Holy crap! Our poster for the Poster Offensive is front, center and huge in the A-List Section of the City Pages this week!! Check out the fabulous article here, which also includes a great poster by LovelyMpls. Show runs from August 15th to September 15th at the Black Dog Cafe in St. Paul. Opening night is Friday, August 29th 5pm. This years show coincides with the Republican National Convention and should be a great time. Local artists include Miss Amy Jo, Jeff Johnson, Aesthetic Apparatus, Eighthourday, Landland, and Studio On Fire, to name a few. Special thanks to Jeff Johnson for putting this on, and a shout out to our good friend Steve Jockisch for an awesomes show poster!

A special thanks to everyone who came out on Friday for our Open House. It was great to see you and thanks for the good times! xoxo

Working with Bastian+Skoog we developed icons and corresponding patterns to help illustrate their three categories of flowers: Weddings, Work and Everything Else. Each icon was design to be used on its own or within a pattern application.

Our good friend Hilary Davis plays Voltage 2008 tonight! You can check out her band Bella Koshka on the cover of Vita.mn (sweet!) this week and also on their new site (word!) awesomely designed by Sevnthsin. Rock on!

Cool! We made the cut! Both the Blackbird menus and Target Icons made it into the AIGA Minnesota Design Show. Special thanks to Scott Muskin for his fab writing on the menus. Check us out and the other rad winners here.

Our good friends Amy and Nate got married on Saturday at the Varsity Theatre. So much fun! The following pictures depict the insane dance party that followed. Awesome music by DJ Paper Tiger. Video here and here. Thanks to Aaron and Julie for the pics and Jamey for the video (I totally nabbed them!) Congrats again you guys! We wish you all the best!

Kiddieup Travel is a website and concept based on generating great ideas for those vacationing with their children. In that spirit, we developed a logo and identity system to promote Kiddieup’s online presence. Here is a sample of the companies rotating stationary system including letterhead, business cards and, of course, postcards.

With the blog scene growing rapidly, travel writer Jenny Shears is using this momentum to establish herself as an expert in kid friendly travel. With some development help from our friends at PUNY, we worked with Kiddieup Travel to plan and design a blog with specific travel categories, search functionality for planning the perfect trip and user feedback to ensure quality.

Our friend Kelly just started a screenprinting studio in Northeast. Doesn’t it look cute?! I want a drawing table too! Check out her blog here.

It was a REALLY cold night the night Five to Nine Magazine had their first anniversary art show, First Impressions Last, at Umber Studios in South Minneapolis. Congratulations Peter! Above are a couple pieces Nate and I were lucky enough to have included in the show. Also, a link to the flickr set with shots from the night.

We have been working more with Ed Rivero and his staff on round 2 of the Cortez Brothers website. This revamp has brought some sexy new background images, an extensive list of international directors and a user friendly video player with chapter cue points.

Borrowing from Target’s HR branding, the icons above use outlines and carefully overlapping objects to create groupings of visual interest that convey the duties of sixteen different job descriptions. These icons are viewable on Target.com’s Career Section and in the Target Stores through kiosks and printed materials.

A series of background illustrations done for the Atomic Playpen blog, AP/Creative Lab. The backgrounds change out on page refresh.

New illustration works up at my new illustration site! www.katiekirk.net

Holy crap! My good friend Anne has fabulous design/art/inspiration blog and I didn’t even know! Check it out! Little Birdy B.

The wonderful photography of Mickey Smith (pictured with Jeff Johnson) is now up at the Minnesota Center for Photography, part of the McKnight Fellows exhibit. Her other half, Aaron Pollock, part of Quarter Acre Lifestyle, has some awesome new tracks up on their MySpace page.

A major bridge in our city collapsed tonight during rush hour. Above are some photographs taken from a nearby walking bridge of the scene. The last shot is of the sun, which was bright red as it set. Obviously our thoughts go out to anyone personally affected by this tragedy.

Received the latest issue of Minnesota Bride and we’re on the back page thanks to our awesome wedding photographers Studio 306.

Miscellaneous collage explorations.

Miscellaneous collage explorations.