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← All workSky Art Reno · 2018

RenovationLogo and wordmark

Three letters,
two tools of the trade.

The SAR mark in yellow on navy · redrawn as vector in 2026 from the 2018 artwork

00The project

Client
Sky Art Reno
Sector
Home renovation
Year
2018 · vector redraw 2026

Sky Art Reno is a renovation company, and its mark puts the trade inside the initials: a paint roller stands at the foot of the S, and a claw hammer is cut out of the R. Beneath them, SKY ART RENO is set in a rounded, square-shouldered sans as sturdy as the letters above.

  • Logo
  • SKY ART RENO wordmark
  • Three colourways
  • Vector redraw, 2026

01The mark

A roller at the foot,
a hammer in the bowl.

Nothing is added to the letters; the tools are made out of them. The three letters are packed tight, a single channel apart, and the roller, the hammer’s head and its handle all borrow those channels and counters — SAR from across the street, tools up close.

  1. Roller

    A paint roller stands at the foot of the S; its frame is one thin line bent into a crank.

  2. Hammer

    The hammer’s head is cut from the top of the R; its handle is the slot that parts the R’s stem from its leg.

  3. Channel

    One channel, one width, runs between S, A and R, following each letter’s curve.

02Colour

Yellow on navy,
and on black.

The 2018 presentation showed the mark three ways: yellow on black, yellow on navy and navy on yellow — the colours of a hard hat and a work jacket. The values below are sampled from that file.

Navy#122C67
RGB 18 44 103
Yellow#F0C042
RGB 240 192 66
Black#000000
RGB 0 0 0
Detail · the claw hammer in the R; its handle parts the stem from the leg

03The redraw

From a small JPEG
to a clean drawing.

All the archive holds is a small JPEG inside a 2018 portfolio page — no source file. In 2026 we redrew the mark over it, stroke by stroke: the S’s outer corners share one radius, the A’s legs share one slope under a single arc, the channels share one width, and the roller, the claw and every cut stay where they were. The same mark, drawn cleanly — not a new one.

Part of page 14 of the 2018 portfolio: the SAR mark on black, on navy and on yellow

Part of page 14 of the 2018 portfolio: the SAR mark on black, on navy and on yellow

2018The surviving file: part of portfolio page 14
2026Vector redraw, with its construction
Yellow on black — the version shown first in 2018
Client
Sky Art Reno
Year
2018 · 2026
Scope
Logo · SKY ART RENO wordmark · Three colourways · Vector redraw, 2026

Source: page 14 of the studio’s 2018 logo portfolio (DOD logo.pdf), where the mark survives as a 756 × 1512 px raster. No original vector file was found; the mark and wordmark shown here were redrawn by hand in 2026 to match it, without design changes, and the colour values are sampled from it. The same page’s stone and metal mockups (stock templates) and its construction-site photograph (a stock photo showing workers) are not reused. The archive does not record how the client went on to use the mark.