Author: Ben Hock

For me, watching the U.S. Women’s National Basketball Team destroy the competition was a highlight of the Rio Olympics, especially…

When we decided to form GroundFloor Media’s sister agency, CenterTable, a design challenge arose in the form of a new…

I’m in the middle of an important meeting, with a room full of eyes looking at me as if I’ve…

Though design is continuously evolving, people like to partition design trends by calendar year. The reality is that what’s currently popular in design has become this way slowly, and most importantly, it’s been cultivated by decades of previous trends coming together. Design in 2016 is borrowing from creative movements that span the last century.

Colorado is one of the best places in the country to drink beer, and Denver’s beer scene is saturated with dozens of great breweries. Concurrently, Denver’s art and design world is blossoming, meaning that breweries are realizing a need to appeal to design-minded, hip people when crafting the look and feel of their brands. All of this has led to some fantastic label designs from our neighborhood breweries (and local designers).

The Bucks, Hawks, Raptors and Clippers all made extensive changes to their overall aesthetic in 2015. They all share one thing in common: all four teams feel that they’re about to take the next step. In that sense, the rebranding effort ties directly into the overall success of the team.

As a hardcore Denver Nuggets fan, one of the most horrible things I can imagine is going to the Pepsi Center to watch my Nuggets take on the Los Angeles Lakers. For the past decade, the Lakers seemed to be the team that would perennially knock the Nuggets out of the playoffs and remind me that it’s a long hard road for a small market team in the NBA. It wasn’t watching Kobe Bryant’s smug face that would upset me, though.