Design Work Life: Cataloging Inspiration Daily

For the month of August, a series of guests will be fill­ing in on DWL with daily posts. Today’s posts come to you from Brent Anderson of Kansas City strate­gic brand­ing firm Stir & Enjoy. For more from Brent, be sure to fol­low him on Twitter. Enjoy!

In our sec­ond of two posts show­cas­ing unde­ni­able tal­ent from Kansas City, we turn our sights to design­ers push­ing them­selves into retail, mul­ti­me­dia, print­ing and fash­ion ter­ri­tory. Beautifully.

Sarah Nelsen

Another alum of Kansas University’s deadly design pro­gram, Sarah’s a force in both graphic and fash­ion design. She mar­ries both in this brand­ing project for a high-end hair salon.

Lindsay Laricks

A well-known local designer, Lindsay made a side-business sell­ing snow cones she cre­ates with home­made, all-natural syrups in an array of unusual fla­vors. What started in a ‘50s Shasta trailer now has a new home: Little Freshie.

Lindsay is also mar­ried to nation­ally known let­ter­press shop owner and designer Brady Vest, of Hammerpress.

Nathaniel Cooper

Particularly pro­fi­cient in logo design and brand­ing, Nathaniel also does great retail and mer­chan­dis­ing design, like this recent work for Krispy Kreme donuts.

Bob Atkins

We can’t get our hands off of let­ter­press and few in the coun­try do it with more pre­ci­sion and pas­sion than Bob at Skylab Letterpress.

Anthony Magliano

In addi­tion to his own award-winning design pro­fi­ciency, Anthony is also the founder of Quixotic Fusion, an ensem­ble of artists from var­i­ous dis­ci­plines includ­ing aer­ial acro­bat­ics, dance, fash­ion, film, music and visual FX. This inven­tive group of artists goes beyond the lim­its of any spe­cific art form, chal­leng­ing tra­di­tional per­cep­tions and cre­at­ing a total sen­sory expe­ri­ence unlike any other for its audi­ence while explor­ing infi­nite pos­si­bil­i­ties of move­ment, sound and mul­ti­me­dia. Quixotic recently per­formed at the renowned TED con­fer­ence in Los Angeles and even went so far as to project imagery on the side of Kansas City’s new sky­line jewel, the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts.