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Food for Market, a food styling, advertising, branding and strategy business owned and operated by Shannon Charpentier, now has an online presence! Yay for food! We’ve initially created a simple, one-page site showcasing capabilities and offering the necessities for the new business to get off the ground. The new site will give them a pretty face on the internets and world wide webs while we work on building out a more content rich version. Delicioso!

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From our eyes in the skies to our pixels on our screens, UAV drones have dramatically changed the Military’s methods of gaining intelligence. What that has to do with the pixel half of this analogy, we don’t know. But… when was the last time you saw an icon designed for the Navy look this pretty?

Big props to our homey, Sherwin Schwartzrock, for the original sketches. He’s good.

How do you create a simple icon to represent a generic physical sensor depicting one in a multitude of shapes and sizes? Easy. Draw a box, put some fancy tape around it, and stick an old-school radio antenna on top! Voilà!

This icon will be used in a web app and represent devices all over the world relaying everything from sound, vibration and location to you name it. 

Heyoh!

Check out our shnazzy new identity piece for Fargo-based firm, Stahl Architects and Builders. The idea behind the design was to create something far different from your typical architecture firm logo sporting either some sort of trendy san-serif font or alas… a Roman or Greek column. Sorry Futura, Century Gothic and Roman Empire, but you’re not needed this time.

We think the logo twists a nice modern feel with an old school carpentry/handyman/craftsman-like warm feeling establishing a sense of long-standing reputation without dropping “Est. 1889” below the name. It also offers a unique and great direction for future collateral that will separate them from competition for sure.

But… the client didn’t like it. Or rather, they did, but it wasn’t the direction they wanted to take. Shucks! It happens though. This is the design business.

So, this will be the only place you see this logo. We wanted to give it one last shiny little moment before filing away. Goodbye my looooove!

Ok, we’re over it. Next!

They’re baaaaaack!

That’s right! Our production partner, Dandy Dwarves, is about to Crash the SuperBowl. Again! But we need your help!

Frito-Lay and Doritos are back at it with another installment of their Crash the SuperBowl contest. This year, it’s bigger than ever. How does it work? Simple. Sign up and create a 30 second commercial featuring Doritos snacks. Then, ask America to vote your spot to the top!

The top SIX finalists will get a cool $25,000, but that’s just the beginning. If you place in the top 3, your spot airs on national television during the SuperBowl. It doesn’t stop there. Place first on the USA Today Ad Meter and walk away with $1 million. Place second, $600,000. Third, $400,000. If Doritos places 1st, 2nd, and 3rd on the ad meter, everyone gets another $1 million!

Last year, you may remember Dandy Dwarves placed in the top five with their spot Too Delicious.

This year, they’re back for more! Enter Señor Queso, he’ll do anything for a Dorito. Doritos please!

Watch now, vote later! Voting begins in January, but be sure to stay up to date! Join the Facebook group for bonus pictures and videos!

Also, check out the high quality version of Señor Queso: Doritos Please via Dandy Dwarves.

Snack strong!