SpearTalks: MWM Graphics

Posted on February 1, 2008 Under Design

Matt W. Moore knows the remedy to day job doldrums. An ex-agency man turned big-time web designer, Matt has never renounced his personal creative pursuits for his job "“ a sacrifice that today's creative types find themselves depressingly prone to.…

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SpearTalks: Heather Powazek Champ

Posted on January 25, 2008 Under Art

In 1994, years before the Internet became the world's diary (or ashtray, depending on your point of view) that it is today, Heather Powazek Champ launched her first home page. Some form of addiction formed in her constant forays into…

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SpearTalks: Jeremyville

Posted on January 18, 2008 Under Art

Jeremy Andrew, a.k.a. Jeremyville, covers a bit more ground than your typical designer-slash-artist. Perhaps we should rephrase that, for while it is correct to refer to what Jeremy covers as "ground" (being that he darts around the world with a…

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SpearTalks: STRANGEco

Posted on January 11, 2008 Under Design

Inevitably, it starts like this: You walk into a storefront, studio or house. The store is run by men in plaid shirts and sneakers; the studio is ran by men in plaid shirts, sneakers, and glasses; the house is full…

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SpearTalks: Greg Washington

Posted on December 28, 2007 Under Design

According to Greg Washington, print is dead. Well, maybe not quite dead - but on a respirator, losing consciousness, and rapidly deflating from the monster that is was to the mouse that it will be. As the Art Director/Photographer of…

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SpearTalks: Morten Andersen

Posted on December 21, 2007 Under Art

Morten Andersen found canvas when he dumped walls. It wasn't a nasty breakup -- their relationship had been long, experimental, and by anyone's standards, a complete success -- but for whatever reason, after almost 15 years of writing, the Danish…

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SpearTalks: Joshua Davis

Posted on December 14, 2007 Under Design

If you consider yourself a graphic designer, you've probably heard of Joshua Davis. As one of the first adopters of Flash, a significant new media artist, an author, and one of the design world's weightiest members, Joshua Davis is a…

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SpearTalks: TADO

Posted on December 7, 2007 Under Design

Mike and Katie are TADO, the UK based duo whose darkly adorable characters have taken the design and vinyl worlds by storm. Only a few years out of university, the pair has already parented a unique aesthetic -- one that…

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SpearTalks: DoubleButter

Posted on November 30, 2007 Under Design

David Larabee and Dexter Thornton are DoubleButter. You may remember them from a post we wrote not too long ago, in which two men bombed Denver's newest art museums with a little bit of well constructed furniture graffiti. While that…

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SpearTalks: Tavis Coburn

Posted on November 23, 2007 Under Art

Tavis Coburn is kind of a big deal. Not just because we're writing about him twice in a week, his (unknown) stance on the use of Sex Panther or his inevitably discerning taste in sneakers -- but because Nike, the…

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