Recently we’ve had some wine and spirits packaging rolling out onto local shelves: All Purpose Shine, Short Cake, and coming soon: Humble Pie, a new cabernet from Nashville-based BNA Wine Group. With these new roll-outs, we wanted to walk you through a small snapshot of whats it like to work on these from beginning to end […]
WANT TO INTERN AT A DOPE BRAND AGENCY IN THE SOUTH?! What a coincidence, we are currently looking for interns to join our team in Nashville! Think you have what it takes to start a career in graphic design? Build your portfolio and design skills with an internship at ST8MNT, one of Nashville’s hottest branding […]
As part of the work that ST8MNT is doing to boost enrollment for client Nossi College of Art, we created a number of landing pages (and main-site pages) intended to drive potential students to schedule site tours. The campus is beautiful, the instructors are friendly, the admission staff is persuasive — we know that if […]
A special post by Mandy Haskins As a design student, one of the biggest deals of your academic career is your internship. Internships are a great way to gain real-world experience and prep yourself for a J-O-B. In an ideal world, you would get an internship at a place with award-winning design, a diverse portfolio […]
It’s a difficult task to take something as widely familiar as the genre of graffiti and street art and give it a fresh, new spin. But that’s just what Greek artist Greg Papagrigoriou has managed to do. Greg caught our eye with his gorgeous typography and calligraphy-based street art that stands out, way out, in […]
For a quick spotlight, I’d like to introduce you to the illustration and lettering work of Jacqui Oakley. She lives in Hamilton, Ontario and teaches illustration at Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto. I first stumbled across Oakley‘s work a few years back on Designers MX (RIP), when she created a cover for her halloween […]
Why do all these movie theater intros begin with roller coasters? Thomas Edison, perfs, Widescreen War I right after World War II, film grain, geometric means between Silent Films and Scopes – John Hess gives a terse perspective of the major mountains in aspect ratio history. Hess closes: “But it’s still only a shape. A […]
With responsive design, JQuery, HTML5 and other powerful design technologies available in web design, new bars are being set in terms of creative possibilities, such as using video in places that previously filled with images. How is this accomplished? Magic? I couldn’t tell you, but I do know this technique will become increasingly more popular […]
It’s always disappointing when you’re planning your next getaway, and you come across a find with branding that spot on, but the architecture, rooms, and interior execution is not. And disappointing if its the reverse – an exceptional hotel deserving of exceptional design. Basically, gold shouldn’t be rolled in shit. So…We’ve made a list of […]
Summer in one snapshot is cookouts, swimming pools, beach trips, stargazing, fireworks, horseshoes, and other occasions that compliment hot temperatures. And all of us pursue a drink of choice to accompany our summer affairs. Through 2012-2013’s short, cold-ass winter days, ST8MNT was hard at work crafting your favorite poison’s summer attire. Meaning: we have a […]