When perusing Pinterest or other design blogs for new inspiration I expose myself to hundreds of images at a time. What I realized was, that as I was continuously flipping through design after design, the thought never occurred to me to inquire on the gender of the designer. I don’t really place much emphasis on […]

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 […]

Beijing 2.0 is below the fold and the London 2012 “Touh-na-mint” is well underway. Hidden in plain sight is an ascerbic graphic aesthetic, constructed by various design thinkers and, strangely enough, conceived with different time periods in mind. The time-and-place design curveball gets thrown every now and then, and we constantly adjust our philosophical swing. Sometimes […]

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 […]