Last week Ryan and I had the pleasure of shooting a new Blue Wagon Studios project with Summit Church. They are re-branding their Summit Connect efforts and gave us full creative reign on the art direction for the new video vignettes. We had the idea of creating our own lighting arrangement using lots of incandescent bulbs (the concept being the lights would be a nod to a “connect the dots” theme). We built our own setup and got some great bulbs from Lighting World here in Winter Park. With a Canon 5D and 7D both on pocket dollies the footage looks incredible. I’m in the process of editing for the next week, but here are some still pics from the day.
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19 Aug 10
New Video Shoot – Summit Connect
30 Jul 10
New projects
It’s been a number of busy weeks back to back to back around here, and thus the blog has suffered. I will hopefully get back onto it next week. In the meantime, this is just a quick notice that I updated the design page with a handful of projects.
Discounted Medical Solutions
Reminisce Productions
RxEDO
The Other Journal
Telecom Consulting Group
Mother Waddles Car Donation Program
Working on lots more projects including a database management system for all the car donation sites we’ve done, an email campaign for BankFIRST, a health insurance site catering to members of UFC and their fans (just… I know…), a couple landing pages for a new publishing company and a site for a wine cellar company in Seattle. Giddy up!!
17 May 10
Storyville Coffee unwrapped
So my Blue Wagon partner Ryan has spent three weeks in the last month 0ut west working on the production for Storyville Coffee. They are shooting high end pieces for their company’s product, process and mission. I’d not heard of the company til he told me about them. However, after looking into it a little more (their story/model is very unique) I was really impressed by the design and branding. For a brand new company, I’m really impressed by the polished nature of everything they do. I ordered a half pound in the mail and the physical packaging didn’t disappoint.
The box and label are very attractive.
Inside, underneath the branded tissue paper and sticker is a detailed letter to the buyer with an intro to the product and company.
Further inside is the coffee in a very well assembled bag, along with a sexy DVD and booklet with company info and brewing instructions.
25 Mar 10
Adobe Photoshop Content Aware Fill
Like some people in the comment thread on the video, I’m slightly concerned that it’s an early April Fools’ joke. But if it’s not…. wow.
18 Mar 10
WHY Yacht – Why Not?
The famous Wally yachts have been outdone by their own developer, which is quite a task. Michael Bay used the 70m Wallypower in his film The Island where it looked so futuristic and geeked out that a lot of people thought it was CGI. Not sure if the power producer will be able to pull off getting one of these new creations into a future feature.
I kind of don’t even know how to preface the pictures and video. I’m still somewhat breathless. See the WHY site for more details and tech specs.
17 Mar 10
Amazing Work Spaces
This article from FastCompany’s design blog showcases some of the greatest creative office space I’ve seen. Thanks Alissa Walker for bringing these to our attention! Below are some of my favorites from the feature (where you can also see comments from architects/designers on the projects).
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- Brand New School – Santa Monica, CA
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- Brand New School – Santa Monica, CA
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- Davidandgoliath – El Segundo, CA
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- Ground Zero – Marina del Rey, CA
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- Mindfield – Marina del Rey, CA
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- Ogivly & Mather – Culver City, CA
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- Ogivly & Mather – Culver City, CA
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- Saatchi & Saatchi – Torrance, CA
12 Mar 10
Font Friday
Since most of what we’ve been working on lately has been for the web, we’ve not gotten to use the same variety of typefaces that we do when working on print material. However, after looking at these two sites today it’s a reminder of how far a well executed font can go.
Hoefler & Frere-Jones: www.typography.com
This crew has got their thing down. You know it’s going well when your company has 10 people and all you’re doing is creating the best typefaces you can. My favorites are the new Vitesse and Gotham Narrow series.
House Industries: www.houseind.com
They not only provide great font files, but have also incorporated their work into great design pieces. I love the Slab Blocks and PLINC Blocks as well as the pillows. And a cast iron ampersand for $250, who couldn’t use one!?
03 Mar 10
Flyfire by SENSEable City Lab
The Flyfire project by SENSEable City Lab and ARES appears to be pretty amazing if the execution can live up to the concept. This would be an incredible asset to liven up musical performances, sporting events or be a standalone show in an old abandoned warehouse.
25 Feb 10
I Need To Borrow $3,994,000
And you can come over as much as you want.
This lakeside beauty in Baldwin Park is right around the corner from my wife’s office. I drive past it all the time and toy with the thought of sneaking in. I couldn’t find the photographer’s name to credit them for the great pics, but the listing can be found here.
17 Feb 10
Interaxon’s Mind Control Lighting
This Canada based company has custom designed and built a lighting exhibit called Bright Ideas for the 2010 Olympics. Basically, brain waves are able to translate into a signal which the lights react to on a grand scale. It’s based on electrical signals read by a headset. Currently, there are lighting displays also operating in Toronto, Ottawa and Niagara Falls.
