JOYENGINE: cause sharing is cool

When the Haiti Poster Project invited us to produce a piece to help them reach their fundraising goal of $1,000,000.00 for Doctors Without Borders we leapt at the opportunity.  We spent a solid block of time on concept and settled on a typographic statement imbued with positive vibrations and seven colors of ink. We reached to our friend Ray McDermott at Good Thoughts 4 All and got down to business on the ole automatic.  Here’s a little peak between screens four and five and five and six.  More soon.

We’ve followed our friend Steve Talkowski’s progress designing, prototyping, and eventually producing his signature Sketchbot for about 2 years now.  It’s been a wonderful process to witness and a testament to Steve’s talent, commitment and vision.  To kick off what Steve’s calling “Phase 1″ of Sketchbot he’s teamed up with MyPlasticHeartNYC to throw a massive Sketchbot custom show.  He’s assembled a spectacular cast of 50+ customizers.  We’re humbled to have been invited and to have the opportunity to take part.  We couldn’t be more psyched for Steve.

Participating artists:

Our latest typeface, C13 HEX, is now available through YouWorkForThem. Extra geometric in nature and intended predominantly for display and logotype utilities, C13 HEX was built atop an isometric triangular grid. The typeface includes 8 fonts, Regular, Alt, Outline, Outline Alt, Round, Round Alt, Round Outline, and Round Outline Alt.

YouWorkForThem is selling a collection of typefaces from Suprb, including Capset, Myld, Wyld, ASCA-D, ASCA, CLOUD.DOT.TWO, Quick 16, Quart, and Swem.

I enjoy this. Exclusive Sebastien Tellier video for the 10th anniversary of Record Makers. via Viewers Like U

This short film makes you feel the sand on your feet and water in your face…ah, who doesn’t need a little beach time?

EDEN from Sean Mullens on Vimeo.

Main Entry: Eden
Pronunciation: \ˈē-dən\
Function: noun
Etymology: Late Latin, from Hebrew ʽĒdhen
Date: before 12th century
Definition: Paradise, a place of pristine or abundant natural beauty

Nobody Beats the Drum is new to me.. and needless to say they’ve left a stand-still, jaw-dropped impression on me forever with their video for Grindin’. The whole thing is made from more than 4000 still frames and animated together to give us the piece you see below. I would have to say it’s probably the most complicated way to make a video, especially one that relies so much on the audio sync up, but the finished bit is simply outstanding. Snap shot gentlemen! You can take a listen to the full album, Beats Work, on iTunes.

Monday nights are always a tough night to host events, but Denver creatives came through and represented our city well for the “We Live in Public” release party on March 01, 2010. The night saw some technical difficulties, but in the end I think the screening did it’s job. It got people thinking and talking about what’s happening to our society as we increasingly embrace the internet. Our crowd consisted of advertising/marketing representatives, designers, filmmakers, writers/bloggers, architects, musicians, and various other influencers who have the ability to affect others… Hopefully all of you who attended are telling others to see this film. It’s important for people to make themselves aware of the pitfalls associated with living in public.

I would like to thank the following folks for the help in making the evening possible. Futuristic Films team, especially Monique Weiring and Richie Kendall. Director Ondi Timoner, for making such a thought provoking film. I first met her in 2002 while working at Radar Communications. I  remember her telling about the two these two films she was working on for a long time.  The first was “Dig,” and the other was “We Live in Public.” Both won grand jury prizes at Sundance. Proud to call her a friend. If you haven’t seen Dig, hustle on over to Hulu, as it’s one of the most popular downloads there. You won’t be disappointed, its a great rock n’ roll film…

Thanks also go out Open Media Foundation for hosting the event. If you aren’t aware of what they do stop by or visit them on the Web. Anyone who’s an independent film maker in Denver should know about this valuable resource. Jason Stoval, DOM board member, did a great job hosting our, brief, Q&A session with the other cities.

A big shout out also goes out to my friend Steve Nilsen (Lifestyle Marketing Manager at Pabst Blue Ribbon) for donating the libations for the after party. Mega hug goes out to DJ Ginger Perry for setting the mood with tunes. I know you were tired girl from other gigs over the weekend, so thank you again for making it out. Also to our VJ’s (Doug and Alie) and live painters (Kamla and Audrey.

Last, but not least, THANK YOU to all my friends who made it. There were a lot of you there and it meant a lot to see you there! It never ceases to amaze me how deep my network runs with solid peeps!

The Segmentus Clock is Art Lebedev Studio’s solution to a digital clock with hands.

Do you love Jamie Hewlett? Do you like gun battles, animation, muscle cars, Mos Def, Bobby Womack, Damon Albarn, and Bruce Willis? Me too. That’s why I love this new Gorillaz video.

The Font Game is an excellent typographic iPhone / iP0d game from I Love Typography.