1. See beautiful things. If you’re outside and your eyes are open, it’s really not all that tough to do.

2. Touch everything, unless it’s poisonous.

3. Nature has the best color palettes, use ‘em.

4. Look for lines, patterns and movement. It’s okay to rip off a grassy field for your next project.

5. Dead plants look cool too, don’t discriminate.

6. Ponder. Meditate. Pray. Dream. Whatever you’d like to call it. It’s good to get away and just breathe.

We are very excited to share this with everyone! Check it out!

We were super lucky to be a part of this video and we’re grateful to Hovercraft for bringing us on board to work on the project. We did all the design work and Hovercraft handled everything else (filming, animation, etc.) Check out the post the Norman Brothers did about the project.

Moo.com recently came out with a new business card called the Luxe. It’s a 32pt card, not quite as thick as I imagined, but definitely a serious business card. Check out the video they put together of the card if you’re feeling exceptionally nerdy. If someone hands you one of these, you know they don’t mess around. It comes with a colored (black, white, red, blue) strip down the edge of the card. This is the first time we’ve printed on these and I have to say, they turned out incredible. Moo.com recommends that you do not print full-bleed images. We asked about a light-colored image and they said it would be fine and it was. The photo we used printed perfectly. We also designed some postcards which I’ve included below. The postcards have a spot gloss, which you really can’t see in the photos, but in person it’s a sweet little detail.

Below are the business card designs we did for the Norman Brothers. You can see in the 2nd image the blue strip, that’s not chromatic aberration, that’s the actual color of the card. If you missed our post on the website we designed for them, check it out here. Or if you missed the post on the logo design, check that out here.

Martin and I are giving a presentation about drifting creatives, branding and a little responsive web design for a design class at Texas A&M University. We’ve been working on the That Conference site which will be beautiful and responsive! yay! So we just decided to use it as a bit of a case study, even though it isn’t quite finished yet, but it will be very soon! And we’re super excited about it.

Here’s our presentation if you want to check it out. PRESO