My creative colleague, Don Faia, is adding some wonderful artwork to his site, which I have the honor of jockeying. Do take a look at the amazing variety of projects he’s been working on over the past few years. ENTER HERE
Entranced Being #5
This company keeps busy to stay ahead in a competitive beverage landscape. “CoGo” is still the one and only 100% organic, family-owned premium juice company. They are still operating from their beautiful farm in Hood River, OR.
Check out our latest branding and web work here and look for new products and sub-brands on the horizon.
Our recent Chill & Sign poster was just deployed on an Alaskan glacier for Carew Papritz’s latest “first ever” book signing. Fun to see it in this bigger than life format. This guy is a total inspiration. Check him out here.
Carew Papritz, that crazy Renaissance Cowboy author, is doing another First Ever book signing, this time on a glacier in Alaska. His posters in the 1930s vintage poster style are a blast to collaborate on.
Art direction: Don Faia and Carew Papritz. Design/Production: Bonno Bernard
Environmental Poster Contest Flyer
Here’s a volunteer project for environteers.org to announce a Teen Poster Contest. I love helping out local non-profits promote their good work.
Poster for Author Carew Papritz
Fine Artist and Master Designer Don Faia and I have fun together, especially with our Renaissance Cowboy author pal, Carew Papritz, who does book signings in crazy places – In this case, while stomping grapes. Art by Don Faia, Collaboration and Production by PDX Native.
Keep an eye out, Oregon. This Bend-based lighting design company is coming your way. PDX Native is excited to be involved on the ground floor, starting with their new logo. Find their beautiful lighting products here.
Artist Don Faia and I worked on this 24″ mandala as a gift from our colleague, Dave Bernard, to his friend and client, Dave Cianciulli. The mandala is an expression of Cianciulli’s stunning historic property in Ojai, CA, which he and his wife, Erica, are rennovating to become a Retreat Center. Details on that project to follow. Creative Direction: Don Faia • Production: PDX Native
In my career as a copy writer I have done a lot of naming, usually in the whimsical realm, like the billion dollar “C Monster” for Odwalla back in the ’80s (I earned about six bucks for that, thank you). I like to think we started something in the early days of authentic marketing, before Branding was a thing. Any hooooo. Aside from Jon Stewart’s name for a certain presidential candidate and the brilliant “other” name of the RRS Sir David Attenborough, a good name is getting harder to find, which is why I resort to entertaining myself by harvesting names for bands. Each one has a story, for me anyway…
Auric’s Finger
Bad Bubbles
Bardology
Battlestar Sciatica
Benign Mystery
Bitchin Discount
Bohemian Insouciance
Bologna Pony
Bombogenisis
Caesar’s Shift
Cheesy Ruse
Chords Akimbo
Chuy’s Dad
Compelling Combo
Conjugal Bedheads
Cosmic Imperative
Crass Bastards
Dearies in the Headlights
Dicey & Cozy
Doublethink
Duct Tape Dilettantes
Durabillies
Dysfunctional Flap
Ear Regardless
Edith Bunker’s Rabbit
Eerie Guardless
English Teeth
Ernie’s Eyebrows
Event Horizon
Exotic Matter
Extra Special Messy
Fig Pickers
Foam Finger
Frisky Vicar
Gallic Shrug
Ghrelin
Good in the Back
Hauling Amish
Hawk Lugie and the Expectorants
Holy Bones
Icky and Tipsy
Insidious Loopholes
Irreverent Rhetoricians
Jonny’s Pompadour
Jumpable Librarians
Just Getting Good
Just Pick One
Just Warming Up
Kitty Clowder
Koko’s Kittens
Lagniappe
Liracracy
Mandibular Petipalps
Mise en Place
Misty Grotto
Musth Rumble
Not a Dick
Outcluding Grandma
Penguins’ Pebble
Perigree Falcons
Perky Bosom
Pick a Fig
Popomo Mongrels
Potentiability
Quid Pro Quo
Reason and Aesthetics
Rhetoricians of Antiquity
Ron’s Slobber
See Me
Shortzian Feint
Socks on a Hardwood Floor
Soggy Tag Along
Statutory Hiatus
Stench Detector
Sticky Licorice and the Wet Wipes
Subtle Ruse
Sugar on the Rim
Super Probably
The Bloviators
The Crepusculators
The Pheramones
The Tidbits
The Watts Line
Then Don’t
Thinking & Overthinking
Throat Lump
Tizzy Ridden
Tom Brady and the Flaming Douchebags
Vindictive Mortician
What Bladder?
Wrinkled Weekend
Wristband
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