The graphic design project "
50 and 50," is an ongoing collective project of graphic designers reinterpreting the 50 mottoes of the U.S. states.
The project's "leadoff batter" on Jan. 31 was local designer and printer Erik Hamline, owner of Steady Print Shop in the Wedge neighborhood of Minneapolis. (Hamline's design can be found
at the bottom of this 50 and 50 page.)
Fifty and Fifty was created by Brooklyn-based designer and animator
Dan Cassaro.
The Feb. 2 issue of the daily
Fast Co. Design featured the project, then with just four designs of four states' mottoes.) Nearly half the states' mottoes had been completed by the end of February.