Over a year ago we started an identity project for our good friend and photographer, Tim Brumbeloe and his commercial photography enterprise, BFA (see my post from Dec 2008!)

And at the end of last year we finally finished—business cards (die cut, silver ink + some suprises), coasters (letterpressed by our pals at Courier Printing), stickers.. you know, all the essentials.

Nothing beats the smell of fresh ink on a project that's been a long time in the making.

After careful organization and reorganization.

Top 25 Tracks

1-5
danger mouse and sparkelhorse feat david lynch - star eyes
jónsi - boy lilikoi
animal collective - my girls
the books feat. jose gonzales - cello song
tycho - coastal brake

6-10
atlas sound - washington school
the bloody beetroots - i love the bloody beetroots
bear in heaven - you do you
here we go magic - tunnelvision
julian casablancas - 11th dimension

11-15
atlas sound - quick canal
here we go magic - fangela
danger mouse and sparkelhorse feat david lynch - dark night of the soul
lusine - tin hat
chromeo - night by night

16-20
david bazan - heavy breath
bibio - lover's carvings
phoenix - girlfriend
trichromatic - lymbyc systym
frank schweikhardt - twin cities

21-25
mew - tricks of the trade
phoenix - 1901
the sight below - wishing me asleep
junior boys - the animator
coconut records - i am young

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Top 30 Albums

1-5
atlas sound - logos
bear in heaven - beast rest forth mouth
here we go magic - here we go magic
animal collective - merriweather post pavillion
bibio - ambivalence avenue

6-10
julian casablancas - phrazes for the young
phoenix - wolfgang amadeus phoenix
lymbyc systym - shutter release
lusine - a certain distance
david bazan - curse your branches

11-15
deerhunter - rainwater cassette exchange
mewithoutyou - it's all crazy! it's all false! it's all a dream it's alright
mew - no more stories
telefon tel aviv - immolate yourself
danger mouse and sparklehorse - dark night of the soul

16-20
coconut records - davy
lusine - a certain distance
the drums - let's go surfing
bloody beatroots - romborama
deastro - moondagger

21-25
frank schweikhardt - life but no more
charles spearin - the happiness project
the sight below - murmur ep
junior boys - begone dull care
m. ward - hold time

26-30
animal collective - fall be kind
the pandas - you are the weather
lymbyc systym / this wIll destroy you - field studies
mercury program - chez viking
dan deacon - bromst

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The album I got too late. But had I had discovered it a month ago it would surely be top 10:

freelance whales - weathervanes

Albums that I really wished had been better:

dan deacon - bromst (although still had some sweetness that clocked 'er in at #30)
mstrkrft - fist of god
wilco - wilco the album
morrissey - years of refusal
saxon shore - it doesn't matter
riceboy sleeps - riceboy sleeps
do make say think - other truths
yppah - they know what ghost know
tortoise - beacons of anceestorship

Well, jumpsuits anyway. Jumpsuits with an altered version of the NASA logo. And intergalactic titles that we've each made up for ourselves. Don't ask why we do these things. Just smile and close this browser window. Close it.

This may be one of my favorite travel brochures I've worked on.

the website. Hot on the interweb tubes. The first launch is live and ready for online ordering. Phase two will include an OpenTape mp3 playlist that XRA will publish. xrarecords.com