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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.
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Bill Baird (of Sunset) put out a rad new album this year that is a slight departure from his old stuff. Dig on it
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A playlist created by photographer and artist Eric Carroll relating to his Rayko Photo Center show titled Plato’s Home Movies.
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Your stressed out. You need to chill the fuck out and take this in.
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This album has been doing the trick for me lately. I’m a sucker for anything western and psychedelic.
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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 →
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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
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Mxltiply is a personal project that will be a collaboration between Andrew Shepherd, Ryan Clark, and myself. To put it briefly for now, it will be a small, remote studio that will experiment with what it looks like to g ... Continue reading →
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We’re close to the end of 2011. A year in which I have had the chance to meet some great people and work on some cool projects. One of the projects I really enjoyed working on, was designing the identity and packaging for C ... Continue reading →
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Back in November, one of my best friends started a pie shop. The only real problem with the idea was that she needed branding, collateral, packaging and a website in about two weeks time to make the Thanksgiving rush. S ... Continue reading →
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I recently completed two infographics spreads for the travel magazine, AFAR. These spreads are featured in a section of the magazine called “Curious Planet”, and cover one topic through the use of s ... Continue reading →
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Atipus is a very talented mid-sized studio based in Barcelona. The studio was started in 1998 and has been knocking out great work since. They have a very clean / simplistic approach but there are hints of playfulness ... Continue reading →
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On dribbble I came across the work of José Rivera from Sacramento, California. There’s not much on his portfolio yet, but I really like the work he’s been posting on his dribbble. Here are a few of his w ... Continue reading →
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Some super great illustration work coming from UK’s Owen Gatley. His illustrations have so much character and make me think of some favorite book of mine from when I was kid that I can’t quite remember. A ... Continue reading →
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The other day I came across the work of French designer and illustrator, Jean-Charles Desevre. I’m really into ornate and highly decorated marks and emblems right now, and that’s what he specializes i ... Continue reading →
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Recently caught up with some great work from Spin, a small UK design firm based in London. Their work has an energetic, offbeat, even frantic feel but is grounded in a solid foundational understanding of typography a ... Continue reading →
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Through twitter I came across the work of Stefan Kanchev (1915-2001). Stefan Kanchev was a Bulgarian graphic artist. Even though I already saw his work spread out around the web and books, it’s nice that ther ... Continue reading →
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