Rock Fresh

Rock Fresh is directed by Danny Lee it is a documentary on California graffiti artists. This film tracks the lives of five graffiti artists, and measures their success from the streets of Cali to international prowess. Its a journey through the buzzing underground art world. Check it out!

New Kid is ready to Box!

Brickle Thumb LLC is a new business, a new design firm, a new brand, a new social network, a new group of artists, and a new leader in the small business industry. We specialize in the positive productivity of brand strategy by means of researching, designing, and marketing.
We work directly with our clients via telephone, email, or video conference, and our favorite face to face! Our approach is unique and effective. We design, condition, steer and help our clients shepherd their brands.

Rick Harris is the Creative Architect who is behind the "thumb" organization. He specializes in the positive productivity of brand strategy for Brickle Thumb and their clients. His sole purpose in the Advertisement industry is to provide people with the best services available. He is a 27 year old husband and father who cherishes Jesus Christ, family, and art.

His vision for developing Brickle Thumb LLC came early in his Graphic Design career. Throughout the year that he was working with a particular firm (one we shall leave unnamed), he realized that most design firms claimed the "creative design" but lacked in delivering the "creative design." So many of the designers at the firm relied on revamping clip art or "borrowing" off of another design from a previous client. Rick didn't feel comfortable in an environment where not only the creative spirit was lacking, but the true honest relationship between client and designer was lost as well. Instead of searching for a company that embodied client designer relationships and true creative design, he decided to establish what is now known as Brickle Thumb LLC.

Although this is a new company, Rick is not new to the design industry. He brings a new style to the table and most of all a fresh new attitude to the Graphic Design Industry. His free hand talents allow him to create new brands and identities that are creative and inspiring. His persistence in always making sure his clients needs are met keep him a step up from his competitors. Rick works hard at keeping in tune with new ideas, trends, software and other elements that effect the branding industry. Ricks has instilled the concept in all of his collegues that their is more to design than "just a prety face."

So watch out! The new kid has arrived and he throws a mean right hook!

Jackson Pollock Love and Death

The acclaimed greatest American Artist of the 20th century, was an influential painter and a major force in the abstract expressionist movement. He used hardened brushes, sticks, and even basting syringes as paint applicators. Pollock's technique of pouring and dripping paint is one of the origins of the term action painting. Pollock created emotional art that helped define a new style, abstract expressionism.

About the Typeface

Helvetica was developed by Max Miedinger with Edüard Hoffmann in 1957 for the Haas Type Foundry in Münchenstein, Switzerland. In the late 1950s, the European design world saw a revival of older sans-serif typefaces such as the German face Akzidenz Grotesk. Haas' director Hoffmann commissioned Miedinger, a former employee and freelance designer, to draw an updated sans-serif typeface to add to their line. The result was called Neue Haas Grotesk, but its name was later changed to Helvetica, derived from Helvetia, the Latin name for Switzerland, when Haas' German parent companies Stempel and Linotype began marketing the font internationally in 1961.

Introduced amidst a wave of popularity of Swiss design, and fueled by advertising agencies selling this new design style to their clients, Helvetica quickly appeared in corporate logos, signage for transportation systems, fine art prints, and myriad other uses worldwide. Inclusion of the font in home computer systems such as the Apple Macintosh in 1984 only further cemented its ubiquity. text by swiss dots Ltd

Is God Great?

Is God Great? will pit these two authors and spokes-persons against each other in what is sure to be a lively debate.

Born in Ireland, Professor John Lennox is a highly praised Christian apologist and mathematician who speaks widely on the relationship between science and faith. "It is the very nature of science that leads me to belief in God," he says.

Christopher Hitchens went to school at Balliol College in Oxford, where he read Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. Hitchens is an atheist and antitheist, and he describes himself as a believer in the Enlightenment values of secularism, humanism, and reason.

This time round they will meet in Birmingham, Alabama at an event sponsored by the Samford University Socratic Club to debate the question “Is God Great?”.

Tickets on sale now.

More information and tickets

http://www.socraticclub.org/debate.html

Birmingham's Emulsion

Client: Protege Images
Project: Logo Design

Protege Images is a photography company located in Birmingham
Alabama. As a newcomer in the photography industry they needed
a strong and simple logo that would not only stand out above the
competition, but would be easily recognizable for potential clients.
Since they are in the business of capturing memorable moments
for their clients, we wanted to create that same memorable service.

After researching the competition we noted that most businesses
in this field rely on the image of a "camera" to get the point across
that they are a photography company. For Protege Images we
decided to play off of the word "images" in their company name
and incorporate this as the main concept in the logo. When our
client viewed their logo we knew we hit a Homerun when it was
approved in the first round!