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Russ Pate
Russ Pate

Portland, Oregon

Designer at Instrument • Wannabe

  1. Real Thread Products (Live) Real Thread Products (Live) — I never really took the time to share all the work I was involved in behind the scenes at Real Thread. All of time and energy went into rebuilding the Real Thread experience from the ground up. So many incredibly talented people contributed to the improvement of this experience. With the relaunch of the Products side of the site we set a new standard for how custom t-shirts should be ordered ...
  2. Pocket Deposit 01 Pocket Deposit 01 — My good friend has a start up in early stages. This is the beginning to the new brand -- more to come.
  3. Pocket Deposit 02 Pocket Deposit 02 — Exploration in type. Decided to go with GT Walsheim Pro Bold
  4. Pocket Deposit 03 Pocket Deposit 03 — Color Combinations.
  5. Pocket Deposit 04 Pocket Deposit 04 — Break down of the symbol. (left) "p" first initial of the brand name (middle) "d" second initial of the brand name (right) $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
  6. Pocket Deposit 04 Pocket Deposit 04 — Horizontal lockup
  7. New Products Page New Products Page — We've been working hard on a redesign / rebuild of all of our online experiences. Pretty soon this is what you will see when you are browsing through the over 1,000 of the products we offer. Big BIG props to @Drew Smith for his help on this project -- dude is a big talent.
  8. New Single Product New Single Product — Big time changes coming for our individual products pages -- excited to streamline and simplify this part of choosing and designing your products. We have been taking very careful consideration in order to bring you something that is much more simple and intuitive. We asked ourselves, just how simple can we make this tool? This forced us to keep stripping things down and prioritize elements i...
  9. Whiteboard Brand Symbol Whiteboard Brand Symbol — So excited to see the whiteboard brand move forward and totally stoked at the opportunity to work with my friends again. I made a small guest appearance in this movement by crafting their new brand symbol. See it come to life on their new site whiteboard.is
  10. Newberry Farms Packaging & Identity Concept Newberry Farms Packaging & Identity Concept — Identity and packaging concept for a dairy farm rebrand. A lot of painstaking work went into the lock up and the details of the container. This was a part of a bigger pitch for the brand that never quite made it through but it was fun digging back into package design especially for something like milk. A large part of this was the work, a part from the design shown, is determining shelf posit...
  11. PRA 01 PRA 01 — Working on an updated brand for the Pensacola Running Association.
  12. Tigre Exotica Tigre Exotica — Support Your Peers A friend asked me to create a t-shirt design to print and sell while his screen printing operation is going through COVID. So I made a bunch of stuff just for fun including a custom camouflage because... why not? I don't always have the means to buy everything my friends are selling but anytime I can provide my time I see that as a win. These shirts will soon be for sal...
  13. El Tigre El Tigre — Damn Carole.
  14. Card Study Card Study — Just a quick sketch/motion study to prototype out information with cards. made in principle.
  15. Sacred Cow 02 Sacred Cow 02 — They say make it prettier and more approachable. Onward.
  16. Sacred Cow 01 Sacred Cow 01 — Illustrated a cow for a new logo/branding project. Looking forward to sharing more soon.
  17. Pocket Deposit 05 Pocket Deposit 05 — playing with patterns
  18. Pocket Deposit 06 Pocket Deposit 06 — more pattern work.
  19. Scenic City Ruckers Gnome 01 Scenic City Ruckers Gnome 01 — Working up some new materials for some friends in chattanooga. I just can't get enough of this dead eyed little dude that I drew up for my friends in the Scenic City Ruck Club. The connection comes from the Rock City part of the area up in Lookout Mountain where Fairyland Caverns epitomize odd creepy enchanting mysticism that was a huge part of the hills and mountains in the area. The same h...
  20. Scenic City Ruckers Patch 02 Scenic City Ruckers Patch 02 — Working up some new materials for some friends in chattanooga. This is an alternate patch design with a bit more embellishment and more type heavy. This version also includes the location and a different way of calling out the ruck club. The overall tone of the type and elements are fairly folksy, I don't know how well this will translate to a patch but it carries some of the spirit of the sc...
  21. Scenic City Ruckers Patch 01 Scenic City Ruckers Patch 01 — Working up some new materials for some friends in chattanooga. This is a patch we're about to produce for the club.
  22. Scenic City Ruckers Type 01 Scenic City Ruckers Type 01 — Working up some new materials for some friends in chattanooga.
  23. Stoutasaurus Stoutasaurus — Last year I helped my buddy with packaging for Debine Brewing out of Tampa by whipping up this illustration of a blindfolded dinosaur. The Barrel Aged Blindfolded Stoutasaurus won the Bronze Medal for Wood & Barrel Aged Strong Stout for Best Florida Beers.
  24. One Unused 01 One Unused 01 — unused concept for a project. can't give many other details. but I was diggin where it was headed. RIP.
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