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OFB Designs, Builds & Lanches New Website for Crescent Real Estate.

Crescent Real Estate Holdings LLC commissioned OneFastBuffalo to update its digital presence. That's fancy talk for redesign their corporate website and also some behind the scenes secret digital systems that help them market their many commercial properties. See the new Crescent website for designed by Onefastbuffalo here. Be sure to view the BEFORE pic below of the old Crescent website. The new site is equipped with our custom backend system, Site Shepherd®, and features full admin control of Crescent's Office, Resort, Residential and Development Portfolio. The site serves as the companies corporate home online featuring company history, leadership, services and of course now the best designed Real Estate website in town ;)

Crescent Real Estate Holdings LLC, headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, is a fully-integrated real estate company owned by Barclays Capital and Goff Capital. Through its subsidiaries and joint ventures, Crescent owns and manages a portfolio of 35 premier office buildings totaling over 17 million square feet located in select markets across the United States with major concentrations in Dallas, Houston, Denver and Las Vegas. Crescent also holds investments in resort residential developments in locations such as Scottsdale, Vail Valley, and Lake Tahoe; luxury hotels; and the wellness lifestyle leader, Canyon Ranch.

OFB & Founder to speak at AIGA Dallas Design Week.

OFB and founder Ben Jenkins will be speaking during two events at the upcoming AIGA Design WeekThanks AIGA for having us. We will try and behave. Full Details here.

EVENT 1

Wednesday April 11th, 3PM / Leading Creatives. The Creative/Design Directors Panel. Learn the Joys + Costs of Being Boss. at Dallas Design Center

Join us for this great panel where Dallas’s leading Creative Directors share with us the challenges and joys of leading creatives. If you’ve ever wondered about the complexities of balancing creative thinking, creative management (and life outside of work), this panel is one you won’t want to miss. Panelists Include:  Jeff Breazeale, Founding Partner + Creative Director of Matchbox Studio  Liz Burnett, Founding Partner + Creative Director of Matchbox Studio  Albert Cano, Creative Director of Corgan Media Lab  Ben Jenkins, Founder + Creative Director One Fast Buffalo  Brandon Murphy, Founding Partner + Creative Director of Caliber Creative

EVENT 2

Thursday April 12th, 3PM / Work/Life Balance with Ben Jenkins of One Fast Buffalo

at Dallas Design Center

Ben Jenkins, founder and CD of OneFastBuffalo, owner of Workhaus Lodge , Warstic Wood Bat Co , Treadsmith Board Co, INDIG, Onefastco and father of 3, talks to us about creating balance and how he turned OFB into an open (in every sense of the word) office.

Buy tickets here

OFB Launches Treadsmith Board Co.

We are excited to announce OFB's latest brand creation and ONEFASTCO business venture. Treadsmith Board Co.

Treadsmith® is a new company and brand we created in late 2011. Snowboards (and soon Skis and apparel) online now at treadsmith.com. In other words we are doing more of what we often do for clients….design and launch brands. Treadsmith is another real life expirement we created completely from scratch to prove that good design, good branding and good web tactics can create a GOOD BUSINESS. And do it FAST. Please check out the site and pass along to you anyone you loves snowboarding, but also good design;) Read more to see what we mean.

ABOUT TREADSMITH

Treadsmith Board Co is a US-based independent company making hand-forged snowboards with timeless design appeal for riders of any age, gender, race, religion or nationality. Our boards are not mass-produced but rather they are built one at a time only after being ordered. Treadsmith® snowboards are hand-crafted, hand-painted, environmentally supportive, customized to spec for our riders, and built to last for years. We seek to grow our business one rider at a time by selling high performance boards with timeless design aesthetics. If you found Treadsmith Board co, it was because someone told you about us or you happened to stumble upon us via the web. You didn't learn about Treadsmith® from a manipulative advertising campaign, a contrived viral marketing video, a pay-for-play public relations feature, an event sponsorship, or a paid celebrity endorsement. Treadsmith boards are about your ride, not our brand. You also didn't see a giant 3 foot Treadsmith logo on the bottom of one of our boards. We don't do that either. We are about making something good that looks good. Simple as that.

We don't hate on any of the various types of riding. We make Free-Ride, All-Mountain and Freestyle boards. We just don't understand why a certain look or culture has to be part of those riding styles. We don't plan on sponsoring a team of riders. After all, we don't ride a certain brand of board b/c some dude gets paid to, so why should you. We will spend that money on advancing our technology, improving the sustainability of our materials, and on trips to make tread with you.

Our Story.

My brother and I have been riding since we were young kids (let's say since the early 1980's). Riding for us is about being in the outdoors, first and foremost. We like to hit the backcountry, enjoy the natural beauty, explore, listen to the silence, feel the cold, go hard, burn our legs out, and ride terrain worth navigating. It's about a starting point, an ending point, and surviving the in-between. It's about looking back up and having that feeling of accomplishment and appreciation for the mountain. We love the Zen of a great carve, holding a clean line on huge fast turn, and that weightless feeling of the transition to the next turn. When you ride well, you feel like a graceful being. For us, it's not about tricks, culture, political statements, iPods, or posing. It's about connection to living terrain and the experience of making tread that matters with people we care about. Sometimes it's about solitude, too. For us, it's not about fashion, age, music, or seeing ourself on Youtube. By the end of the day we are spent and have no interest in the scene. More like a hot cup of coffee with a shot of bourbon, and a campfire.

Treadsmith on Design.

Treadsmith is pushing a movement in board sports toward simplicity, elegance and refinement. After all, isn't it about the ride, not about following current fashion trends? We see boards as a simple tool of transport. An elegant tool, in fact, that lets us interact with the mountain fluidly as if we were part of it. I understand part of snowboarding culture has been to use the board as a canvas for graphic designers to express their art and supposedly your individuality. I certainly appreciate graphic design, illustration and other forms of visual art; after all, I have been making a living as an graphic designer for 17 years. But frankly, good design isn't about how much visual crap you can fit in a space. Rather, it's about how much impact you can create and communicate with the least amount of visual elements. I couldn't find timeless design in snowboards so I decided to start making them. I joke that we are we are literally trying to make BORING snowboards. In fact, we hand-paint our boards to ensure we keep them simple. This simplicity and use of solid colors put the rider more in tune with the terrain they are riding because the designs compliment nature rather than visually pollute it. Speaking of pollution, we try to use materials from sustainable local sources and our boards are made using hand tools so less energy is consumed. Our wood veneer and wood cores come from suppliers who are FSC certified. All of the waste within the construction of the boards is recycled and our bases are finished by hand with a final coat of Magic Potion (Eco Friendly Wax). We also support One Percent for the Planet.

A Request.

When you ride a Treadsmith® board…..don't ride like a punk. If you are person who doesn't respect the mountain and other people, please buy someone else's board. If you have been graced with a healthy body, strong legs to stand on, enough money to pay for a lift ticket, and a good hot meal, you ought to appreciate the fact that so many people in the world don't have these options. Ride like it's a gift.

View our boards at treadsmith.com

© 2012. The brand name TREADSMITH® is a registered trademark of ONEFASTBUFFALO CORP and a concept by ONEFASTCO. ONEFASTBUFFALO is a US Design Firm specializing in Brand Design. Treadsmith Board Co is one of many brands we have built from scratch.

Warstic Bats Chosen GQ Best Stuff of 2011

OFB's Warstic Wood Bat Co is heating up despite spending $0 for paid advertising to date. Recently Warstic Bat Co was featured by GQ Magazine in its BEST STUFF OF 2011 Article. Not a shabby recognition for a brand that was not even conceived until early 2011. And following that, at the Park & Bond pop-up store in NYC where we let TO try out a Warstic.

The blurb for Warstic reads "If Pujols met Warhol. Maybe you're the type of guy who plays in a baseball league and gets up early on Sunday mornings for BP. In that case, Warstic's boldly painted bats—made from northern white ash—are exactly what you need to keep your stick from getting lost in a pile of Louisville Sluggers. But even if you don't swing for the fences regularly, you can just mount one on the wall and tell friends it's your high-style home defense."

