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Lost Horizon Night Market: Party in a Box Truck

Lost Horizon Night Market: Party in a Box Truck

Parties and art never went together as well as this past Saturday's Lost Horizon Night Market. This free event — entirely arranged via email, social networking, and good old word-of-mouth...
IKEA Launches a Line of Solar Powered Outdoor Lights

IKEA Launches a Line of Solar Powered Outdoor Lights

This is the kind of design innovation we all should all be doing. Why can't all our outdoor lighting be solar powered? It's an even input to output exchange, no...
A Brief Road Tour Through Missouri’s Signage

A Brief Road Tour Through Missouri’s Signage

Last month found me driving across Missouri while visiting relatives. The cold, harsh winter landscape did little to brighten up the drive, save for the amusing signage inviting all travelers...
Recap of the Best 2009 Holiday Windows

Recap of the Best 2009 Holiday Windows

Even though the season is behind us there's still time for a quick recap of the best windows of 2009. Armed with a camera, a quick stroll proved that even...
Young Designers Help MSLK Brand an Ice Cream Shop

Young Designers Help MSLK Brand an Ice Cream Shop

What exactly does a graphic designer do? Recently MSLK was joined by nine third- through fifth-graders looking to discover what it means to have a career in graphic design. Students...
Another Year, Another Spark Holiday Party

Another Year, Another Spark Holiday Party

Spark, the design association MSLK helped found, had a banner year in 2009 whose highlights included: - Launching a new San Francisco chapter - Press features in a number of...
MSLK: Wine Bottle

MSLK: Wine Bottle

Challenges Every year MSLK seeks to create a useful and well-designed client gift to illustrate our passion for design. In 2009 we sought to create the perfect bottle of wine...
Help Remedies’ Creative Ways to Solve Simple Problems

Help Remedies’ Creative Ways to Solve Simple Problems

Ever feel like you have problems that no one has any solutions to? Help Remedies may have an answer for you. Don’t know what to wear? Never been kissed? Or...
MSLK Interviewed in GD USA’s “The Hows and Whys of Going Green”

MSLK Interviewed in GD USA’s “The Hows and Whys of Going Green”

The October issue of Graphic Design USA was dedicated to green design, and featured MSLK prominently: - Page 20 turns its attention to our project Watershed, with a quote from...
Independent Coffee Shop Edges Out Starbucks

Independent Coffee Shop Edges Out Starbucks

Sheri and I just got back from a trip today to Wisconsin, visiting the folks at Wigwam to discuss the new marketing materials we're developing for them. Having been to...