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The South Carolina BBQ Project Gift Box - Limited Edition of 75

The South Carolina BBQ Project Gift Box - Limited Edition of 75

Made by Nathan Spainhour

$62.00 USD
$62.00 USD
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This is for the person in your life who is the hardest to shop for.

It’s a gift for someone with strong opinions about barbecue, or place, or things made with care and worth keeping.

The South Carolina BBQ Project bundle includes a signed copy of the book, a hand screen-printed sauce map, signed and numbered by Nathan, and a tasting notes field guide, all inside a custom mailable gift box. Only 75 sets are available.

Bundles will begin shipping the week of 06/01
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The South Carolina BBQ Project started as a design project – seven years of driving South Carolina's back roads, stopping at barbecue joints, and documenting what was there: the signs, the buildings, the handwritten menu boards. The book came out of that research. This gift set is built around it.

The bundle includes the book (The South Carolina BBQ Project: Signs, Symbols, and Stories from the Pit) – a graphic designer's account of the state's four barbecue regions, told through the visual language of the places that make them. With it: a hand screen-printed sauce map (8"×10", made in Nathan's studio, signed and numbered edition of 75), and a tasting notes field guide, Risograph printed, to track where you’ve been and where you’d want to return.

 

Gift Box Contents:

· Signed copy of The South Carolina BBQ Project: Signs, Symbols and Stories From the Pit
· 8”x10” Sauce Map Print, hand screen-printed with archival inks, signed and numbered edition of 75
· Risograph printed Tasting Notes Field Guide, 4.25” x 7” 
· Custom gift box mailer

Product Specifications

Size: 11.75 in x 2.25 in

A quick peek behind the scenes at the creation process.

Meet the Author

Nathan Spainhour is a designer, artist, and lifelong enthusiast of visual culture. He is the founder of Spainhour Creative Work, a studio focused on brand and creative strategy, and the author of The South Carolina BBQ Project: Signs, Symbols and Stories from the Pit. Originally developed as his MFA thesis in Graphic Design, the book explores a little bit of South Carolina’s barbecue history and how its traditions are communicated through hand-painted signs, styrofoam plates, roadside architecture, and the food itself. What started as an academic project turned into a deeper fascination – and a genuine love – for the culture of barbecue along the way.

Nathan has led creative work for national brands, taught graphic design as a full-time college professor, and continues to explore the intersection of design, storytelling, and place. He’s a big fan of architecture, maps, and analog design practices like screenprinting.

He lives in South Carolina with his wife, Jess, and two very persuasive small dogs.