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Publishing Their Sentences
Beyondmedia Education collaborates with under-served and under-represented women, youth and communities to tell their stories, connect those stories to rest of the world and organize for social justice through the creation and distribution of media arts.
Beyondmedia's Women and Prison programming supports formerly incarcerated women and their families to voice their stories through the arts. Engaging their issues and experiences to create opportunities for dialogue, healing and community organizing, Beyondmedia has collaborated extensively with formerly incarcerated women and girls since 1998.
Big Props!
June 22, 2009
We don't often share all the awards the studio receives. We include a ribbon icon in our portfolio if a project has won an award or been given particular mention in a book, but we don't usually create a news post about each. And it's rare we talk about the folks in the studio who are behind each of them.
I feel like that mindset doesn't serve the folks who spend many hours and lose sleep over them... and it doesn't serve our clients very well either. So, I'd like to publicly congratulate the crew at Firebelly and the clients whose projects have recently won awards.
TheQueerist.com
Will, Keith, Antonio and of course Lissa (our client + new BFF) are Type Director's Club TDC 55 Winners for The Queerist website. If you haven't already been to the site, check it out because, not only is it beautiful to look at thanks to Will, but it's super technically cool on a count of Keith, and the witty, in-your-face writing is all the brainchild of Antonio (and he still claims he's not gay...).
CPSarts.org
Congrats also goes out to Will, Keith, Tom, Antonio and the crew over at the Office of Arts Education at Chicago Public Schools (David, Frank, Molly, Nancy, Charles Bill + Emily) for the tech savvy, ultra clean art department website that has been accepted into AIGA's 365 annual competition. Antonio's collaboration with the CPS folks on arcitecture made for a streamlined approach with Tom's clickable sitemap. With that bare-bones text version of the site, Will created a super sleek + modern site design to compliment the logo he had already done. Tom and Keith finished it up with a custom Rails backend system giving CPS complete control over all the content on their site at the same time allowing them to reach out to the over 400 schools and citywide arts partner organizations.
Both project will be part of gallery exhibitions and appear in their respective annual design books. Jobs well done everyone!
New clients to shout about.
May 06, 2009
With springtime, comes lots of new growth and prosperity. We have a great lineup of new projects happening at the studio that we'd love to share with everyone.
Something we've been working on for a bit now, but is still under development is a website for Erie Charter School. They are a local school (literally a block down the street) that needed a new site with tools to interact with their parents + students. We love what they are doing and can't wait to launch the site in the next month.
Another great new client we are super stoked about is the Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants or OCASI for short. They are in progress on creating a new program just for youth newcomers. We're fortunate enough to be the design team on the new brand and website.
Our most recent collaboration has been with a company you may have already heard of, The Point. They are local folks who want to see your ideas and goals happen through group participation. They have a program they started a year or so ago called Groupon. This uses the group participation model to get one day, huge deals for you. It's a great idea and we couldn't wait to jump on board and help redesign + reorganize how the new site will work.
PS - be on the lookout for new case studies, new work in our portfolio and even more new clients + fun happenings at the studio.
Watch Us In Motion
July 21, 2009
Small Talk #4 : This AIGA Small Talk series takes place at a company dedicated to informing it's clients’ creativity with the scientific insights gained through studying the real lives of customers and users. Conifer Research has developed innovative methods and proprietary software to capture, analyze and preserve customer behaviors, attitudes and emotions as they are expressed in real life. Their seasoned team of anthropologists, strategists and designers act as consultants, facilitators and coaches. Join AIGA Chicago to learn what it means to be a designer at Conifer.
July 31, 2009
Public Works : 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.
August 01, 2009
DIY Radio Transmitters : Takes a do-it-yourself approach to broadcast media by learning to construct your own low-power FM radio transmitters at the MCA. Artist Brett Ian Balog talks about the legal issues surrounding micro-power broadcasting as well as artistic/activist uses of the medium. Brett Ian Balogh is an artist and an instructor at both the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Illinois Institute of Technology, teaching courses in DIY broadcasting, digital fabrication, and acoustics. Registration required.