We put together a brand book for Inside Sales Team and the finished product came in looking great. The piece is printed on a heavy uncoated stock with a custom folder pocket to insert a personalized note to a potential client. The book is an extension of the culture they’ve created at Inside Sales Team, and we’re really pleased with how that culture was captured within the pages of this book.
-Tim
Hot off the press! We recently redesigned Insyte Consulting’s newsletter. We wanted to do something that was a little different but still reads like a newspaper. The 10 x 6” mailer unfolds to a 20 x 24” newsletter with a poster on the back side. Adding the poster side gives it the chance at having a longer shelf life. The newsletter now will have an opportunity to be hung in a client’s break room, cubicle or hopefully over a CEO’s bed right next to the Mötley Crüe posters.
-Tim
![Based in Adelaide, South Australia, Collect Magazine champions things done well. In a bi-monthly format, the hyper-local publication explores the idea of neighborhoods, both geographical and ideological, as it celebrates “what humans do and how they do it.” With an emphasis on community, Collect focuses on big issues in the small scale, speaking to an international world far beyond Adelaide’s city limits.
Huge fans of the magazine’s community-oriented focus and beautiful design, Block Club recently reached out to Collect with a few questions. We were thrilled to hear back from Collect’s awesome editor, Josh Fanning (featured heavily in this lovely promo video), who shared a few words on the magazine’s ethos and a hyper-local future.
How did your work with Collect Magazine come about?
I have been in publishing for five years. The reason for [Collect] as I see it, from an editorial point of view, is to ensure our readers get information about the good things that are happening on a very small scale. Myself and the entire team at Collect feel very passionately about our local world and celebrating the people in our day-to-day who make life worth living. A good coffee is more than a drink - it’s a five minute conversation, a check-up, an affirmation that you are alive, that someone knows your name and cares about the way you take your drink.
The information and media you absorb outside of work inevitably informs what you say as an editor at work. What interests you specifically as a reader and consumer?
[I’m motivated] by the editorial direction of mainstream news sources. They protect and affirm the status quo (the interests of their advertisers and the upper echelons of society). Big papers and big magazines don’t support community because community don’t advertise. What we do at Collect is constantly put the focus on tangible world-changers - the people who activate and make a city useful: the shopfront.
What surprises you, or what have you found yourself learning from the subject matter Collect Magazine publishes as it’s grown across issues?
I’ve learnt that the entire world is yearning for a good neighbour. Not in a cliched sense, but in the real, old-fashioned way our grandparents used to have it. We started Collect as an international magazine for our hometown audience. What we’ve become is an internationally distributed magazine based in two separate neighbourhoods of a small city, reporting on neighbourhoods all over the world. In this DIY era, people are making their future right now, and that’s incredibly exciting.
Describe what you do in 6 words or less.
Old fashioned goodness. Design / Ideas / Neighbourhoods.
(Thanks, Josh!)](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1i88tXQxY1qiwo8xo1_500.jpg)
Based in Adelaide, South Australia, Collect Magazine champions things done well. In a bi-monthly format, the hyper-local publication explores the idea of neighborhoods, both geographical and ideological, as it celebrates “what humans do and how they do it.” With an emphasis on community, Collect focuses on big issues in the small scale, speaking to an international world far beyond Adelaide’s city limits.
Huge fans of the magazine’s community-oriented focus and beautiful design, Block Club recently reached out to Collect with a few questions. We were thrilled to hear back from Collect’s awesome editor, Josh Fanning (featured heavily in this lovely promo video), who shared a few words on the magazine’s ethos and a hyper-local future.
How did your work with Collect Magazine come about?
I have been in publishing for five years. The reason for [Collect] as I see it, from an editorial point of view, is to ensure our readers get information about the good things that are happening on a very small scale. Myself and the entire team at Collect feel very passionately about our local world and celebrating the people in our day-to-day who make life worth living. A good coffee is more than a drink - it’s a five minute conversation, a check-up, an affirmation that you are alive, that someone knows your name and cares about the way you take your drink.
The information and media you absorb outside of work inevitably informs what you say as an editor at work. What interests you specifically as a reader and consumer?
[I’m motivated] by the editorial direction of mainstream news sources. They protect and affirm the status quo (the interests of their advertisers and the upper echelons of society). Big papers and big magazines don’t support community because community don’t advertise. What we do at Collect is constantly put the focus on tangible world-changers - the people who activate and make a city useful: the shopfront.
What surprises you, or what have you found yourself learning from the subject matter Collect Magazine publishes as it’s grown across issues?
I’ve learnt that the entire world is yearning for a good neighbour. Not in a cliched sense, but in the real, old-fashioned way our grandparents used to have it. We started Collect as an international magazine for our hometown audience. What we’ve become is an internationally distributed magazine based in two separate neighbourhoods of a small city, reporting on neighbourhoods all over the world. In this DIY era, people are making their future right now, and that’s incredibly exciting.
Describe what you do in 6 words or less.
Old fashioned goodness. Design / Ideas / Neighbourhoods.
(Thanks, Josh!)
Artist Greg Guillemin put together this very cool piece titled “Famous Capsules - The Big One”.
How many of these capsule groups can you identify?
-Steve
Block Club is so happy to celebrate the births of several super babies this autumn, including the arrival of Steve and his wife Lindsey’s first child, daughter Ella Marie! Ella’s already got the whole “perfect, beautiful, amazing” baby thing down pat so this is probably just boring baby business to her by now, but welcome to the world, beautiful baby Ella!
I’m a sucker for birth announcements that can manage a feel of simplicity both childlike and sophisticated, and I’ve collected a few favorites I’ve stumbled across in the last couple months:
- Ingrid May and Baby Tallerico announcements, featured on the Sycamore Street Press blog
- “Roar! It’s a Boy!” by Christine Wisnieski
- Ralph’s Announcement, by Meg Gleason of Moglea design and letterpress studio
- Elephant and Puppy Love Baby Announcements, by Dingbat Press
- Baby Crawford, by Sideshow Press
In conclusion: Babies! They are the best. Especially when they turn into little five year olds for whom you can design Thunder and Lightning and Thor birthday parties (aaaah!) and little bagel parties. Adorable.
- Maggie
Sycamore Street Press, a Utah-based letterpress studio, blossomed from Eva Jorgensen’s love of fresh, sustainable design, vintage letterpress techniques, and hand-drawn illustration. In a collaborative effort with her husband and a small team of designers, Jorgensen has created a beautiful boutique of paper collections. Check out the online shop for classically vintage and inspired greeting cards, calendars, art prints, and custom invitations made using a hand-cranked letterpress.
- Maggie
I stumbled upon this in a design store in Reykjavik. Every day of the year is a perforated square. At the start of each day you remove the square from the previous day. At the end of the year you’re left with a few squares that say 2011. I think it helps to put time into perspective.
-Patrick
