I revisited my old idea of making corporate brand identities for Pokémon, and it seems to have blown up a little. I got about a quarter million unique visits to my less-than-a-month old website for Pictogram, my new small design agency I just started.

So, I wanted to share a few words on here on process and provide a few images behind drawing them up. I spoke to Fast Company about the inspiration for the designs and how this all came to be — read the article here.

Some of them didn’t make the cut, like Squirtle. I didn’t really explore this beyond a few quick sketches, and at some point you gotta call it quits and move on to other fun new side projects!

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When I posted a photo of my setup on Twitter, I got a lot of questions about it. Since there’s just too many of them to answer in replies and it seems people are genuinely interested in my workstation, I made this detailed post about my desk: the place my work gets done, and a micro-site with all the components if you want to build your own.

My workstation is composed of three 27″ LED Cinema Displays (calibrated with a Spyder 3) hooked up to a PC that runs both Windows and Mac OS X. If I’d have to guess, I’d say it’s running Mac OS X 80% of the time.

Some call a PC running OS X a ‘Hackintosh’, and since I had to let go of my beloved Mac Pro I started referring to this rig as the ‘Hack Pro’. However, it’s been far more stable and reliable than my Mac Pro — or any Mac I ever owned, really — ever was. This is mostly due to a smart selection of components and my preference to keep my workstation running a very stable version of Mac OS X.

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