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Seattle’s own Hilliard’s Beer is a relatively new startup with some nice branding underway that is being produced by Mint Design. From the beginning they have been detailing the process of creating this beer and evolving the brand over at their site. Their approach with allowing the public to see the behind the scenes work as this startup is brought to life is intriguing and helps instill a deeper personality within their brand.

This video is simply mesmerizing. It was shot on August 27th, 2011 by cinematographer Chris Bryan at Teahupo’o, a small village off the coast of Tahiti. The French Navy had declared the day a double code red, prohibiting and threatening to arrest anyone entering the water. You’ll quickly see why. With “Lower Your Eyelids to Die with the Sun” by M83 further enhancing the experience, I could watch this all day if it lasted that long.

Via Colossal. Video from MPORA.

Great flickr set of Golden Guides. I remember these gems from my childhood and always thought they had something special to them. The covers are straightforward and streamlined like they ought to be and the texture of the paper coming through on the covers definitely seals the deal.

Beautiful project from German designer Stefanie Golla on the process of how bees make honey. Her use of photography to showcase the approach of how honey is created and gathered brings an imposing look into the procedure from beginning to end.

Some nice work from Scott Campbell out of New Orleans. I particularly like his use of halftones in his work, they bring out a nice but not to heavy texture. More great work over at his site where most of these posters are also available as prints.

I recently came across the work of Zurich born designer and painter Richard Paul Lohse and I’m really glad I did. Born in 1902, he became and early pioneer for modern Swiss design in the 1930′s and became just as successful in his fine art career as well. It’s always great discovering such a proficient designer from this time because it brings such a greater depth of appreciation to the field for me knowing where a lot of inspiration of today originated from and what it took for these guys to produce work like this.

I really enjoy the aesthetic behind Anchor Division. The sites showcases many inspirations for me including men’s wear, vintage commodities, architecture, automobiles, motorcycles and of course art and design. Some definite manly inspiration going on in there…especially for fashion.

Above is the poster I created for this year’s AIGA Always Summer Poster Show held in my hometown of Jacksonville, FL. For the event you’re asked to choose a song that reminds you of summer and design a poster around it. I chose the song “Nightcall” by Kavinsky which also features Lovefoxxx from CSS. This poster was a lot of fun to work on because it’s a departure from my usual style. Also, I wanted to choose a song that made me reminisce of summer nights instead of the days like I created last year. This song and poster reflects upon nights just driving around the city listening to music, lying on a beach or just looking out at the stars. I referenced such things as 80′s horror movie posters and the classic Goosebumps books that I used to read when I was a kid to give it a mysterious movie poster type feel. Be sure to listen to the song below.

Kavinsky feat. Lovefoxxx — Nightcall

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