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Garth

Garth

<p>Garth is a do-it-all digital marketer/designer born and raised in the “City of Destiny,” Tacoma, Washington. He lives in Seattle, has a beard, enjoys pizza and coffee (not together) and tries to spread as much positivity as he can. He's at his best in a light, collaborative environment; he's at my worst when losing at Scrabble. Above all, he's always looking for ways to grow his brain.</p> <p>Formerly the community manager for <a href="http://smile.amazon.com" target="_blank">AmazonSmile</a> and digital marketing manager at <a href="http://www.drysoda.com" target="_blank">DRY Soda</a>; he can now be found doing freelance graphic design, social media and marketing consultation.</p>

Rebecca Mah: Culture Caps

Rebecca Mah: Culture Caps

Garth • May 30, 2014May 29, 2014
For her senior thesis, Tyler School of Art graduate Rebecca Mah created Culture Caps, a drop cap alphabet influenced by different regions correspondi...
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The Fox and King Illustration

The Fox and King Illustration

Garth • May 29, 2014May 28, 2014
There’s something sly and regal making magic in Melbourne, Australia, and that something is Glenn Thomas, AKA The Fox and King. Glenn’s r...
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Alliteration Inspiration: Zoos & Zzz’s

Alliteration Inspiration: Zoos & Zzz’s

Garth • May 29, 2014May 28, 2014
Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This week...
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Kelly Thompson: Design & Illustration

Kelly Thompson: Design & Illustration

Garth • May 28, 2014May 28, 2014
Kelly Thompson, a Texan designer/illustrator based in Seattle, has combined her southern spice and northwestern quirkiness into a wide range of notewo...
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Alliteration Inspiration: Wheels & Water

Alliteration Inspiration: Wheels & Water

Garth • May 22, 2014May 21, 2014
Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This week...
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ASCD: 2013 Annual Report Website

ASCD: 2013 Annual Report Website

Garth • May 21, 2014May 28, 2014
Every annual reporting season, companies and nonprofits alike step up their design game to create a solid impression of the past year’s progress...
Design
Sense: Oblica Catalogue

Sense: Oblica Catalogue

Garth • May 20, 2014May 20, 2014
Bask in the warming glow of beautiful design found in this catalogue for Oblica fireplaces created by Sense, a creative agency based in Melbourne, A...
Design
Baron Fig: The Poster Project

Baron Fig: The Poster Project

Garth • May 20, 2014May 18, 2014
Baron Fig, a small business making “sketchbooks and notebooks for thinkers,” just launched a lovely new side project simply titled The Pos...
Design
Jon Newman: Daydreams & Nightschemes Studio Launch

Jon Newman: Daydreams & Nightschemes Studio Launch

Garth • May 15, 2014May 14, 2014
Designer Jon Newman took the leap from the comfort of his day job at MTV to start Daydreams & Nightschemes, his own new studio. Among Jon’s ...
Design
Alliteration Inspiration: Veggies & Vacation

Alliteration Inspiration: Veggies & Vacation

Garth • May 15, 2014Mar 25, 2015
Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This week...
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Odding Wang: The Book of Red

Odding Wang: The Book of Red

Garth • May 14, 2014May 11, 2014
Odding Wang‘s “The Book of Red,” a handcrafted notebook tribute to Pablo Picasso, is a beautifully made piece of paper cut storytel...
Design
Ciara Phelan: Collages

Ciara Phelan: Collages

Garth • May 13, 2014May 11, 2014
Ciara Phelan, a freelance illustrator and textile designer in east London, recently launched her new website full of intricate collage work and other...
Design
Studio Fludd: Gelatology – Micro / Macro

Studio Fludd: Gelatology – Micro / Macro

Garth • May 12, 2014May 11, 2014
Studio Fludd‘s Gelatology project, which we featured back in November, has grown into a new booklet titled “Micro / Macro” and exp...
Design
Open Door Design Studio: Reinventing the Toilet Challenge

