Hey ya’ll, the girly I (cherry) MPLS t-shirts are in! Keep an eye out for them on the Spunk web store next week! The I (beer) NE shirts are also back in stock. Cheers!

Well, yeah. Why ever else would we consume a couple pots a day here at the Spunk studio? It’s a truly magical beverage.

But now the men of the Spunk studio (which is 85% of us) — and men everywhere! — can feel even better about downing the drip, because, according to the Harvard School of Public Health, they’re proactively reducing their risk for prostrate cancer. So drink up, friends! Or should you be in the neighborhood, we’ll gladly pour you a mug of our finest.

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Poster Offensive’s reach is international, and boy is that music to our ears! La Tempestad, a magazine headquartered in Mexico City, has included a review of PO5 in their upcoming issue. Yea!

Svnthsin has started a campaign on Kickstarter aimed at inspiring creativity and exploration in people of all ages. It’s called the BESPIN project, a Low Orbit weather balloon space photography experiment. Pretty cool, right?

FIVE TIMES this summer they plan to launch weather balloons and time-lapse cameras into space to capture the beauty of our planet from above – and they need your help! Pledge as little as one dollar and you’ll get some sweet swag.

Check out Sevnthsin’s Kickstarter site to find out more and join the campaign!

Keep your eyes peeled next time you’re using a Nice Ride bike – you may see this poster at one of the kiosks! Thanks to Peace Coffee, Birchwood Cafe and Dero for sponsoring the Nice Ride bikes, and thanks again to Mayor Rybak for showing the love!

We are excited to share that Spunk won 5 design awards from AIGA Minnesota this year! We grabbed an award for the Spark Radio app we designed (#19 on Apple’s list of bestselling music apps!), shown above. We also received awards for our work on the Davis Food Co-op in Davis, California; our work on the Seward Co-op right in the Minneapolis homeland; our work on the Principle Six Co-operative Trade Movement with Equal Exchange; and our Spunk Sweet Life candy bar promotion piece!

We are thrilled and so grateful to the clients we partnered with on these projects, and the clients we partner with on every project! It is a true joy to be in business with you all. And our thanks also to AIGA Minnesota for the honors! Much appreciation.

What a tickle. Minneapolis is MOST GAY and MOST HIPSTER.

3 Tiers has tickled our Spunk bellies for many-a-lunches these past two years, so you can imagine our sheer joy when we heard they have added BEER and WINE and EVENING FARE! They are now officially open til 9pm so that we may all partake in their excellent eats and superb spirits in the evening hours. Beer and wine til 9! Beer and wine til 9!

Well, you know that *better* weather has finally graced the great state of Minnesota when the canoes are released back into the chain of lakes. Last night was the Cedar-to-Barbette season christening, and 24 mph winds weren’t about to stop anyone from paddling towards palatable pleasure! Here’s to many more Cedar-to-Barbettes in the coming months!