Why is Warstic taking off? In many cases these days, brand design is the key differentiator between you and competitors. In fact, we built a little brand of our own just to prove how this works. We wanted to update everyone on our newest business venture. Warstic Bat Co is a company we created completely from scratch to prove that good design, good branding and good web tactics can create a GOOD BUSINESS. And do it FAST. After naming, branding, designing the product, and launching our online store in April 2011Warstic has spread its wings. Daily sales are up 300% above our year one goal. We also have evolved our line of products. Some of the latest bat designs are attached.

Check out all the free press Warstic has received…attached below. Amazing thing is we spent $0 for this PR. Just proves that these days spending all your marketing dollars on advertising is not necessary. If you truly make a good, authentic product the word can spread via the web with just a small push on the special networking side. Especially if the design of the product is great. Good branding is key too;)

Here is a shortlist of all the online features we could find as well as screenshots and clips from some of the traditional print features such as The Wall Street journal and Mens Journal. Not to mention a few kind words from Warstic fan ;)

Online features

http://wsj.com/

http://uncrate.com/

http://www.trendhunter.com

http://svpply.com/

http://www.thrillist.com/

http://designspiration.net/

http://www.zeitgeistmagazine.com/

http://www.mediacollective.nl/

http://coudal.com/

http://www.baseballbatsplus.com/

http://www.core77.com/

http://www.justluxe.com/

http://urban-gear.com/

http://www.datoyshop.com/

http://clothesbeforehoes.com/

http://kaught-looking.com/

http://www.be-street.com/

http://www.huhmagazine.co.uk/

http://ziprage.com/

http://epidemikcoalition.com/

http://squa.re/

http://premiumgoods.net/

http://www.bellyitcher.com

http://www.urbanlifestylegear.com/

http://blog.indeednyc.com

http://www.doobybrain.com/

http://druther.blogspot.com/

http://www.xydo.com/

http://blog.mtgd.org/

http://www.complex.com

http://acclaimmag.com/

http://suburbanmen.com/

http://ashtonkusher.com/

http://www.fusher.be/

http://definitivetouch.com/

http://sportsvibe.com/

http://sfnaba.com/

http://www.trendcrib.com/

http://sportsvibe.com/

http://blog.ammomag.com/

http://clothesbeforehoes.com/

http://www.asportinglife.co/

http://www.individualsole.com/

Kinds words

"How could you possibly go wrong with a name like Warstic? Warstic Baseball Bats ($80-$110) look fantastic, carry an awesome name and would look awesome on the field or the urban battlefield. Forged from Northern White Ash or Canadian Maple with straight grains selected for better performance and durability."

"Texas-based Warstic Wood Bat Co. have truly struck a chord among design-nerds & baseball fans alike with their signature bats. Check out all the sweet colors of these half-dipped bats! Warstic claims their bats are crafted for performance and feel. They believe that exudes confidence in any batter."

"Lovin’ the war paint down the side and the gold Warstic brand just above the handle. To me the bat exudes confidence which is all any player really needs. Check out the Warstic about page for a feel of who they are, once again, another reason why we may just given these guys a shot."

"If Jeter was swingin' with one of these Pantone Bats by Warstic he would have 4,000 hits by now. Baseball players could use a little individuality out on the field, aside from the occasional shoe polished black beard they all tend to look... uniform (that's a play on words people, eh a poor one). These finely crafted Ash wood Warstic bats will hopefully bring some color pop and big swings to your next game."

"From the name itself, the Warstic Wood Bat can easily intimidate a 260-pound pitcher and make him regret the day he first stepped in the mound. Made from the straight grains of Northern White Ash and Maple, the Warstic Wood Bats are available in every size, color, weight, and can even come with an engraving of the player’s name on the barrel. Undoubtedly, it’s still made from wood, but the Warstic Wood Bats are exceptionally developed and can really pack a punch. Now, baseball players won’t have to use steroids to smash a baseball out of the park."

ZeitgeistMag Zeitgeist Magazine

"Even if we don't play baseball most of us own a baseball bat. We love these Pantone inspired bats"

PaddyJ1325 Patrick Johnson

"@warsticbatco looking at your online catalog. Those are some nice looking bats. practically works of art."

Jake_Raymond33 Jake Raymond

@warsticbatco gonna order my warstic this week. Using it for college fall ball. CAN'T WAIT!!!

New OFB Clients.

OFB is happy to announce the following new clients: Texas Bomanite, Firestone & Roberston Distillery, Western Transportation, The Retail Connection, Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board, The community of Lake Highlands (Dallas, TX), Herbert Goldberg Diamonds, BOOMBOX Mobile, Calamity Gym, John Walters (Brand name to be created), Karavel Shoes (Austin), WTC Engineering. Stay tuned to see the work! Thank you new clients.

AIGA presents Designtrepreneurs

AIGA presents Designtrepreneurs A panel taking three Dallas creatives who’ve stepped outside of their comfort zones to start their own non-design related business.

Wednesday, September 28th 20011

7pm to 9pm

Calampit Creative Center

Tickets Available here

As designers, we have the natural propensity to come up with ideas upon ideas, for our clients and for ourselves. But most of us just haven’t worked up the cojones to go beyond just talking about ideas. What inititative does it take? Where does the motivation come from? What is it like to be your own client? We are proud to have Jason Franzen, Ben Jenkins, and Aaron Opsal join us to answer these questions and more at AIGA DFW’s first panel of the year.

Ben Jenkins founded OneFastBuffalo in in 1998 after completing his MFA in Art & Technology at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is also founder of Workhaus Lodge and Warstic Wood Bat Co.

OFB Launches Its Warstic Wood Bat Co.

We are excited to announce OFB's latest business venture. Warstic Wood Bat Co. We make, brand, and sell these bats. In other words we are doing for ourselves what we often do for clients....Launch brands. But latelfey we have started to take that further. Not only did we name the company and product, design the brand, and build the eCommerce store...we are now digging into the manufacturing of our own products. With our founder's baseball background making wood baseball bats are a real passion for OFB. Hand craftsmanship, Design, and Great wood. In true OFB fashion we are remaking the rules of what a wood bat should look like. Bats for sale online now!

ABOUT WARSTIC BAT CO

Warstic Wood Bat Co is a Texas-based independent company interested in building a unique brand of wood bat for serious players of any age. Frankly, there are very few secrets to making a great wood baseball bat. It's about sourcing and selecting the best wood, craftsmanship, attention to detail and knowing how to achieve the right feel. We know, as players ourselves, what we care about is performance and feel. They go hand and hand. The right feel creates confidence and that affects how you swing it. And of course performance matters once wood meets leather. We can't fake this. We ourselves use these bats and stand by them.

 The added bonus infused in our bats is that Warrior mentality from which we encourage every player to draw from. It's in our name. It's in our Wartip Stain style. It's in the trademark Warstripe emblem that is branded into every bat. It's not about numbers, stats, and rankings. It's about every AT BAT. Make each one count. Battle. Then the success, honors, records and maybe even a paycheck will come.

Our plan for growth is not to grow quickly or out-advertise the competition. It's more about slowly building a following of players with this common approach at the plate. Whether you are a power hitting cleanup man, leadoff hitter or 9 hole scrapper...When you step to the plate with our Signature Wartip bat...please do so with this mentality. Or please use someone else's bat.

OFB Wins 2011 American Web Design Award for Konagrill.com

OFB is honored to have our web design for Kona Grill featured in the 2011 American Web Design Awards by GDUSA. OFB was hired to update Kona Grill's online image...their website, blog, mobile site and iPhone app. Be sure to view the BEFORE image. In a nutshell this is what we do. We remake, reinvent, update, upgrade and change perception. View the full case study here.

For nearly five decades, GDUSA has sponsored national competitions that spotlight the most important, fast-growing and valuable areas of design for business and society. Our well-established programs and annuals — focusing on Graphic Design, Inhouse Design and Package Design — have provided long-deserved recognition to award-winning creatives. The American Web Design Awards competition celebrates the power of well-designed websites and other online communications to attract audiences, generate engagement and response, and promote products, services and ideas.

Billy Gibbons Hot Sauces Online!

Our Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top) BBQ and PIQUANT Sauces are online and ready to ship! Great for Fathers day. I personally vouch for the quality of this sauce. Which means nothing cause I'm just a designer. But its real good.

