Help yourself to a fat stack of tees at your next bike event or Twin Cities outdoor gathering. Compliments of our buddy Oliver of WaffleVan lore and team Labor.

The “love” for Stain Solver continues this week. Lovely Package curates the very best packaging from around the globe, and we’re honored that they featured us today. Check it out!

A little black coffee, and a nice feature of our Stain Solver rebrand from the good people at the Dieline to start off our Monday.
High fives to our friends at Stain Solver and team Labor!

You say BAKERY, I say BIKERY. Bikes and waffles go together like peas and carrots. We’re deep in the trenches working on a new branding effort for baking and cycling wizard Oliver Vrambout and his killer WaffleVan. Coming to a race near you…

We dusted this off for a second round of Halloween greetings! Don’t let your dentist read this.

A rebrand effort is well underway for our friends at the MNCPA. We’ve been designing conference materials for them for a number of years. This is our first crack at doing some branding work, in addition to the usual print collateral and website development. They’re overdue for a shout out from team Labor.

Sure doughnuts may not be the most healthy choice for breakfast, and are wholly inappropriate for high end culinary inspiration, but there’s no questioning their appeal. I’ve always been partial the Krispy Kreme variety (amongst others). I love the textural quality of the freshly fried dough dipped in sugary goodness.

It’s with this in mind, that we approached a new round of business cards for our long time compatriots at Cooks of Crocus Hill. I’ve often joked with Cooks for years that I’ve designed everything imaginable for them except business cards.

The idea of thermography  had been on “the list” for awhile, just sitting there waiting for the right opportunity. In my book thermography gets a bad rap, often being associated with the cheap and “undesigned” handouts from the ubiquitous small businesses of the world. The “creative types” often go for the beautiful and passe qualities of letterpress or screen printing. For the Cooks cards we wanted a thick field of thermonuclear love.

I wanted these bad boys to look like they’d been dipped in the dip cone tank at DQ, though they look eerily like a square of Neopolitan just begging for the scoop. Is that such a bad thing? There’s nothing quite like the decision when staring down the open box, do you go Chocolate or Strawberry? Forget the Vanilla in the middle, it’s not a real flavor it’s just white space.

Labor, it’s how the work gets done.