While Austin and Aaron were busy having babies, I was cooking up a cookbook! When I said “I Do” to Joshua Butler last year, I married in to one of the most fun summer experiences I’ve ever known, the Stone Family Reunion. For a whole week, over 125 members of the Stone family gather at […]
OHHH•EMMM•GEEE!!! It’s TOTES Summer. And summer means grilling out burgers and condiments, namely Ketchup. There’s nothing like an ice cold bottled coke, a freshly salted carton of fries, and cool ketchup for dipping to beat a hot-ass Nashville summer day in the shade. In honor of our old crimson confidant, we’re diving into this sauce […]
2 ST8MNT designers (Austin and Aaron) just had two little girls about one week apart. Welcome to the world Ella Rowe Hale and Esme Brighton Rayburn. (pictured above, Esme on the left and Ella on the right) Names beginning with the letter ‘E’ must be trending or something. Erin and Austin’s lil’ hale-ion (pronounced ˈheɪl […]
Yes, another reference to how Minority Report is helping shape the future of technology and society. If you’ve been in the dark for a little while, a new stage in UI/mouse/stylus/pointing at stuff is about to be set with Leap Motion: Historically it first started with the track ball, invented in 1952 by Tom Cranston, […]
A fun find for feeding the mind: A friend directed me to No Brow, a publishing of works by a wonderful collection of graphic artists, illustrators, and artists. There, I came across Blexbolex a French illustrator and artist based in Berlin who has created such works as Dog Crime, Abecederia, and No Man’s Land. Blexbolex’s […]
March and April have been busy months for ST8MNT, and also for Adrian Younge with two new releases: “Adrian Younge Presents The Delfonics” (a great listen, give it a try) and “Twelve Reasons To Die.” “Twelve Reasons To Die” is a concept album collaboration between rapper Ghostface Killah, composer Adrian Younge, and Adrian Younge’s band […]
We just wrapped up one of the best jobs ever — a corporate event strategy-and-execution project for RANDA Solutions — and we can’t wait to tell you about it. RANDA had just moved into a beautiful new building in Franklin and wanted to welcome its growing employee base into the space with a team-building, culture-cultivating […]
Ferrofluid defined is a fluid containing particles subject to magnetic suspension. This material is used to seal harddrives, as a contrast agent for magnetic imaging in medicine, and apparently to create the terminator army. Artist Sachiko Kodama has gone to great lengths to further demonstrate this material’s ability to be manipulated by using it as […]
One of the best things about looking at movies and their trailers is how they stylize the studio logos. Whoever started the trend needs to speak up and take all of the credit. Of today’s twenty or so majors, Warner Brothers seems to be the most lenient in allowing motion designers to accentuate the WB […]
Part of providing great identity design for clients is having a great identity yourself. And the new year should bring great changes, right? We think so (and we have fun doing this stuff), so we developed a new look and feel for ST8MNT: New demo-reel books, stationary, belly bands, mailer labels, note cards and business […]