Buy BFG no 44 BBQ sauce here.

Buy BFG no 44 Piquant sauce here

Buffalo, Inc Hires One Fast.

With offices in Japan, USA, Germany, UK, Ireland, and Taiwan, Buffalo, Inc. is a leading worldwide provider of innovative network solutions for the home and business - from wireless networking and storage to memory and multimedia devices. Since 1975, Buffalo has proven its commitment to delivering innovative solutions that have put the company at the forefront of infrastructure technology.

Believe it or not these guys hired us for our brand manufacturing capabilities not their love our shared name. OFB has been commissioned to revamp this 35 year old technology brand with updated brand aesthetics, brand messaging and a new web site. Stay tuned for the results!

OFB Wins 2011 American Package Design Award for SansSoda.

OFB is honored to have the packaging design for SansSoda featured in GDUSA.

Manufacturers, retailers and marketers are challenged as never before to convey the message, promote the brand and close the deal. Think fragmented audiences, information overload, eroding loyalty, global competition, economic uncertainty. Package design and related disciplines are increasingly the difference makers in the purchasing decision. The outstanding work showcased in the March 2011 Issue of GDUSA — 100 or so elite design firms and departments are represented — is testimony to that. The annual GDUSA competition celebrates well-designed graphics, of course, but more importantly, the power of design to forge an emotional link with the buyer at the moment of truth.

Village Burger Bar Seeks Brand Enhancement by OFB.

OFB is excited to announce it's newest branding client, Village Burger Bar . This 4-year-old brand has a great product and is poised for growth. OFB is going to help them do it. We are already knee deep in burgers, sweet potato fries and paninis. VBB is owned and operated by some super nice people that we have enjoyed getting to know. Stay tuned to see the results of this brand overhaul!

New BFG Gear by OFB.

Wanted to show everyone a sneak peak of the new Billy Gibbons Brand T-shirts and Dickies gear we are about to produce. We developed a limited edition set of BFG Custom T Shirts that tout hand-drawn illustrations of his fleet of custom hot rods. These first 2 are rough drafts. A treasure for any BFG fan or Hot Rod lover! We also have custom designed embroidered BFG patch and BFG tag done for our collaboration with Dickies.

You can buy soon at www.billygibbons.com.

Baker Brothers American Deli Brand to be Overhauled by OFB.

OFB is excited to announce it's newest branding client, Baker Brothers American Deli. Founded in 1998. Baker Bros is a US based, upscale, fast-casual deli chain that serves award-winning salads, incredible oven-baked sandwiches served on specialty ciabatta breads, huge stuffed baked potatoes and gourmet pizzas. OFB is going to shine this brand all up and re-serve it up on a brilliant silver platter of awesome that destroys all fast casual concepts in its path. Stay tuned to see the results of this brand overhaul. Expect an updated brand look, all new menu designs, interior design changes, catering campaign, and full online upgrades. **Update** see the Baker Brothers brand makeover here.

New Website For Ojos Locos Cantina.

OFB is designing a new site for Ojos Locos Cantina, a concept opened by Front Burner Restaurants, LP who also owns Twin Peaks. Having fun with this one and doing our best to help this concept on its journey to becoming a national chain. Great people, great food, sports, and fun times. Here is a sneak peak at the concept.

OFB Builds Site for French Snowboard Co.

OFB has launched a new web site for Windlip Snowboards based out of Village De La Mouche, France. Great people to work with and we are proud of the results. AWESOME boards. These are real deal hand-made custom boards. If anyone is interested we can design board graphics for you. Let us know. Windlip is the company we worked with on the Custom OFB real wood snowboards.....that we love.

The site features a BUILD YOUR BOARD module and a French language version of the site.

Windlip specializes in custom hand-crafted snowboard design. They build boards for big lines, steep couloirs and fresh powder days. Boards with blistering performance that carve hard on the pack and are equally at home in tight trees.

The OFB Company car.

We recently picked up maybe our best vintage treasure to date and new company car. 1967 Plymouth Barracuda. We couldn't resist the 60's vintage detail and muscle car lines. Anxious to meet some clients out for a race and some serious branding talk under the hood.

ps - watch the leather man

OFB Approved Macbook, iPad, & iPhone skins.

Recover has released great wood based skins for the iPhone 4, the iPod Touch and the iPad. The skins are precision laser-cut from authentic wood veneers and for that extra oomph have been hand sanded, stained, and lacquered in Recover’s woodshop which ensures beauty and quality. We got ours in the mail yesterday and this is by far the nicest wood skin product we have tried. Well done Recover guys. The skins feature grade 3M adhesive backing and are available in finishes like maple, cherry, and my personal favorite walnut.

New Brand Launch. Sans Natural Soda

OFB was given the task of developing the brand strategy for a new natural diet soda. Sans Natural Soda will launch fall 2010. We executed our Brand Design & Launch program to create this brand. We can't reveal the secret ingredients in this new natural beverage until later. For now we can tell you we developed the name, the brand design, and packaging. View the case study for more pics.

OFB Launches Billy F Gibbons Brand.

OFB has partnered with Mojo Products LLC to concept and develop retail products for Billy F Gibbons of ZZ Top as well as design online systems to sell the products. Take a look at the web site and the first batch of product designs. We love this stuff. The most fun is comparing vintage vehicles with Billy. We lose every time. Check out more pics here.

New Logo for the Great Osage County

Osage County is the largest county in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of 2000, the population was 44,437. They needed a logo the size of Texas to broaden the reach of their tourism efforts. We made it for them. We dig it.View the Case Study.

New Brand Launch. Eclos.

Introducing Eclos.

Researchers have found that Plant Stem Cells extracted from a rare Swiss apple, (Uttwiler Spätlauber), show tremendous ability to
stimulate skin stem cells, encouraging aging skin to behave like
younger skin.

Our job. Name it and give it a look.

And now you can buy it here.

New Logo for Village Theatre.

Check out the logo we just created for Village Theatre. Our Client Twomey concepts is reinventing the historical theatre. Fun project. Stay tuned to see more of our brand design for Village Theatre located at highland Park village in Dallas, TX.

OFB Launches Konagrill.com

The new Kona Grill website is live. OFB was hired to update their online image...and what an update we made. Be sure to view the BEFORE image. In a nutshell this is what we do. We remake, reinvent, update, upgrade and change perception. We are now working on a mobile site and iPhone app. Stay tuned.

Logo for Macho Nacho

Heads up for this new restaurant concept from our client Scott Jones.....Macho Nacho. Coming soon to the Cedar Springs neighborhood in Dallas! And stay tuned to see the rest of our Brand Design.

New Logo for Outwest Guides.

Yeeee haa. New website coming soon too!

OFB announces Workhaus Co-Working Lodges.

Onefastbuffalo Corp has launched a new business venture that further expresses our belief in mobile work life and the utilization of digital communications to efficiently run our businesses. The Workhaus Co-Working Lodge brand is OFB's venture into the new global trend away from the traditional office as we know it. Co-working is simple concept (although we plan on adding some new twists, more about that later) where independent professionals or even small companies work together under the same roof for the purpose of collaboration and the ability to focus on work in inspiring spaces. Membership-based co-working also provides freelancers and contractors who may typically work from home a "basecamp" to meet with clients in a professional environment, receive mail and deliveries, socialize and talk shop with other professionals, and frankly get out of the house...or even more importantly get out of the office!

Don't take our word for it. Here are some great articles about the Co-working trend.

