Me and my crew hiking around in the Red River Gorge.
CREATIVE MORNINGS
Myself and Griffin VanMeter (Kentucky for Kentucky) will be speaking at Creative Mornings in Louisville this Friday June 12th from 8:30am-10:00am. We'll be speaking on the topic of Revolution. The event will take place outside at Resurfaced. We'll give away some gear and we'll also have a little Kentucky for Kentucky pop-up-shop set up at the event. We can't wait. The event is free BUT you have to register and seating is limited. Registration opens on Monday June 8th at 9:00am. Register here.
HORSE HUMPING SOCKS
HELL YEAH. VIDEO BY IAN FRILEY.
HEAVY METAL BRANDS
"Heavy Metal makes everything better" - that's what my friend in 8th grade once told me right before he bit the head off a baby bat. To this day, I still think he's right (even though he got rabies). Heavy Metal does make everything better. We decided to apply that crazy 8th grader's wisdom to a fun project at Cornett. Would Heavy Metal make a corporate brand's branding better? We asked members of the Cornett design team to pick a few different brands and make their branding metal. Just as we suspected, it worked.
Credits: Clay Gibson (Tylenol, Benadryl, Kleenex), Matt Newton (American Girl Doll, Fancy Feast, Disney), Matt Bitley (Anthropologie, Lululemon), Randy Steward (Mary Kay, Tampax), Chris Adams (Google), Ivy Oddis (Midol), Lauren Woods (Pinterest) Layout by Kris Ange
Heavy Metal Brands Press
“Heavy metal-inspired typography reinvents iconic logos” - Creative Bloq
“Famous Brand Logos Redesigned With Typography Inspired By Heavy Metal Music” - Design Taxi
“ROCK OUT WITH YOUR FONT OUT: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN BRANDS GET A HEAVY METAL MAKEOVER” - Fast Company
“Corporate Logos Get A Heavy Metal Facelift”-Metal Injection
“Popular Corporate Brands Re-imagined as Metal Logos” - Metal Sucks
“Heavy Metal Brands” - Brand New
“11 corporate logos re-imagined as heavy metal bands” - AUX
Daniel Boone and the Brewgrass Trail
Follow along as legendary Kentucky pioneer and explorer Daniel Boone pounds beer and hits all eight of the craft breweries currently on Lexington's Brewgrass Trail. New Cornett work for Visit Lex. Video by Kong Productions.
LEX TALKS
We're doing a LEX TALKS at the Livery in Lexington, KY on Wednesday, April 29th. It's free but you'll need to register if you wanna go. Register here. We'll make sure it gets weird and awkward.
"Watch the Most Strangely Hilarious Addy Awards Best of Show Acceptance Speech Ever"
Our Kentucky for Kentucky ‘Gold Plated Kentucky Fried Chicken Bone Necklaces’ recently took home the big ‘Best Of Show’ award at the AAF Lexington ADDY Awards. Hell yeah! Unfortunately we could be there to accept the award. We did create (with the help of Ian Friley) this little acceptance speech video that was shown at the event. Apparently the speech was a hit. It was also featured on ADWEEK. Check it out below.
“Watch the Most Strangely Hilarious Addy Awards Best of Show Acceptance Speech Ever KFC necklaces were just the beginning” - ADWEEK
Cornett "ABOUT" Page
#SHARETHELEX PART TWO
We just launched a new #ShareTheLex video for VisitLEX. Once again we had a blast working on this. My buddy George crushed it as Daniel Boone and my buddy Ian (Kong Productions) killed it on the video. You can ready more about it on Skift and on the Cornett blog. Check it.
KENTUCKY KICKS ASS FLAGS
Loving this new Kentucky for Kentucky video by my buddy Stanley Sievers. Hell yeah.
FAKE FLIER #8 : RENT-A-TEENAGER
It's been a little bit since I made one of my infamous fake fliers. Here's the latest : Rent-A-Teenager. We threw it up on Reddit where it would have made the front page but unfortunately an admin took it down because it had an email address on it. That didn't stop it from making the front page of Imgur where it had 480k views in under 24 hours. From there, the Huffington Post picked it up and wrote a little story about it. Hell yeah for another successful fake flier.
Case Study : Extra Crispy Dope Gold Kentucky Fried Chicken Bone Necklaces
A little case study for our Kentucky for Kentucky gold KFC chicken bone necklaces. Video by Stanley Sievers.
Kentucky Fried Chicken Bone Gold Necklaces
Last week we (Kentucky for Kentucky) launched a rad new product - Kentucky Fried Chicken Bone Gold Necklaces. We worked with local jewelry designer Meg C to handcraft gold necklaces made with real bones from a Kentucky Fried Chicken 8-piece chicken dinner. No joke, read all about it on our blog. The necklaces sold-out in a few hours and received a ton of press. It was a win/win. They were featured on the LA Times, Daily Mail, People Magazine, Eater, FoodBeast, Complex, Metro, USA Today, PSFK, CNET and a ton of other news outlets around the world. Lots of hot television news action with NBC and ABC. Boomtown.
A few photos and a kick-ass video below by the talented Stanley Sievers.
5-WORD WEBBY SPEECH
This past Monday several of us at Cornett got lucky and had the pleasure of attending the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences 18th Annual Webby Awards in New York City. Somehow our ‘Beardvertising’ website won a People’s Voice Award. We had a blast, it was an amazing evening. Like Buzzfeed said, it was the ‘Internet party of the year’. Funny man Patton Oswalt hosted. The inventor of the web, Tim Berners-Lee was in the house to celebrate the 25th anniversary of his invention (the Web). The “Godmother of Punk” Patti Smith presented to person of the Year to Bansky. Questlove presented the Webby for Artist of Year to De La Soul. Speaking of De La Soul, ‘Three Feet High And Rising’ was the first Compact Disc I ever owned. That makes me old. George Takei was in the house talking smack about William Shatner. It was really awesome to see all of our Internet heroes (gangstas) under one roof.
A famous tradition of the Webby Awards is their “5-Word Speech”. Check out our “5-Word Speech” below. According to my dad it was a horrible “5-Word Speech”. That speech was for you dad, I love you.
American Marketing Association’s ‘Kentucky Kicks Ass’ Case Study
The American Marketing Association recently published a case study on both ‘Kentucky for Kentucky’ and our ‘Kentucky Kicks Ass’ campaign in it’s May 2014 Marketing News issue. Check out the full article here. Thanks Molly for the great case study!
Wife's Birthday Card
It was my beautiful wife's birthday yesterday. This was her epic 'Tom Cruise' themed birthday card. Thanks baby Clay for helping me put this bad-ass birthday card together.
Megaforce
I loved this movie back in the day. So rad.
"Reinventing The Corporate "About" Page"
We recently launched a much needed new website for Cornett. It's dope, check it out. The 'ABOUT' page on our brand new and improved Cornett website has been receiving quite a bit of buzz recently. You can read about it on both Fast Company and PSFK. Check out the 'ABOUT' page here.
BASS ON DA FLY
Hit a farm pond and did a little bass fishing on the fly with my buddy Colin last night. Good times.
WE WON A WEBBY!
Big thanks to everyone that voted for 'Beardvertising'. We won the People's Voice Award in the professional services category. We're stoked, that kicks all kinds of ass!