Custom Fonts :: Typecast Press Gets Press
Mary Mashburn, our coaster guru, recently received some stellar press in the New York Times. Mary runs Typecast Press, which is where we recently had our sweet Orange Element coasters letterpressed. You can see them here, next to her work for Woodberry Kitchen, which is actually the subject of the Times article. The article is [...]
Welcome to Freebie Friday!
I’m excited to announce Orange Element’s first Freebie Friday! The AAB Mini-Golf Madness tournament (which our very own Garret is chairing so beautifully) is tonight, so we thought it would be fun to share some graphics for the tournament with you. Click a link below to download the “You’re Gonna Die, Clown” desktop wallpaper: 1024×768 [...]
Poster Giveaway Part Deux
UPDATE: Thanks, all, for the great comments and emails you have been sending me about the poster. I’m glad everyone enjoys them as much as we do. Unfortunately, we only have a limited number to give away, and I’m in the process of emailing everyone back to let you know if you will receive one. [...]
Water Graffiti
Thanks to Beth Brady for passing along a very cool video about a British graffiti artist named Moose who has made his mark by creating clean graffiti. Clean graffiti, often referred to as reverse graffiti, is a method in which he finds extremely dirty urban surfaces and strategically cleans areas of them to form art, [...]
Weird Direct Mail Strategy…
As a design + visual communications firm that still does quite a bit of print work, we tend to be very strategic in crafting direct mail strategies for our clients. We want to first ensure that the purpose of the piece will be accomplished by our creative work, meaning that our advertising objective is met [...]
Newest Orange Element (Sustainable) Fun Day Recap
Yesterday ruled. Our latest edition of Orange Element Fun Day had us visiting the Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s headquarters for a guided tour of the facility. It was a great experience both because it furthered our knowledge of sustainable building (which will help when we move into our new office) but also because it really expanded [...]
New Work :: Contemporary Museum
The Contemporary Museum right here in Baltimore, Maryland recently opened their exhibition called Cottage Industry with celebrates the relationship between art and business. Orange Element was fortunate enough to be a part of this exhibition by creating the Cottage Industry catalog, a 64 page book that accompanies the exhibit and gives an in-depth look at [...]
Win A Limited Edition Orange Element Poster
Those of you lucky enough to go to our 5th Anniversary party probably already have one of these, but the rest of you are going to want one. To commemorate our firm’s big achievement we created a collaborative screenprinted poster that was worked on by each and every staff member. We were really excited about [...]
Robochairs
Our new intern, Kaley Hymiller started at Orange Element today. She is tops in my book already because she sent me a sweet link to blog about. As you know from reading my earlier post about Kaley, she’s way into industrial design. That’s why she loved this Gizmodo story about RFID-driven library chairs. It doesn’t [...]
Environmental Graphics For Your Home
From urlgreyhot via Brandflakes, here’s something that could sell BIG. Growing up in the 80s, Nintendo was huge. And we didn’t have these crazy virtual reality games kids have now – we had Mario and Luigi. And Donkey Kong, complete with his pixellated barrels. Now we can reminisce about the good ol’ days every time [...]
The Obama vs. McCain Online Debate
Now that the primary race has (finally) settled down and we have ourselves a consensus on the Democratic and Republican nominees for President, it’s time to start the analysis of each candidate’s marketing efforts. Since this subject matter has likely been covered eleven bazillion times already, I promise to keep my thoughts succinct and relatively [...]
Will Body Shops Be Extinct Someday?
Check out this new concept from BMW. It was truly an exercise in thinking outside the box and using design to solve a problem. I’m not sure if it will ever make sense to produce, but it is pretty stunning and innovative. Read more here at Wired: http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/06/bmw-builds-a-ca.html Garret Ohm http://www.orange-element.com
Dub Dub Dub Dot Blah Blah Dot Com BACKSLASH Blah Blah
While doing some design work for one of our clients yesterday we noticed we had been passed some copy that had a URL with a www.____.com\___ instead of a www.____.com/___. Subtle difference, but only one of them will lead you to an actual Web page. It got us into the discussion about how when people [...]
Mini-Golf Madness
Hi all – As part of my role as a member of the Board of Directors for the Advertising Association of Baltimore, I am chairing our annual golf tournament. This year, we mixed it up a bit. Instead of holding a golf tournament at a local country club, we decided to host a mini-golf tournament. [...]
Meet Kaley
We are all very excited to announce that Kaley Hymiller, a senior at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), has accepted a full-time intern position here at Orange Element. Kaley is a super-talented Industrial Design major there, which was really interesting to us as a graphic design and marketing communications firm. As you [...]
Branding Is Eternal
Whether you see it as disturbing or not, I’ll bet there will be a big market for these. They are branded caskets, and they are made by a company out of Detroit called Eternal Image, Inc. It seems they already have licensing deals with Major League Baseball to produce caskets branded after your favorite baseball [...]
Baltimore Needs This
I was reading one of my favorite design and branding blogs yesterday and I found out about a really cool organization in New York that I think really needs to come to the city of Baltimore. Groundswell is a community mural project that uses murals to bring positive change in cities. The description on their [...]
A Couple of Cool Links
I’ve been really busy lately developing a proposal for some work for a really great higher learning institution, but I’m happy (relieved) to say that I’m finally finished. I’m really happy with the way it turned out and pumped about our chances. I hope to have more news on this in the next month or [...]
New Green Technology
Aaron passed me a link this morning that got me pretty excited. It’s about a technology that I didn’t really know much about, but that looks really promising for generating energy in an efficient, clean way using municipal solid waste (garbage) and construction and development waste. It seems our friend and former client Jason Hardebeck, [...]
GOforChange
I wanted to pass along a new site that a friend from the CSBA passed along to me recently dealing with sustainable business. The site/movement is called GOforChange and you can see it here: http://www.GOforChange.com. It is essentially a website that presents stories of positive change in the Baltimore region. It includes articles, a social [...]
EJ Hooks Us Up With A New Blog Header
Thanks to EJ, the Orange Element blog has a sweet new header for the month of June. It’s awesome, and very summery (is that a word?). Nice job EJ! Oh, and don’t forget that you can check out all the previous blog headers in the “Header Design Archive” which you’ll find in the links to [...]
Type Inspiration :: Hand Done Print
While looking for some type inspiration this morning i ran across a great calligraphy post from abduzeedo and figured i would share. Another great artist I can never get enough of is Si Scott. At first i questioned his originality since his signature “swirled” technique is repeated throughout the majority of his work but as [...]
Design Process
As the marketing director for design and communications firm that does work all over the country, I work to extend our brand to clients and prospects every day. In doing so, I see part of my job as making these clients and prospects understand that great creative work isn’t the result of pushing a few [...]
