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Need inspiration? Go camping.

Gavin Braman — Thu, 17 May 2012 21:49:40 +0000

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.

New Hovercraft Video

Martin — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 20:27:27 +0000

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.

Business card and post card designs

Gavin Braman — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:38:29 +0000

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.

Design presentation at Texas A&M University!

Gavin Braman — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 19:56:05 +0000

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

Warmest Christmas Gif(t) Ever!

Gavin Braman — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 23:36:13 +0000

Merry Christmas everyone! (or which ever holiday you may be celebrating). Hope it’s awesome!

Here’s the Christmas card we sent out. And be sure to watch our Christmas Gif(t) below!

Click the image if it isn’t doing anything awesome.

Winter type!

Gavin Braman — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 23:04:19 +0000

It’s finally cold in Texas and my garden is now officially dead. I had about 50 tomatoes start growing just as it was starting to get cold. As you can see (above) none of them had a chance to ripen.

The type below was made from my basil plants. All the leaves had fallen and left these wonderful little branches. Hope everyone is having a delightful December!

Type, color, patterns and design in Cozumel

Gavin Braman — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:20:56 +0000

I had a chance to spend some time in Cozumel, celebrating my grandparent’s 50th wedding anniversary. Here are some photos I took while exploring the streets outside the main touristy area. The town of San Miguel in Cozumel is rich with hand painted typography, beautiful painted walls, vibrant colors, patterns and tons of inspiration. My eyeballs were happy. Check out the pics.

Awesome Video

admin — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 21:59:04 +0000

Now that we are taking on more video work, I hope we get approached to make a couple rap / training videos.

Chamber of Commerce fail.

Gavin Braman — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 20:21:31 +0000

This is how you know your Chamber of Commerce really wants you.

Lesson learned. If you’re going to create a templated letter, use a greeting like, “Dear Mighty Warrior”. If you forget to add the real person’s name, it still makes them feel awesome.

Html5tx Conference Experience

Gavin Braman — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:26:05 +0000

Last weekend we got to see all our hard work on the Html5tx Conference come together for a pretty epic experience. The event was put together by a really rad group of people and we were lucky enough to be a part of it. We did all the branding for the conference, logo, website, t-shirts, name badges, posters, stickers and maybe some other things I’m forgetting. It was just so awesome to see everything we did working together to enhance all the little visual details of the conference. If you want to check out the work we did, here’s a link to the project in our portfolio: html5tx project.

Oh and we even presented at the conference! We did a live critique of this website: developersmackdown.com. Clark Sell, the owner of the site, was part of the panel (along with Brandon Satrom, who moderated) and Martin and I just went to town on all the things we’d change to make the site more effective. We even had a fancy PowerPoint! I think about 100 people showed up for our session. I was really nervous and one of Martin’s jokes failed big time. Everything else went pretty smoothly though.

Below is a photo of one half of the room at our session. Just before we started I asked if I could photograph everyone doing the html5 gang sign. Yes. There is an html5 gang sign.

Below is a shot of one of the schedule posters.

Below is Clark Sell, the Developer Smackdown dude. Check out the shirt and water bottle he’s rocking.

Below is Brandon Satrom, mastermind behind the html5tx conference. See the sticker on the laptop?

Hey Look! It’s Martin.