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  • Press Release: Russell Shaw Named Merit Winner in HOW Promotion Design Awards

    For Immediate Release. www.howdesign.com. [Cincinnati]—"Until The Dust Settles" Film Poster, a project developed by Russell Shaw Design, was chosen as a Merit winner in the most recent HOW Promotion Design Awards. This highly selective and well-regarded competition sponsored by HOW magazine recognizes outstanding creative work produced by individuals and creative agencies from around the world....

  • Designing a Gap

    Powerful design creates an inner-dialogue in the viewer – a conversation that happens in the viewer’s mind about how she perceives the design which she is viewing. If a designer can create something which the viewer stops and works out, processes, questions, wrestles with, or solves on her own, then the design has become something that the viewer has internalized and is less likely to forget....

  • Where Does Style Fit Into Design?

    It is commonplace for those who are practicing design to tell those who are studying design not to focus on developing a specific “style.” But in actuality we send seemingly conflicting messages. We say that design should be classic, timeless, and even invisible – but then we turn around and create work that caters to a very specific style, taste, and aesthetic. In theory, the advice is soun...

  • Whiskey Family Tree Wood Engravings

    Starting this morning, Bearings is offering the custom, hand-drawn infographic design in engraved wooden boards of Birch, Alder and Cherry, created with an Oklahoma craftsman who took my drawing and laser engraved it twice to create fine grooves and really bring out the details....

  • “Skylight Farm” Brand Identity

    Skylight Farm at Skip’s Garden is a biodiverse, Certified Naturally Grown vegetable farm located just outside of Atlanta. The brand identity was inspired by vintage farm labels and features original hand-drawn illustrations of vegetables and farm equipment. All of the print collateral is on 100% recyclable seeded paper, so that each customer who receives a card or a note from the farm is able to...

  • The Call to Stubbornness

    A guest post from filmmaker Kyle Taubken, building on yesterday's idea of "Doubt" by exploring the equally essential, yet opposite, aspect of possessing stubbornness in our creative pursuits....

  • Doubt

    For much of my life, I was taught that “doubt” was a negative thing to possess. But the more work that I have created, the more that I have learned to respect the retention of some level of doubt in everything that I do. Doubt stirs up new potential for what could be next....

  • Spring Playlist

    Here are my recommendations on a mix worthy of rolling down your windows....

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