Chuck Eichten was diagnosed with diabetes at age 13. Many years later he landed a job at Nike, where he has worked ever since. At Nike, Chuck has collaborated with talented athletes, marketers, writers, thinkers, architects, and designers. He designed apparel for Olympic athletes, created product packaging and retail environments, and helped gather and tell the Nike Archives stories. Nike taught Chuck a lot about communicating. It taught him that all of us want to be inspired. And ultimately inspired him to author this amazing book about a disease that affects so many people.

Chuck Eichten was diagnosed with diabetes at age 13. Many years later he landed a job at Nike, where he has worked ever since. At Nike, Chuck has collaborated with talented athletes, marketers, writers, thinkers, architects, and designers. He designed apparel for Olympic athletes, created product packaging and retail environments, and helped gather and tell the Nike Archives stories. Nike taught Chuck a lot about communicating. It taught him that all of us want to be inspired. And ultimately inspired him to author this amazing book about a disease that affects so many people.

To celebrate the New Year, Adobe asked Liquid Agency to help them live up to their vision as an advocate for creativity. Working collaboratively with the Adobe brand team, we developed a unique interactive experience that transforms New Year’s resolutions into works of art that can be shared through social media. This is Adobe’s way of saying thanks to the creative community, and invite people to share their inspiration with others. We were glad we could help—and invite you to create some artwork based on your resolutions and share them with your friends and family, so they can be inspired too.

It is clear to everyone in Liquid that there are no geographical boundaries to the brand thinking that we have developed, and we’re also finding there are very few cultural boundaries to great branding and design. Liquid Europe has recently helped its client Pulkovo Airport to win the European heat of this year’s CIS Routes Airport Marketing Awards.

The Liquid Lecture Series involves speakers from the worlds of graphics, architecture, fashion, and publishing who come to Liquid to share their work and their passions. The first lecture featured Art Kilinski, Creative Director on the Cisco Brand Strategy & Governance Team, who revealed to us how his passion for drawing and music led him to a career in graphic design. In the process, he entertained and inspired a packed room that included Liquid Agency staff as well as a few clients and friends.

We have been big fans of Dave Parmley’s unique hand-crafted style for many years. Dave is the founder of Kustom Kult — a brand new studio that specializes in unique, hand-crafted art and design. Dave’s background has included stints as the Creative Director and co-founder of 13THFLOOR — a lifestyle branding & design agency renowned in the Action Sports Industry, and as Creative Director for O’Neill — the innovative wetsuit and sportswear company — where he developed the iconic emblem featuring a likeness of Jack O’Neill, the legendary inventor of the wetsuit. Dave's illustrious career has also included award-winning work for a very diverse set of brands, like Harley-Davidson, Hot Wheels, Disney, Element, Bad Boy MMA and many others. His very personal approach to typography and illustration, yields designs that are always quirky, imaginative and filled with wonderful little details.

Eric Ruffing and Dave Parmley, our friends from the 13TH FLOOR, recently released a new book titled "Alternative ABC" published by AMMO books. Designed for kids, but equally appreciated by people of all ages as well as fans of design, "Alternative ABCs" redefines the traditional ABC board books through colorful graphics inspired by street, surf, skate, and music subcultures.