Tad Carpenter

Designer, Author, NYT Bestselling Illustrator & Partner at Carpenter Collective 👉 @CarpenterCollec, a design & branding studio. My book, Sunday Suns out now!

[Tad Carpenter @TadCarpenter]

Me to my computer: "Ok, let's make some good graphic design today!"

Narrator: "He did not make good graphic design today."

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@krealdesign thank you I agree more design + packaging!

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New Work! Packaging design for QuikTrip's Quittin' Time Light Lager, celebrating 250 years of the USA. Made for backyard BBQs, fireworks & maybe a legendary QuikTrip roller dog or two. Our custom packaging available now for your Fourth of July gathering this weekend! Go get em!

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You should be able to call into work to mourn a design concept you loved that was not picked

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@molzer new brand identity for the Aladdin????

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graphic design is a lot like composing sweet beautiful music except our work ends up smashed in the streets after some dude crushes a tallboy but basically the same

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Whether you follow the World Cup or not, Kansas City, my hometown has really shown out!!! Wow.

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Best view of the Oranje you’ll ever see 🇳🇱

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@ocean_andsea thanks buddy!

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A new district in Kansas City we have branded which includes many neighborhood upgrades is underway. In addition to this new brand system the district is getting many new murals & installs. Including this mural my wife Jessica and I designed together. More as we complete it.

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What’s that thing where you own like 5,000 fonts but every time you start a new project you feel like you need new fonts so you go buy a bunch of new ones? I have that.

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Realizing I have 3 deadlines on the same day this week.

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Happy solstice & such!
A favorite poster I designed from my SUNday Suns project. https://t.co/w7nxcekbHW

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Started tilting my head like a dog when clients give me a feedback and it makes the experience 70% more bearable.

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@jstrelioff @daniellelaroy Looks great friends!!!!

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My son (6) was drawing in his sketchbook this morning and I asked, "Whatcha drawing bud?"

He says, "probably the best logo anyone has ever made".

He was right.

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@rileyj_s we need a "new fonts u love & want to remember" auto folder

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graphic design is mostly just activating fonts and forgetting to use them

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@Chev90 agree, I see it too. trades are the best part of this so you got to take the bat off your shoulder and take a few swings.

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More progress on a new civic brand identity system we @CarpenterCollec have been working on. Includes brand strategy, naming, identity system, signage system, web, social and many environmental spaces. Various mural installs happening now...

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@misterratcliff well, you got to HAND it to him, he was probably right :)

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Yes graphic design is exactly like making fine art except you have 14 people who have to approve the new color you introduced and someone named Sharon in accounting who hates the way you drew that hand.