Taylor Burton Creative

05/15/2026

05/07/2026

I’m delighted to be providing design for Huntsville Explorer in support of this exciting event they’re hosting!

Something delicious is coming to Huntsville… 🍔

After months of planning, we are excited to announce the first-ever Huntsville Food Fest!

📆 August 1, 2026
🕚 11 AM - 2 PM
📍 The Royal at Stovehouse

The Food Fest will bring together over 25 of Huntsville’s best restaurants, food trucks, and vendors for a celebration of Huntsville’s best bites, flavors, and community!

The best part? One ticket = unlimited bites.

We’re keeping it simple: get a ticket, grab a plate, and start eating. Once you walk through the door, your wallet stays in your pocket.

To celebrate the announcement, we’ve got 100 Early Bird tickets available, which will save you $10. Once they’re gone, they’re gone!

A very limited number of VIP tickets are also available, which will allow early entry so you can beat the lines and crowds!

Check the link to the comments or our bio to find more details, see a full list of vendors, and purchase tickets!

05/06/2026

Thank you Athens!
We had a record Tuesday crowd for yesterday’s market, so I think y’all deserve a preview of our new tee shirt this year 👀 Available soon!

Design by Taylor Burton Creative

05/02/2026

A truly world-class venue, The Orion Amphitheater is our hometown cathedral of live music here in the greater Huntsville, Alabama area.

They are (rightfully) outspoken about the importance of recycling, and generally being good stewards of this beautiful blue marble we live on, so I wondered what it might look like to depict the Orion with recyclable materials.

Just a Friday Funday experiment I thought I'd share.

05/01/2026

Do you love the look of 19th century collodion wet plate photography, but DON'T love nasty things like ether, potassium cyanide, and cadmium salts? I'm your guy. I can take you back to the 1800s, one Photoshop layer at a time. Just call.

The source photo for this was a selfie on my iPhone, by the way.

05/01/2026

My parents knew when I was 11 that I was geared toward graphic design, as they observed me design a custom cassette package for the mixtape I had just made from artists that had either played Woodstock or the '94 iteration that was airing live that weekend.

Album art, which is usually some sort of visual expression of the contents therein, is one of my favorite kinds of projects, whether it be a digital "tile" for a single released on streaming or BandCamp, or a gatefold package for a CD, or a custom design for a vinyl release.

In the past several years, I've enjoyed designing digital and physical covers and packages for my band The Silver Silos, as well as artists like Jayne & the Huntsmen, By All Means, Alex Hendrix, James Irvin, 5ive O'Clock Charlie, Leisure McCorkle, Lisa Chang, Ryan Downing, Emma Klein, and more.

This one, for my pals Them Damn Dogs, subtly combined 6 photographs into what is essentially a very cohesive photocollage that conveys the wistful glance in the proverbial rear view mirror that we've all done from time to time, when we think about how things used to be.

As for the song, it's a real banger, as far as ballads go. You'll love it like I do.

Being a musician and in a band myself, I live for these kinds of projects. Bring 'em on.

NEW SINGLE IN COMMENTS NOW!!! OUT ONLY FOR FRIDAY TODAY!!!

We're honored give yall this sneak peak at our latest single and we hope yall enjoy it. It's about missing loved ones that used to be in your life as well as missing the person you use to be in the good old days. It's a very special one in our hearts so thank you for listening

Brought to life by the band as well as engineer Justin Miller at with a beautiful album cover by a wonderful HUMAN at it takes a village and community ❤️

04/29/2026

A very popular, very talented logo designer on Instagram routinely shows you how he would "fix" a well-known logo in an imagined scenario. Rather than fix anything, I just want to show you a bit of my process, and how I might go about a design solution differently. This isn't a fix, but a reimagining.

This is the first of my series I'm calling "Let Me Take a Stab At This", where I gently redirect the creative for a real brand.

These are quick-and-dirty explorations, frequently still rough around the edges, but they provide insight into my process.

VOLUME 1: PLANET FITNESS

This logo has been around, largely unchanged, for almost 35 years. It's certainly familiar by now.

