Brandi Strickland is RAD! Check out her latest series called Seed Stone.

Very interesting and inspiring thoughts on design from thirty influential creative minds.

I really enjoy the work of Andrew Jeffrey Wright. This piece makes me laugh! I found it on THIS Gallery’s flickr.

McDonald’s normally gets the brunt of the trash-talk when people are discussing fast food, but imagine the United States as one large fast food playing field. Now imagine it’s McDonald’s versus all the other major fast food players in a battle to saturate said playing field. According to this map, McDonald’s isn’t the only one to blame for the increase in fast food intake. The above map details the dominance of all of these restaurants across our country relative to McDonald’s.

Check it out and then go eat a salad or read the Engine 2 Diet.

Amazing murals by illustrator Brian Rea. Via Fast Company.

Brian Jaramilllo of LetterCult fame, just launched a blog documenting his personal custom letter work over at Agency26.

While it is guaranteed to serve as an instant inspirational bookmark, be warned you’ll leave the site feeling awful about your own handwriting.

Check out a few of my favorites after the jump, or head straight to his site to see everything.

Speaking of my friend Kate, her raaad Mixtape poster is up for sale on etsy!
Screen printed Edition of 25

Anthony Georgis is a Portland based photographer. He recently shot some portraits of my former professor and constant mentor Kate Bingaman Burt.

Last Friday we had about 13 cool kids from St. Edward’s graphic design student group Command G stop by for a visit. It was rad! We showed them around and did our best to answer their questions about design, the real world (not the tv show), forming a collective, and what the heck to do after graduation. My response to most questions is to make things and put them on the internet.

Get in touch with us if you’d like to stop by! Check out more photos after the jump.

Part and Parcel is the collaborative efforts of Damien Correll and Garrett Morin. They make good work all the time.