is either woodcut or engraved and is complemented by woodcut typography stamped into quality textured paper, a nod to the Arts and Crafts creative movement of Muir’s time.

The Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada commissioned Steven Noble to render three separate illustrations for their ‘Bloodsuckers’ campaign. The illustrations include a Dracula/Vampire, Chupacabra and Yara-Ma-Yha-Who and were used in posters at the Royal Ontario Museum and rendered in a traditional line art / engraving style to fit with the myth/legend (vampires, ancient bloodsucking gods, etc.) component of the exhibition with the real-life facts (lampreys, leeches, oxpecker bird, etc.).

Riverstone Branding tasked the talents of Steven Noble to create illustrations for a rebrand for Spring Mill Distillery. The distillery was founded back in 1834 by the Sleemans located in Guelph, Ontario/Canada. They create premium spirits and the illustrations help to represent this premium quality depicting the original historic distillery building going back 182 years. The illustrations were created in a woodcut engraving style. The second illustration of a Model T Ford was created for “The Ward Bar” named after St. Patrick’s Ward and over the years it came to be known as “The Ward.”

Erik Marchetti of Holy Studios contacted Steven Noble to collaborate on a series of illustrations for Guahyba Family Estate wines located in Brazil. The task was to include illustrations that depicted the Farroupilha Revolution which was a war fought in southern Brazil from 1835-1845. The illustrations inspire the stories of the revolution told in 3 wines that respectfully inspire 3 acts of war i.e. Revolution, Bravery and Pact and were created to convey a a distinctive look and feel as it was produced in another era hand-drawn in the old woodcut/engraving style.

Tony Zimney tasked Steven Noble to create a custom Logo illustration for a client called Summerall Law that specializes in estate planning. The illustrated dog represents a friendly approach to their logomark. Three different sizes were created for different applications including stationery, collateral, etc… The artwork was “hand-drawn” in a scratchboard woodcut style and supplied digitally as eps vector files.

Villa Maria commissioned Steven Noble to create a wine label illustration to reflect a ‘stereotypical New Zealand scene’ of a riverbank so that local NZ wine consumers will instantly identify the illustration as being “of New Zealand”. This was an integral part of the label which overall is meant to highlight that the wine inside is 100% made from NZ grapes. The illustration includes a view of a cut-away of a river looking along or down a river bank with riverstones, ferns, fantails, toe toes, and flax plant matter.