Four days after the start of the new year and we find ourselves drenched in hope. Hope for the economy, hope for the future and hope… for everything to be better than the past.
Well, this may be true but, we believe that if you stay focused on what is in front of you then [...]
Apparently, the end of the year is suppose to bring things to a close and open new opportunities for the coming new year. Well, this year, they have. The principle of the DesignTen Collective has accepted an offer for a full-time position with a great agency. Now, this does not mean that all work [...]
Only after our fascination with the typewriter have we been interested in things related to great penmanship. After all, it was the typewriter that helped squeeze out pen to paper. Subsequently, the same affect happened to typewriters when word processors and computers arrived on the scene.
So here we have a small packaging example of a [...]
Type is everywhere. It can be found on your cereal boxes, highway billboards, For Rent signs, etc. No matter where you look in this country, type is all around.
A small producer of notebooks, Attic Journals, has had it’s hand in keeping type alive.
While tending to the needs of our current client(s), we also have day jobs. This is the “project” we work on in between our design project(s).
Thom works at his wife’s shop, which is called Noun: a person’s place for things. He’s been organically growing the identity of this brick and mortar business, together with his [...]
First of all, who isn’t a fan of well executed typography? Second, who isn’t a fan of women who perform such typography? Jessica Hische is our new favorite type designer who is a typographer and illustrator living in Brooklyn, New York. Most of her work is based on hand-lettering. We’re actually quite envious of her [...]
The newest issue of Newsweek showed up the other day here at office. The large type over the easily recognizable face of President Obama was eye-catching, inviting and fresh. The old Newsweek was only half-welcomed every week when it found its way here. We didn’t really care about what was written in the pages. We [...]
Everyday we are swimming in the sea of visual culture like a lime wedge swimming around carbonated bubbles in a Gin and Tonic. We are part of a bigger whole that is somewhat immersed in a barrage of visual noise. No disrespect to those with visual impairments, but the things we see are fucking loud. [...]
Ian Lynam designed this poster for the PDX Film Fest held in Portland, Oregon. Our interest in this poster derived from the use of the arrow motifs. These arrow layouts were commonly found in Letraset sheets that had to be rubbed down for camera ready art. Somehow, we made the connection between camera-ready art and [...]
Since the inception of the collective, we’ve been scratching our heads trying to decide how we will approach this portal. We’ve devised a mission statement of sorts. We’ve also thrown caution to the wind. So, with that, we have chosen to post things that inspire us and get our collective juices flowing. We will post [...]