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While large-scale organs of control, such as schools, hospitals, and prisons, enforce the social contract through a restriction of choice and a remote delegation of authority, personal or cultural techniques for redirecting and mastering libido, the inner primordial chaos we carry within, can be found in the options represented by salad, church, and exercise. The deep loyalty and repulsion aroused in modern hearts by these three everyday pursuits, and their heroic and perverse obsession with denying the desires of the body, is the starting point for the works in Salad-Church-Exercise, fantasies that are channeled into a polymorphous menagerie of audiovisual media.
Rock posters can remind you of your favorite band, a specific concert, or even stir you into an visual/aural synthesia. "A Similar Sound" is a look at the world of the rock poster and how artist and musician play off one another to create pieces of art through the influence of music and design. During July and August {fill in the blank} Gallery will show a wide scope of hand drawn, digital, and screen printed posters representing many sub-genres of rock music. Someoddpilot will represent with posters for The Timeout Drawer, K-Rad, and Denial Fest.
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A great little gallery in Lincoln Square named {fill in the blank} asked us to submit three of our posters for their upcoming show. Swing by on July 10th for the opening of A Similar Sound: the art of the rock poster, check out the work, and say hi!
We just donated 2001's crop of now-environmentally-poisonous heap of toxins, also known as CRT's and g4's, to the Chicago branch of Computers for Schools. We highly recommend you check them out, or something like them in your community, to give those lethal computing bombs a few more hours of usefulness before they enter the DNA of tomorrow's dolphins.
We just wrapped up a marathon 3 day photo shoot with Red Jacket Clothing.
24 distinct Chicago locations: the Brownline, the lakefront, chinatown, the west side, uptown, downtown... you got to turn your life around.
Thanks to Mark at Hard-Boiled Records for the last-minute rainy day location, and a big "Mom!" to the diligent custodians of security at the
city's many libraries and parks who attempted to pull that permit nonsense on us. We were all like "Come on, really?"
We've launched a redesigned and rebuilt Merrell shopping site in HTML & Javascript to provide the same dynamism and functionality as the original site, which was built in Flash & AJAX. The result is a shopping
experience that's highly functional, smooth, and downright download-friendly. Nerd-talk, anyone? Thanks for reading.
IDN has just released a special book they've made to celebrate the Cut 'n' Paste
phenomenon that features a couple spreads of our work, and honor we earned helping
out with the judging of last year's Chicago event. It can be looked at and bought here.
Founded in Oxford, Mississippi in 1992, Fat Possum Records is a bastion of independent blues and soul. Originally known for their extensive recordings of famed Mississippi bluesman R.L Burnside, Fat Possum has recently amassed a collective of contemporary artists most unusual, from eminent troubadour Andrew Bird, to lo-fi surfpunker Wavves. This spring we'll be designing and developing a new label shop and site to showcase Fat Possum's roster.
This August, Someoddpilot and The Windish Agency bring you the Public Works Art Show at the Andrew Rafacz Gallery in Chicago's West Loop.
The group show will feature four artists who've spent years in Chicago working within the independent art and music communities: Cody Hudson (Struggle, Inc.), Justin Fines (Demo), Andy Mueller (Ohio Girl), and Chris Eichenseer (Someoddpilot). Longtime friends, the four men have parlayed their street-level art styles into careers as internationally recognized graphic designers, their work inhabiting the ever narrowing space between fine art and commercial design.
Opening Friday, July 31st.
Chris is traveling to Mexico this summer to teach a course in the art of designing a record cover. He'll spend a week dumping his brain on unsuspecting Mexican students at CEDIM in Monterrey, giving them his two cents on how to make iconic and memorable images, handmade typography, and various production techniques.
Really? We are 10 years old. If we started out as a human baby, we'd just have reached the 3rd grade. Is that advanced? If you think it's not, try picturing that 2 year-old agency you contacted for your new website with its thumb in its mouth. Ouch. I know. We're going to be throwing some events and parties this year to celebrate, in conjunction with our good friend Tom and his Windish Agency. More soon.
Let's call it the blue period. Ah, the spray paint and the newspaper layout. For five years we enjoyed being part of Pitchfork's stunning rise to power, proud to witness the little guy transform into the big guy. But times change, don't they? Good luck Pitchfork! Always watch out for the little guy.
Our first seasonal update to the Cat Footwear site is for Spring and Summer 2009, which are seasons we've heard of but hardly remember. Here's to remaining faithful to the belief in the concept and the eventual arrival of something warmer and brighter.
Mad Decent came to us with the explicit need for a site that combined the best elements of a blog, a record label, and a social networking site. What we're designing is a one-stop community where you can download Diplo's latest track, watch Bonde De Role tear up the stage, post your two-cents on the discussion wall, and pick up the freshest Mad Decent gear.
Mathematic is a motion design studio based in Paris, France that lives at the crossroads of art direction, design and video effects. The Mathematic redesign will provide seamless video integration, and assure prominent display of their sleek music videos, advertisements, and CG work. We also designed the site for Mathematic's partner production company, Les Télécréateurs in 2008.
Under The Radar Mag bills itself as "The Solution to Music Pollution," and we're excited to provide a stump for an honest voice in the arena of online music criticism. We're giving the site a fresh new look backed by a publishing system with everything an editorial could need.
Launching 2009.
We have an open spot for a 3 month web development / programming internship for spring 2009. Qualified candidates should be familiar with building standards-based websites with modern HTML and CSS. Experience with a JavaScript Library such as jQuery or Prototype is a plus, as is some experience with Ruby, Python, or PHP. Apply now.
Here's to a job well done to Barack and the people of the United States of America. The photograph above was taken at Gary Indiana's Obama headquarters where we visited last October.
Our longtime friends and associates, the Consumers Research and Development Label, has decided to cease operations and move on to new pursuits. Despite the fact that it is a difficult time for the music industry and has been for quite a stretch now, does not diminish the lasting impact that small boutique-y record labels like Consumers have had on many many lives. Hats off to you Geoffrey and Jodi, you did good. It's been a pleasure making art with you.
Chicago suddenly becomes the center of the universe as Barack Obama is elected the 44th president of the United States. Almost the entire office attended the rally downtown and participated in the making of history. This is what happens when the president comes from your city: my dentist is Obama's dentist, our friend and colleague Sol designed the now infamous "O" logo, a friend of ours did Joe Biden's teleprompting, another friend built the bulletproof lecturn for the Grant Park rally, and the new Chief of Staff gets a beer where I do a couple times a week, the humble Long Room on Irving Park Rd. Cheers!
We designed and devloped a new global website for Caterpillar Footwear and it launched in late August. Using photographic source material from their campaigns, we designed things, animated things and programmed accessible, standards-compliant CSS. We were responsible for everything but the shop programming and subsequent database.
In September we launched a new website for Parisian company Lés Télécreateurs, an exceptional group of international directors specializing in music videos, short films,
and commercials. They even are responsible for a new Mogwai video - which happens to be one of my favorite bands of all time. The site was modeled on the structure of a news site and features an ever changing homepage, top 10 lists, and a big fat custom CMS on the backend for easy client-updating.
Someoddpilot's Chris Eichenseer has a solo art exhibition at the new Threadless gallery space (3011 N. Broadway, Chicago) opening Friday May 2nd. He will be showing new photography work. The opening on Friday is 7 to 9pm, and the show will be up through May 18th.
If you haven't had the chance to check it out, it's a great space with interesting design commuinity shows - Chuck Anderson was there in December and Electric Heat was just there in January.
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