“No illustrator has a ‘style’ until they literally can’t do anything else,” is something a professor once told myself and my fellow BFA-seeking illustration cohort. While I have gone [...]
If there’s one thing western design has benefitted from, it’s Japan. Design has always been a cross pollination of ideas, and the influence of Japanese design, art and architecture on creative [...]
Last year, Trading Technologies asked us to help rally their team around their company values with a series of four limited-edition, hand-illustrated posters. The posters were such a huge hit, we [...]
Lunch is a good thing. And so is lettering. Put them together and you’ve got a brilliant concept! Well, that’s what we learned from graphic designer Lauren Hom, who is giving the [...]
Being a design student and working designer at the same time means constantly keeping my ears and eyes open for knowledge and inspiration. I’m particularly interested in custom lettering and type [...]
We are beyond thrilled to congratulate our client, partner and friend, I.M. Lerner, on the publication of the second book in her Under the Staircase children’s book series, The Hidden [...]
A mystery is brewing here at the BatesMeron office. Yes, sketches are being sketched, characters are coming to life, and a kid-friendly adventure is unfolding. We can’t tell you where this [...]
We like to keep the library here at BMSD chock-full of inspirational goodies. So, when we stumbled upon an unusual graphic novel, Building Stories, last weekend at a local bookstore, we just HAD [...]
We’ve been holding back our excitement and giddiness in anticipation of this post. But the time has finally come: the books have arrived…and we’re basically famous. Well, not really. But lately [...]