Tad Carpenter
@TadCarpenter
Designer, Author, NYT Bestselling Illustrator & Partner at Carpenter Collective 👉 @CarpenterCollec, a design & branding studio. New book, Sunday Suns out now!
Me to my computer: "Ok, let's make some good graphic design today!" Narrator: "He did not make good graphic design today."
working on a gig poster design, listening to the new Arcade Fire and finalizing some beer packaging like its 2010 lets go
Just ordered an egg and a chicken on Amazon. Getting to bottom of this finally.
Whether you respond to the design or not, who cares. I love the overall concept and seeing a professional sports team take risk and have fun. Both rare these days in sports design.
For the ones who wore the G before the G @amfam
Anyone who thinks "the customer is always right" never worked in graphic design.
You might not know this but I love Fantasy Football. Been playing for 20+ w/ same buds. I won our Dynasty League last year taking home the RING. Instead of 1 of my non-design buds designing it (PUKE), they surprised me having my designer wife Jessica design it. Look at this baby!


wearing this to my afternoon new client meeting
Caitlin Clark’s shirt: “I DESERVE NBA MONEY” 👀
Two large iced coffees before 10am is a better productivity tool than Slack ever dreamed of being.
I think professional athletes should be able to gamble on us regular people doing regular jobs. I bet Travis Kelce would lose his mind when it takes me 32 hours to design a single logo when he had the under at 14.
gonna create an app for married people that's just like tinder but it's only pictures of to-go food and eventually we both swipe right on the same thing and die of old age
Creativity is like a toddler with a crayon—unpredictable, messy and most likely a full body temper tantrum could happen at any second.
More assets from our Summer Campaign for Heineken. Loads of summer merch to win on Heinekens website from our campaign now. heineken.com
More assets from our Summer Campaign for Heineken. Here is one of my favorite new illustrations we created from the campaign. Loads of summer merch to win on Heinekens website from our campaign now. heineken.com

The most successful sitters of all time: - Graphic Designers - Hens
I used to think I was indecisive. But now I'm not so sure.
being a graphic designer after a long weekend is writing "sorry for the delayed response" emails over and over again until its tuesday