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Testicular Cancer Foundation: 2014 Go Nuts Tour

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Testicular Cancer Foundation is a regular client of ours, and a foundation that is always working on incredible things. This spring two Stage 3 testicular cancer survivors, Chris Olsen and Jason Morton, participate in the inaugural 2014 Go Nuts Tour. We had a lot of fun doing all the branding and marketing collateral for  Read more →

Top Colors of Spring 2014

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Top colors at present include a very purple palette…a color I don’t wear or use much, but Pantone says we should start 🙂

Women:
– Radiant Orchid
– Dazzling Blue
– Voilet Tulip

Men:
– Soft Placid Blue
– Paloma, earth grey
– Dazzling Blue

Sources:

https://www.pantone.com/images/pages/21128/COY2014.png
http://news.yahoo.com/growing-trend-2014-orchid-top-color-050543120–finance.html
http://www.wwd.com/fashion-news/fashion-features/pantones-top-colors-for-spring-2014-7107333

Artist Feature: Zaha Hadid Architects

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I love architecture—I’m sure that will be my profession in my next life. So writing as my next-life self, I decided to start a series of posts featuring architecture that is particularly art-y or design-y.

Disclaimer: While I wouldn’t particularly love to live in anything that looks like this, what I do love is Hadid’s sprit and how graphic her style is, even though it’s architecture. It’s like her buildings could be the forms that I might create a pattern or interesting poster with. Neat stuff! Read more →

Spread Some Love

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I am happy to announce the completion of the 7 Coop Principle Posters, designed in partnership Cooperation Texas, an organization dedicated to creating sustainable jobs by helping form worker cooperatives. They will be taking pre-orders starting in early January before they do their first print run in late January.

If you are looking to support a worthy cause this holiday season, please consider making a donation to Cooperation Texas here: https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/1398116

And stay tuned for more about where you can buy the posters!

Volenweider Chocolate

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My favorite dessert (or rather favorite thing ever) is really good dark chocolate. And I love it even more if it comes in beautiful packaging, like this Swiss chocolate I found in a tiny coffee shop called Squeeze, out in Marfa, TX . The owner said he gets the bars shipped to her direct from Switzerland by her brother, who runs the Volenweider Chocolate (which was actually started by her father).

The all-typographic branding is super distinctive while the black & white color palette (or non-color palette) literally makes the letters jump out at you. My favorite part though, is the smart use of pop-y colors to differentiate different flavors.

I just googled them and it turns out they’re one of the premier chocolatiers in Zurich. And Squeeze Marfa is the sole distributor in the US…so if you want a taste of heaven,  you got a long drive ahead of you.