Austin

This was our third year to make it to South by Southwest in Austin and this year I was more excited than ever! Not because of SXSW, but because I was missing my friends, family, and Texas in general.

This year Brent was a part of a new event of SXSW called Style X. The booth that Brent contributed to was t-shirt designs by various designers that allowed you to choose your t-shirt color and design and they screen printed them right in front of you. Check out Brent's Bike Mess screen print and Bike Mess t-shirt.

If you're interested in the process check out this screen printing video....

We also enjoyed meeting several different designers and seeing their work in Flatstock...a poster show and also part of SXSW. A few of our Flatstock favorites....

...this pirate pillow...

...and these prints.

We had a blast staying with our friends Jose & Cristina, seeing Brent's family, seeing Ros, Camille, and Linds...my old college roommates, and seeing many other friends. I was so excited to be in Austin that I forgot to take pictures of the beginning of our trip (sorry Couchman's, Ashley, Kylie, and Cristina).

I came SO close to meeting baby Isabella but she just wasn't ready yet.

SF MOMA & Company

We were super excited to have TWO visitors last weekend...Mom and Marcos. We enjoyed showing them some of our favorite places and we got to check out a new place....the SF MOMA. We were excited to check out the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art....and especially the HOW Wine Became Modern exhibit, which Brent's company was a part of. Hatch's (Brent's company) wine brand, Jaqk, was featured in this exhibit and Hatch did the promotional pieces for the exhibit. I didn't get a good picture of the wine exhibit but here's a pic of the Jaqk wine in the gift shop (check them out here).

Hatch also designed promotional pieces like this poster. All the exhibit's promotional pieces were designed before Brent started working there but it was cool to see his co-workers stuff.

We had some good food: Mama's has amazing breakfast and we love North Beach Pizza (but Homeslice is better).

I will need to fast for a few weeks to make up for all that good food we had...but it was worth it!

Friends of Type

Brent was asked to do a guest post each day on a blog this week called Friends of Type. This one is my favorite but check out the full post here.

Man, this guy is good!