Once In a Lullaby Branding and Titles

By Dusty Summers | Published: April 27, 2012

We’ve been hearing things about the Staten Island middle school PS22 for a few years now. Gregg Breinberg, the school’s choral instructor, has combined the skills of his students with the magic of youtube and turned the tween chorus into something of a phenomenon. They’ve performed for the likes of Lady Gaga, Beyoncé and Barack Obama. So when our buddy director Johathan Kalefer told us he was doing a feature-length documentary on the songbird wunderkinds, we jumped at the chance to work on the project. Read More »

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Ghosts of Posters Past

By Jason Kernevich | Published: April 19, 2012

We had a surprise visitor at the studio yesterday. Kevin Mercer, best known around these parts as The Large Mammal, rang our buzzer with a package under his arm. Kevin used to print a lot for us back in the day, and some basement spring cleaning led to an unearthing of old test prints for many of our favorite music posters. These half-starts, experiments, and Frankenstein-like ink monsters wonderfully mix together bands and imagery that weren’t ever meant to meet. We’re sure glad they did. And we’re even happier that Kevin has taken such good care of this stuff over the years. Thanks bro.

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And The Winner Is…

By Jason Kernevich | Published: April 12, 2012

Balls. Holes. Points. Score! We recently completed work on the branding and environmental design for Haverford College’s latest gallery bonanza “And The Winner Is…” Since mid-March, The Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery at Haveford College has been hosting single elimination skee-ball matches as part of an exhibition about competition, cooperation, and community. The event concludes on Friday, April 20th as the tournament champion is announced. All 1,920 members of the Haverford Community—faculty, staff, and students—have been invited to participate and it all comes down to one winner. We provided brand development, print collateral, environmental design of the gallery/event space, bracket calculus, and strategic victory thinking.

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Last Night Philadelphia, Tomorrow the World

By Jason Kernevich | Published: April 6, 2012

We had the pleasure of speaking in our own hometown last night to a sold out audience. This event marked 10 years of us working together, which in and of itself is just crazy and awesome. We’ve been having a great time traveling and speaking about our work lately and have met some great people along the way. Next week we’ll be in Dallas with New York City on the horizon and some events scheduled in Minnesota and Wisconsin this summer and fall. Come out and say hello if we’re in your town.

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The Return of “Mad Men” for the Washington Post

By Dusty Summers | Published: March 26, 2012
Don Draper for The Washington Post

Don Draper for The Washington Post

We don’t do portraits. It’s an unwritten rule. See, we can’t draw. That’s the God’s honest truth. And when you can’t draw, and yet stubbornly attempt a portrait, well, it ends up in Toxic Avenger territory. Now, don’t get me wrong, we’ve done a fair amount of illustrations about famous folks. Michael Jackson turns into a moonwalk with highwaters and white socks, and I guarantee you can finesse a pretty good Barack Obama with an oval and a set of ears. Still, when these kind of assignments drop in our lap it’s time to get out the Tums and contemplate a career in long haul trucking, out of the reach of art directors and megalomaniacal editors.

But when given a chance at a piece about everyone’s favorite ad man on the eve of his much anticipated return to television, you kinda can’t say no, right?

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