Co-Working Spaces Grow in Popularity (Inc Mag)

Where the Coffee Shop Meets the Cubicle(Business Week)

Reasons-to-start-coworking (Machable.com)

"For OFB the Workhaus brand concept developed out of the gradual virtualization (related content - great article here about the productivity gains, savings, environmental benefits and even increased safety of going virtual from Inc Mag) of our business and love of working in interesting places outside of our office. As our staff and clients spread out around the country to live in places close to family or their favorite mountain or terrain, the idea of one central office was not only impractical but more importantly not needed." Said OFB and Workhaus founder founder Ben Jenkins. "I have also always enjoyed and am a bit obsessive about creating workspaces. I'm excited about creating collaborative workspaces for people who usually don't get to work in inspiring creative spaces. And I don't just mean people who work from home. I am hoping we attract people who want a more healthy environment to work in than their "regular" office. This will also be great for traveling independent professionals who want to avoid the coffee shop shuffle. Imagine your office away from the office. Companies could use Workhaus to provide their employees who travel to Dallas with a comfortable place to work at a cost-effective price. Workhuas lodges are for people who really love their work. It's not a place to just socialize, but its is surely a place to get a lot of focus, collaborative support and business mentoring. We are hoping to attract members of all ages and backgrounds and from many industries. The idea is to create an environment where people are serious about their businesses and have the support and social life of working in an office environment without the boundaries of working with ONLY their company. It's not for everyone. It's for people who can conduct their business in a light, mobile, and relatively paperless fashion. I have seen co-working work well for graphic and web designers, techies, writers, consultants, sales people, marketing gurus, and especially bootstrappers who are doing all they can to get a business idea off the ground."

The first Workhaus Co-Working lodge opens in Dallas, TX on Greenville avenue in a neighborhood near the Granada Theater, Snuffers, Gloria's, and many other great Greenville avenue establishments. The 3723 location opens April 1st in great free-standing historic building that resembles a gas station. We have attached few pics of the raw space. New construction is underway currently in collaboration with Bloc DS Architecture and Interiors who is collaborating with OFB on this Workhaus location.

Workhaus co-working lodges will be the size of a large coffee house or restaurant and be available to approximately 50 - 100 members. Workhaus Co-Working Lodges will combine the feel of a coffee house/diner/retail environment with creative workspace. Mix in a bit of ski lodge feel as well :). Sharing ideas over a beer is always on the table at Workhaus. We have lounge areas for that.

Members will have set desks or the ability to work at any open desk in the space.

Memberships in Workhaus Co-working lodges include: access to desk space in creative industrial boutique style space, 24 hour access, business mailing address, WIFI, Workhaus Coffee, Company profile on the Workhaus website, access to the Workhaus conference and presentation room and meetings lounges, print/fax/copy (if you still need that kind of thing!), kitchen, on-site chair massage, monthly guest speakers and round tables, and happy hours for members.

Workhaus Location 3723 offers 2 membership plans:

Level 1) $95/month. Level 1 membership allows you to sit in any open seat, lounge chair or patio seat and work as long as you like each day. Use of all membership services below.

Level 2) $375/month. Level 2 gives you an assigned seat. So the main difference here is you can set up a desktop computer and leave some needed items in the office.

Two additional locations are being planned in Dallas with hopes to take the concept to other cities that OFB professionals call home. We also have some special plans for additional product and service offerings at Workhaus that will be announced soon. Big secrets.

Please email the Workhaus membership staff for more information. Tours of the space are available during the week.

The Workhaus full site is coming soon.....www.workhauslodge.com

New Fun at Cowboy Chow.

Our partner Chef Jason Boso has made some fun tweaks to the Cowboy Chow menu. Come try the 7 hour baby back ribs or the 21 day aged ribeye. Yall come taste it up. There's also a new brand ritual. Bet your Appetizer! That's right, you win you don't pay. You loose you pay double son.

World's Largest Chicken Fried Steak...in the world.

Our client Scott Jones (Cowtown Diner) was featured in the latest issue of D Magazine with his World's Largest Chicken Fried Steak and the WLCF Tshirt we designed. OMG that thing is huge man! What we want to see is someone eat this 10,000 calories beast ad then run an ultra marathon the next day to run it off. If anyone is up for the task let us know. We will sponsor you.

2010 OFB Baseball Unis.

This the biggest news since about this time last year when we revealed the 2009 OFB baseball unis. Especially excited about the new hand stitched fitted caps. Going back to the old school v-neck on the jersey. Yep, black is hot.

Brand Launch - Cowtown Diner

OFB was commissioned to forge the brand design, story and interactive communications for Cowtown Diner. CD, a new concept from restaurant visionary Scott Jones, is about coming home to all the foods you love, only much, much better than you have ever experienced. Jones is known for his innovative concept creations, including Dallas’ long-time favorite southern Italian concept, Cafe Italia, and the hip Screen Door Cafe in downtown Dallas’ One Arts Plaza.

A few of our favorite brand creations for Cowtown Diner include: The CD wallpaper, the Free pie card, and the vehicle wrap.

Cowtown Diner opened in January and is receiving great reviews. Check out a few words here:

http://www.pegasusnews.com/news/2010/jan/13/cowtown-diner-opens-fort-worth-longest-press-relea/?refscroll=592

http://fortworthology.com/2009/09/15/cowtown-diner-coming-to-sundance-square/

New Client - PJ Trailers.

OFB is dang proud to announce a new client who makes great products... PJ Trailers. We have been commissioned to execute our diagnostic branding program, evolve the company branding, and design/build a new corporate website. Our 3 favorite things to do!

Established in 1991, PJ Trailers has become the premier trailer manufacturer in North America. The PJ Trailer brand is synonymous with high-end, superbly constructed trailers. We manufacture Flatdecks, Deckovers, Tilts, Dumps, Carhaulers, & Utilities.

Kona Grill Chooses OneFastBuffalo.

OneFastBuffalo is excited to get 2010 started with a great new client. OFB welcome's Kona Grill. Interestingly, OFBr's are often spotted at the Dallas Kona location for happy hour. These Kona guys are smart. If you're are going to hire someone to build your new corporate website...hire someone who will eventually give all the money back via weekly cocktails on your patio!

Kona Grill, Inc. owns and operates 24 upscale casual dining restaurants in 13 states, in the United States. The Company’s restaurants feature a selection of mainstream American dishes, as well as a variety of appetizers and entrees with an international influence, including a selection of sushi. The menu items also incorporate over 40 signature sauces and dressings that Kona Grill makes from scratch. The menu offerings are complemented by a full service bar offering an assortment of wines, specialty drinks and beers.

OFB Wins American Package Design Award for RedJak.

OFB is honored to have the packaging design for RedJak featured in CDUSA magazine.

Manufacturers, retailers and marketers are challenged as never before to convey the message, promote the brand and close the deal. Think fragmented audiences, information overload, eroding loyalty, global competition, economic uncertainty. Package design and related disciplines are increasingly the difference makers in the purchasing decision. The outstanding work showcased in the March 2009 Issue of GDUSA — 100 or so elite design firms and departments are represented — is testimony to that. The annual GDUSA competition celebrates well-designed graphics, of course, but more importantly, the power of design to forge an emotional link with the buyer at the moment of truth. View the winners here.

OFB Working with Billy F Gibbons of ZZ Top.

There are two things we know for sure about ZZTop front man Billy F Gibbons. One, he is a heck of nice guy and two, he really loves our mobile office. We met Billy a couple weeks ago to discuss plans for his new website. Billy toured the1958 OFB Airstream trailer and showed us his giant skull diamond rings. Good trade. OFB is working with Billy to develop the Billy F Gibbons brand and online store where he will sell anything from Billy Gibbons custom guitars to tamales. The site will also feature an extensive look at his vintage car and guitar collection. Most embarrassing moment goes to our creative director who was caught humming "la grange" while walking out to the Airstream. "Sorry man, didn't realize I was doing that."

We have attached some initial layouts for the website. Stay tune for the launch!

Also, here's a La Grange video...and our favorite ZZ Top outfit. Have mercy.

Also, here's a good you tube video of Billy giving a blues guitar lesson.

OFB Launches Native Agency.

Introducing INDIG (short for Indigenous), a Native (as in Native American) Owned Advertising agency specializing in print, tv, radio and new media campaigns for Indian Country but available to all industries.

OFB's focus is designing and launching brands. We have two goals with INDIG: 1) Create a Native-Owned creative agency where the work is executed by Natives and all the vendors used by INDIG will be Native-Owned businesses. 2) Create a sister company to OFB whose focus is Advertising not branding. The service INDIG offers is as simple. We study the clients situation using the diagnostic techniques that OFB has developed over an 11 year time period, we develop a new advertising campaign strategy for the client, and then we execute the radio, tv, print and new media for the campaign. Last we offer media buying services and help the client manage the campaign.

