Behind the Design

The branding and glyph language we developed for Manifest was featured in the latest issue of HOW (the March 2012 International issue). HOW has a great feature titled Behind the Design that shares insight into a select group of projects.

April 30, 2012

Herman Miller Lifework

Thrilled to be a part of Herman Miller’s Playlist series, sharing the music habits of known creatives! This month Katie shares the music that gets her pumped to do some serious work. Check out all the Lifework inspiration at herman.com/lifework.

April 19, 2012

Status Magazine

We can be found within the pages of the newest Status Magazine. Status is Asia’s youth culture magazine, focusing on the future of fashion, music, art, and urban lifestyles. Seems like a good fit to us, we're psyched.

April 3, 2012

Design Entrepreneurship

Glad to be a part of the publication Kern and Burn as they partake in 100 Days of Design Entrepreneurship, profiling Designers that are working together to create products that make the world a better and more beautiful place.

February 24, 2012

Show & Tell with PSU

Earlier this winter, the fantastic Kate Bingaman Burt asked us to do a little Show & Tell with her students at Portland State University. Our session was just posted on their vimeo page, check it out along with a dozen or so other amazing creatives.

February 6, 2012

People to Watch in 2012

Hot off the presses is the Jan/Feb issue of Graphic Design USA. For those who don't know, GD USA has been compiling inspiring lists of people to watch for quite some time now and we are beyond thrilled to be a part of their 2012 list. Check us out here.

February 1, 2012

Fit to Print

We’ve been working with Photographer Jonathan Chapman on an exciting quarterly newsprint which was just featured in the March issue of Photo District News. Given the clout of PDN in the industry, it’s needless to say that we are honored by the write-up.

January 27, 2012

SOF + Gestalten

We couldn't be more proud of our home town heroes, Studio on Fire. October 2011 introduced their book partnership with Gestalten: Iron Beasts Make Great Beauty. There are so many beautiful pieces inside, including a few from yours truly!

November 7, 2011

WOMN

We are honored to have Katie Kirk included in the fall 2011 CVA Leaders of Design Series, celebrating Minnesota based women designers. Check out Katie's work at the CVA Gallery alongside so many of our female design idols.

November 7, 2011

Designing Together

We get a lot of people asking what it's like living and working together. We really enjoy sharing our story—so naturally, we are pretty excited to be a part of the Design*Sponge He Said/She Said series. A big thanks to Amy Azzarito for including us!

October 5, 2011

AIGA Wisconsin

This past Friday we were honored to give a little talk over at Planet Propaganda in Madison. A big thank you to the AIGA Wisconsin for making this happen and to Planet for hosting. You can see some of our presentation slides and photos from the event on the AIGA WI Flickr site.

August 25, 2011

Proxart Summer 2011

During our LA Creative Mornings talk we got a chance to meet the crew from Proxart Magazine—a publication dedicated to art & design from the suburban landscape. They just released their summer issue and we are honored to be featured! You can download it here.

July 21, 2011

The Modernist by Gestalten

We are such big fans of the book publisher Gestalten! It goes without saying that we are honored  and thrilled to be included in their new book: The Modernist aside so many talented designers. Check it out at the Gestalten Shop!

June 28, 2011

AIGA Design Show Part 2

We've been absolutely thrilled with the success of the Walker Art Center activity packs and yesterday we got more great news. The WAC packs have been featured in the 2011 Minnesota AIGA Show! Thanks to the Walker for being such a great client and to the AIGA for the honor.

May 12, 2011

AIGA Design Show Part 1

We just found out from photographer Chris Sheehan and Studio on Fire that our new letterpress ID was featured in this year's Minnesota AIGA Show! Thanks to the AIGA for the love and to everyone who made it out to the opening reception. Missing you MPLS!

May 10, 2011

Designers’ Identities

We are thrilled to be a part of the new book by Laurence King Publishing titled Designers’ Identities. It’s a look at the branding of 76 different designers and can be purchased online at their shop. Can’t wait to see it!

