Tad Carpenter

Me to my computer: "Ok, let's make some good graphic design today!" Narrator: "He did not make good graphic design today."

Loving the new Prada campaign leaning into human made, hand drawn illustrations. Clearly Human Made = Elevated Product

Writing several new proposal and needed to update our Rights & Ownership legal section. Just added something to try and protect ourselves. You should too if you haven't. Copy this, modify this, start with this, just add something and keep fighting the good fight.

2026 is giving major "written by a ChatGPT prompt that forgot to include normal human" energy.

We're going to add a section on our site soon to start sharing work we love that doesn't constitute a full case study. Miscellaneous packaging, smaller brand studies, environmental works, murals, book designs. Below are restaurant details we haven't shared that are coming soon.

Charles Barkley is a national treasure

In Phoenix speaking at Phoenix Design Week tomorrow and just had a smash burger that might smash all other burgers 10/10

My favorite thing about graphic design is actually doing the graphic design. *this is a tweet about ai

In addition to all the packaging we helped develop for Publix Super Markets Deli area, the visual system needed to bring consistency to their in-store menus as well. A look below at a couple assets from our system and how it applied to the menus.

Some work we @CarpenterCollec created for Publix Super Markets. We created a cohesive visual system for bringing consistency to their deli experience. Spanning everything from food tissue to hot soup containers, cold beverage cups, to in-store menus and environmental touchpoints.

my coffee created good vibes for only about 26 minutes

graphic design is mostly just knowing how to hide all your little misteaks.

everything looks absolutely horrible right now but at least we still have gas station hot dogs just rotating on those little rollers in perpetuity completely unaffected by human chaos.

This really makes me sad. When we stop taking creative risks on new ideas, we stop even trying to inspire & entertain kids. If we just keep feeding them the same box of mac & cheese every night that sure doesn't cultivate imagination & bold thinking our future desperately needs.

Born with Seoul shipping boxes. Designing the utilitarian shipping box that holds the fancy packaging that holds the branding we designed in the first place. This is Brand Inception at its absolute finest.

My brain on a Monday is just a 14GB Photoshop file trying to save over a dial-up connection while the rainbow beachball of death spins into eternity but hello hope you're are well.

Some spot illustrations from our visual identity for The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art’s 2026 Gala, Moon Age Dreamscape.

Created the Visual identity for The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art’s 2026 Gala, Moon Age Dreamscape. Inspired by the otherworldly work of Barbara Takenaga, the identity sets the stage for an immersive evening of art, music, food, and unexpected moments.

2026 feels like someone asked an AI to generate a normal human year but it accidentally added six fingers to every month.

So much of graphic design is just deep sighing

We @CarpenterCollec developed a flexible toolkit of scalable logos, typography, and custom iconography designed to adapt across a wide range of applications for @Boulevard_Beer shuffle board bar, The Reck Deck. Full case study and all the goodies are here: carpentercollective.com/proj…