About
Media Brigade is a 21st century design studio, startup lab, and multimedia blog founded by Danny Tamez. I help small ...
Get Lucky
Welcome back to Media Brigade. This month we have a brand new mixtape featuring music that you should be listening ...
Quotes: Albert Einstein
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces ...
Airbnb Design
Let’s get one thing straight: I am NOT looking for a full-time job. However, sometimes you see people doing such ...
Grassroots Imports
Grassroots Imports is a truly unique, lifestyle furniture brand. The vision of owner, Pete Markwardt, has made it a source ...
Stereotypes & DreamIt
In 2013 a tech company recruited me for a startup accelerator in Austin, Texas. Forbes Magazine had ranked DreamIt as ...
Go With It
People say that in the new digital world, designers are not simply graphic designers, they are visual artists that practice ...
SXSW – Top 25 Photos
SXSW was once again blitzed by geeks and tweaks for it’s annual event in Austin. We saw appearances by major ...
Kyna Leski: Creative Process
Friends and colleagues often ask about the creative process, and the answer is not easy to articulate. Sometimes I fall ...
Quotes: Napolean Hill
Tell the world what you intend to do, but first show it. – Napolean Hill
High Living
High Living is a new music mixtape for February 2013. After years of publishing music mixtapes under various brand monikers, ...
Thomas Korte of AngelPad
Thomas Korte sits down with angel investor Jason Calacanis to talk about startups. Korte and a handful of other Google ...
We Love Graphic Design
We Love Graphic Design is a symposium that takes place in Copenhagen, Denmark. This year it featured work and talks ...
F1 Austin Party Poster
Formula 1 is one of the biggest events to hit Austin in years. There are tons of parties planned all ...
Maroon Bells
The Maroon Bells are known as the most photographed spot in Colorado, and typically most of those photographs look very ...
Gruene Estate
One of the most famous dance halls in Texas, Gruene Hall, is located in the small town of Gruene, Texas. ...
Design on Mountain
Let’s say Hot Tub Time Machine was real, and you went back to 1985 to go skiing. You could hit ...
IDEO in China
This video is one part of a six part documentary looking at the transformation from “Made in China” to “Designed ...
Bay to Breakers
If you like good times, Bay to Breakers is worth doing at least once – especially if want to experience ...
Insanity Wolf
Insanity Wolf. It’s an internet meme. There are many versions of the insanity wolf, but this one is my favorite ...
On The Road
Every young adult American should be required to read On the Road. Sometimes I’m still reminded of the novel and ...
Golden Gate Bridge
During my time in SF, I was lucky enough to be around for the 75th anniversary of the Golden Gate ...
The Ajax Cup
The Aspen Valley Ski & Snowboard Club (AVSC) is the valley’s oldest and largest youth non-profit, and The Ajax Cup ...
Event Photography
I used to haul around a pro camera while covering events like SXSW. Over the last few years I have ...
Aspen Tan
Two young entrepreneurs opened a shop with the aim to keep ski bunnies tan through cold Colorado winters. When the ...
Biz Stone at SXSW
In 2012 I went to Austin for SXSW, and it was one of the best times of my life. I ...
The Weird Go Pro
Hunter S. Thompson left a big mark on the world and an even bigger one on the small community around ...
Hiphop & Hustle
When I think about how much hiphop has influenced my life, I wonder how much hiphop has influenced the world. ...
90% of Life
Ninety percent of life is just showing up. – Woody Allen In order to do cool shit, you have to ...
Karl Hess
Comedy has to be one of the hardest grinds on the planet. You spend years and maybe even decades perfecting ...
Sleigh Bells
Sleigh Bells gave us a sound that we had never heard before. I saw them in concert after the release ...
Mountain Town
Once you catch the lifestyle of living in a mountain town, it’s hard to let go. Skiing powder all day ...
Roshambo Films
Roshambo Films called one day saying, “We saw your website, and we want what you have.” Here you can see ...
Grand Cochon
One of my first websites was a food blog called Foodie Aspen. I wrote about food, drinks, restaurants, chefs, and ...
Creative Process
You can not force creativity. A process may work for one person but be useless for another. I like to ...
My First Instagram
Do you remember your first Facebook update, tweet or instagram? This was the first instagram I took while covering Aspen ...
Two Trees
Two trees in SF. They love each other. My instagram handle is @tamez
Jocking Milk Style
Around the beginning of 2011 Kevin Rose started his mobile development lab, Milk. I saw that they were hiring, so ...
Classic Branding
When you think of power branding, what names do you think of? The Coca Cola logo has essentially remained the ...
Creative Thinking
You can certainly grind away for days, weeks, months, and even years – and maybe you should. For me, there ...
Light & Nature
Anybody who knows anything about photography knows that the best times to take photos are at sunrise and sunset. Man, ...
Townie Quest
Townie Quest was a social media event that was hosted over 4th of July weekend in Aspen, Colorado. In conjunction ...
Delores Park Self-Portrait
The self-portrait has been bastardized by teenage girls taking non-stop “selfy” photos. So much so that Urban Dictionary defines it ...
San Francisco Salt Ponds
A single serving passenger on the plane told me that these are the San Francisco Salt Ponds. I’ll buy that. ...
San Francisco Bay
Just a sunset ride on the San Francisco Bay. @dannytamez
Everyman
In the summer of 2011 I met with two friends several times a week to brainstorm startup ideas. None of ...
Austin Attitude
“What company ever came out of Austin?” That’s the question that was posed to me in a discussion about where ...
Aspen Filmfest Meetup
Living in Aspen, I was really involved with Aspen Filmfest. I worked there at one point, then built a website ...
Flowers on Instagram
Word on the web is that flowers are one of the most liked photo subjects on Instagram. Personally, this may ...
Wedding Design
This photo of me was taken at a best friend’s wedding. Weddings are a great opportunity to make memories, not ...
Delta Spirit at The Fillmore
After an epic run at SXSW I returned to SF to work and explore. Although I had inadvertently seen Delta ...
Sky Focus
SF is a mecca for photography, and therefore instagram. Sometimes you just hope to find new angles and shots that ...
Time Echo
I like rare, beat-up, sci-fi books; sometimes to read, but usually just to look at. I snapped this photo in ...
SXSW – Top 30 Photos
We are prepping for SXSW 2013, and I stumbled upon a couple hundred photos from last year’s event. Here are ...