"The idea for INDIG formulated for several reasons I think. One, I attribute much of our belief systems, core values, creative energy, and inspiration to my days 11 years ago spent in Indian Country (South Dakota) doing documentary and youth work. That is where I got the idea to start and name OneFastBuffalo and I just simply see it as the starting place for OFB. That start continues to guide my vision today. OFB would not exist without those times. We have been able to become successful business people but remain artists. Those days always remind me about what is important and what is just about money. Two, we have spent 11 years fine tuning OFB and developing the core strategic approach to creative brand building and awareness that has made OFB successful. So there is a real formula to our approach. We do what we do, we do it well, and I see us doing that for a long time. So we are soley commited to that focus. That means traditional advertising is not somthing we mess with at OFB anymore. Three, I have worked over those 11 years to maintain positive relationships and clients in Indian country and have made many good friends who happen to be creative people. We have worked with the Osage Nation for many years as well as a handful of other tribes. One of my favorite accomplishments was helping the Osage Nation to broadcast its first Tribal Council meeting online. Helping tribes utilize communication tools of today is helpful to them and rewarding for us. Good business too." said Ben Jenkins, founder of OneFastBuffalo.

"But one truth kept hitting me in the face...There are no EXCELLENT Native owned creative agencies out there. That is of course a subjective statement and I know there are some good people out there doing it. But compared to the general market the competition is very weak and many of the Native-owned creative agencies out there do not feed the work to native people either. Once the work is in the door the work goes to non-natives. It's just a front to attract the big Indian casino business. Also, Native-Owned clients traditionally would prefer to work with a Native-Owned agencies but because there are such limited choices they are forced to spend Indian country money outside of Indian Country. One thing we did know though was that there are many quality independent native creative professionals in all types of disciplines but especially in film and video and new media. There are some real native creative "rock stars" out there. They just work independently for the most part, not as a team. So a while back I had the this idea to start a new company, similar to OFB but with Native business partners and employees. The idea being not that that is just native owned. But really the key difference being that the the creative work is all done by native people. People such as acclaimed Creek/Seminole filmmaker Sterlin Harjo, Navajo Graphic artist Victor Pasqual, Salt River Pima Photographer Thosh Collins, Lakota/Navajo Video artist John Paul Giego, Osage Designer Ryan Red Corn, and Interactive Developer Joseph Brown Thunder (Lakota) to name a few. We actually hope to extend this company to indigenous artists from all around the world. These artists will directly benefit from the success of INDIG and the more business we get the more native artists we can support. We are bringing all of these talents together with the systems and techniques of OneFastbufalo and intend on not only dominating the Indian Country business scene but moving out into the general market to compete for clients who may be looking for a fresh new perspective.

Check out INDIG at www.goodbrandmedicine.com and follow us on Facebook and Twitter.

New OFB Cruiser Bikes.

Check out the new OFB Cruiser Bikes. Yeaaaaaaah. Built by a great small company in Hermosa Beach, CA called SIX THREE ZERO. The bike features vintage brown grips and saddle, Fat Frank cream tires, annnnnnnd a cup holder. If you see one of these in front of your local coffee shop it means one of 2 things: 1) There is an OFB person in there enjoying some local coffee while designing your next great brand identity or 2) Someone stole one of our bikes. Look for Bike designs like this in our online store...coming in the FUTURE.

OFB Featured in Dallas Morning News.

Thanks to Cheryl Hall, long time business columnists at the Dallas Morning News, for the great full-page feature article in the Sunday edition of the business section recently. The article does a fantastic job of describing what OFB does within the context of a real world project. The article also touches upon our 10 years history and how we came to be. Thanks also to our client El Fenix for the kind quotes.

Here is the beginning of the article...

El Fenix project feeds creative spark at Dallas branding firm

09:47 AM CDT on Monday, July 20, 2009
by Cheryl Hall

Ben Jenkins is in the midst of the greatest branding challenge in his 12-year marketing career. That's because the 35-year-old owner of Dallas-based One Fast Buffalo doesn't want to be the guy who screwed up El Fenix.

Mike Karns, the new owner and chief executive of El Fenix, hired Jenkins four months ago to help return Dallas' Tex-Mex icon to its glory days.

Jenkins, a Lake Highlands native and lifelong El Fenix aficionado, sees this as a restoration project, not a rebranding effort. "In the '50s and '60s, El Fenix had style and class – an I Love Lucy and Desi Arnaz feel. But since then, the aesthetics have slipped.

"I'll go there no matter what, because I love the food, the authentic service, and the prices are great. El Fenix cult members get that. The problem is that noncult members have this perception that it's like a Pancho's. There's no reason it can't have more style and class now and still be true to itself."

Clients such as T-Mobile USA, Peterbilt Motors Co., Rockfish Seafood Grill and Haynes and Boone LLP currently get branding expertise from Jenkins and OFB.

Karns hired Jenkins seven years ago to design a corporate logo for Karns Commercial Real Estate. He says Jenkins is a perfect fit for the El Fenix task, given his artistic and creative abilities and the fact that "chili con carne runs through his veins."

Brands need a color scheme. Jenkins is going with bright, bold and the glimmer of gold. Icons need instant recognition. A red El Fenix oval and an updated phoenix have officially supplanted more than a dozen logos that indiscriminately cropped up over the years.

Jenkins intends to integrate the brand essence into everything visual – menus, product labels, uniforms, restaurant decor, Web site, napkins, matches and billboards.

And to think all Karns wanted at the outset was Jenkins' opinion on a label that another graphic agency had designed for its jars of queso.

Instead, Jenkins and his creative crew spent five weeks doing a "brand diagnosis" – eating at El Fenix and talking to patrons and employees.

"Ben studied 90 years of history and design, and pulled it together for me," says Karns. "We're restoring the authenticity of El Fenix in the marketplace."

Jenkins believes branding is all about selling your soul in an honest way. "Authenticity is huge. It's the only thing that truly differentiates you."

Jenkins has never been afraid to be himself.

He played quarterback for Lake Highlands High School and was its star baseball player. But he also loved to draw and paint. "I had my art friends and I had my jock friends, and they didn't talk to each other," says Jenkins, who graduated in 1991.

He went to Mississippi State University on a baseball scholarship and majored in fine arts. After graduating in 1996, he joined the Philadelphia Phillies' minor league team. It was his dream come true.

"But I got super-bored. I loved the baseball part. But in minor league ball, you sit in a motel, eat at 7-Eleven for dinner; you ride buses," he recalls.

Off the bus

Instead of soaking up soap operas with his teammates, Jenkins used his downtime to create logos for local dry cleaners and shops in the towns he passed through. He designed album covers for wannabe bands.

Jenkins lasted a season and a half before deciding to go to graduate school. His selection process was based totally on applying to U.S. News & World Report's top five graphic design schools. He was accepted by the top-ranked School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

As part of his master's program, he spent a year on an American Indian reservation in South Dakota making a documentary film.

"It flipped my world view upside down," Jenkins says. "I'm a suburban kid from Lake Highlands. It's great, but it's Pleasantville. There I was, sitting in one of the poorest places in the country. It told me that no matter what, I'm going to do what I love to do in the way I want to do it."

That's also where he came up with the name One Fast Buffalo.

He relates to the buffalo's story of coming back from near extinction. Add in fast, and you've got an anomaly.

"The cool thing about the name is people always ask about it," he says. "The point of branding is to create a little mystery."

It's also a mouthful, so the agency mostly goes by OFB.

Research in an RV

Jenkins and his 12-person staff often do free-wheeling research and creative work on the road, piling into an RV and eating in small-town diners. "We drive around, see things, collect things and get input. We fill each other's tank with creative energy," he says.

For Christine Edgington, 25, who handles the agency's business side, her biggest challenge is also the thing she loves the most. "Every single day that I wake up and come to work, I'm working on something different."

Last year, OFB became one of T-Mobile's three key agencies and Peterbilt's agency of record for traditional and digital marketing.

When Jenkins made his sales pitches at T-Mobile headquarters in Seattle and Peterbilt's offices in Denton, he knew he was going up against some of the biggest agencies in the world.

So he wore his typical dress-for-success attire: well-worn blue jeans, old boots and a belt with a huge American Indian buckle bought off eBay.

Atypical dress code

His three accompanying creative team members adhered to OFB dress code: Boots and jeans are musts, but above-the-waist attire is up to the individual as long as he or she sticks to agency-branded hues of brown, black or white.

