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Goodness Factory is firing up again
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010First Thursday is getting stacked
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010We have one big show going on down the street, but within our own walls there’s another great one from one of Studio’s own, Mark Shepard.
Countless years ago, the dark, ruthless waterfall hunter and broken superhero Black Diamond fell in love with one of his lovely prey, the tender-hearted waterfall known as Jonya Foss. The exact details of their unusual affair is unknown but we are fortunate to have these mystical fragments Black Diamond left behind - including cryptic drawings, photographs, love letters and home video footage – that merely hint at the length, beauty and tragedy of their story. These fragments were discovered by the Waterfall-nurters and historians known as Lovers©, who came across the artifacts near the now-dry beds of Jonya Foss. The Luvers© have assembled an archive to try to make sense of the broken narrative that was left behind. They are calling upon you dear viewers to help unravel this awkward & enchanting love story.
More info here: urbanintimacy.org Luvers© is (Krista Connerly & Mark Shepherd)
Chris Hornbecker’s One Millimeter Project will be also showing in conjunction
Meet Derek Kim!!!!!! YAY!
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
1. How did you get here?
It was pretty much being at the right place at the right time. I had just graduated from college back in ‘09 and ended up getting an internship position at Nike as an apparel graphic designer. After the internship period was over, I was extended twice before I left for W+K. I loved my job there and met an amazing amount of talented people, but I really missed creating things for print; which is why I ultimately chose W+K. I got to interview with Michele with a little bit of help from Mr. Ribeiro and within a few weeks I was officially in. Choosing between Nike and W+K was definitely one of the toughest decisions I’ve ever made in my life; it was heart breaking to give the news about my departure to my creative director as he was a true mentor and also because he was the first person ever who trusted me and my work. Looking at the brighter side of things, I didn’t fall far from the Nike family tree since W+K is like a distant cousin. In any case, I couldn’t be happier being here at W+K and everyday I’m thankful for it 
2. Who/what inspires you?
My parents, my friends, my co-workers, anything coming out of Switzerland, grid systems, Brockmann, Modernism, Aicher, Kamekura, Wyman, Build, tDR, Charley Harper, Peter Saville, Eames, Rams, D-Fuse, Boards of Canada, Joe Hisaishi, signage systems, medicine packaging, shipping labels, those little icons on VCRs and cameras, IATA airport codes, airports, airplanes, airline livery, HUDs, interface graphics from the first Jurassic Park movie, sneakers, foreign films, documentaries, Takeshi Kitano, Habitat skateboard graphics, stuff I find online, and weird stuff in general.
3. What do you work on here at Wieden+Kennedy?
For the most part, I’ve worked on stuff for Target and Coke, but I get to work on lots of other projects whenever I hit that “available” email.
4. Easy question, what do you do outside of work?
I work constantly outside of work. Freelance projects and self-initiated projects keep me busy most of the time; sometimes till the early morning hours. I’m also a typographer and like to create and sell my own fonts online. However, whenever I have some extra spare time from being a design geek, I like to hang out with friends and I also like to play around with software synthesizers in order to compose crappy music.
5. What’s a random, fun fact that others would love to hear?
I can understand and speak fluent Spanish (and don’t have an accent when speaking it); therefore, I am able to eavesdrop on any conversation in Spanish whether you’re from Madrid, Guadalajara, or Buenos Aires.
6. What do you love to do?
Unfortunately, my guilty pleasure is sleeping… I love to sleep; especially when I remember my dreams, which in my case, is very rare. On the rare occasion that I do remember them, sometimes I get crazy ideas of which I jot down on a notepad shortly after I wake up. However, after I’m 100% fully awake, I realize that 9/10 times those ideas are really stupid and don’t make any sense, but at least I’m left with one great idea.
7. What’s the best thing that ever happened to you?
The internets.
If you have a broken wrist, Erik Blad will show up.
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
How did you get here?
After a couple of interviews my chance to work at WK came in the form of Cari’s broken wrist. Shari called me to fill in while Cari was out recovering and I have managed to stick around ever since.
Who/what inspires you?
Ron Liberti, Tadanori Yokoo, Savage Pencil, Michael Cina, Bongout, Daniel Clowes, Sonnenzimmer, Werkplaats Typografie, Kim Hiorthøy, Raymond Pettibon, Robert Rauschenburg, Seripop, Zeloot, Mingering Mike, William Eggleston, Robert Frank, Philip Guston, hand-painted taco truck signs and 70’s sci-fi movie titles.
What do you work on here at Wieden+Kennedy?
Primarily Old Spice and EA.
Outside of work?
Go on drives for no reason
Try to eat more vegetables
Spend too much time wiki-ing things
What’s a random, fun fact that others would love to hear?
I’ve somehow managed to never see the movie ET.
What do you love to do?
Scare people walking out of adult bookstores by honking my car horn at them.
What’s the best thing that ever happened to you?
