By Jena:

Sometimes, music just doesn’t do it for me. When you spend most of your days at a desk (sitting or standing) it’s important to find things to keep your creative juices flowing. When music isn’t cutting it, I usually switch to my other go-to: Creative Mornings*. Creative mornings is a breakfast lecture series for the creative community (available to watch for free &

About a year and a half ago I began to see more and more articles pop up about the health benefits of switching to a standing desk. Eventually, they began to make a lot of sense.

You see, like a good suburban kid, I grew up playing all sorts of sports that took their unique tolls on my knees. After I began my first real desk job after college, I started noticing that my back was always in knots and my ability to stand for even normal periods of time was waning (for example, 

Congrats to our client, Boneyard Wines! Thank you for allowing us to have the creative bandwidth to design something award-winning! GD USA American Package Design Award Winners:
http://gdusa.com/contests/apda14/winners/search.php?e=215

Last year we had a blast designing Stinson Vineyard’s Imperialis Port screenprinted bottle. Rachel, the winemaker at Stinson, knows what she likes and this article proves she knows her wine & design. Congrats Rachel, a well-deserved acknowledgement from the bible of the South.

You can check it out in this issue, online or stop in to see it in person:

We had a blast on December 10 at Champion Brewing alongside Hunter- the owner and head brewer at Champion and Chris, the owner of Blue Ridge Pizza, enjoying some awesome beer and pizza and discussing why it was so important to launch their small businesses (neither are small any longer!) with strong branding [Thank you to The Central VA AMA for putting this on!]. When coming into a marketplace with existing breweries and food trucks,