The Mud House
Menu Design

I recently designed the print menus for everyones favorite local coffeehouse, The Mud House, located smack-dab in the middle of Cherokee Street, U.S.A.

Print Design and Wording by Mary Frances Foster
Photography of interior provided by The Mud House














Water Liars, Phantom Limb
Album artwork, Photography

I had the pleasure of helping with the artwork for Water Liars' debut album, Phantom Limb. A duo with about as much raw and real talent as anyone can invision. WL somehow sheds a sincere and solemn sadness as a simple, sonorous sound; barenaked brokenness delivered with a force feeling so wistfully and wonderfully wounded. Water Liars released their second album, Wyoming, on Big Legal Mess/Fat Possum Records.

Art Direction, Design, Photography by Mary Frances Foster
Cover Photograph by Rachel Sleeman













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Laumeier Sculpture Park 25th Annual Art Fair
Identity, Event collateral and signage

I was selected to design the event identity for the 25th Annual Laumeier Art Fair, held every year on Mother's Day weekend at one of the world's only open-air museums, Laumeier Sculpture Park; a unique compliment to the cultural landscape of the St. Louis region, spanning 105-acres with over 300,000 visitors annually.

Art Direction, Design and Illustration by Mary Frances Foster
Creative Direction by Marie Oberkirsch and Marilu Knode

Atop the City: Stephanie & Corey
Save-the-Dates & mini engagement photo session

Save-the-dates were custom designed and hand-stamped entirely with rubber stamps. All photos shown are 35mm film and polaroid, taken by me in St. Louis.

Art Direction, Design and Photography by Mary Frances Foster

This Machine Kills Fascists
Woody Guthrie | ARTCRANK 2010
2-color screenprint, printed by All Along Press
prints available here



Great Atomic Power
The Louvin Brothers | ARTCRANK 2011
4-color digital run
prints available here




Wind Wind Etc. Etc.
Joplin, Missouri Tornado Relief Effort
2-color screenprint, printed by All Along Press

Along with 14 other Moosylvania designers, I created a limited edition poster as a contribution to the relief effort. Sales were donated in full to the United Way as our contribution to rebuilding the Joplin community after the devastating tornadoes. Inspired by a favorite essay by David Foster Wallace, Derivative Sport in Tornado Alley, and the mathematically gusty portrait of wind patterns from which Midwestern life is inevitably informed and deformed.

"Force without law had no shape, only tendency and duration"

all art direction and design by Mary Frances Foster