Author: Ben Fieker

Significance of Optimizing for the Modern Mobile User

Get with the times! The mobile user rules all. It is impossible to deny the influence of the smartphone technology affecting the web experience nowadays. Following this trend is not a matter of how a flat-rimmed hat looks in a mirror selfie. The Significance of Optimizing for the Modern Mobile User directly affects web site […]

On Branding The Raddys

On Saturday, February 27th, over 400 people in the Nashville advertising community gathered to award the best work of the past year at the 51st Annual Nashville American Advertising Awards. This year, ST8MNT won one Gold and five Silver 2016 AAF Addys. Even more exciting than that, though, ST8MNT was honored to brand Nashville’s 2016 American […]

The Droids We’re Looking For: Real Tech Inspired By Star Wars

At ST8MNT we are more than ready for the new Star Wars series, and not solely for entertainment. Star Wars inspired a feeling of hope in everyone who grew up with it. It gave a feeling of limitless frontiers where anything was possible. That notion has lead to breakthroughs that only decades ago were nothing but […]

5 “Vices” of a Creative Mind

That’s it. I give up. Is it 4:00 p.m. yet? Nah Broseph/Brolita, it’s only 11:00 in the A.M.! A simple conversation that happens daily. It may be with a coworker, or it may exist completely in my head. Can you blame me? As a graphic designer my mental endurance is always being put to the […]

TITLE WAVE

  The Opening title is the unsung hero of pop culture. Encapsulating the mood of an entire television series with merely music, image, and type. It’s a testament to the power of design that such basic elements collected in a timespan of 30 seconds or less can permeate themselves in the minds of millions. As […]

Give me a C, C!

We had the pleasure of working with Shane Womack from Cheer! Daily on the creation of his Cheer! brand and the premiere edition of Cheer! Magazine. This was our first full magazine design, which differed from other projects in the 100+ page design category as those have been graphic-heavy coffee table books, and not 96 […]

iWatch Review

Apple Watches went on sale a few days ago, and the latest offering from the folks who brought us the iPhone is already sold out. I did not and will not be purchasing one, but I decided to take a moment to decide what my life would be like if I spent a day with […]

Off to the Races

Every now and then, we like to get the gang together for a field trip. This time around, we decided to try out Music City Indoor Karting, a go-karting facility downtown near LP Field. Though #Snowbama Part Deux wanted to keep us away, we still made it over to the track for three races. Located […]