Lowes Foods here in the Carolinas is doing it right. Their focus on community and creativity can be experienced firsthand, and I've had the pleasure - at my day job with our team - to work on some of their projects over the years.

#protip: Use an alternate script character w/out a connecting stroke if the characters don't connect. In "The" there should be no stroke on the left of the "h". Along w/ poor kerning, this is the quickest way to make elegant script (designed to look handwritten) look "typed out."

Read through the explainer site. I'm just not buying what Nike is selling here. I've gotten used to the overjustifications and forced storytelling, but using the Purple Heart as an angle for selling football jerseys? I dunno, y'all.

Apologies for the roughness and use of GPT on this, but a P.S. on my grumbling yesterday: - Take the snake, banner from the #Army seal. - Create a commemorative 250 out of them. - Render it in gold on a matte black shell. - Balance with division/unit logos in gold on the left.

This (see link) level of cohesive, intricate work (by Monkier, MW) is what I would imagined Army would have sought for their 250th set, not the Pinterest board, Easter egg storytelling they ended up with: modestworks.com/work/atletico-…

#sketchbook: Still think the Rams could pull off an OE logotype. Possibly work the horn into the R again.

Do the designers get punished for not kerning well? Does it bother anyone that the monogram is illegible? I prefer these over Army's b/c they at least have presence. Yes, they're overfilled and seem to exist to move lifestyle merch, but at least there's color.

I’d say give Boss an update and let him live on the helmet full-time: x.com/brydfly/status…

#sketchbook: The random thought that jumped in my head when seeing the throwback is maybe a fauxback update where "Montana State" gets worked into the fur. Might keep messing with this.

My day: At the end

BPR took me up on my offer for a donated shirt. If you’re in the #WNC area, get yourself a tee to #ShopLocal and #SupportPublicRadio.

Of the many items I have on my project list I'm trying to wrap up in 2025, Commanders Part 3a is near the top, where I the alternate from Part 3 is treated as the primary. Wouldn't be a deep one, but I'm looking at my warthog from Part 1 fill things out and tie up the ends.