December 14, 2010

Smashing Magazine

Thanks to Smashing Magazine for including our new website in some recent articles: Designing Memorable Websites: Showcase of Creative Designs and The User Is The Anonymous Web Designer. We're flattered!

December 7, 2010

Site of the Day

Honored to be chosen as The CSS Awards Site of the Day. A shout out to Kilo who made all the lovely CSS possible.

October 12, 2010

HOW Feature & Cover

We really have no words to say how excited and honored we are about being featured on the cover of HOW—not to mention the beautiful write up within. See it here.

July 1, 2010

Cloudy Collection

We're so excited to be a part of the new Cloudy Collection! This set was made by eight pairs of artist duos on the theme of “Teeming Up!” Get all eight letterpress prints for $35 at cloudycollection.com

June 29, 2010

Print & Pattern Book

EHD is excited to be included in the new Print and Pattern book created by Marie Perkins (Bowie Style of the Print & Pattern blog). The book features illustrations from the world of surface design, pattern, textiles, stationery, and greetings. Grab a copy here.

February 25, 2010

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EHD Turns Five!

This month marks the 5-year anniversary of EHD. We. Are. Stunned! We want to thank our family, friends, colleagues, clients, vendors, bloggers, students and everyone else who has supported us and helped us live our dream. Thank you!

February 1, 2010

Design*Sponge Sneak Peek

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. Check it out, and take a gander inside the interiors of both our home and studio.

November 1, 2009

Print's 2009 Design Annual

Who doesn't love Print's Regional Design Annual? It's one of our favorite magazines of the year. We were also excited to see that three of our pieces made it in this year: our identity, the Happy Hours invite and our Stick It To 'Em poster. Yay!

October 15, 2009

Target Icons in Print

We’re honored to have our Target Icons show up in the October issue of Print magazine. The article “What's in Store,” by Christy Desmith, features work from a variety of awesome Minneapolis design shops and speaks to Target's use of local studios.

October 1, 2009

“Eli, no!” Signs With Abrams

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

August 24, 2009

Ideafixa’s Greatest Hits Book

Very excited to be included in the new Ideafixa’s Greatest Hits book, out now. It’s a collection of work and artists previously featured on their fabulous blog, located here.

July 1, 2009

Graphic-Exchange

A staple amongst design blogs and a huge source of inspiration for us, Graphic-Exchange recently featured a post about my illustration work. Check out the blog and the post here.

June 20, 2009

Some Design*Sponge Love

One of my all-time favorite blogs and a daily read, Design*Sponge recently did a post about my illustration work. Yippeeskippee. Check out the post and blog here.

June 19, 2009

Grain Edit Love

Grain Edit is one of our favorite sources of inspiration, so we are über-excited with our “Eli, no!” feature. Check out the post and blog here. Thanks, Dave!

January 26, 2009

“Eli, no!” on sfgirlbybay

A special thank you to Victoria and her wonderful post about “Eli, no!” on her awesome blog, sfgirlbybay.

November 11, 2008

Imagine Opera CA Webpick

Nice! Imagine Opera is featured as Communication Arts Webpick of the day. Shout-out to Poplife for their fantastic development skills.

November 5, 2008

Print's 2008 Design Annual

Hot damn! Too excited to be among those chosen for Print's Regional Design Annual 2008. Featured work includes our EHD identity and the Target Job Icons.

November 1, 2008

City Pages & PO Show

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

September 24, 2008

Semi-Permanent 2008

We are honored to be included in this year’s Semi-Permanent book. Don't like sharing? Want your own? Buy it here, and learn more about the annual conference here. Also, above is the very cool cover illustration, done by Joe Van Wetering.

May 20, 2008

Letterhead & Logo Design 10

Just found out a couple of our logos have been included in "Letterhead & Logo Design 10," by Sussner Design Co. Thanks Sussner! Check out their awesome work here. Buy the book on Amazon here.

May 1, 2008

AIGA MN Design Show

Cool! We made the cut! Both the Blackbird menus and Target Icons made it into the AIGA Minnesota Design Show. Special thanks to Scott Muskin for his fab writing on the menus.

March 25, 2008