Waking up.
Check out the silkscreening madness of Erik:
KBB is coming
Friday, April 16th, 2010W+K Studio Presents a Lunchtime Talk with Kate Bingaman-Burt
Kate Bingaman-Burt was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin in 1977. She founded Obsessive Consumption in 2002 and has documented her personal consumption in many different mediums. Her first book, Obsessive Consumption: What Did You Buy Today?, will be published by Princeton Architectural Press in April 2010.
Bingaman-Burt is active in the indie craft and craftivism movements. She provided all of the illustrations for the book Handmade Nation: The Rise of DIY, Art, Craft and Design as well as the promotional materials for the documentary of the same name. She lives in Portland, Oregon where, along with being an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at Portland State University, she also makes piles of work about consumerism (zines! pillows! dresses! drawings! paper chains! photos!). She happily draws for other good people too (IDEO, Madewell,ReadyMade Magazine, The New York Times, Wieden + Kennedy). Kate also conducts zine workshops and spreads the craftivism word. Her Obsessive Consumption work is represented by Jen Bekman in NYC and she has produced several editions with Jen and 20×200.
She’ll be here at Wieden+Kennedy on April 23rd at 12pm
Wieden+Kennedy
224 NW 13th Avenue
Portland, OR 97209
Please R.S.V.P to
events@wk.com | Subject: WKGoodness+KBB
Doing a talk and selling her wares. Check back here for more details.
And we just screen printed a limited run of posters for this event. Will be on sale at the Lunchtime talk for $15 bucks a pop. Bring stacks of cash.
M is for Mirtho Prepont
Friday, April 16th, 2010Looks like we got the case of the meeting more M’s. Ladies and gents, meet Mirtho.
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How did you get here?
A couple of days after graduating from the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale Florida, I receive an email from a recruiter stating if I wanted to fly for an interview. I started out has an intern and that was fun, but now I’m on board full time.
2.
Who/what inspires you?
Weird things inspires me, like ants carrying a dead lizard away, folks chaining themselves to trees, architecture, digital artwork from Peter Jaworowski .
3.
What do you work on here at Wieden+Kennedy?
I haven’t been here for too long, but I’ve recently worked on Dante’s Inferno campaign, Target 2 Day Sales, Nike Livestrong, Laika, and also other projects here and there.
4.
Easy question, what do you outside of work?
Outside of work I hang out with friends, and also try to catch up on my drawing skills, hike, bike (if I don’t feel lazy that day), and watch documentaries.
5.
What’s a random, fun fact that others would love to hear?
The path to my heart is paved with macaroni and cheese :^)
6.
What do you love to do?
I recently found out, that I really love hiking! I’m guessing its because I recently moved here from Florida, and its pretty flat there.
7.
If you could interview one other person in the studio, who would it be and
why?
I would interview Cari Vander Yacht, because she’s so funny! And her ugly picture Wednesday are hilarious. http://cvydesign.wordpress.com/
8.
What’s the best thing that ever happened to you?
Well I grew up in a house with three brothers, and we always did the typical boy stuff. Such has fighting each other, pranks, and more fighting. But having a little sister is one of the best thing that happened to me.
How did you get here?
A couple of days after graduating from the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale Florida, I receive an email from a recruiter stating if I wanted to fly for an interview. I started out has an intern and that was fun, but now I’m on board full time.
Who/what inspires you?
Weird things inspires me, like ants carrying a dead lizard away, folks chaining themselves to trees, architecture, digital artwork from Peter Jaworowski .
What do you work on here at Wieden+Kennedy?
I haven’t been here for too long, but I’ve recently worked on Dante’s Inferno campaign, Target 2 Day Sales, Nike Livestrong, Laika, and also other projects here and there.
Easy question, what do you outside of work?
Outside of work I hang out with friends, and also try to catch up on my drawing skills, hike, bike (if I don’t feel lazy that day), and watch documentaries.
What’s a random, fun fact that others would love to hear?
The path to my heart is paved with macaroni and cheese :^)
What do you love to do?
I recently found out, that I really love hiking! I’m guessing its because I recently moved here from Florida, and its pretty flat there.
What’s the best thing that ever happened to you?
Well I grew up in a house with three brothers, and we always did the typical boy stuff. Such has fighting each other, pranks, and more fighting. But having a little sister is one of the best thing that happened to me.
Check out some of MP’s work:
The WK Studio Store has more stuff
Thursday, April 15th, 2010Check out some hairy shirts now in the store. We got a few more shirts that you may like. Some are 110% Oregon inspired. They’re almost as crazy as an advertising agency setting up shop in the middle of Portland.
Also check out some of our baby note books in our office supplies. They were put together by some great designers in the studio. Get them while they’re hot.
We wanted to show the detail on this one. It’s almost as technologically hot as the stinkin’ iPad or whatever it’s called. Oversized iPhone?
