I haven’t posted anything recently because things have been busy at the office, but I saw this and just had to put it out there. As a branding agency we’re constantly keeping up on trends, and we’re always trying to figure out how the youth are using the internet. Apparently blogging is so easy now [...]
Micah Lidberg I was honored to share a wall-space with Micah during the 2006 MCAD Merits Award show. He was only a junior then, but as every piece of his went up, I knew that this dude was going to be amazing. Micah’s hand-painted typography, compulsive linework and stunning color palettes were in a less [...]
Matt Bednarik, our erstwhile photographer and designer, is now a website and a flickr. Cerebral, rigorous work with a with a wonderful warm undertow —> portraiture, conceptual work, Japan in all its Japan-ness, and the most beautiful picture of massed brine shrimp I have ever seen. Go now!
MPLSART is the brainchild of Emma Berg. Along with Chris from RobotLove and a network of others, mplsart facilitates and supports gallery shows and artists in the Twin Cities. In the past few years, they’ve done an incredible job of not only hosting events, but creating interesting and unique art experiences. From the website: “Mplsart [...]
Adbusters has declared war, on behalf of Western Civilization itself, on hipsterdom. Read the rallying cry. Have courage! We will reclaim faded Boston “spaceship logo” shirts for the the people who actually like Boston and on the day we win we will play “More Than A Feeling” loudly and we will mean it, man… http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/79/hipster.html
Every so often, this Japanese men’s magazine, Free & Easy, seems to pop up in my inspiration research. I still can’t get the full story on it, but it’s like 30% archive, 30% style guide, 30% catalog and 100% awesome. It’s sort of an homage to classic American men’s style, cataloging everything from pea coats [...]
