One of my favorite apps on my iPhone right now is the Hipstamatic camera. It takes digital photos that replicate the feel of an old-school analog camera, so your photos come out grainy, blurry and faded...but in a good way! It's even got different lenses, flashes and film that you can swap out. Nif...
erhaps one of the most challenging aspects of design is typography. It takes a special touch to get all those little letters to look right together. One of the best at doing so is Jessica Hische. She has the uncanny ability to take letterforms, twist them to her will and command them to do her bi...
Sometimes when you're trying to sell something as awesome as mobile homes, it's best to just be honest and be yourself. Cullman Liquidators got it right and their low-budget tv commercial is a huge viral marketing success. In 6 months, the commercial has been viewed over 1.5 million times. Just goe...
I flew out to NYC this weekend to visit my good friend Jeff Rogers (who is an amazing illustrator and designer and will have a few items in our General Store shortly). Jeff works for Spotco and designs posters for Broadway shows. He hooked us up with some free tickets to opening night of A Behandin...
If you ever find yourself bored on a Friday head over to one of my favorite blogs on the web: Badass Of The Week. Every week there is a new post about a historical person who has done something worthy of the moniker "Badass". The writing is absolutely hilarious and the stories are genuinely interes...
A while back, I wrote about Saul Bass, one of my all-time favorite designers and a real inspiration to me. I'd like to continue on that path and write about another of my design heroes: Milton Glaser.
The scope and diversity of this man's work astounds me. He's done everything from poster ...
The folks at unmatchedstyle.com were kind enough to recently feature The Old State's redesigned website. You can check out the review here.
We also had the pleasure of sitting down with Gene Crawford for an interview via Skype. We talked about the redesign and some of the background behind our bra...
Travis and I recently had the pleasure of seeing one of our favorite bands, The Avett Brothers, live at the Granada Theater in Dallas. The place was packed tight with screaming Avett fans and the band put on an unbelievable show! I recommend that you see these guys if you get a chance!
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I am a sucker for a good screen print. Over the years, I've acquired a pretty extensive collection of gig posters from some of my favorite designers out there. I was even lucky enough to have one of these extremely talented individuals (Dirk Fowler of F2 Design) as a teacher in college.
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I love live music! And I love to support local bands. A couple of weeks ago I went to a little show down in Deep Ellum that the Dallas Observer puts on every week at a place called SPACE. The show is called DC9 in SPACE and it features a different local artist or band every Wednesday night. They pl...
couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of seeing the Shepard Fairey exhibit at the ICA in Boston...a fantastic experience. The ICA is housed in an absolutely beautiful building on the Boston waterfront. They have a great permanent collection, but the reason I was there was to see Fairey's exhibit....
I want to just quickly take you through my process on my latest logo design for iWake.com, an online community for wakeboarders. On this particular project, I started out with some inspiration...the old International Harvester logo, in which an "i" and an "h" are combined into a form resembling a m...