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New Order Coffee Roasters

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When @culturelabdetroit revealed their theme BEAUTY for 2018, we immediately felt they had upped the design challenge from previous years (WALLS and POST TRUTH). There are obvious aesthetic tropes surrounding beauty, and for the past few months have been consumed with what is beautiful, who decides what is beautiful, and in contrast, what is ugliness? For our solution, we created a set of collaged creatures, made up of wide assortment of human, animal, and technological parts and pieces. Our hope is these characters border on beautiful and ugly, a purgatory where we think visual and conceptual magic exists. We will be revealing more characters leading up to Culture Lab’s annual free and public events in October, but be sure to follow them for the most up to date info on how to attend.

We’ve been selected as one of eighteen finalists for Commerce Design Detroit Awards with architect partners @etalcollaborative for our work on @newordercoffee. We meet with the jury this am on-site to share more in-depth knowledge of the project in hopes of being selected as one of ten winning projects. We’re honored to be in such good company with the other finalists, and thankful to @designcoredet, @aiadetroit and presenting sponsor @bankofamerica for the opportunity. Wish us luck!

If you care about design, you should care about politics. By voting, you’re helping select what we place value on - roads, schools, human rights, whatever you care most about. When choosing a candidate to represent these issues, YOU’RE DESIGNING THE FUTURE. A few minutes of your life can wait today - projects, meetings, clients, friends, family - for you to make a decision for what you want your county, your state, your country, and your life to look like. Get out and vote in the primaries today, Michigan!

Our partner and designer @meagbarry thought she hated pencils; turns out, she just needed @swisscottagedesigns to gift her the perfect one to change her mind. We have a feeling more #penco prime timber 2.0’s will be popping up around here. Thanks, Courtney for teaching this old designer some new tricks! What tools are your favorites right now that we should try?

If you carry one of @newordercoffee’s NOC boxes we designed full of coffee into your office, we’ll bet a raise is in your future. Be the coworker you wish you had and surprise the team with this turquoise dream today.

We spy with our little eye the beginning of wayfinding we designed for the Belt Line Center building in collaboration with interior designers @rlconcetti_design popping up. The building is an old industrial space located in Detroit’s Island View neighborhood with lots of creatives, makers, and artisans as tenants. The structure is maze-like, requiring directional interior signage as part of the branding process we developed for Belt Line. Did anyone catch a sneak peek at last month’s #drinksxdesign?