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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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Harbor Tunes Bill Baird 12.13.2011
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Bill Baird
Bill Baird (of Sunset) put out a rad new album this year that is a slight departure from his old stuff. Dig on it
By Michael Jeter on 12.13.2011
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Plato’s Walkman
A playlist created by photographer and artist Eric Carroll relating to his Rayko Photo Center show titled Plato’s Home Movies.
By McNair Evans on 10.24.2011
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Just Fucking Relax
Your stressed out. You need to chill the fuck out and take this in.
By Michael Jeter on 09.26.2011
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Album: Canyon Candy
This album has been doing the trick for me lately. I’m a sucker for anything western and psychedelic.
By Michael Jeter on 09.26.2011
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Mxltiply
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 →
Add a Comment | By Scott Hill on 02.21.2012 Design
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Chief’s Skincare
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 →
2 comments | By Tim Boelaars on 12.29.2011 Design
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Emporium Pies
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 →
2 comments | By Scott Hill on 12.29.2011 Design
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AFAR Magazine
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 →
3 comments | By Carl Bender on 10.17.2011 Design
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Brunch Box
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 →
3 comments | By Michael Jeter on 09.25.2011 Design
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Eat Real Festival 2011
This is one of my favorite new I Shot Him projects created in collaboration with my buddy, Carl Bender the Great. Client Eat Real Festival Description Eat Real combines a state fair, a street-food festival, and a bloc ... Continue reading →
4 comments | By Jayde Cardinalli on 09.25.2011 Design
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Chairs
EAMES: The Architect and The Painter I’m going to start this off and say I am in no way an expert on the subject of chairs, but rather a fan.  This is in no way a full study of chairs, not even close.  This is just a fly- ... Continue reading →
Add a Comment | By Matt Sartain on 02.22.2012 Design
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Danny Jones
I try to keep a good amount of breadth in my portfolio. From branding to web to illustration, I don’t necessarily want to be all things to all people but I do want to be able to offer multiple solutions by way of mu ... Continue reading →
Add a Comment | By Scott Hill on 02.21.2012 Design
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The Consult
Some great layout design from Leeds based studio, The Consult.
Add a Comment | By Carl Bender on 02.16.2012 Design
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Postage Stamps
You might have seen these before, but for this week’s inspiration post, I just found out about this flickr set with beautiful postage stamps. The scans are curated by Karen Horton. I hope she doesn’t m ... Continue reading →
Add a Comment | By Tim Boelaars on 02.15.2012 Design
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Bond Creative
I came across the firm BOND via the wonderfully elegant design blog September Industry. BOND is a creative firm out of Helsinki, Finland. They have a traditional approach to design that is timeless, clean and to t ... Continue reading →
1 comment | By Carl Bender on 02.11.2012 Design
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California Games
I loved this game. circa ’88…
2 comments | By Ashley Ciecka on 02.06.2012 Design