"We definitely have our own feel when we meet with new clients," Jenkins says. "They go, 'Whoa! This is different.' "

OFB's year started in a downturn after several clients cut back in late 2008.

"We weren't getting fired, but they were saying, 'We can't spend money,' " Jenkins says.

He sulked for a month or so. Then he rallied his troops. He told them his goal for the year was to not to fire anyone. They agreed to waive bonuses, take salary cuts and do without office perks to keep that from happening.

So far, he hasn't had to do any of that.

The second quarter was better than last year's, and OFB has received a stack of requests for proposals in the past three weeks.

That's because Jenkins hired three sales reps to scout for new business. "We're 10 years old, and we've never done any marketing of ourselves."

He also came up with an unusual payment for one new client.

The owner of Cowboy Chow restaurant in Deep Ellum couldn't afford One Fast Buffalo's rates. But Jenkins likes the concept, so he agreed to be paid with a stake in the open-range, kettle-over-fire restaurant. "If the restaurant does well, we'll do well."

If it doesn't pan out – hey, he and his crew will have had fun on the job.

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Read the full article here.

OFB Interviewed by Drifting Creatives.

Recently we were invaded by the Drifting Creatives. Some young fellows who are designing their way across the country. We are very excited to be sponsoring their efforts and encouraging their mobile worklife. We ourselves fancy the working on the road. Big news regarding mobile worklife at OFB coming soon! Stay tuned. Anyway, watch the video interview they did of our studio and read the blog post here. Thanks guys! Don't starve.

ONEFASTBUFFALO from drifting creatives on Vimeo.

OFB Designs Best Soccer Logo of All Time.

OFB just executed maybe the "toughest" project in our 11 year history. "When you are designing a logo for a youth soccer team....well all I have to say is soccer moms are tough clients. So the pressure is on." said Ben Jenkins. "The last thing you want is soccer moms talking bad about you."

The OneFastBuffalo sponsored soccer team recently outgrew their old unis and it was time for an upgrade. "The goal really was to take youth soccer way too seriously and make the 5 year olds on the opposing teams feel poor and insignificant. If we shatter the ego of the other team before the game starts we have done our job. That should lead to a crushing defeat and years of therapy." said Jenkins with a wink followed by a thumbs up.

See the video of the new jerseys in action.

Mockingbird Station.com Gets New Feathers.

A good example of how flexible the web sites we design/build are. This week we gave the mockingbirdstation.com website a full color makeover. This is a site that we have designed for nearly 10 years. We were able to re-skin the site graphics and freshen up the look without making any changes to the system we built 3 years ago. The brand colors had changed and they wanted to freshen up the site to match. Check out the before color scheme to see what it looked like before.

OFB Wins 2009 AMERICAN WEB DESIGN AWARD.

2009 AMERICAN WEB DESIGN AWARDS competition celebrates the power of well-designed websites and other online communications to attract audiences, generate engagement and response, and promote products, services and ideas. Recently the winners of the inaugural American Web Design Awards competition were announced. The inaugural competition has generated more than five hundred entries from around the country, in categories running the gamut from websites to enewsletters to blogs to banners, and from companies ranging from independent design firms to ad agencies to corporate and non-profit inhouse departments. Of the hundreds of entries, 60 were selected as winners, representing a highly selective 40 individual companies and organizations. Read more here.

Onefastbuffalo.com has also been featured on more than 20 international web showcase sites and we thanks each and every one. See the screenshots attached. Some of the best links are featured below.

http://www.cssclip.com/archives/onefastbuffalo/

http://www.dailyslurp.com/

http://www.dezinspiration.com/

http://www.divvoted.com/

http://www.fantasticss.com

http://www.cssmania.com

http://www.my3w.org

OFB Drinkware.

We have a good assortment of essential coffee mugs, travel mugs, and "other" contraptions for holdin a drank here at the OFB studios. Just thought we would show you. Come by anytime and you can grab one for yourself.

FC Dallas Signs with OFB.

OFB is excited to announce its newest client FC Dallas of Major League Soccer! OFB will lead the FC Dallas marketing team through our Brand Revitalization and Brand Range programs working toward to the 2010 season. Anytime we get to work with someone in the sports industry it is extry special for our team.

FC Dallas, a charter member club of Major League Soccer, will open its 14th season of play on March 21, 2009 at home against the Chicago Fire.

Some intersting info about their last re-branding ...originally named Dallas Burn (1996-2004), the team changed its name to FC Dallas after the conclusion of the 2004 season. As part of the club's rebranding, new uniforms, and a new logo were unveiled along with the name change. The logo features the name FC Dallas and the number 96, signifying the year that the club played its inaugural game, above a drawing of a bull, signifying the kind of Texas cattle that were driven along North Texas trails throughout the 19th century. The logo features the club's new colors red, white and blue, (all of which can be found in the American flag and the state flag of Texas), and a hint of silver.

OFB Hits Nvision Osage Nation Tour.

Shout out to all the NVision trainers for such a great workshop. To name a few...Bunky Echo Hawk, Ryan Red Corn, Sterlin Harjo, Crystal Echo Hawk, Sara Ortize, Quese Frejo LittleEagle, Happy Frejo, Myron Dewey, Thosh Collins, David Bernie and Jason Braveheart. These talented people put on workshops that inluded photography, graffiti art, video, screen printing, creative writing, theatre, and dance.

OFB Launches MyVillageapts.com

OFB is proud to announce the launch of one of the most ambitious web projects in our history...myvillageapts.com. The Village, owned by Lincoln Property Company, is one of the most unique apartment communities in the United States. Offering 14 different properties and more than 130 floor plans, the Village fosters a true "city within a city" atmosphere. The Village offers its own country club, jogging trails, athletic facilities, and much, much more. The new website bring this entire community together online. Tenants are able to conveniently pay rent and bills, rent movies, sign up for team sports, network, and make maintenance requests.

Thanks to the LPC marketing team and all those who worked so hard to plan andbuild this site.

OFB Launches Dallaswestend.org

OFB is proud to announce the new dallaswestend.org. Built for the West End Association of Dallas, the new fully content managed site features a news and events blog, full dining and retail directory, attractions, history, and interactive maps. OFB also created a new logo for the West End. Check it out and be sure to visit the West End soon.

OFB Visits Sac & Fox tribe.

Recently the OFB Design team made a 2 day trip up to Stroud, Oklahoma to conduct an NVision creative workshop for Sac & Fox Nation youth. As always, we enjoyed the experience of working with native youth AND road-tripping. We took the OFB FJ Crusier and ate plenty of firehot cheetos. The future looks bright for these young designers who we hope to see out on their own running creative firms someday.

El Fenix Irving Opening

Recently, El Fenix Restaurants opened a brand new store in Irving, Texas revealing for the first time the restored prototype for the El Fenix brand. OFB was on hand for the grand fiesta along with EL Fenix owner Mike Karns, 3 mariachis, and the rest of the executive staff and family members. Also making an appearance was Jones Baker, the guys who helped bring this restoration project to life from an interior design standpoint. Congratulations to El Fenix and to Irving! Happy Enchiladas.

Check out the El Fenix brand restoration case study to see the work we did.

OFB Heads to Chicago for NRA Show.

Come visit us in Chicago! OFB will be exhibiting in booth 1463. Look for the big buffalo tall grass landscape. We want to tell you about our new Brand Forge, Brand Revitalization, and Brand Range programs specifically geared toward restaurant brands.

Celebrating its 90th year, the annual National Restaurant Association Restaurant, Hotel-Motel Show is the largest single gathering of restaurant, food service and lodging professionals in the world. NRA Show 2009 will be held May 16-19, at McCormick Place in Chicago. The event attracts attendees and visitors from all 50 states and 100+ countries, and showcases more products, services, innovative ideas and other growth opportunities than any other industry event. For more information, visit the Show Web site at www.restaurant.org/show.

What: 2009 National Restaurant Association Restaurant, Hotel-Motel Show®
When: May 16-19, 2009 (9:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.)
Where: McCormick Place, Chicago
Why: The number-one industry event for watching trends, meeting industry leaders, gaining culinary inspiration, and getting a year's worth of story ideas in only four days.

