We’re all finding different ways to survive the pandemic. Folks are baking, folks are drinking, I am making patterns and prints and applying them to shoes and clocks and pillows and bags. Here’s a peek at some of the latest Read More
Author: Arin Fishkin
Buy Back Black Debt with Me
Generational wealth, white privilege and amateur watercolor painting… In this season of quarantine and heightened awareness of systemic racism in America – you know why – because the police keep getting filmed killing Black people. I am working to understand Read More
Quiet down and listen up
White people- let’s quiet down and listen up, learn, donate and amplify Black voices. It’s uncomfortable and its our turn to sit with it. I’m doing homework instead of marketing these days and I’m supporting the following groups and the Read More
Hello Color – new personal project!
A new personal project I’m excited to share with you… Exploring color, shape and pattern isn’t new for me, but it was time to hang up my older work, try something fresh and start exploring a new visual language. There Read More
Thriving, Surviving, and Packing for Burning Man
Fun fact: I’ve been going to Burning Man since 1997, bragging about it since 1998, and designing the Survival Guide since 2011. (Besides the guides, I’ve created calendars, this logo, and also this one.) The Survival Guide is mailed to attendees Read More
Women’s Wave Art in the Community
Designers tend to like control over their creations. Brands tend to like control over their look and voice. Designing for a movement is different, especially if its going to successfully reach lots of different kinds of people. Especially if you’re Read More
2018 – Fishkin Political Graphics in Review
What a year for politics to inspire outrage that inspires graphics. A look back on the heartbreak and fury that led to some real game-upping over here. I created this graphic for my daughter and I for the Women’s March. Read More
Design Saves Lives – Stoves for Africa edition
Inyenyeri is an inspiring for-profit, social-good company that provides clean cook stoves and fuel in Rwanda. Their business model addresses issues of health, global warming, poverty and the education and independence of women and girls.They provide extremely efficient cookstoves, with free delivery, Read More
Bribing for Your Vote (a gift)
I want you to vote on November 6th! I’ll send a free sticker to motivate you or a friend, (ok, its a bribe – just vote). Every election I can remember has been the-most-important-election-of-our-lives. The upcoming midterm election is somehow the Read More
2018-2019 Burning Man Calendar
New year, new calendar. Summer is over, the school year is on, and we’re at the beginning of the Jewish new year. Fall feels like a fresh start to me, more than January 1st. Burning Man agrees – the annual Read More
Logo Process: Mirchi Meat & Deli
Ever wonder how we get from new-client-needs-a-logo to the final product? Here’s a peek at all the visual deliverables that get us on the same page, inspired, iterating with the client and happy logo dance at the end Collecting, sharing Read More
We Call BS – free postcard download
Its past time for gun control, our children should be safe in school and movie theaters and church and so should we. Grab this free download and write to your representatives, enough is enough. Click to download Please share, and Read More
Tagged with: emmagonzalez, gun control, gun reform, howmanymore, protest, riseup, schoolshooting, votethemout, wakeupamerica, we call bs
The Secret History of the Burning Man Calendar
Hi there – the 2018/2019 calendar is here! https://marketplace.burningman.org/product-category/calendars/ 2004 – 2005, Burning Man Calendar An amazing thing happened to the semi-secret Burning Man calendar last week, it went to Washington DC and made an appearance at the United States Conference Read More
2017 Logos
The Fishkin logo year in review. Worked hard, did some good design and did some good for unique Bay Area businesses. Not too shabby.
Tagged with: branding, design, graphic design, graphic design for small business, identity, logo, san francisco, small business
Feel Good Movies
What to watch when the world is on fire? Recommendations from my community, leaving here so I can find them when needed – in no particular order… Mr Wonderful Ferris Bueller Weird Science Some Kind of Wonderful Princess Bride Singing Read More