Open Door Design Studio: Reinventing the Toilet Challenge

Garth • May 9, 2014May 5, 2014
Who knew a toilet could be so beautiful? The team at Open Door Design Studio, in collaboration with Kohler, designed the remarkable exterior of Caltec...
Design

Casey Ligon: Hand Lettering

Garth • May 9, 2014May 9, 2014
The hand lettering work of Casey Ligon is a gorgeous force to be reckoned with as her talents span chalk, ink, vector and beyond. Her ability to work...
Design
Juan Coca: CHS 2014 Commencement Invitation

Juan Coca: CHS 2014 Commencement Invitation

Garth • May 8, 2014May 4, 2014
Juan Coca, a design student at Fort Hays State University, gave his younger brother quite the rad grad gift in designing these beautiful letterpress...
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Alliteration Inspiration: Universe & Umbrellas

Alliteration Inspiration: Universe & Umbrellas

Garth • May 8, 2014May 8, 2014
Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This week...
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Student Work: Josh Schott

Student Work: Josh Schott

Garth • May 7, 2014May 4, 2014
Graphic designer Josh Schott is pursuing his MFA at Tyler School of Art at Temple University and already has an impressive collection of work to his...
Design
Vicki Turner: Drop in the Ocean

Vicki Turner: Drop in the Ocean

Garth • May 6, 2014May 4, 2014
With tons of plastic waste filling the globe’s oceans, Vicki Turner set out to do something about it. The result: Drop in the Ocean, a limited e...
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Grey, Singapore: Multinational Typeface

Grey, Singapore: Multinational Typeface

Garth • May 5, 2014May 4, 2014
The team at Grey Advertising‘s Singapore office designed a fascinating modular Multinational Typeface, using colors and composition representati...
Design
Young & Laramore: “Time is Measured in Tomorrows”

Young & Laramore: “Time is Measured in Tomorrows”

Garth • May 5, 2014Apr 30, 2014
Building Tomorrow, a nonprofit dedicated to building schools in East Africa, worked with Young & Laramore to produce “Time is Measured in To...
Design
Dimas Forchetti: Personal Project GIFs

Dimas Forchetti: Personal Project GIFs

Garth • May 1, 2014Apr 28, 2014
I’m loving the delightfully clever GIFs that designer Dimas Forchetti has put together as part of an ongoing personal project of random creati...
Design
Alliteration Inspiration: Outdoors & Outlaws

Alliteration Inspiration: Outdoors & Outlaws

Garth • May 1, 2014Apr 30, 2014
Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This week...
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Leeay Aikawa: Mixed Media Collages

Leeay Aikawa: Mixed Media Collages

Garth • Apr 30, 2014Apr 28, 2014
Toronto-based designer/illustrator Leeay Aikawa has a special talent for crafting mixed media collages that are simply fascinating. Leeay on her in...
Design

Mike Lowery: New Work

Garth • Apr 29, 2014Apr 28, 2014
It’s no secret that we’re big fans of Mike Lowery here at DWL, and since he recently launched his new website with tons of saucy recent w...
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Tyler School of Art: Brains, Muscle, Wildcard

Tyler School of Art: Brains, Muscle, Wildcard

Garth • Apr 28, 2014Apr 28, 2014
In teaming up for their exhibition date last week as part of the 2014 Tyler School of Art MFA Graphic and Interactive Design Thesis Exhibition, desi...
Design
Student Work: Seth Gale

Student Work: Seth Gale

Garth • Apr 25, 2014Apr 20, 2014
Something great is brewing up in the Pacific Northwest, and it’s not coffee. Okay, there’s tasty coffee brewing up there too, but the real...
Design

Allison Chambers Lettering & Design

Garth • Apr 25, 2014Apr 28, 2014
I’m really admiring the beautiful lettering and smart design work of Allison Chambers, a designer out of Vancouver, BC. Her hand-cut lettering ...
Design

