Over the last few months Replace has been working on a brand identity for CREATE The Community Meal from Public Art Saint Paul by artist Seitu Jones. and today, it became reality. Postcards, business cards, and other promotional materials are all on press and the website is live. The brand identity is a reflection of the many cultures woven together in the rich and diverse St. Paul community. It also alludes to the ripple effect submitting and sharing stories and a meal can have on building and strengthening our community. Get ready to see the brand work all over St. Paul from now through September 14, when 2,000 people will gather at a ½ mile long table in the middle of Saint Paul’s Victoria Street for a civic dinner table conversation about Food Access, Food Justice, and Healthy Eating. Learn more about the project as well as all the other amazing projects Public Art Saint Paul supports here. Next up we’re going to tackle a full Public Art Saint Paul rebrand complete with new website by our friends at Room 34.

Sam Smith, a Replace designer and Illustrator, was recently asked to take his comic illustration style to the stage for a production of ‘The History of Invulnerability’ by Minnesota Jewish Theater Co. in St. Paul that uncovers the story behind the creation of the Superman comic book character and the turmoil the creators endured to maintain ownership of their intellectual property.

See more of Sam’s work, a total of 80 amazing comic book style illustrations used throughout the show, through May 11th Minnesota Jewish Theater Company, 1978 Ford Parkway, St. Paul.

Tickets: $28-$12; mnjewishtheatre.org

Read the St. Paul Pioneer Press Article here.

Congrats Sam, we are proud to have you here at Replace and 100% support you and your art as you go out on your own and seek awesome opportunities like this!

Our dear friends over at Jonny Pops have just upped their website game! Props to their in-house web team and their blinding fast turnaround. Also noteworthy are these pallets of handsome new Replace-designed popsicle shippers sitting in loading docks near you!
Boom!

Our clients over at Pure just announced the creation of their new Peanut Butter Chocolate bar. This further expands on the Ancient Grains line that we designed for them with their existing Chocolate Chunk Nut and Triple Berry Nut. We’re extremely pleased to see this continue on the trend of both great design and great taste! Cheers Pure and thanks for being a great partner. You can read more about the Peanut Butter Chocolate Bar (including how to order some for yourself) here.

Once again we can’t help but give a big thanks to the Minneapolis Egotist for featuring us on their blog. For those of you not familiar with the Egotist they firmly have their fingers to the pulse of the very bright Minnesota Design Community. As some of you may know, Replace is a pretty unique design shop and we created a video with our friends Rau+Barber talking about just that! In case you haven’t seen the great video they created (and that was just shared by the Egotist) you can catch it right here! You can also (and we highly recommend it) check out the MPLS Egotist article here!

When our friends from Blue Spot Lobotomy asked us to design their album artwork for them there was no way we could say no! Congratulations to Blue Spot Lobotomy for releasing your album! Harkening back to the days of  early lobotomies illustrations, we wanted to make them something both visceral as well as beautiful that borrowed from that aesthetic. We really can’t be happier with how it turned out!  Special thanks to Angel Bomb for doing such a brilliant job letter-pressing these as well as a special thanks to Sheehan for the great photos!

We just wanted to give a big shout out of thanks to MPLS Egotist for once again featuring our work. Recently we posted a tweet discussing our packaging work for the children’s iPad toy Tiggly and the Egotist was nice enough to give us a nice write up. You can read the article yourself here! To keep up to date with the Replace twitter feed, just go ahead,click here, and follow!

We want to congratulate clients and friends, Origin Meals on their recent site launch! The new site we just designed for our awesome OM client has hit the ground running. As always – immaculate coding from our friends and neighbors, Room 34. Great job Scott Anderson and the entire crew at Room 34 on the site development. Thanks again Origin Meals for your great, positive brand message for healthy eating! To find out more about Origin Meals and their paleo-inspired (might I also add delicious) meals click here! Eat Good Now.

JOIN US Feb 24th for this EPIC event!

EPIC selects teams of top-flight advertising and design professionals and pair them with nonprofit clients dedicated to education, children and families. Over just eight weeks, the teams working on a strictly probono basis and led by an esteemed creative directordevise marketing solutions that their nonprofit clients need. Together, they make a bigger impact on the world than either could alone.

Last January our own Jeff Johnson spoke at the launch of EPIC Minnesota in support of all the work EPIC was setting out to accomplish in the coming years and how important it is to both the creative and nonprofit communities.  Our very own New Business and Project Manager, Haley Kilgour is the Program Director for EPIC MN.

With the help of amazing twin cities volunteer creative talent EPIC has charitably contributed roughly $300,000 in pro bono creative services to local nonprofits over the course of a year–an accomplishment worthy of celebration! At Hell’s Kitchen on Monday February 24th we’ll gather those volunteers as well as nonprofits and other creatives together in one space to celebrate all their hard work and toast to a successful 2014!

Origin is rolling out their new fleet of coolers in crossfit locations around the metro.
Check one out in person to pick up some delicious paleo meals or to just admire these beauties in action!

You can also visit originmeals.com to order up some chow delivered from these coolers straight to your door!