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Say Hello to Beer!
The Silent P has started a new venture! Hello to Beer™ produces brand momentum for unique beer brands & beer design related goodies. The mission of this new adventure is twofold: One, to attract brewers and distilleries alike to hire us to create strong, unique brands for their products that they have poured their heart…
Read MoreMajor Brands Owned by Hipsters
For the sheer fun of it, we are experimenting with how well known major brand’s logos would appear if they were owned by hipster shops (you know the ones). Please note ironic quotes used in the well known tagline. This is only one take on a well recognized brand (McDonald’s), we have several coming up…
Read MoreTools of the Trade…
Here’s a little preview from a photo shoot we did with Darin Back recently. Darin has shot a lot of photos of a lot of things, many of which are people, like Paul Westerburg (best known as the lead singer, guitarist and songwriter in The Replacements), Charlie Mars, Mark Olson (one of the founding members…
Read MoreMassimo Vignelli, Design Hero.
Our homage to one of the greats in the craft of graphic design…Massimo Vignelli died today at 83. “Inspiration Never Dies” is our nod, the rest are quotes of Mr. Vignelli’s. // Click on each image to enlarge // @Pfahlert Creative Labs, 2014
Read MoreSpecial Edition “Vinyl is Killing the MP3” T-shirt
To celebrate Record Store Day coming up on April 19th, 2014, we will be releasing one special edition version of the “Vinyl is Killing the MP3” t-shirt theme. The original can be seen here. The new one will be one of these, you’ll just have to wait to see which one…or which two? Here’s a…
Read MoreThe Making of an Album Cover
We wanted to share with you some of the creative process and behind-the-scenes work that goes into creating an album cover design, this one was for one our faves, Farewell Milwaukee, who just released “Can’t Please You, Can’t Please Me (get it here!). The band had a fairly tight concept for this one, so we…
Read More…And The Professors Project.
Here’s a great clip from the recording sessions for And The Professors upcoming album “Postmortem”. This is one very unique band that describes their music as “Orchestral Pop Rock. We were hired to help shape the band’s album art + design and were fortunate to get to hear the album as we worked on it. Keep…
Read MoreBrand Spanking New Brand for Brand Spanking New Whiskey Bar.
We are fortunate to get to work on some pretty fun accounts, but some days are even better than others. Case in point: Creating the logo and branding design for a new local whiskey bar? Yes please. Bootleggers’ is soon to open in Hickory. The owner, Matt Miller, has some great plans to carry a…
Read MoreIce Skating with a Fender Amp: New Poster Art for Trey Anastasio.
Here’s the latest poster art done for Phish’s Trey Anastasio. Having the location and time of year in mind, we thought a proper hat sporting gentlemen smoking a pipe whilst ice skating across a frozen pond with his Fender amp was appropriate. Six color edition run by the highly skilled Crosshair of Chicago, we ran…
Read MoreLevi’s Billboard in SoHo NYC by Sagmeister.
As regular visitors know, our blog is normally used to share our latest design related projects. But we also want to share what we feel are amazing and inspiring design projects from others…and THIS is one. Check out the outdoor board produced for Levi’s by one of our faves, Sagmeister. Video after the still image…
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