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Birds of Note Print Series

Introducing our new ‘Birds of Note’ print series featuring the resilient Peregrine Falcon, a sleek Cattle Egret, and fiery Cardinal pair.

The full set now available via buyolympia.com!

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SPIRIT OF SOL Mission Patch

To commemorate our 7th trip around the sun working as AWH we made the Spirit of Sol mission patch - now available in the shop!

CONSPIRACY CONFIRMED: Spirit of Sol hawk takes the form of the number 7.

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New Project / Microsoft Emojis

Excited 👏 to 👏 finally 👏 share 🐱 our 💃 work 😅 for 💦 Microsoft’s 🍓 emoji ⛳ redesign! 🎈

👉 View full project here.

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The Olympics and our small role in the games. 

(The eagle crest we designed worn by Team USA(!), clockwise from topleft: Pole vaulter Sam Kendricks, Women’s 4x100m relay, Men’s 4x400m relay, Team USA Basketball.)

Now that the Olympics have come to a close I just wanted to write a short post on what it meant to have designed the crest adorned on Nike’s Team USA uniforms and seen by the world on such a stage. First and foremost a huge amount of gratitude goes to Jeffrey Docherty and the crew at Nike for giving us the opportunity of a lifetime. We’ve been lucky to have worked with Jeff on a number of projects, the work always seems to turn out far better than we had originally imagined. Jeff and his team play a huge role in shaping and informing the work and deserve an enormous amount of credit.

Each time the Olympics roll around our eyes are glued to the TV screen. It’s always amazing watching the top athletes from around the globe competing in sports, some of which you never knew existed. No matter how obscure the sport though, the effort, passion, and sacrifice each athlete has handed over is admirably evident. Sports played a big part in shaping both Elsa and I as kids, the significance and weight of this job is not lost on us. We’ve been extremely fortunate to have worked on some unbelievable bucket-list projects — work like this does not get old and we don’t take it for granted.

Proud as heck of all the athletes, proud and thankful as heck to have played a small role in it all.

View the full Team USA Crests project study on our portfolio site.

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New Project / Team USA Crests

We partnered with Nike to create a set of eagle crests to be used on Team USA Basketball and Track & Field Olympic uniforms. Each crest was inspired by the body-in-motion lines found along the shoulders, chest, and arms of Nike’s Rio 2016 kits. We aimed to capture the spirit of each sport along with the incredible pride and honor that comes with competing for the United States of America.

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Project teaser / Boke Dokie

A sampler of the icons we developed for Boke Dokie, a fried chicken sandwich cart we named and branded for the Boke Bowl folks. Full project update coming soon!

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New Project / Harbor Islands Birding

Bird illustrations for Boston Magazine's guide on Boston Harbor Islands birdwatching. Pictured above: Red-tailed Hawk, Red Knot, Red-bellied Woodpecker, check out the full set on our site.

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New in the shop / Longdog Patch

In loving tribute to Zoe and in honor of the grandest hounds around we made the Longdog Patch!

Known for it’s modest stature and grand spirit, the noble longdog remains at attention — ready for a new adventure, some treats or ideally both. All proceeds from the Longdog patch benefit the Oregon Dachshund Rescue- so get a patch, help a pup! shop.alwayswithhonor.com /AWH

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New in the shop / Print + Cards

Just in time for the holiday season we've re-stocked the shop with some new goodies, including our limited edition Blue Azureus print and sets of our Recipe and Cocktail cards. Today only (12/01) we're offering a small biz/thanksgiving/cybertron deal of free domestic shipping:

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Fall is in the Air / Flagsmith Special

In celebration of our favorite season we're having a limited-time fall special on Flagsmith- now you can get your mitts on the typeface for just $15. Head over to the Flagsmith shop to grab your copy and get to making some flags!

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Flag code

Pumpkin: base+pinwheel+circle+*-f It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (not shown): base+sawtooth-b+circle+*-f

Made with Flagsmith

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Orbital Projects / Tonalá Critters

Alongside client work we usually have a few personal or side projects floating around our orbit, most of which don't see the light of day or get finished for one reason or another. These ideas are not fully thought out or polished, but have something fun or interesting that we wanted to play around with or explore further.

