Author: Ben Fieker

Haters ‘Gon Hate (on Great Homeland Designs)

I stumbled across these Blue Note Jazz album-style covers for HBO’s hit drama HOMELAND. Ty Mattson released his self-initiated cover project on December 17th 2012, the day after the MIND-BLOWING (wink-wink) season two finale. Nice timing, Ty. At least 2 of ST8MNT’s 9 employees are blood-shot eyes, stay up for 9 days straight, don’t eat, hooked […]

The History of Hip Hop

Since music and graphic design are often different sides of the same coin, and since ST8MNT has provided graphic design services for the recording industry since day one, music is an important element of our daily grind. We’ve been sitting on this little gem for a while now: Allow me to introduce to you, Brooklyn Radio’s – […]

RANDA Tower: Animation Design Behind the Scenes

We’ve cranked out another RANDA video, this time for their teacher observation product, Tower™. We stuck with the tesselated / triangulated / tangrammed / origami / low-poly style that is consistent with the brand, but decided to flex more of our 3D-ceps. Just like the imagery, we disseminated the message down to its most primitive, […]

Thanksgiving Treat! FREE Keystroke Cheat Sheet

Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop beware: Tis the season for sharing our keystroke and shortcut gratitude. After recalling every shortcut, keystroke, and monkeyfist combo we use daily here at St8mnt, we put together a little gift for you this Thanksgiving: A FREE wallpaper detailing how to dexterously use Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop. This keystroke and shortcut […]

Top 13 Reasons to Intern at ST8MNT

Top 13 reasons to intern at St8mnt: ST8MNT IS a reputable brand agency with an equally wicked fun side. The people are super duper helpful, and cool. ST8MNT has a wide variety of clients, meaning you will be given pretty dope projects to work on. They have good taste in music. Mr. Baby Greg will […]

Designing for War with National Geographic Channel

ST8MNT has a longstanding relationship with National Geographic Channel, and we relish the opportunity to collaborate with their in-house team to design fresh creative for such captivating subject matter. Most recently, we did the branding and graphic design for two new premiers: “SEAL Team 6” and “Doomsday Preppers.” SEAL Team 6 Nat Geo asked ST8MNT’s […]

Using Evernote to Manage Print Jobs

As our design agency grows, we look for new ways to build efficiencies. Most recently, we realized we needed a way to track print jobs and the specs that went with them. At the time, we didn’t have a way to index production jobs by client or vendor, and this was a functionality that appealed […]

Sendgine: Behind the Scenes

Congratulations! You are the 47,221,835th visitor to this blog! Claim your Sendgine “Train of Thought” behind the scenes video reward now by clicking the play button on the video below. We’re pulling back the curtain on ST8MNT’s magical process… And for all you serious project viewers, see the final real deal project in our portfolio […]

Cain’s Arcade 2: Global Cardboard Challenge

Inspired becomes inspiring. This cycle is a true example of perpetual motion and the greatest thing about the process of innovation. This is especially the case when a child innovates without the slightest inkling of bringing themselves, or anyone else, anything other than the simple happiness of playing a game. Caine did not intend to […]

Summer of Good

Jordan’s Brochure Terisa’s Brochure This summer ST8MNT had the opportunity to partner up with some great young talent through AIGA Nashville’s Summer of Good program. Summer of Good pairs design students with professionals who mentor the students through a pro-bono project for a local non-profit organization. We had the pleasure to mentor student designers Terisa […]