I wanted to see what this mark would look like if we made the defining word "PLANET" larger than fitness, and I also wanted to mitigate some of the contrast issues that come with using purple on black.

The gear shape of the "container" in the original logo is so well-known by now that perhaps it's sacrosanct to even touch it. I've never thought it evoked anything in particular, though, and my reimagining for this brand does not retain the gear shape. I got rid of the thumbs-up, too. To me, it screams 1990s. In this global economy, where American franchises sometimes exist on six continents, we might revisit that hand gesture, which is considered obscene in many cultures.

Okay. The elephant in the room. You've noticed I've taken a literal approach to this logo. Some marketing instructors say it's a no-no. It usually is.

But, if you're advertising a business in a service sector, be it a hotel, a burger joint, or a fitness center, studies have shown that the market responds well to literalism in a logo. I opted to go squarely on-the nose: and illustrated a fitness-conscious planet, pumping iron.

If you take away that emblem, you're left with a wordmark where the counter (the hole) in the letter "P" in "planet" is indeed a planet. The name of the company can stand alone in this way, without any supporting symbols.

Stay tuned until next time where I take another look at a popular regional grocery store, whose logo may not be doing it justice.

04/28/2026

LET'S PLAY BALL. Now taking Summer 2026 projects. Email me at [email protected] or drop me a line on here to get started!

04/16/2026

It's true! AI has its place. There, I said it.

With a turn of a phrase, you can turn your meeting notes into an outline, or find the best days to schedule an entire year's worth of marketing meetings. ChatGPT can even help you figure out the best route to take on your band on tour on the to way to Austin to play for free at a hipster cafe at 2pm at SXSW.

AI models are HUGE time savers for some of this stuff.

I even have colleagues who use it as a starting place as a sketch to hand to me for concepts they want me to visually flesh out. That's valid, and a very QUICK way to communicate general concepts.

AI can work against us, though, when we over-rely on them for public-facing documents and marketing materials. Your ENTIRE BRAND can suffer.

Your brand is the collection of colors, logos, shapes, patterns, typography, tone of voice, and slogans that coalesces to form a system of visual, verbal, and sometimes auditory cues that reflect how your audience feels when they hear your company's name. (Brand is far more touchy-feely than many of you give it credit for.)

According to just one of many studies I've read, 82.1% of Americans are rather adept at spotting AI, and half of those folks (40.4%) have a worse opinion of a brand once they register that brand is heavily reliant on AI prompts to make advertisements, logos, artwork, and merch.

The ease, cost, and speed of AI is precisely why over-reliance on it is a sure-fire way to NOT impress your public. Instead, it communicates is that you either (1) don't care or (2) don't have the time to put consideration into your company's messaging.

People say they like using AI because it's free.

I'd argue that when large percentages of your potential clientele are walking away because they don't trust your AI-laden brand, that you're incurring an ENORMOUS cost, indeed.

It's not worth it, financially, to rely on free, artificially-generated stuff. Your people are seeing right through it, and there's data that proves it.

It can help you make one heck of a grocery list, though! Ask me how I know.

01/25/2026

This space IS a living time capsule, and this author has captured the spirit of Harrison Brothers Hardware, which serves as the Historic Huntsville Foundation headquarters, as well as home of the Historic Huntsville Museum!

I've been lucky for the past 3+ years (and counting) to be able to work on countless projects for this magical place, from 10 foot-long display boards and other large museum installations to salsa and jelly jars, and historically-plausible logos, based on period-correct type specimens.

Harrison Brothers, which can these days be described as a "Modern Mercantile", offers everything from food items to local books, tableware, puzzles and games for kids of all ages, and original paintings and ceramic works by North Alabama artists.

If it's been a while since you've stepped into Huntsville's living time capsule, you've been missing out on what has become a vital center for our community, a place to gather, to learn, and yes, to shop til' you drop.

We're pretty darn lucky to have Harrison Brothers within a stone's throw.

There are places in North Alabama that do not just sit in the past. They carry it with them. You walk through the door and the pace changes. The light feels different. The floor creaks under your feet in a way that reminds you history is not an abstract idea. It is something you can still touch. On