Founded in 1999, ONEFASTBUFFALO is The American Southwest’s Leading independent, Strategic Branding Agency. Rooted in Premium Design and Interactive Solutions, we seek to mentor, coach, and lead our clients with warrior-like intensity, to tell an authentic story by re-inventing dying ideas, and to inspire a culture that nurtures that story.

OFB to Develop new Skin care line for Delicious Brands.

OFB is excited to announce our newest client Delicious Brands, LLC.

Delicious Brands has made its way into food, drug and mass retailers such as Walgreens, HEB, Target and Walmart with a range of bath, body, hair and home aromatic products. OFB has been engaged to research, name, brand, create packaging design, and market Delicious Brand's latest line of 15 skin and hair care products. Stay tuned to see the results! And see attached pics to see some of their current brands.

OFB Launches Lareuniontx.org

OFB launched a new site for a great friend of ours. La Reunion TX.

La Reunion TX (est. January 2006) is creating an arts residency in Dallas that will host artists in both new and traditional media for periods ranging from one week to one year. In exchange for live/work space, artists will be expected to give back to the community through programs, exhibits, performances, and installations. Our residency will be built on a 35 acre site in Oak Cliff and will be as green and high performing as possible, modeling to the community sustainable living. In addition, our business plan has an eye toward long-term sustainability not only with our facility, but also with the bottom line.

OFB Launches New site for Quorum Hotels.

OFB Interactive is proud to announce the new quorumhotels.com site. Check out the attached screenshots. The site is clean, sophisticated, and user-friendly web 2.0brochure site featuring a few special modules such as a project map, resource guide, media center. Thanks for your hard work Quorum team.

Quorum is one of the nation's leading hotel management service companies. For 20 years, Dallas-based Quorum has provided owners of lodging assets with value-driven advisory and management services. Our clients include owners of such prestigious brand name hotels as Ritz-Carlton, Westin, Hyatt, Marriott and Hilton.

New OFB Baseball Uniform Designs.

The Buffalo Baseball club is back for its 10th season. We are celebrating with new unis. Take a look at the news design. We will upload pics of the real thing when we get the merch in. The Buffalo Baseball Club consists of ex-professional and ex-college athletes. The wood bat NATBL consists of 6 teams who compete against each other over a 30 game regular season schedule.

United Mechanical to Experience Brand Revitalization.

OFB Welcomes United Mechanical to our family of OFB Clients. OFB will lead the UM executive team through our Brand Revitalization program with the goal of helping this outstanding 50 year brand create a fresh feel, updated web systems, and greater brand awareness. Possible projects include an updated logo and identity package, new website, online marketing, fleet graphics, uniform design, new brand rituals, and marketing materials. Check back soon to see what we come up with.

OFB Loads Up With 2 New Hires.

OFB is so extremely excited to announce the hiring of two exceptional additions to our team. Frankly, the most talented people we have ever had. These hires raise the creative and technical capabilities of OFB to a new level. We were good before. But this is almost unfair.

Greg Wolverton was selected from a pool of over 250 applicants as our new Design Director. This guy blew us away with his design and illustration talent, vast skill set, experience, attitude, spirit, natural "OFB ways," and even his ability to maintain his Vintage 66' Mercury Comet with his own two hands. This guy was born to work at OFB. Greg puts the "fast" in OneFastBuffalo. "The amount of skill Greg possesses is astonishing and when you see how fast he works it's just about unbelievable. I have always considered myself the fastest designer I know... but I just met my match," said OFB Founder Ben Jenkins. We measured Greg's design brain and it's twice the normal size. Other designers fear him. Greg was born in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and was the design force at FOSSIL for 8 years where he designed the best products and packaging. We are extremely excited for our clients to meet Greg and experience his thunder. Please see the attached images to view his work.

John "Wayne" Hoang was recently hired as our new Interactive Director. John is equally impressive as a technical guru, flash wizard, and accomplished designer. A multi-talented professional who also recently opened a new retail clothing boutique in Fort Worth called SHOGUN. Very cool stuff and shows the kind of entrepreneurial spirit and motivation OFB people embody. John just about single-handedly built the new Corgan Architecture flash site. Check it out and view some more of his work in the attached images.

We are so excited to combine the talents of these 2 new buffalo with our herd. Both of these warriors will be on the blog soon and you can read their full bio there as well.

OFB Founder Earns 2009 MSU Alumnus of the Year.

This month our founder was recognized as the 2009 Mississippi State University Alumnus of the Year representing the College of Architecture, Art & Design. The annual awards banquet honored the university’s College Alumni of the Year.

The MSU Alumni Association recognizes outstanding service and dedication to MSU, professional achievement, and leadership through Recognition Programs. The College Alumni of the Year program recognizes alumni who have made a significant contribution to human or institutional progress in which a situation, institution or movement has been materially changed for the better because of their participation. The award recognizes the achievements of outstanding alumni whose personal lives, professional accomplishments and community service best exemplify the mission of Mississippi State University. Ben Jenkins was specifically highlighted for his creative and business accomplishments at such a young age and also attended a round table discussion with Alumni association presidents, MSU president Dr. Mark Keenum, and the athletic director Greg Byrne. On Saturday Ben was recognized at the MSU vs. Arkansas Men’s Basketball game at Humphrey Coliseum.

Graduates being honored by the separate academic units include (by hometown):

College of Education
Joe Ray Underwood (’67, ’68)

College of Arts and Sciences
Larry R. Grillot (’68)

College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Charles Randy Dismuke (’77)

College of Business
Richard H. Puckett (’77)

College of Architecture, Art and Design
Benjamin “Ben” T. Jenkins (’96)

Bagley College of Engineering
Danny J. Windham (’81)

College of Forest Resources
Charles Eddie Thaggard (’83, ’87)

College of Veterinary Medicine
Cassandra Vaughn (’88)

OFB To Help Restore El Fenix Brand.

OFB is incredibly excited and proud to announce it's newest restaurant client, El Fenix. The great Tex-Mex franchise was sold in late 2008 to a private group. OFB is partnering with the new ownership to serve as a brand shepherd. The OFB strategic team recently completed a 6 week study of the franchise and made recommendations to execute what we are calling a brand restoration. Our hope is to solidly position and define the brand for future growth. That should relieve some of you El Fenix fans. We are not here to change what is great about this brand. We are here to bring back, retain, and revive all that is great about El Fenix and make sure it continues to flourish in its own uniquely authentic way. Being loyal fans ourselves, we feel confident we can accomplish this mission in collaboration with the new ownership and the insight of Martinez family members who remain on board. "We intend to to bring quality design back to El Fenix...it's inherently part of the brand but has just been lost over the last 20 years," said OFB Drover Ben Jenkins.

The history of El Fenix

...as told by members of the Martinez family on restauranteur.com.

The story of El Fenix begins in Old Mexico where Mike Martinez was born in 1890. Early in life, the founder of El Fenix learned what it was to endure hardships and long hours of labor, with only brief periods of rest in between. He started to work at the age of seven, driving a string of burros to and from the mines for only a few pennies a week. Later, at the age of fifteen, Mike would go to work in the mines for years. With his meager wages, he supported himself and his mother. After her death, Mike Martinez left his native land for the United States. He eventually arrived in Dallas, where he got a job washing dishes at the old Oriental hotel, then located across from the Adolphus Hotel. There he learned the art of cooking, first from observation and later as a cook's helper.

In 1918, Mike felt he knew enough about catering to the Dallas restuarant trade to go into business for himself. He opened a small eating place on the corner of Griffin Street and McKinney Avenue in that part of Dallas, then known as "Little Mexico".

However, when Mike first opened his eating place, he served only American dishes. On insistence of many of his customers, who saw him eating his native foods, he began to prepare Mexican dishes as well as creations of his own. Soon Mike's other customers acquired the taste for enchiladas, chili, tamales and frijoles a la Tex Mex. Thus, on September 15, 1918 a food revolution was started in Dallas at El Fenix.

Mike's menu and friendly atmosphere drew more and more customers from all parts of Dallas until a move to larger quarters became necessary. He purchased and converted a grocery store building at 1608 McKinney. Here Mike's vision, energy, and capacity to work long hours were given full expression.

