We are excited to launch a new project, invoko! In collaboration with Jonathan Chapman and Dave Schroeder, invoko uses multimedia storytelling to reveal the ordinary in an extraordinary way. Check out the invoko portfolio…

This month marks the 5 year anniversary of EHD. We. are. stunned. We want to thank all of our family, friends, colleagues, clients, vendors, bloggers, students and everyone else who has supported us and helped us live our dream.

We are honored to offer up our favorite gift ideas for Grain Edit’s 1st Annual Merrychrismahanukwanza- aka List! Check out all the fun gift ideas from fellow designers.

We’ve mentioned it before, Design*Sponge is one of our favorite blogs and sources of inspiration, so we’re very excited to be featured as one of their Sneak Peeks, a peek inside the interiors of both our home and studio. Take a gander here!

Who doesn’t love Print’s Regional Design Annual? So cool to see what people are doing! We’re also excited to see that 3 of our pieces made it in this year: our identity, the happy hours invite and our Stick It To ‘Em poster. Yay!

Photographer Jonathan Chapman has some new work up, a behind the scenes recording session for hip-hop artist Brother Ali. We are excited to play a part, providing title graphics and animation for this video piece.

Honored to have our Target Icons show up in the new issue of Print. The article “What’s in Store” by Christy Desmith features work from a variety of awesome Mpls design shops and speaks to Target’s scaling back of local studios, a good read.

Eli, no! has found a home with publishing house, Abrams, and we couldn’t be more thrilled!! Really looking forward to working with the Abrams team. Currently the release date is scheduled for Spring 2011. Patience is a virtue, right?!

Cortez Brothers welcome some new talent to their roster this week. We Are Pacheco has some pretty killer work… I particularly like clip #8, “Beat The Monkey”.

A staple amongst design blogs and a huge source of inspiration for us, Graphic-Exchange, recently did a post featuring my illustration work. A special thanks to Fabien for the post. Check out the blog and the post here.

One of my all time favorite blogs and daily reads, Design*Sponge, recently did a post about my illustration work. Yippeeskippee! A special thanks to Grace for the post. Check out the post and blog here.

Minneapolis is very well represented in the new Gig Posters Book on shelves now. Local artists include Adam Turman, DWITT, Burlesque, Squad 19 and Aesthetic Apparatus (poster above) and many more! Pick up your copy now!

We are so very thrilled to be featured in the May/June issue of Communication Arts! Check out our CA Fresh profile here, and pick up a copy (or 50) at your local newsstand.

Photographer Nic Marshall , Art Director Amy Schweitzer and hair stylist Kate Erickson recently used our space for a photoshoot… damn, our space has never looked better, Nice job! See the set on Flickr.

This past week marked the AIGA Minnesota’s 2009 Design Show of Excellence. We were honored to be included for the Minnesota Opera, Bastian+Skoog & our Open House Invite.

Long over due - at least from my perspective - a new site finally goes live with some new work and stock. Thanks for checking it out! Cheers!

He’s been spotted at FFFFOUND!, It’s Nice That, NOTCOT and Drawn to name a few. Thanks to all who linked us and the book, we really appreciate it! Now… where’s my dog…

Grain Edit is one of our favorite sources of inspiration, so we are über excited to be featured on it today with Eli no! Check out the post and blog here. Thanks Dave!

Our good friend Colin Strandberg has been hustling hard over in south Minneapolis putting up his new site, some really nice work indeed! Take a worthwhile moment to see all that The Work Steady has to offer.

Be sure to check out Mono’s Confessional Shanty at The Art Shanty Project this year. Confess your sins on site and read what others had to confess here.

We are very excited to announce the launch of the newly redesigned EHD brand and website. We’ve been working night and day on number 3 and we’ve gone to plaid!

A special thank you to Victoria and her wonderful post of my children’s book Eli, no! on her awesome blog sfgirlbybay. You know, my dog is starting to get a really big head…

Nice! Imagine Opera is featured as Communication Arts Webpick of the day. Pops to Poplife, PilotVibe and Jenny for all their hard work on this!

Hot damn! We are too excited to be among those chosen for Print’s Regional Design Annual 2008. Featured work included our EHD Identity and Target Career Icons.

Holy crap! Our poster for the Poster Offensive is front, center and huge in the A-List Section of the City Pages this week!! Check out the fabulous article here, which also includes a great poster by LovelyMpls. View/Buy the poster here.

We are excited to be included in the Soft&Furry show, brain child of the Cypher13 boys. The show runs from September 13th to October 11th at Plastic Chapel in Denver.

We are honored to be included in this years Semi-Permanent book. Don’t like sharing? Want your own? Buy it here. More about the conference here. (Also, cool cover illustration done by Joe Van Wetering, check out his portfolio site here).

We just found out a couple of our logos have been included in the new book, Letterhead & Logo Design 10, by Sussner Design Co. Thanks Sussner! Buy the book on Amazon here.

Our good friends Shawn and Clayton have started up a sweet development agency, Poplife. Congrats your guys! Looking for development help? Check some of there work here.

Our good friend Hilary Davis plays Voltage 2008 tonight! You can check out her band Bella Koshka on the cover of Vita.mn (sweet!) this week and also on their new site (word!) awesomely designed by Sevnthsin. Rock on!

Cool! We made the cut! Both the Blackbird menus and Target Icons made it into the AIGA Minnesota Design Show. A special thanks to Scott Muskin for his fab writing on the menus. Check us out and the other winners here.

It was REALLY cold the night Five to Nine Magazine had their first anniversary art show, First Impressions Last, at Umber Studios in South Minneapolis. Nice work Peter! Congrats!