This video is an interesting concept. An animated typeface showcased and each individual character shows how it is animated. Its a super…

The Black Harbor was privileged enough to sit with Alejandro Chavetta in his garage/studio while he worked on personal work on a…

WereHaus is San Francisco film collective making films that vary from documentaries like the Recess Ends to interviews with art companies like…

I absolutely love Radiolab. ‘nuf said.

Julien Vallée, the ridiculously talented Montreal based graphic designer and art director, was just commissioned to make a video for the OFFF festvial. It’s…

We are working on the SFpark project over at I Shot Him and have just finished the video explaining the whole pilot…

This is a fun little faux science video about “graboids”, that terrifying animal made famous by the Tremors movies. I love the music and…

I have been a big fan of Bill Baird, specifically his band Sunset, for a little while now. Gold Dissolves to Gray…

Dwell went to the Josef Albers foundation and talked about his Albers’ obsession with color relationships. I have more respect for Josef…

Black Mustache made this interesting pot prohibition parable video. This video is of particular interest to me as I am currently working…

I’m a big fan of Kristof Luyckx’s style, and even more his odd humor. This new music video for “Wanderland” by Hermanos…

I’m a sucker for all things Mc Bess. His style is all kind sof perfect in my mind. Here is a quick…

Zeloot is an illustrator. His unique psychedelic sense of color made me say “right on” as I clicked through his site. I tried to…

Kliment Kalchev is a Bulgarian designer. I came across his work through communication on Behance, and I was most intrigued by his illustration…

In what we think is one of our most beautiful and captivating Auditory Viewings to date, DM Stith performs an acoustic versions…

We are in the midst of redesigning the site a litte bit to make things work better for you. Excited about the changes!…

I have a feeling that I am in no way introducing you to Matt Lyon for the first time. His work is…

Egill Bjarki emailed us to let us know about his latest series flora. I’m digging the color combinations first and foremost. Egill…

The Inlets came all way over from Brooklyn to hang out and have a badass time with us. We captured some amazing…

This is a great video about the ridiculously talented Non-Format. Video done by the amazing french design culture site etapes.
The discussion about fads…

Troll 2 is one of those infamously terrible movies that are so campy that they are amazingly genius all at the same time.…

One day while being rambunctious in Dolores park, post a childish sex joke onslaught, my lawyer summed up a spirited round of retorts…

There is a Herbert Matter documentary coming out this summer! Can’t wait to file into a packed film house with the dorkiest…

I have always been excited by Blu’s work. Not just normal excited, but excited like a 5 year old the first time…

Script & Seal, a duo design team up in Portland, made some rad bike posters for cycling that were featured in the…

I have been seeing glimpses of an amazingly design magazine called Intelligence In Lifestyle for a while now. A gorgeous cover might pop up…

Art School Cliché Spotting is a new hilariously true iphone app poking at the most obvious and often seen characteristics of student work. It…

Evgeny Kiselev is a Russian Designer that makes amazing psychedelic patterns and abstract compositions. One can get lost on some of them.

The Voice Project is a non-profit working to pass on songs in the tradition of Ugandan was victims. I’m not really sure…

As a long time believer that education is the key to curing most of our social issues, I am really excited to…

Just found this beautiful video for Amnesty International about the death of the death penalty. The concept is really simple, but the…

Tom Rowe aka Tweed Tom, part of the illustration collective Evening Tweed, is too good. Simple, elegant, dreamy, and technically amazing. Oh…

Just saw this new video for Miike Snow directed by Andreas Nilsson. I’m not sure about the concept, though it is interesting,…

Joe Bichard and Jack Cunningham just emailed me this animation that they just finished in school. In light of all of the…

How amazing are these pieces from Scott Campbell? Pretty f’n amazing if you ask me. Via Beautiful Decay.

Our friend Lawrence Azerrad from down in the land of angles just emailed me to let me know that he just launched…

Pogo has quite the knack for making wildly interesting edits to both his music and the video that accompanies it. This video…

As we carry on with our congrats series we would like to congratulate Brianna Johnson. She has a unique graphic voice and…

Congratulations to Erik Carnes, another talented recent graduate. For most of the other grads I have been displaying a spattering of work…

We are currently publishing our Congrats series. Over the next several days we will continue to post work about recent graphic design graduates.…

Continuing with our congrats series, we are proud to congratulate Nicole Berman. I love her re-imagining of the anchor steam brand. Their brand already rocks,…

Congrats to Eisuke Taki. Once again, the work speaks for itself. So enjoy.

