Proposed interrobangs from Type Talks, March-April 1962, drawn by Jack Lipton of Martin K. Speckter Associates, Inc. (Image courtesy of Penny Speckter by way of Shady Characters.) Today, we at ST8MNT took a moment to be inspired by some of the books around the office. Always lovers of type, we picked up “Just My Type” by Simon Garfield […]

In lieu of last week’s release of one of this summer’s most ridiculous blockbusters, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, here at St8mnt we thought it best to reminisce over the original silver screen vampire, Nosferatu, German director F.W. Murnau’s seminal foray into horror. Released in 1922, Murnau’s masterpiece proved foundational to vampire films, and to this […]

Spring for many this year, consisted of avocados making a comeback, desperate mothers disappointed by the Hunger Games then inspired by 50 Shades of Gray, and Tupac conjured from the great beyond by Snoop Dogg’s hypnotic rhymes. At ST8MNT we were busy painting cowboys, and wrangling type. We had the privilege of working with Bigger Picture […]

This past Friday the ST8MNT team took a short break from our normal schedule to go see Ridley Scott’s latest installment in the Alien series, Prometheus. In the film, a small crew lead by archeologists Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) and Charlie Holloway (Logan Marshall-Green) visit the far off planet LV-223, after repeatedly finding a star […]

The motion nanophyscientists @ST8MNT have been hard at work. Our latest animation for Randa we’re working on has that geometric, faceted triangulated look that all you kids are familiar with but are all you kids familiar with how to make it move? Naturally, we started experimenting with primitives and editable objects first, and then moved […]

We recently launched BNAwinegroup.com! St8mnt was called upon to create a new logo for the BNA Wine Group, LLC. of Nashville, TN almost a year ago. Now, we are proud to announce the expansion of the brand into a website. BNAwinegroup.com is a thoughtful snapshot of the warmth and good taste that a fine wine […]

With what looks like an economic renaissance in Nashville, the city is unapologetically growing into its own. The addition of the Music City Convention Center and Gaylord Opryland/Dolly Parton’s $50 million theme park investment are two of the biggest recent announcements with the ability to influence the economic climate of our steadily growing southern city. […]

  Mike Horowitz is the man of the week. At least when it comes to internet design dork-dom. He has bestowed upon the world the best / most clever poster for Drive yet. If you haven’t seen the movie it’s a  film noir throw back flick that is violent and includes a Hammer (wink wink). Check […]

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 […]

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 […]