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  • Keen to Be Social

    May 7th, 2013 / Comments (0)

    North just released this short, animated case study outlining the work they did with Keen in support of the funky footwear maker's, World Recess Day 2012 event. The goal of the project was to promote the event while generating interest throughout the social-verse. The hope was that the they could generate interest while gathering as much support and participation as possible.

    To achieve the goal, North utilized a variety of social platforms, methods and analytical tools to help generate and track buzz for the event. The results are undeniable. Keen received thousands of submissions for WRD and racked up thousands upon thousands of new followers across their social channels.

    Because of the success of the campaign, North is now a finalist in the Social Media Awards (SOME) for Dream Team within an agency, Just ‘Cause, Breaking Social and People’s Choice. Congrats to the team! Hopefully, they'll sweep it.

  • Blue

    May 6th, 2013 / Comments (0)

    Blue from Aymeric Seydoux on Vimeo.

    A slow news day means we get to dig into our ever growing list of cool animation and documentaries to bring you a little somethin'. We actually just came across this short by Aymeric Seydoux about the dangers of being alone in space and space madness. We love the style of art in this 3 minute short and found the story to be just perfect. Enjoy.

  • Laid to Rest

    May 6th, 2013 / Comments (2)

    When we crashed the Be Honest party last week we took in just an amazing amount of visual stimuli from all the great designers on hand. As we were checking out everyone's stuff we came across the Laid to Rest project by PSU senior, Chance Tagg. The social experiment was part of Tagg's senior thesis, and really caught our attention.

    The premise is simple, we all carry around our personal baggage that haunts us on a daily basis. If we are to take a cue from the finality of life we know that when people are laid to rest we kind of let go of all the unresolved emotions and thoughts we might have about that person through the ritual of the funeral and mourning process. So, why not combine the two and get rid of the personal baggage by holding a funeral for all those pesky annoyances we carry around with us everyday.

    The site, which was conceived of as a social experiment, gives you all the tools to plan for the worldly demise of your emotional baggage. When you get there print out the coffin template, assemble on a nice card stock, decorate in a fashion that represents your personal foibles and then burry, burn, rip, shred or nuke the coffin in any fashion you see fit. A few words at the end and you've saved thousands in therapist bills. And to prove you've done the deed you can submit photos and tweet it using a custom hash tag. Nice work Chance.

  • Let Slip the Dogs of War

    May 6th, 2013 / Comments (0)

    A studio's culture is a big topic (and a big draw) amongst designers these days. A more and more common feature of that studio culture (especially in Portland it seems) is the inclusion of our dogs into our daily work life.

    It has become common place to see insert gender here's best friend coming into work and being a part of that daily environment. We also tend to celebrate our canine companions for their success as model employees, which leads us to this — Second Story's recent roundup of their canine support staff.

    Through the modern wonder of the animated gif, these lovable lap pals (Abby, Uni, Herman, Nebula, Taco, Rusko and Walter) have been immortalized for tirelessly filling the roll of daily support staff. You can read more and see the complete assortment of pooches on Second Story's blog post.

  • Amazing in Motion Webfilm by Lexus

    May 6th, 2013 / Comments (3)

    We've seen some pretty interesting short web film type adverts from car companies over the past couple weeks. This Amazing in Motion spot features a lonely metallic figure that explores the city, his surroundings and the purpose of it all. He finally meets a girl and it's love at first sight.

    On the surface there isn't that much that's really interesting about that concept, but what makes this unique is the way they leave the animatronics team in the shots throughout the short. If they'd digitally edited them out it would have been just a run of the mill commercial about the story outlined above, but by leaving the teams in it gives it a rather unique and somewhat quirky feel, which we really like. Team One handled creative duties on this short.

  • The History of Typography

    May 6th, 2013 / Comments (0)

    We're starting the week off by getting our learn on - so to speak. We came across this great little short on the history of type recently, and were intrigued. The short uses a great first-person pov and a nice stop motion animated process as it covers the history of type from a very broad perspective. While there isn't necessarily any new information about type in this video, we are really drawn to the delivery style and could see this being a more engaging method for getting people interested in the history of type. The piece was produced by Ben Barrett-Forrest of Forrest Media.

  • PDX LOCAL JOB: Freelance Account / Project Manager @fixpdx

    May 3rd, 2013 / Comments (0)

    Fix Studio here in Portland is looking for a Freelance Account / Project Manager. Check out the complete Fix Studio job posting for more details. Please Note: You must become a member to see jobs posted within the last three days.

    Ed. Note: Hey, PDX. Do you have a position for a local creative opening up? Did you know that we offer really affordable rates when listing open positions? Your ads run for a month and feature heavy Twitter coverage and a dedicated news post as well. In addition, our worldwide network gets over a million hits a month, which is a lot of cheddar.

    We also feature a FREE post option for freelance and intern positions. You can find out more details in our job posting section.

  • PDX LOCAL JOB: Freelance 3D Rendering / Visualization Artist / Specialist @fixpdx

    May 3rd, 2013 / Comments (0)

    Fix Studio here in Portland is looking for a Freelance 3D Rendering / Visualization Artist / Specialist. Check out the complete Fix Studio job posting for more details. Please Note: You must become a member to see jobs posted within the last three days.

    Ed. Note: Hey, PDX. Do you have a position for a local creative opening up? Did you know that we offer really affordable rates when listing open positions? Your ads run for a month and feature heavy Twitter coverage and a dedicated news post as well. In addition, our worldwide network gets over a million hits a month, which is a lot of cheddar.

    We also feature a FREE post option for freelance and intern positions. You can find out more details in our job posting section.

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