Formal Fridays
Friday, March 19th, 2010The casual backlash has begun…
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Hell is dark and has a news crew.
Monday, March 8th, 2010
This month’s First Thursday event focused on the entire Dante’s Inferno campaign. It also highlighted the pre-release campaign called, “Highway to Hell” as well as the second stage final release campaign. It was a great way to show the media what we worked on and called attention all the stuff we made within studio.
Visitors were greeted with warnings both on glass windows and on hand painted signs. We also had copies of the game for people to play with.
Wild postings were placed, but were stolen soon afterward. We wanted to to create a sense of mystery with the posters. The only thing info was the general location and the date of the show.
All the exhibits also had props made specifically for the viral/broadcast spots. Here you can see the kneelers and wii-motes used in MassWePray.
We got a local cake maker to fashion some corpse cakes for our gluttony table. Delightful for all the senses.
Each exhibit had a display showing the process imagery, editorial, websites, and associated movies.
Ken Smith from Channel 8 stopped by to talk about the show. Eric and Paulo were quick to answer all the questions he had for the impromptu news story.
Karen K. and Peter Y., the two headmasters on this project.
Here is one of the many intermittent work meetings trying to finalize all the details before the show opened up.
A few images of the many hands putting together the pop-up art show in a matter of days. It was rewarding and exhausting at the same time.
Dante’s Inferno is a new Electronic Arts action/adventure video game that takes place in Hell. In our video game version of the famous epic, Dante is a Crusade veteran who returns from battle to discover he must journey through the nine circles of Hell to rescue his beloved Beatrice, whom Satan has stolen for his bride. Players, assuming the role of Dante, must descend from the earth’s surface down through the nine circles of Hell (Limbo, Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Anger, Heresy, Violence, Fraud and Treachery—each level more frightening than the last) to rescue Beatrice from Satan’s grasp. To generate excitement and awareness for the game, we created an interactive campaign leading up to the launch that brought Dante’s Inferno to life. Each month we created unique and provocative executions that were designed to generate conversations and controversy about the game.
Once we had the attention of the gaming community, it was time to go big—to enlarge our focus beyond each individual circle and showcase Hell in all its infernal glory with our launch campaign and to do it in a way that brought the game to life. Go big we did, placing the first video game on the Super Bowl since 1991.
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- Curtis and Karen happy the work is done.
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- Selis family psyched about the show.
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- Raising those kids right.
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- Focused.
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- If you can be cool in hell, this would be it.
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- Baldwin is not sure about Channel 8 Ken Smith.
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- Ken Kuts Korpse Kakes.
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- Paulo dropping science.
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- Baldwin giving some advice for PY.
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- Team Unbreakable.
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- Lovely ladies of Studio and Mike.
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- Gina’s Posse.
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- DigiDesign Guys approve.
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- Portland Creatives.
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- Violence Santa Unmasked and has a nice family.
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- Art Patron taking it to the next level.
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- Tram and Family seeing the Dante’s show.
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- These guys came up with the campaign.
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- Reppin’.
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- Erin & Devon.
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- Fleshy cake.
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- Team Black.
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- Streaming webcam worked!
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- Greed Boxes
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- Wrecking Crew.
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- Wild Posting displayed.
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- Games Played.
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- Heresy spread.
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- Mison checking out all the kiosks he worked on.
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- Violence Ornaments.
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- Backlit displays
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- Brent and Katie working overtime.
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- Dani working her magic on the projection.
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- Katie celebrated her birthday by working on this day and night.
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- “Leaked” concept artwork.
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- Wild Postings.
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- Protest Hoax.
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- Greed Box
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- Hoffman overlooks all.
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- Meeting time.
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- Eric’s Kidney stunt.
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- Terror Trike.
Check out the statement below:
Dante’s Inferno is a new Electronic Arts action/adventure video game that takes place in Hell. In our video game version of the famous epic, Dante is a Crusade veteran who returns from battle to discover he must journey through the nine circles of Hell to rescue his beloved Beatrice, whom Satan has stolen for his bride. Players, assuming the role of Dante, must descend from the earth’s surface down through the nine circles of Hell (Limbo, Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Anger, Heresy, Violence, Fraud and Treachery—each level more frightening than the last) to rescue Beatrice from Satan’s grasp. To generate excitement and awareness for the game, we created an interactive campaign leading up to the launch that brought Dante’s Inferno to life. Each month we created unique and provocative executions that were designed to generate conversations and controversy about the game.
Once we had the attention of the gaming community, it was time to go big—to enlarge our focus beyond each individual circle and showcase Hell in all its infernal glory with our launch campaign and to do it in a way that brought the game to life. Go big we did, placing the first video game on the Super Bowl since 1991.
Check out the details.
The Late Shift
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
Buried in basement we have Walker (plus Curtis, Ademar and hoards of others) working non-stop to get our posters ready for the show.
Photos by PY