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Russ Pate
Russ Pate

Portland, Oregon

Designer at Instrument • Wannabe

  1. Card Study Card Study — Just a quick sketch/motion study to prototype out information with cards. made in principle.
  2. 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...
  3. 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
  4. Sacred Cow 02 Sacred Cow 02 — They say make it prettier and more approachable. Onward.
  5. Sacred Cow 01 Sacred Cow 01 — Illustrated a cow for a new logo/branding project. Looking forward to sharing more soon.
  6. 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...
  7. 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...
  8. 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.
  9. Scenic City Ruckers Type 01 Scenic City Ruckers Type 01 — Working up some new materials for some friends in chattanooga.
  10. 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.
  11. One Unused 02 One Unused 02 — unused concept for a project. can't give many other details. but I was diggin where it was headed. RIP.
  12. 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.
  13. F3 Chattanooga F3 Chattanooga — This one is for some of my workout buddies back in Chattanooga. Guys, if you’re looking for a good system of support and to get in shape then go find an F3 near you -- this organization is men only but there is also FIA for women.
  14. Real Thread Pacman Shirt Real Thread Pacman Shirt — A t-shirt to celebrate internal production goals
  15. Approval Animation 01 Approval Animation 01 — Another email coming your way and hopefully this one brings a little delight. We never want to spam our customers and our goal is for every message they get from Real Thread there will be a little party.
  16. Coasters 01 Coasters 01 — We just got our mitts on the coasters I designed and they are lookin' gooooood. Great job printing by @Sticker Mule and photography by the incredibly talented John Kazaklis
  17. Arrived Animation 01 Arrived Animation 01 — Another animation for our brand new order emails. We know nobody really likes getting emails but news that your shirts just arrived?! That's something to celebrate. So we wanted to bring a little bit of that party to your inbox.
  18. Shipping Animation 01 Shipping Animation 01 — This is my first animation ever created in After Effects and basically ever. It was fun getting to learn a little about the software the past day or so. This will work with some of our automated emails associated with ordering. The goal was to create a new system for in-email gifs that celebrate that status of the order. Nobody really loves getting emails so hopefully, when you get this one...
  19. 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...
  20. 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.
  21. Company Cruise Badge 01 Company Cruise Badge 01
  22. Imperial Chai 01 Imperial Chai 01 — coming to a pint glass near you
  23. 2018 Top 4 2018 Top 4 — Check out my #Top4Shots on @Dribbble from 2018 — See yours at http://dribbble.com/year/2018
  24. Happy Holidays 01 Happy Holidays 01 — A little typography for the holiday
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