Jayde Cardinalli is a recent graduate with a refined sense of style and a smart sense of sass. Sounds like the perfect…

Yesterday I went to the Academy of Art’s spring show to check out what new design graduates will be spreading their wings…

A little making of doc about the 48 hr magazine project that went down not too long ago. I’m waiting for my…

Its always refreshing when people go above and beyond to use their design talents for a higher purpose. Daniel Phillips and Kim…

They say it took an average of 5 hours for every second you see. Wow. Beautiful. You can definitely see the love…

Not normally a sucker for cute, but this video is rad. Plus, I love the new Black Keys album. Its been on…

Tame Impala. Lots and lots of buzz. you be the judge. You can stream their album Innerspeaker here

Carl and I just stopped by on the last day of a graduate design class that focusses on creating all of the…

The great tape debate is raging on, and the verdict is way out. For a few years the cassettes medium has been hot…

Jill Greenberg is an awesome commercial photographer in LA. I especially love these underwater photos. Genius color! You’d almost be able to…

You probably already know about Thirty Days NY because its awesome and has a big web presence, but if you haven’t your…

Leon de Korte and Roel van Eekelen created this poster for their graduation project. As the put it, “Graduation project together with Leon…

The Bold Italic is a cut above the rest when it comes to local lifestyle online magazine blog things. Hell it just…

Evidence: Dazes Expressions of Children Watching Tv is a film by Godfrey Reggio that explores the dazed faces of children watching cartoons.…

It’s Spring/Summer time. Its been beautiful, and in San Francisco, that means spending every free moment possible in Dolores Park. If you…

We are proud to have Nick Kiripolsky join us, and we are looking forward to having a true illustrator show us whats up.…

Davis Sillis is like a milk shake with a scoop of Wes Anderson mixed with a scoop of Demetri Martin. It makes…

Michael Kutsche is a concept artist in Berlin. No need for words here, just fucking awesome. Here are the concepts he whipped…

Holy Shit, this film was beautiful. I’m in love with short documentaries! This documentary is about the dying craft of hand painted…

Christopher Simmons of Mine just emailed us about a poster they just did with the super badass illustrator Yulia Brodskya for the Stern…

We got the pleasure of being experimentally rocked by The Lickets. One rainy Sunday evening, while doing some work together, The Lickets…

Romain Gavris is a really interesting film-maker doing gritty and aggressive music videos for some good musicians. I’m sure you all have…

Elisa Da Prato is putting on a great event about the music our brains make. Featuring a short film by her. Brooklyn on…

Found these type classification posters on Wanken. Dig his blog, and now he is writing for ISO50.

This charming and dreamy animation was done by Overture which is Jason and Aya Brown.

Eric Wareheim goes horror! And does so swimmingly. We all know that Eric Wareheim is just pure genius. Tim and Eric is…

A Los Angeles artist only a few years out of school at Art Center and absolutely killing it. I love when people…

Jana is an illustrator from Belgrade, Serbia. Her work speaks for its self. Its weird and textural. I should do some more…

Some fresh work from France. There is something about some of Pierre Philippe’s work that is really interesting. It seems young and…

I’ve been waiting for the new band of horses for way too long. In fact, just the other day my partner and…

I have recently become a reader of the web magazine The Scout. It reminds me of what a magazine should feel like,…

Yesterday a group of students from Kingston University (outside of London) came to our studio for a tour and to ask questions…

I stumbled upon these two self-initiated Saul Bass remixes for Lost and the new tron movie. First off I think its fun…

Kathryn MacNaughton has a last name that sounds ridiculously close to naughty. Is this a coincidence? Probably. All made up coincidences aside, I really love…

Our Lawyer Ryan Kittleman (think fear and loathing not the pelican brief) brings us into spring with a relaxing mix. I needs…

Adam posted about the art of Dan Hillier a while back, and now there is a pretty fucking awesome animated video done…

Le Gun is my favorite magazine of all times. Too bad there are only 4 issues and its been a while. Give us…

I just got back from vacation in Hawaii and brought two cameras, my Canon 5D and my iphone. I got some surprisingly great…

I (Mike) am back from vacation in hawaii. I’m geared up for new fun things for the site, and will catch you all…

Rob Carter is an interesting photographer and videographer… love this stop motion on urban sprawl. via OK Great

I have recently been introduced to the work of Japanese designer/illustrator Hirofumi Kamigaki aka IC4DESIGN. I love the newspaper style illustrations blown…

Milton Glaser has received the 2009 National Medal of Arts from Obama!!!! This man is the reason I feel that I am able…

The new video for OK Go is nothing short of genius. It is mouse trap meets double dare. The timing is genius,…

For this weeks Harbor Tunes I wanted you to relax and see the world through nostalgic eyes. It’s about love it’s about…

My friend Peter Podgursky of Grumpy Panda Films sent me over one of his latest shorts. You just can’t go wrong with putting…

Kim Holtermand emailed me with some interesting photos today. Some good stuff. Check out the site too.

