BrandCrowd Blog

From time to time we’d like to spotlight one of our users and give you a profile on the type of people who come through Brandstack and the results of their experience. Today we are profiling Rick Waters, buyer of OMUNKY who has turned the brand into an eco-friendly online T-shirt shop. Rick is an interesting example from the buyer side of our operations because he is also a designer himself who took inspiration from someone else’s work.Rick Waters seen here with his dog, CaseyWe asked Rick a few questions…

Hi, everyone. Welcome to our new digs for our blog. We went with a bit of an Office Space motif for this unveiling, so if you don’t understand the title of this post, the answers lie therein. I wanted to go with an Extreme Makover: Blog Edition theme, but I was vetoed. Damn Lumberg.You’ll notice first of all that it’s totally pretty. Hat tip to Robert for that. Next of all, you might notice that I’m talking to you like I’m some sort of big cheese or something. Turns out…

A few months ago when I came across Robert McGuire’s profile on Twitter [yes, it is an amazing world where I meet most of my extremely creative friends], I got the impression that he was a doctor. Whatever gave me that impression, you ask? Well, for one it said so on his website. “Trust Me, I’m A Doctor”. But in the split second that followed, it became evidently clear that he was indeed a doctor and fixed bad and broken designs.Robert helms the beautifully designed McGuire Design and the fresh…

“I need to start winning some tennis games so I can get some respect around here.” -Wes WilsonThe Wii Sports tennis matches have hit a fever pitch in the Brandstack office. Wait, let me try that again. The Wii Sports tennis matches have hit a fever serve in the Brandstack office. I’m so clever. What we’ve learned is that if you don’t bring it on the court, you lose all clout in the office. Wes learned this the hard way today when he dropped a couple matches to Pear Analytics’…

Over the past couple of weeks we added two new folks to the Brandstack Team! They’re both working on a fun new projects hitting Brandstack in the coming months and helping build the designer community we started over a year ago.To introduce the Brandstack world to Pablo, we asked him a few straight forward questions. Here are his answers:Q: In less than 8 words: Where are you from? What do you enjoy? What do you want?A. In less than eight words I… oh crap.Q: So honestly, how annoyed are you…