Production-grade design. Print, digital, anything.
I'm Michael Pesce. I design brand systems, and then I make sure they survive the real world. A logo is only as good as how it looks on a truck door, a dive boat, an arena banner, or a frosted window. For over 25 years I've built identities for local businesses and national names, and seen them all the way through production.
Selected work
Seven projectsLiving Ocean Tours
A full hull wrap for the dive boat Coral Kai, operated by Living Ocean Tours. Custom tribal-style honu, dolphins, and fish schools run from deep ocean blue at the bow into a sunrise at the stern, ending with the Hawaiian island chain. The graphics had to read from shore and hold up to salt and sun.
Illustration · Layout · Hull templating · Large-format printHawaiʻi Commercial Fleet
Wraps for local Oʻahu businesses, from food vans to service vans to two Cybertrucks. Each one started with the owner's brand and the vehicle's body lines, which matter a lot on a Cybertruck's flat panels and hard angles.
Wrap design · Illustration · Vehicle templating · Print production
Eldredge Lumber & Hardware
One wordmark applied to every place a Maine lumber yard shows up: truck doors and tailgates in full color and one color, etched-look window lettering, entry doors, parking signs, and a roadside sign that still appears behind WGME 13's weather broadcasts.
Vector rebuild · Vehicle graphics · Window film · Signage
Monks Esports Lounge
A branded room for Saint Joseph's College of Maine's esports program: full window wraps, door graphics, dimensional wall lettering, and an edge-lit metal logo. The team mark had to work huge on glass and small on a door.
Window graphics · Dimensional signage · LED backlit sign · Install
Maine Red Claws
Season graphics for the Boston Celtics' NBA G League affiliate: locker room decals, event banners, the 2019–20 schedule, and printed hardwood plaques for the Unum Home Court Heroes program. Team colors held exactly across vinyl, fabric, board, and wood.
Layout · Color matching · Large-format · Direct-to-substrate print
Tour Drumheads
Bass drum heads for touring drummers, designed by MCP Customs for Sic Skinz Custom Drum Wraps. Disturbed's Asylum heads for Mike Wengren, Megadeth's radiation heads for Shawn Drover, and Tommy Lee's kanji heads. The art has to read from the back of an arena under stage light.
Designed for Sic Skinz → Disturbed · Megadeth · Tommy Lee
Maine Retail
A beverage cart for Baxter Brewing Co. wrapped on every panel, and a full set of interior signs for Waterboro Market & Café: a hometown mural, food counter panels, cooler headers, and a curved barrel-style Beer Cave sign.
Wrap design · Photo compositing · Interior signage
From file to film
Print · Laminate · Install
Capabilities
Typography & Layout
Type selection and pairing, custom lettering, hierarchy, and kerning, tuned to read up close or from sixty feet away.
Photo Retouching & Compositing
Masking, compositing, color correction, and restoration, including rescuing low-quality client images for large-format output.
Brand Identity & Logo Design
Marks, identity systems, and vector rebuilds of old logos, plus the discipline to work inside someone else's brand guidelines.
Color Management
Exact brand color across screen, ink, vinyl, fabric, and wood. Separations, proofing, and matching that holds on every material.
AI-Assisted Imaging
Generative tools for concept art, custom backgrounds, and illustration, plus AI upscaling and restoration. Every asset is finished by hand in Illustrator and Photoshop.
Print & Production
Prepress, file prep, wide-format print, lamination, screen printing, and material selection. Files that print right the first time.
About
I started MCP Customs over 25 years ago and ran it as the designer, the production department, and the person who had to stand behind the result. I've never had the luxury of handing a file off and hoping. If the color was wrong, the type was too small, or the art wouldn't hold up at scale, it came back to me.
I work fast, I work inside brand guidelines without needing to be policed, and I deliver files that are actually finished. The work has ranged from a Maine lumber yard to touring rock drummers to wrap shops in Hawaiʻi. Different audiences, same standard.
Let's talk about the work
Open to remote graphic design roles in brand, marketing, and production design. Happy to walk through any project in detail.