From this point forward, "The Story of El Fenix" is also the story of the Mike Martinez family. A short time before Mike opened his first cafe, he married the beautiful and gracious Faustina Porras. Their children grew up in the cafe business. As each boy grew up, Mike gave him practical experience in the cooking and serving of El Fenix foods. Reluctantly, Mike also permitted his daughters to help as hostesses, cashiers, and with business details.

When World War II descended on the U.S., Mike said good-bye to his four grown sons in succession as each answered his country's call to service. Then, following the safe return of his sons from the Armed Services, Mike Martinez decided to retire from El Fenix in favor of his children. Calling them together, he entrusted them with continuing his vision and dream. El Fenix Restaurants now has many locations in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.

As for Mike, he believed more than ever in the symbolism of the El Fenix name. He saw himself, in this new cycle of his life, as more vigorous through the achievements of his family. Mike Martinez died on February 22, 1956.

OFB Video Production Suite & Library

We like to do things in-house. Recently, we completed a long awaited construction project that brings video and film production back to OFB. Welcome to the OFB Hunting Shed, a place where we intend to bring the same high quality creative to video and film arts that we bring to design and web arts. Don't be scared, it's safe in there.

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OFB 10th Anniversary Party Highlights

OFB wants to thanks the more than 200 guests who came out for our holiday celebration marking 10 years in business. The party was a great success and went over 6 hours! It was great seeing so many old friends. Thanks to all the people who organized this event and made it happen.

Thanks to our restaurant clients for the great food....El Fenix, Rockfish, Dean Fearings, Cowboy Chow, and Metropolitan Cafe. Thanks to Jennifer Morgan for the incredible art show. Thanks to La Reunion Texas for the exhibit. Thanks to Bunky Echo Hawk for the live painting show! Thanks to Deadman and Steve Collins for the incredible live music...they literally brought the house down.

And most of all thanks to our special guests from NVision...Crystal and Bunky Echo hawk, Ryan Red Corn and Sterlin Harjo. Together we raised a good chunk of change to support NVision programs. The highlight of the evening was the traditional 49 songs offered by the NVision guys. This was unplanned and a surprise to the OFB team...and we really appreciate the gift.

Enjoy the pics...although we had so much fun we forgot to take pics so we had to pull some video stills...whoops!

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OFB Inks Deal With Quorum Hotels

OFB is excited to announce that we have secured a new working relationship with Quorum Hotels. Quorum is one of the nation's leading hotel and asset management service companies whose clients include owners of such prestigious brand name hotels as Ritz-Carlton, Westin, Hyatt, Marriott and Hilton.

Quorum is challenging OFB to help advance its brand image and clarify their message via a new online presence.

Cowboy Chow is Open...Y'all.

Our first joint business venture into the restaurant world opened this month.

www.cowboychow.net

We don't know what our partner Jason Boso puts in these cookies, but it is really just ridiculous how good they are.

About Cowboy Chow.

Cowboy Chow "open range dining" is a concept inspired by chuck wagon cooking, which was started by a Texas rancher in 1866, Charles Goodnight. A chuck wagon was originally a mobile kitchen that carried cooking equipment, and food, also known as “chuck”, for the nomadic workers like cowboys and loggers. Often the cowboys were given the tougher cuts of meats which needed long hours of cooking in order to break down the tissue. In order to make the flavor-packed cuts of meat tender enough to eat, chuck wagon cooks would braise the meat for 5-8 hours by cooking it in a flavorful liquid.

Come visit, y'all!

OFB to Work with Insight Communications

OFB has agreed to terms with Insight Communications to design a new corporate website for the full service telecommunications company who provides phone, high speed internet and video services to more than 700,000 customers.

OFB Launches site for The Retail Connection.

You don't have to work with the team at The Retail Connection too long to feel the intense energy and passion they have and their immense knowledge within their field. One big problem: their website only allowed them to post static content and did not utilize any current web technology. Our primary goal with the project was to produce online business tools that gave the team at TRC a new outlet to connect with their clients/potential clients. This transformed page after page of text into a website of dynamic video integration and user smart content.

"Although a lot of branding firms promote this, it is not always easy to find innovative talent that can interpret your business strategy in a way that makes for a more productive outcome for your marketing team, provides tools for your business, promotes your clients, and saves you money. OFB's intuitive and strategic thinking about how to extend our brand and services, combined with the team's ability to execute those ideas has benefited everyone, and we receive constant positive feedback on what he has delivered."

- Leisa Barger, Sr. VP | Marketing, The Retail Connection

"OFB's Leadership combines an extensive technical knowledge with creative talent that makes their services unmatched. The OFB team was able to develop a new site for our company all while teaching me the tools & skills I needed to make the site our own. One Fast Buffalo has a very personable, fun and friendly team that makes working together a pleasure.

- Jessica Bass, Marketing Coordinator, The Retail Connection

Read the full case study here.

Latest Glamour.

Recent after-hours strategy session for Peterbilt Motors Company with our good friends Picasso's pizzas, a six pack of Shiner and a six pack of Hefeweizen.

Red Jak is "Re-Born"

The first batch of Big Red Jak cans was produced at the Crown plant in Mississippi.

We recently were invited to visit the Crown plant in Northern Mississippi to see the first batch of Red Jak cans come off the line. The technology was amazing. Simple as that. We received a grand tour of the facility and learned all there is to know (or understand) about how aluminum beverage cans are made.

The process reminded us of a press-check at the printer, but with much bigger consequences. We had to make a few small adjustments on the press as expected but the engineers amazed us with their precision and enthusiasm for helping us attain the perfect can.

The big moment came when we saw the first pallet roll out of the dryer....a few thousand cans at once. A virtual Red Jak mountain. "I think I shed a small red tear when those little guys came down the line. Yet for some reason, I wanted to run full speed into the stack and form tackle them." said Ben Jenkins.

OFB Hardball Team Wins League Title

The OneFastBuffalo sponsored baseball team completed a 4 game undefeated playoff run this week to win the North Texas Amateur Baseball League Championship. The Buffalo Baseball Club, playing in its 9th season, consists of ex-professional and ex-college athletes. The wood bat NATBL consists of 6 teams who compete against each other over a 30 game regular season schedule.

The Buffalo finished the season with 17-11-2 record. Commenting on the season and championship series manager Ben Jenkins said in an old-timey broadcast voice, "The boys really played swell out there tonight. We had a good Nobody broke an ankle, landed in jail, or got paid to play. What else can you ask for?" Asked if the Buffalo will return for a 10th season Jenkins replied "that depends on how well we behave in the off season, if our wives decide we can, and if we can come up with a new uniform design. A lot has to fall in place but the good lord willing, we will be back for another run."

Buffaloes to Work with Rockfish.

OFB is excited to announce that we have secured a new working relationship with Rockfish Seafood Grill. Rockfish is a casual, neighborhood restaurant company based in Dallas, Texas offering fresh, delicious tasting seafood at reasonable prices. Rockfish has grown to 25 locations and was formerly owned by Brinker International. Rockfish is now owned by a private company who is challenging OFB to help advance the brand image, achieve more brand awareness, and to introduce catering to its existing audience. What we do know is that the food is great, and the culture is great. Good things are already happening with this brand.

Check back soon to see how we do it.

OFB Snowboards in the House.

The new OFB snowboard prototypes were built and tested this winter. The boards were hand-made by our friends Windlip Snowboards (Dan & Lisa Robinson) in Village De La Mouche, France. These were designed by the OFB design team and built by Windlip with real wood veneer tops. All we can say is WE LOVE THEM

The Glamour

This is what happens when we "collaborate." A recent strategy session for a T-Mobile promo.

OFB Carpentry

This past spring we moved into our new office. It was really great but lacked something. What all agencies need is a real impressive reception desk to let people know "Hello, welcome, we are better then y'all are". Please stare at this impressive desk while we take 10 minutes to notice you are here because our receptionist is rolling around somewhere on a ripstick.

We decided to take this on ourselves. We thought, "why pay someone else to do a shotty job when we can do it ourselves?" Plus, designers think they can make anything. Not to mention, this was a great chance to show our dads that we could do it even without the right tools.

Reception desk by Caro, Tiffany, Aaron, and Ben.

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