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🍅 Tomato Laboratories is a design consortium, idea incubator, and aspiring tomato farm in Brooklyn, NY. tomatolab.org
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New work: The Northwest Paleontological Association

Branding + Web + Dinosaurs 🦖 🦕 🌿

See the full case study: tomatolab.org/npa/

#art #design #branding #typography #seattle #paleontology #pnw
Northwest Paleontological Association - Tomato Lab
Northwest Paleontological Association Logo, Branding, Website Founded in the mid-1990s and associated with the Burke Museum, the Northwest Paleontological Association (NPA) brings together amateur and...
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December 23, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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New note: Our Simple AI Policy

TLDR:
- No generative art or design
- Use real humans, pay for creative labor
- Proceed with a sustainable and ethical framework
- Review continuously as AI progresses

#AI #art #design #2026
Our Simple AI Policy - Tomato Lab
Lately, I’ve been seeing more and more artists and creators publishing seemingly AI-assisted or completely AI-generated content, so I thought I would go ahead and publish our AI policy in case it help...
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December 21, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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New in shop: Monthly Energy Review: 1975

Substation-red silkscreen ink on heavyweight cream speckletone paper made with hydroelectric energy

Limited run of 15 ⚡

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#art #design #print #typography #vintage #silkscreen
A red silkscreen poster of the 1975 monthly energy review is seen leaning against a wood wall. a curvy graphical star is in the middle as cream paper texture with sans serif cream paper font around the sides. A red silkscreen poster of the 1975 monthly energy review is seen rfamed in a white frame on a white wall. a curvy graphical star is in the middle as cream paper texture with sans serif cream paper font around the sides.
December 19, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Tomato Soup
Source: Whitney Museum of American Art

#tomato #art
Tomato Soup Source: Whitney Museum of American Art #tomato #art
November 21, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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New poster in the Gift Shop: Fire Coral 🪸

- Hand-mixed fluorescent fire coral silkscreen ink
- Heavyweight acid-free speckletone stock (recycled and produced using hydropower)
- Non-AI, crafted by human hands in NYC
- Limited edition run of 20, signed & numbered

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November 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Illustrations and diagrams by Tomato Lab, created for our client FishEye Collaborative, were recently published in the British Ecological Society’s journal Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 🐟🐠🐡🎧 #nature #design #branding #fish
Branding Fish Sounds - Tomato Lab
Some notes and observations on a recent aquatic client project.
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November 4, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Beach Sounds Commercial
The Department Satellite Public Affairs Network (D-SPAN) and the Office of Public Awareness is pleased to release the latest installment in our Sounds series. Beach…
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November 3, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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We have greatly improved our Groundhog Simulator™ since last year. Its an ethical, non-harmful alternative to using real animals for forecasts. Some people even say it is more accurate. Our Groundhog used Computer Vision to see their shadow so it looks like we are in for another six weeks of winter.
February 4, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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1/2) Screen print by René Castro "I Am Ashamed, MLK". 1992. via Smithsonian

3) Photo by Grey Villet "MLK Trial Montgomery Alabama Integration". 1958, Montgomery, AL

4) Letterpress by Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. "I fear I am integrating my people into a burning house. - MLK". 2005

#MLK
A beautiful, minimal screen print in pink, blue, black, brown, and white of MLK looking concerned and resting his chin on his hand while looking down with the handwritten text over the top "I am ashamed, greatest purveyor of violence on earth is my own country — MLK" A beautiful, minimal screen print in pink, blue, black, brown, and white of MLK looking concerned and resting his chin on his hand while looking down with the handwritten text over the top "I am ashamed, greatest purveyor of violence on earth is my own country — MLK" A relatively young and concerned looking Martin Luther King Jr. looking off into the distance beyond the camera in a hallway during his bus boycott and integration trial in Montgomery Alabama in 1958 A worn looking letterpress by Paul Amos Kennedy in black sans serif font on red reads "I fear I am integrating my people into a burning house. - Martin Luther King, Jr."
January 20, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Some brand buildouts from the Healthy Climate Communities project 🌈 🌴 #branding #design #sustainability #nature
October 5, 2024 at 10:20 PM
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Healthy Climate Communities is a Hawaii-based nonprofit that leverages education and community action to fight climate change on the island of O'ahu. A new mission-sensitive logo and identity system were developed to mature the organization’s brand and strengthen its community presence. 🌴 🌎
October 5, 2024 at 10:18 PM
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Some late-season, end-of-summer, organic, AI-free tomato inspiration. Paper from French Paper Co., and tomatoes from Tomato Lab, Brooklyn Grange, and Sunset Park Greenmarket. 🍅 🌈 #tomatoes #farming #design #arr
a colorful grid of six photos of tomatoes on varying background colors a large plump red heirloom tomato sits in a lime green void a bright orange round heirloom tomato sits in a sky blue void a shiny small striped green tomato sits in a purple void
September 12, 2024 at 11:39 PM
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The first in a series of USDA Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Wholesale Market Prices Report reproductions #art #design #farming #nyc www.departmentofinformation.org/1969-usda-nyc/
August 11, 2024 at 3:01 AM
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Some summer tomato inspiration from the lab.

Pictured:
- New Yorker Tomatoes
- Matts Wild Cherry
- Patio Hybrid

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#tomatoes #farming #nyc #growing
a white fiber carton of red tomatoes with a paper label on top sits on a white background a bright red cluster of different sized tomatoes sit in a white fiber pint carton on white background, viewed from the top bright red tomatoes overflow from a white fiber carton a rough stamp of a red circle and outer square reads tomato laboratories on a white fiber carton - red tomatoes spill out and around
August 1, 2024 at 8:12 PM
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Some more physical brand buildouts for DOI—one older and one newer vinyl album package 🎤🍃🎧

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#design #branding #art
March 21, 2024 at 7:54 PM
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Some more physical brand buildouts for DOI—a very formidable stationery suite 🗃️✏️📇

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#design #branding #art
March 21, 2024 at 7:52 PM
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Some recent physical brand buildouts for Department of Information—lots of fun thread work and silkscreening applications 👔🧵

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#design #branding #art
March 21, 2024 at 7:49 PM
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Made of colorful glowing shapes & often appearing overnight as stations would “sign off”, tv test cards entered the cultural imagination as hypnotic oddities but would come to fill a nostalgic void. What weird, luminous patterns do we use today to calibrate our realities & fill up our empty spaces?
The Best TV Test Cards and Patterns of the 20th Century - Department of Information
Television test cards were elaborate, strange patterns and graphics used for visual calibration or for filling gaps and dead air in the early days of T.V. broadcasting. Often appearing for hours overn...
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January 31, 2024 at 9:02 PM
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Natural Earth Field Recordings Volume Two: Upstate New York and the Hudson Valley is now available to purchase in a very limited run of 12-inch clear vinyl with an accompanying foldout map & guide. 🌲🍁🌍

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January 18, 2024 at 4:49 AM
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New work ➡️ tomatolab.org/Green-Star-S...

Green Star Schools is a zero-waste, recycling, and environmental education program by the Colorado-based non-profit Eco-Cycle—A new logo and identity system was developed.
January 13, 2024 at 11:11 PM
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The Department of Information is recognizing the 75th anniversary of the UN Declaration of Human Rights by offering free snacks to employees this week.

Swing by the 4th floor kitchen between noon & 3 p.m. for free expired dehydrated space food.

#HumanRightsDay

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December 10, 2023 at 5:30 AM
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end of season scragglers
10 tiny underrippened tomatoes loose on a white surface
December 1, 2023 at 12:54 AM