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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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The Collective's Work
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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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  Earlier this year, I made this post containing scanned in logos of the book ‘Top Symbols & Trademarks of the World 11. Today I received Top Symbols & Trademarks of the World 6 of this beautiful ... Continue reading →
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Oscar & Ewan is a London and Stockholm based design studio that is making really fucking awesome shit. Since 2007 they have been creating everything from brilliant album art to captivating spacial typography a ... Continue reading →
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I’ve known of and have been following Michael Spitz ever since i’ve been an honored member of the dribbble community. I always think of Michael as the king of Dribbble. He’s an incredibly active m ... Continue reading →
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Keepers of the Craft
A beautiful short documentary about the dying art of traditional sign painting.
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I love the work of Maricor/Maricar!This duo creates amazing hand crafted pieces with a wide breadth of all kinds of rawness from motion, to lettering, and beyond. Don’t start digging into their website unles ... Continue reading →
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Doyald always stresses the importance of sketching by hand, at actual size. He advocates, “Examine the drawing as carefully as a mother examines her new baby.” This obsessive dedication to excellenc ... Continue reading →
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