These critters are from the margins of a branding project, a fun solution that was not the right solution, but we really enjoyed making them. Based on a beautiful pottery tradition from Tonalá Mexico, the animals made in this style have similar features and elements, but each evoke their own personality.

We took the sketches and used them to experiment with some texture and seamless pattern making which was super fun, yay patterns!

More info on Tonalá Mexico See our digital collection of critters

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New in the Shop / AWH Phoenix Tote

Feeding off the flames of summer, the Phoenix ascends with a spirited purpose: to not waste these days brimming with solar rays.

We're more excited than usual about the sunshine this year, so we had to make a tote to celebrate the summer and carry all warm weather adventure essentials, now available in the shop! AWH Phoenix Tote

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Fanfare / Colombia vs. Brazil

The quarterfinals are here, and today Colombia takes on the host nation in what should be one of the more exciting games of the cup. This is the farthest Colombia have ever gotten in a World Cup, and this time they have the talent and drive to make it farther, so we'll be rooting for them all the way, Vamos Colombia!

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Flag codes

Colombia: base+stripe-c+half-a Brazil: base+diamond+*-h Soccer ball: base+*-h+*-b (no fill on base + diamond shape added on top)

Made with Flagsmith

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Fanfare / USA vs. Belgium

The USA take on Belgium in the World Cup round of 16 tomorrow, time to get patriotic with stars and stripes on everything, GO USA!

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Flag codes

USA: base+stripes-c+canton+*-c Belgium: base+pale Soccer ball: base+*-h+*-b (no fill on base + diamond shape added on top)

Made with Flagsmith

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AWH World Cup Awesomeness Round-up

We’re getting pretty amped about the upcoming world cup at AWH HQ. Screens are calibrated, lucky uniforms/totems are at the ready and strong coffee is brewing, let’s do this!

Every four years the excitement of the World Cup spills into the design world and we get to enjoy some really fun and inspiring projects, our favorites of which we wanted to share here. We hope they might inspire even some non-sports lovers to get swept up in the fun and excitement of the cup!

Left to right from top-left:

Colombia’s (Elsa’s team) star player Radamel Falcao didn’t make the cup because of injury, but he’s been captured in these great World Cup player portraits by Daniel Nyari for ESPN FC.

The boots in this Adidas Battle Pack Collection are some of the raddest we’ve seen, digging those patterns and restrained use of color.

Even the balls in the World Cup have a deep history, and the World Cup match ball history page explains it all. Our favorite is still the ’94 Questra edition.

Howler is a beautifully designed magazine about the beautiful game, seems so fitting. Check out the World Cup special edition, Creative Directed by Joel Speasmaker.

These International team posters from ESPN by Ben Clark & Mathieu Zarbatany have so much energy you can’t help but get amped up.

We’ve been enjoying the silly but informative cup previews by the Men in Blazers on Grantland.

This cup’s mascot is a Brazilian three-banded armadillo named Fuelco that rolls into a ball! We support that, and will be wearing our Fuelco slippers for comfort and good luck.

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ICONAUT Workshops / Portland

This weekend we launched our ICONAUT workshop series right here in Portland OR. We had an amazing turnout of folks with great energy and enthusiasm for making icons, including hometown heroes Aaron Draplin and Duane King.

View more photos from the Iconauts themselves here and by searching #ICONAUT on twitter.

Thanks again to everyone who came out, and to Tillamook Station for hosting us! (Above photo of Draplin's THICK ASS LINES! sketches for 'Climatology'.)

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New Project / House of Hoops TDOT

We were lucky enough to be asked to work on another House of Hoops for NIKE. This time for Canada's first ever location in Toronto, a city known for it's fiery fans and flashy approach to the game. Had a blast working with Kevin Wolahan and Joel Brandon on this - big ups for pushing and overseeing that animated lightbox mural through! All photography by Eugen Sakhnenko.

View full project study here.

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