Gary Baseman’s photograph is part of a group show for Polaroid at the Impossible Project Space NYC. “Instant Revolution” features photography by Baseman and four other contemporary artists, James Franco, Maripol, Mary Ellen Mark, and Jennifer Juniper Stratford. The exhibition is the first in an upcoming series of artistic collaborations throughout 2012 that honor the launch of the Polaroid Classic line. The new product line celebrates the seventy-five year legacy of the instant film and camera company.
Julene Harrison hand-cuts the words and flowers of Spring for The Washington Post’s Spring Arts Preview. The special Arts section features spring’s most anticipated events in theater, film, art, dance, and music recommended by the newspaper’s staff.
Andrew Rae collaborates with VML to give Bear Naked’s website a winter makeover. The granola brand calls itself the “official fuel of winter fun.” The “Winteractive” site features a Wintervention, polls, games, and advice from the Mountain Oracle Man. The site allows users to connect with their friends over Facebook and Twitter by sending them the different interactive features.
Kai and Sunny’s “Flower Show” box sets have been accepted in the Victoria & Albert Museum Collection. The British museum’s prints collection consists of about 500,000 prints encompassing both fine art and commercial production. The V&A’s Senior Curator of Prints Gill Saunders accepted box set 1 and box set 2.
Ilovedust collaborates with Wieden + Kennedy NY for an exciting, multi-media branding for ESPN’s Winter X Games in Aspen. The design studio worked with the team at Wieden + Kennedy to create a multi-facetted campaign consisting of two 30-second animated spots, a course map, for the interactive site and custom posters featuring action sports’ biggest names, including Sebastien Toutant. The campaign blends rich illustration in Ilovedust’s signature style with photography from previous Winter X Games.
The Winter X Games will air January 26- 29th on ESPN.
Serial Cut designs the campaign for the new Toyota Prius V. Saatchi & Saatchi LA commissioned the Madrid-based studio for Toyota USA. It is the biggest campaign Serial Cut has ever put together. The visuals highlight three features of the new Prius V: more versatility, efficiency, and connectivity. It took several months of pre-production, a six-day photo shoot and two months of post-production to complete the design.
Haze collaborates with Heineken on a limited edition custom draught glass set. HAZE X Heineken includes two glasses and an original print numbered and hand signed by Haze. The set, while intentionally minimalist in its graphic elements, also reflects a lot of form married to function and modern production values in the creation of its glass and packaging.
Every year, The Society of Illustrators honors the best achievements in illustration from the past year in an exhibition. B&A’s John Hendrix and Andrew Bannecker are among those selected this year for “Illustration 54: America’s Original Annual of Illustration.” The jury selected nine of Hendrix’s illustrations and eight of those will be exhibited across all the categories. Two of Bannecker’s illustrations were selected.
CNN interviews Tristan Eaton for the latest installment of their “The Next List” series. The weekly program hosted by Dr. Sanjay Gupta profiles exceptional individuals who are at the cutting edge of change in their field. The interview highlights his rise from “street punk” to prolific New York artist. Eaton discusses his commercial work for Dell and Puma, his designer toys the “Dunny” and the “Munny,” and his design work for the 2008 Barack Obama presidential campaign.
Tristan Eaton’s interview on CNN airs this Sunday at 2 pm EST. Visit the CNN website for more information.
Nick & Chloe and FWY Studios work together to bring to life the colorful characters of Gwen Stefani’s Harajuku Mini line for Target. The line caters to children, from infants to tweens, and features tutus, plaids, punk pants, and faux leather jackets. The collaborative effort between the B&A talents mixes photography and CGI to create a fun, colorful campaign. Nick & Chloe photographed the campaign on the streets of Tokyo’s Harajuku and Akihabara (“The Electric City”) districts. FWY Studios created the 3D CGI icons that appear in the print ads as well as the original Harajuku characters for the television spots.
Lounging in Mark Cunningham-designed AD Oasis@the Raleigh, 50 VIPs enjoyed a sumptuous breakfast and tasted 1800 Tequila Coleccion, a 400 limited edition extra añejo 100% agave tequila (guaranteed to allay any hangover) All set against the dramatic back drop of an exhibition of Kai and Sunny’s graphic, monochromatic “Flower Series.” Artists Gary Baseman and Vivian Rosenthal, Founder of Tronic Studio / augmented reality platform Goldrun, Kai and Sunny, and Product and Industrial designer Demian Repucci, explored the broad theme of “The Intersection of Art and Design” in a lively panel discussion chaired by Bernstein and Andriulli’s Louisa St.Pierre.
Hot off a NYC press the first B&A Journal ships today. The newspaper style journal presents iconic images from our artists and photographers. B&A teamed up with the Brooklyn Brothers on the project. Stephen Rutterford, Creative Director at Brooklyn Brothers comments, “As an Art Director I think it will be refreshing to receive something tactile and non digital for a change.”
Ilovedust and TBWA Shanghai have just launched the first out of a trilogy of animations for GE’s latest digital campaign – Future Folklore. The animations tie together traditional Chinese folklore stories and GE’s modern technologies with a twist. The first animation follows the story of the epic battle of Red Cliff where Kung Ming and his allies defeating an attacking arming using wind power against their arrows. This well-known story then in turn becomes a metaphor for GE’s use of wind power in the present.
Adam Hayes and Andrew Bannecker collaborate with Nike on their new VCXC space in The Bronx, New York. Located across from the Van Cortlandt Park Cross Country Track, the space is devoted to runners and features custom tees, interactive displays, and running gear. VCXC honors the park’s cross-country heritage and promises to be a community gathering space for local runners. Nike opened similar sports-specific stores in Chicago and California.
Nomoco creates colorful illustrations for Kumon’s latest campaign. The learning center offers tutoring for kids K-12. Nomoco collaborated with the Mullen agency on the advertising campaign. Her illustrations bring learning to life with depictions of wildlife, books, and math. The idea behind the campaign is about giving voice and vision to possibility, to potential. To reveal the benefits that can’t always be seen on paper and to give intangible concepts like curiosity, self-confidence, potential, etc. a representation parents and their children can see and understand.
