The Black Harbor The Black Harbor is an online account of the work, ideas, and inspiration of a tight-nit collective of creatives. Over the years we have created things together, attended school together, fought together, and partied together. We have grown beyond the simplicity of friendship. We are now a family. Our purpose is to celebrates the work of the collective and explore creative work in the world that truly inspires us driving us to be better at what we do. Our hope is that as we document our work, process, lives, and inspiration that you will also be inspired and share your work with us.
Michael Jeter is a designer and illustrator living in San Francisco. He is the co-creator and creative force behind I Shot Him. He created The Black Harbor out of his continuing need to celebrate the many overly talented friends he has the privilege of drinking and working with.
I’m super excited about the release of Ryan George Kittleman’s novel The Great Peace earlier this week. Ryan is one of those renaissance men who can do just about anything really well. He is an author, m ... Continue reading →
I recently had the pleasure of working with Aza Raskin and his team at Massive Health to help visualize a plethora of data that they had gathered about the way we eat. Continue reading →
I recently had the pleasure of being a contributing artist for the awesome project Silver Screen Society. I contacted them because I had an itch to contribute and see how my work would sit in that sphere. Trevor Basse ... Continue reading →
I had the pleasure of making a poster for ArtCrankSf this year, and I wanted to share the work and process with you guys. The guys over at Vahalla Studios printed the posters for me. Dan was really rad to work with and I ... Continue reading →
About the Project
I recently had the pleasure of working with the folks at Brunch Box to create an identity system and truck wrap for their new brunch food truck. It was a great learning experience all around. The clien ... Continue reading →
We are happy to share with you the latest animation from I Shot Him. We collaborated with Participant Media and Take Part to create a website and animation for a social action campaign about the power of storytelling f ... Continue reading →
Christopher Nielsen’s illustrations are a perfect balance of… well, perfection. His compositions, colors, and subject matter have me staring and contemplating for a while. I learn so much from each ... Continue reading →
Sam Bevington is a London based illustrated with an interesting array of work. His work can run the gamut of super complex to incredibly simple. This sort of versatility in an illustrator is not always easy to come by, ... Continue reading →
Jordan Speer is a young illustrator working in Kentucky. He’s absolutely killing it with these 3d illustrations. I love the almost clay quality of the pieces. Its almost as if these are stills from an epic stop ... Continue reading →
Till Hafenbrak‘s illustration work is so fucking fun. Everything from the content and color to the way style of amorphous shape is so effortless seeming but so dead on. Below are a few of my favorites, but make ... Continue reading →
“Berserk” – Adam Garcia
Illustrated Etymology is one of my favorite collaborative content creation efforts. It was created by designer and illustrator Adam R Garcia, ”for the purpo ... Continue reading →