Be Mysterious, Not Esoteric
If you’ve visited LA or NYC in the past few months chances are you’ve seen one of these strange billboards.
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Give And Receive Through Visual Design
This literary gem from illustrator Leeandra Cianci beckons a backstory. It was featured on Explore, a “discovery engine for meaningful knowledge.” The map re-imagines Manhattan as the setting of various scenes from film, literature and comics.
Know Yourself and Good Design Will Follow
So you’ve been paying people to design things for you. Fliers, direct mail pieces, landing pages, everything. It’s usually a tedious process, a lot of back and forth. And it’s a fun challenge, one we’re always up for. But we’ve been thinking: How do artists get away with just “throwing something together?” And why doesn’t […]
A Good Businessman Would Accept Any Reasonable Offer.
When we started out we charged next to nothing for logos. For work in general. As our portfolio and reputation grew, we charged more. With time, a logo cost 3, 4, or 5k without question. The reason it got more expensive, is because as we grew, we worked with bigger companies. These companies had bigger […]
10 Reasons You Want To Be Peter Saville
Peter Saville entered the UK music scene in the late 70s after meeting Tony Wilson, journalist and TV presenter, by approaching him after a “very, very bad” Patti Smith show. Saville happened to be a brilliant designer, and was commissioned to do the logo for a small record label called Factory. Needless to say, you […]