Carla Cobas

Garth • Apr 24, 2014Apr 20, 2014
The work of Carla Cobas caught my eye recently, and I haven’t been able to look away since. A designer in Valencia, Spain, her work has a co...
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Alliteration Inspiration: Quotes & Quickness

Alliteration Inspiration: Quotes & Quickness

Garth • Apr 24, 2014Apr 23, 2014
Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This week...
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Student Work: Jaclyn Merk

Student Work: Jaclyn Merk

Garth • Apr 23, 2014Apr 20, 2014
Feeling the design love for Jaclyn Merk, a recent graduate of Temple University’s Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, and you will too after...
Design
Tata&Friends: Mr. Marcel School Rebrand

Tata&Friends: Mr. Marcel School Rebrand

Garth • Apr 22, 2014Apr 21, 2014
This is my first encounter with Tata&Friends, and it’s a case of love at first sight. T&F’s rebrand for Mr. Marcel School, a u...
Design

Tag Collective: Wishbone

Garth • Apr 18, 2014Apr 14, 2014
New York’s Tag Collective just put out some tasty new branding and environment work for Wishbone, a fried chicken spot in Philadelphia. It mai...
Design
Nicolas Ménard: ARTV

Nicolas Ménard: ARTV

Garth • Apr 17, 2014Apr 14, 2014
I’m really digging the adventure and whimsy in Nicolas Menard‘s cosmic animation work for ARTV. Watch Nicolas’ animation below, and ...
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Alliteration Inspiration: Jelly & Journeying

Garth • Apr 17, 2014Apr 17, 2014
Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This week...
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Leta Sobierajski: Branding & Collateral

Leta Sobierajski: Branding & Collateral

Garth • Apr 16, 2014Apr 14, 2014
You may be familiar with Leta Sobierajski from her personal brand identity system featured on DWL last year, but you’ll want to familiarize y...
Design

Young & Laramore: Upland Brewing Co. Rebrand

Garth • Apr 15, 2014Apr 14, 2014
Young & Laramore recently completed a solid rebrand for Bloomington, Indiana’s Upland Brewing Co., including some nifty new packaging for se...
Design
Tyler Gross: New Work

Tyler Gross: New Work

Garth • Apr 14, 2014Apr 14, 2014
Since we last featured Tyler Gross‘s illustrations, he’s churned out some killer new work that further showcases his hardcore halftones an...
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Eszter Chen: Patterns & Illustration

Eszter Chen: Patterns & Illustration

Garth • Apr 14, 2014Apr 14, 2014
Illustrator and textile designer Eszter Chen has got something good going. Born and raised in Taipei, Taiwan, she’s brought her lovely style and...
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Green Chair Press: Miniature Matchbox Books

Green Chair Press: Miniature Matchbox Books

Garth • Apr 11, 2014Apr 6, 2014
Susan Angebranndt, owner of Santa Fe’s Green Chair Press, has created a quirky line of miniature matchbox books that are simply delightful. Each...
Design
Andreas Wikström Illustration

Andreas Wikström Illustration

Garth • Apr 10, 2014Apr 9, 2014
I’m thoroughly enjoying the work of Andreas Wikström, a graphic designer hailing from Sweden. There’s more to explore on his website, so ...
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Alliteration Inspiration: Icons & Imbibing

Alliteration Inspiration: Icons & Imbibing

Garth • Apr 10, 2014Apr 10, 2014
Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This week...
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Chris Dedinsky: Monster Alphabet

Chris Dedinsky: Monster Alphabet

Garth • Apr 9, 2014Mar 31, 2014
Halloween may be months away, but I’m in love with Chris Dedinsky‘s personal project Monster Alphabet, a screen printed poster featuring...
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Sergi Delgado Illustration & Lettering

Sergi Delgado Illustration & Lettering

Garth • Apr 8, 2014Mar 31, 2014
If “rad” were a design discipline, Barcelona-born Sergi Delgado could teach a class on it. His illustration, lettering and typography wo...
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Angel Bomb Rebrand & Collateral

