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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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Illustration
The Collective's Work
Our Inspiration
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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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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 →
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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 →
dearly-departed
If there are two things you should know about me, it’s that I love screen printing and I love drawing monsters. When I heard that Big Table Studio was having a Halloween poster show, I had to jump at the chance. Bef ... Continue reading →
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Design Bureau magazine recently commissioned me to do a spot illustration to accompany an article about self promotion. I was given pretty much free reign and so I pitched the idea of a one man traveling advertisemen ... 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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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 →
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Jonsi – Gathering Stories (From We Bought A Zoo)
Who knew you could make a whole bunch of triangles look so pretty? This song is off the soundtrack Jonsi (of Sigur Ros) wrote with director Cameron Crowe for the upcoming film, ‘ We bought a Zoo’, staring M ... Continue reading →
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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 →
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If you don’t know Richard Perez… well then, you just don’t know. He’s a fellow buddy [who used to work] at Office [but his ship has since sailed on], and he kinda kills it at illustration. Yea ... Continue reading →
Somefield
Barnaby Ward is Somefield, a Barbadian (or 'Bajan' if you're in the know) illustrator who's been quite busy. I met Barnaby on Monday and the conversation quickly took an art-blog turn. After discovering that he was an illustrator, I checked out his site, and soon realized that I had seen his work all over the internet. Continue reading
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Thijs De Cloedt and Wouter Sel are animators/illustrators that together form the Belgian powerhouse that is Volstok. They consistently churn out some of the funniest animations I have ever seen.  I mentioned thei ... Continue reading →