Author: Ben Fieker

Stay Gold Ponyboy

This past weekend the ST8MNT crew attended AIGA Nashville‘s Case Awards, and Think Tank conference. We had an awesome time, and really feel like the conference was just the creative inspiration we were looking for! We racked up some really great awards from the Nashville design community friday night during the Case Awards event, and […]

Bottoms Up Ladies & Gents!

BNA Wine Group contacted us to create an identity that would capture the Nashville soul behind the company. So we did a little research. A couple of Fridays ago we took the afternoon to sample their collection of wines. Here’s a list of our favorites from the Friday Wine-Down: Bethany – The Rule, Josh N. – Bandwagon […]

SuperBrothersinc Sword & Sworcery EP

We’re all IPhone & IPad App fiends over here at ST8MNT. You can find us on twitter, instagram, touching clouds in Tiny Wings, or just Hanging with Friends! We thought you guys should see this awesome game that Superbrothersinc released earlier this year called Sword and Sworcery ep. The game animation is just beautiful, and […]

New Branding for AM@FM, Arnold Myint

Introducing Arnold Myint’s newest quick-eatery, AM@FM, Arnold Myint at the Farmer’s Market! ST8MNT’s work is on display here with the creation of menus, a new logo to extend Arnold’s personal branding, display banners, and food photography by Josh Newman. Shout-outs given to ST8MNT designers Greg Frank and Alyssa Rachels. We worked hard to ensure AM@FM […]

REBUILD THE HEART OF DIXIE! Tornado-Tee

We just uploaded our tornado shirt to facebook. Help us generate money to help the South recover from the tornados that tore through earlier this season. Check it out here, and tell all your friends! Oh and be sure to click the like button on my shirt helps. My Shirt Helps facebook page Shirts will […]

What’s Cookin’ Ben Franklin?

Recently our friends at Nat Geo gave us the opportunity to create a 40 page cookbook for their annual Expedition Week. It was an intense 2 week process from start to finish. End result, an awesome design piece with some tasty delights! Take a look. Recipes vary from “Eating With Cannibibals” Finger Foods Appetizer to “Ben Franklin’s Pirate Fleet” […]

Japan Quake Relief

Part of the ST8MNT extended family lives in Japan. Our hearts and prayers go out to the families affected by this tragedy. We would love to help in anyway possible. Here are some quick ideas for a shirt to raise funds for the earthquake & tsunami that happened earlier. Thanks to our principle Josh Newman and […]

Why Man Creates: Saul Bass on the creative process

Saul Bass’ 1968 Academy Award winning short film / documentary called Why Man Creates is a really nice commentary on the creative process. Saul Bass is easily one of the most influential designers/creatives of all time, so its really a treat to get to see his film on something we are all enthusiastic about. That’s why we are sharing it with you dummy… it’s for your health! It’s in 2 parts, so enjoy.

Watch the Throne Kanye/JayZ First Single Cover

Allow me to introduce you to an awesome, yet very un-kosher cover for the upcoming Kanye/Jay-Z  joint, “HAM.” According to the the single itself, the cover was “Creatively Directed” by fashion designer, Riccardo Tisci. This is further proof that Jay-Z and Kanye are stupid rich and out of touch with their “hood” roots. However, there is a […]

Wu-Massacre Album Cover w/ Alternate Covers

There’s a new Wu-Tang Clan album… well sort of. It came out a while ago but it’s new to me and features three members of the Clan. I’m an avid fan of the Wu but somehow I missed this release on March 30, 2010. I didn’t find out about it until last week. I’m super out of […]