Angel Bomb Rebrand & Collateral

Garth • Apr 7, 2014Apr 4, 2014
Angel Bomb, a design and letterpress studio in northeast Minneapolis, recently rebranded themselves to emphasize the full-service nature of their stu...
Design

Melanie Rothschild: The Art of Mistakes

Garth • Apr 4, 2014Mar 31, 2014
Melanie Rothschild has a wildly intriguing story to share with the world about the creative process, and it all started with a disastrous mistake. Se...
Design
Michael Haddad: Ottawa Magazine “The Sex Issue” Illustrations

Michael Haddad: Ottawa Magazine “The Sex Issue” Illustrations

Garth • Apr 4, 2014Apr 3, 2014
Michael Haddad‘s illustrations for Ottawa Magazine’s “The Sex Issue” are simple, clever, and innuendo-tastic. Creative Credits...
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Alliteration Inspiration: Eggs & Eyes

Alliteration Inspiration: Eggs & Eyes

Garth • Apr 3, 2014Apr 3, 2014
Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This week...
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Alliteration Inspiration: Music & Minimalism

Alliteration Inspiration: Music & Minimalism

Garth • Mar 27, 2014Mar 27, 2014
Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This week...
Alliteration Inspiration
Little: Ephemera

Little: Ephemera

Garth • Mar 25, 2014Mar 24, 2014
We recently featured Little‘s lovely identity and collateral work for Fair State Brewing Cooperative, and now I’m quite taken by Ephemera...
Design
Matt Chase: Escapades Magazine

Matt Chase: Escapades Magazine

Garth • Mar 24, 2014Mar 23, 2014
Matt Chase just blew my mind with his challenging, beautiful design work for “The Takeoff Issue” of new travel magazine Escapades. After...
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Alliteration Inspiration: Reading & Royalty

Alliteration Inspiration: Reading & Royalty

Garth • Mar 20, 2014Mar 20, 2014
Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This week...
Alliteration Inspiration
Student Work: Clarke Harris

Student Work: Clarke Harris

Garth • Mar 19, 2014Mar 17, 2014
I’m quite fond of the work Clarke Harris has put out as he cuts his (Gator) teeth in the University of Florida’s graphic design program...
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Gabby Lord: The Great Fifty

Gabby Lord: The Great Fifty

Garth • Mar 18, 2014Mar 17, 2014
Gabby Lord, whose wildly clever business cards were featured on DWL last year, loves her mum very much. When she asked Gabby to design a “simple...
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Adam Turnbull: Ten Cent Dime

Adam Turnbull: Ten Cent Dime

Garth • Mar 17, 2014Mar 17, 2014
While some take to Twitter to share their stream of consciousness experience of the world, Adam Turnbull has used Ten Cent Dime as his outlet, a proje...
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Alliteration Inspiration: Coffee & Currency

Alliteration Inspiration: Coffee & Currency

Garth • Mar 13, 2014Mar 13, 2014
Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This week...
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MM Identity Lab: Year of the Horse Card Deck Calendar

MM Identity Lab: Year of the Horse Card Deck Calendar

Garth • Mar 11, 2014Mar 7, 2014
The team at MM Identity Lab just finished a fantastic self promotion project, working with local vendors to create their Year of the Horse Card Dec...
Design

MINE: Bun Mee

Garth • Mar 10, 2014Mar 10, 2014
San Francisco just got even more eye-popping with MINE‘s branding and environment design for Bun Mee’s new Market Street location. From ...
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Deuxtone: Dichotomy Coffee & Spirits

Garth • Mar 10, 2014Mar 7, 2014
Texas two-man operation Deuxtone executed some exquisite work in designing the brand identity and environment for Dichotomy Coffee & Spirits i...
Design
Alliteration Inspiration: Gold & Grains

Alliteration Inspiration: Gold & Grains

Garth • Mar 6, 2014Mar 7, 2014
Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This week...
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