Remember when the milkman delivered? Now your fruit man delivers. Insanely tasty and super local. Perfect right?

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We teased a crop of the logo earlier but today we’re quite excited to introduce you to Follow the Harvest! Since 2010 Follow the Harvest, has been delivering fruit   directly from farm to your table. They want to give you the opportunity to enjoy local Washington fruit by delivering from a number of small farms in the Lower Yakima Valley – including Horsley Orchards – straight to you within a day or two of being picked off the tree!

Friends with benefits are really the best friends aren’t they? Well we have some who have a really great (and tasty) business near Seattle. We have had the pleasure of working with Josh, Marisa, Matt and Kara Horsley to create their new brand, website and shop! This is an exciting start in their move to delivering to the West (Redmond, Bellevue, Sammamish, Issaquah) part of the state as well as the East (Spokane area).

We are really excited to see this go public, but even more stoked to taste this legendary fruit.

While currently only available in Washington, the guys hope to be able to ship their produce nationwide eventually. If you are in Washington, they are taking orders now for 16 weeks of bliss.

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Follow the Harvest has a passion to provide high quality fruit that delivers unbelievable flavor that can only be found when it’s eaten just after harvest. MAKE helped rebrand and develop a new website and shop as well as marketing materials.  More to come!

FTH’s Website

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Our latest project is something you’ll definitely want to taste. Coming May 2013. More at Behance

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Mo’ Monies is an article written for Pidgin 15 describing, in an almost bastardizing way (short tips and taps), the process of producing the Prop laptop stand. The relevance to this publication is in the attempt to use a concrete  example to describe opportunities that can rise to the surface solely through a project’s inevitable financial hurdles. The article touches on a few moments where new partnerships were formed, appearances re-branded, and focal points reoriented that were necessary in order for the projects survival.

The narrow focus of this project is to draw an optimistic relationship to a more flexible dynamic design process for a larger endeavor. Shall I dare say Architecture? From initial conception through finalized production and distribution (where the article leaves off) the Prop underwent a series of reformations that were allowable only by a flexible design and managerial structure.

In line with a genuinely optimistic (though admittedly naive) hope for a post-Fordist structural model, this article aims to show the potential of flexibility when encountering financial woes head-on. Accept the challenges and take the risks. A “problem” is probably just a misspelled “potential”.

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Prop process diagram made for article:

Excerpt from Pidgin 15 2013

A lack of sufficient funding often halts entrepreneurial endeavors, snatching the breath out of a project before it reaches its potential. The large steps of starting a business, establishing legal rights, and defining market specifications can stall a project. There are, however, newly established business opportunities and non-traditional funding routes that can help designers to navigate around financial roadblocks. Contrary to more traditional (linear) project development routes, an iterative design model occurs when novel investor relationships and an ever evolving target audience come together. The following will describe this narrative in the design process of the Prop laptop stand by MAKE Collaboration.

This model of project development interprets moments where substantial financial support was necessary for advancement as moments to rethink design strategies. In the design, manufacturing, and marketing of the Prop, we realized that the need for funding need not be considered a problem, but an opportunity to clarify our project and its mission.

* For full article see Pidgin 15: Money

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What stellar news we have to expound! Nick has been a frequent charrette member of ours over the past couple years. Now he’s officially part of the team. He’s a stellar creative mind that helped come up, shoot and edit our ‘Meet Prop‘ video. Nick graduated from the There's no place like Nebraska!University of Nebraska with a B.A. in Advertising. He brings a new set of skills in his eye for photography and videography along with a passion for copywriting, and branding.

To brag a little on his behalf, his latest work for the NeuroTherm Global Sales Conference is probably his best yet (see below).

Right now, Nick is helping us re-brand, market and launch a new client we hope to show you soon.

Checkout Nick’s Bio and Follow @_buenavictoria

Photo Credit: Wyn Wiley

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Designed by Darin Russell, the Crop is a highly articulated device for elevating your coning use. Get yours today!

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The Prop lifts your laptop off the table to allow for better airflow and comfortable use. It creates a unique viewing and typing angle that although subtle, we think you will enjoy. We use 15″ Macbook Pro’s®, but the Prop will fit nearly any smaller or larger laptop up to an average 17″ model.

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It’s a mini. This Vertical is for those who like to get up close and personal with their calendar. The Mini Vertical is small enough to fit on your desk or be pinned up in your cubicle, but big enough to catch plenty of envious stares.

 12 months and two dot grid sheets for your sketching pleasure

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We have some alternative uses for you to try with your Prop.

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