This FMFLF is an iPhone app called Appetizer that allows you to mix similar app categories and make them work together. Just like an app platter! For example, you can use Grubhub with Groupon to save time and money on a delivery. Combine your weather app with iCalendar to plan that perfect outdoor picnic.
Okay, I’ll admit it. I thought the name was clever and made up something around it. Kinda like how the government likes to create the acronym before the policy.
As suggested by one of our followers, this weeks FMFLF is for a free-range turkey farm, delightfully entitled Tom’s Turkey.
This will be the second time in Connor’s career that he has been able to use a hand turkey to define something. It’s almost as nonsensical as the idea of a “FREE-RANGE Turkey FARM,” which in itself is playful but also rigid. Gobble Gobble.
When asked to create this FMFLF I was doing laundry. While handling, *ahem* my “unmentionables” I instantly noticed a great set of geometric lines that could easily be a logo. From there it was just color and a pun then, BOOM! We have a logo.
As I sat and ate pie for breakfast, I was trying to think of the logo for FMFLF this week. I also could not stop thinking about the absurdity of my mother not letting my niece call her “Grandma” because it make her feel old. My mother makes an awesome pie, just like my grandmother.
So today, I give you “Nana Peg’s Pies” as a bit of a joke. I don’t think my mother will get it, but its best that way.
Hey yall - for this five minute logo, I went with a playful idea I’ve been wanting to explore for a while. Turning the hole in an acoustic guitar into the body of a banjo seemed like a fun way to show that a music shop is focused on folk instrumentation. You may not have noticed, but the acoustic is a classical body, and the banjo isn’t a regular one, its a much shorter scale not common nowadays.
So not only are these folk instruments, they’re uncommon ones. I imagined Plucky’s to not just be a store, but a place that fosters a community interested in folk music history and the growth of a collaborative genre. I think the logo incorporating multiple instruments supports the community aspect of the business. Maybe they could serve coffee and booze, too. Why the hell not!
A couple weeks back our friend Christian Woltman tweeted a fake logo that he designed in under five minutes. This was interesting because it had absolutely no purpose what-so-ever. Taking that idea and pushing it a little farther, we have created Five Minute Fake Logo Fridays (FMFLF).
Each Friday we plan to create a new logo for a made up company to our liking and post the results on Twitter. Since there are four of us here, each weeks logo will be designed by someone different in (an obvious) rotation. These logos might be pictures of sketches, doodles, drawings or even sometimes fully rendered logos.
Once completed, the designer behind the logo will tweet his comp and compile a brief synopsis of its origin here, on our Tumblr.
This week, The Happiness Project, was designed by Connor Gaughan. 
The Happiness Project stems from the idea that writing down daily achievable goals will help settle your mind and you body, while putting oneself at a balance. The logo derives from the 7 days a week and how each days goal is interconnected.
For the past 5 years I’ve been using this as my laptops background and I feel as thought it’s time to share. Hope you enjoy it.
You can download the full resolution (1920X1200) file here.
I’ve been trying to use this photo in various web designs but for some reason the client never agrees. It’s really unfortunate because I think it would give their site quite a bit of ‘POP’. You know, that wow factor.
The Black and White Clock from Vadim Kibardin is a beautiful minimalist approach to a wall clock. Granted this clock is not in production, nor will it be any time soon due to the price of the OLED screens that makes up the main function of the clock.
If you’re feelin’ a little squirrelly you can pre-order the White and White version of this clock that is currently under production. It retails at roughly $180 and will be shipping out later this month.
With the launch of our new site we have adopted a new way of blogging. With our previous site running on WordPress we felt as though we were competing heavily for attention on the internet covering various topics that many other people have already talked about. It felt dated, heavy and cumbersome to say the least.
Since the rebirth of Clubhouse Creative 1.3 we have been doing our research and have been looking into new blogging formats. Twitter has always been a great outlet for us and we seem to like the ability to write a small something for many people to view in a very short amount of time. Then like magic, it’s gone, lost in the internet traveling further and further down your Twitter feed until it’s completely forgot about.
Taking this approach with a few minor tweaks and a huge fall-back we have adopted Tumblr as our new system for blogging. Many of us here at Clubhouse Creative are using it on a personal level already so it only seemed natural to make the switch.
Using an API feed we are able to control a set amount of post we feature here on clubhousecreative.com. Thus allowing us to keep pouring vital information into the site at a rapid pace, much like Twitter. You read it, absorb it and move on. The fall-back being that Tumblr itself will be our archive. Every snippet of info is captured here for curious readers to read and re-read at their pleasure. We are able to satisfy both ends of our spectrum while using a comfortable and easy to manage back-end.
If you’d like to follow us on Tumblr please follow this link.
Amidst dinner and drinks, we decided to combine our talents rather than strike out on our own in a saturated market. As four midwestern idealists, we wanted to create a setting in which we could direct our efforts toward solving problems, helping people, and adding something positive to the world around us. We called it Clubhouse.