Thanks Kim!

Harbor Tunes: by Michael Jeter

If you could collaborate is a really interesting site that I found via Kitsune Noir. Great concept, great work. Check out this great…

Colby email me recently to compliment us on our party flavor with the Showgirls movie night, and he sent over his behance…

Showgirls movie night was…. well it was ridiculous. We had twice the regular crowd and we had a grand ol tim, and some…

Los Angeles band Leslie & the Badgers stopped by the studio as they rolled through town on their way to Portland. They…

This is the new Liars music video directed by Andy Bruntel from Los Angeles. I’m always extremely impressed with music videos that…

Alex Varanese is a bay area designer/illustrator that is making some of the freshest and most well composed images i have seen…

Here is a really fun and catchy video for Chiddy Bang, a new hiphop group that I actually like. It was directed by Ben…

This video caught me eye for a number of reasons. First off, explorations of abandoned spaces are always pretty interesting to me.…

Jan von Holleben is a really interesting photographer who really likes to play with perception to create new worlds without having to make huge…

We all need music while we create shit right? So here is some tunes Alex put together, and i’ve been grooving to…

Carl Bender and I biked down to our favorite magazine store in SF not too long ago. We started talking to the…

Our good friend Valerie was leaving us for Las Vegas. So to send her off in style, we wanted to take her…

Our good friends TaughtMe have stopped by for an Auditory Viewing. Blake sings us Tip Me Over. Aubrey Trinnaman and her squeeze box joins Blake for a performance of Apology. Thanks guys for stopping by!

Ryan Schude caught my eye in two very distinct ways. I’m always drawn to elaborately composed photos that tell a weird story,…

Ryan McGinley’s new olympics video. Its pretty amazing. Some definite Warhol parts, and some amazing use of color.

Justin Anderson teamed up with Lingerie designer Damaris to bring us this…well… beautiful piece of…film.

We are proud to present Marty Mattern of Love Like Fire for an Auditory Viewing. He wrote this song for us the…

We are big fans of design for social good, and we are also a big fan of Emily Pilloton, the founder of…

Uzi & Ari are good friends with our good friends TaughtMe. This is a great new video for them. I’m a sucker…

Alex Robins of Or, The Whale is the first musician to stop by the office to help us kick off our new…

We are proud to present our first video for the artist interview series. Justin Fantl is an amazing photographer living in San…

Lately, I have really been in to people making personal sites that are all about creating a community of artists collaborating and…

Our good friend Emily Pilloton was just on The Colbert Report. I remember when I first met this hard working lady and…

As I’m waiting for video to render, I started poking around the internet as one will do when it gets late. I…

Our good friend Crystal Chou sent us over some images of the pencil project she has been working on. I think I…

In digging around on Index Magazine, I found these videos called Everyone Forever Now. William Hoffman & Daniel Mercadante are creating this…

I visited Portland in December and called up my old friend from college Dane Leach. I’ve always been a fan of his…

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Peter Podgursky, an old friend from way back in…

I was recently made aware of Wonder Showzen by my deputy of comedy advisement Adam. It is fucking HILARIOUS. I borrowed season…

Tramps Was Here is a cell phone-photo-game started by Nancy Miller, Jon Snyder and Michael Jeter. It seems that tramps be have’n…

I stopped by Mike Giant’s little shop on Divisadero between Haight St. and Page in SF. I saw some amazing new work…

It’s always an interesting challenge illustrating a poster for a band with an animal in the name, especially if that animal is…

I had the pleasure of sitting down with John Bielenberg a few years back when I was interviewing social designers with the SoftSpot.…

Aubrey is a photo-er, a singer and a general magic maker. She is responsible for the beautiful photos covering Uzi & Ari’s…

Ashley Ciecka and I started the SoftSpot as a collaborative effort, and set out to discover design’s potential for making the world…

I got bored with what I was doing creatively. It was time for a challenge, and I wanted to try something that…

Here at I Shot Him we have started an initiative called Better Market Street. We are focusing mainly on videos to capture…

Mike and Carl from I Shot Him (ISH) were asked by the SF AIGA to make a piece of skateboard art for…

Nick is an illustrator, painter and concept artist in San Francisco.
Website: SteadyLeft.com