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  • The Nickel Hotel Teatro is a beautiful Denver hotel in the old Tramway Building from 1911. We named their new restaurant "The Nickel" after a giant vault we found in the basement that used to hold the tram fares: a nickel a ride.

    Over the course of the project we rebranded the hotel itself, and created the new restaurant, barrel bar, lounge study and coffee bar brands, logos, signage, menus, and lots more.         2015 Branding, Graphic Design, Print Design
  • Son Lux /|\ Bones To create the art for Son Lux's new album, Bones, we built a free-standing pyramid of fluorescent light tubes, within which we exploded nested balloons filled with colored Holi powder (the same powder used in India's annual Holi Festival of Colors). To capture the images, we used super high-speed flashes triggered by a timed audio relay. To pop the balloons, we of course used a blowdart -- naturally.     2015 Art Direction, Graphic Design, Music
  • Son Lux Films Two new music videos The Made Shop wrote, directed, and produced for Son Lux's 2015 album Bones: 'You Don't Know Me' (featuring Tatiana Maslany & Noah Segan) and 'Change is Everything' (a rotoscoped, stop-motion video using 200 push pins and 500 feet of rubberized thread).     2015 Animation, Art Direction, Directing
  • The Made Shop Adobe Logo Remix An ongoing project to remix the Adobe logo.     2013 Advertising, Art Direction, Branding
  • Son Lux, We Are Rising Art, Direction, Album Art, Graphic Design     2014 Art Direction, Graphic Design
  • Select Logos Graphic Design, Logos, Branding     2014 Branding, Graphic Design
  • Hangar 1 Vodka Graphic Design, Branding, Website. Packaging design by Stranger & Stranger.     2014 Branding, Graphic Design, Web Design
  • Western Daughters Butcher Shoppe Full identity package. Logo, branding, website, interior design & layout, architecture.     2014 Architecture, Branding, Graphic Design
  • Lucky Pie Graphic Design, Branding, Hand-drawn Illustration, Logos, Menus     2014 Branding, Graphic Design, Illustration
  • Inspire Magazine Cover Interactive magazine cover art direction, design, build, and shoot for Adobe's Inspire Magazine relaunch in 2014.     2014 Art Direction, Graphic Design, Motion Graphics
  • Maker Coffee Roasters Graphic Design, Branding, Logos, Websites     2014 Branding, Graphic Design, Web Design
  • The Fray, Heartless Art Direction, Graphic Design, Album Art     2014 Art Direction, Graphic Design
  • Looper Graphic Design, Film Art, Branding, Illustration     2014 Branding, Graphic Design, Illustration
  • Stranahan's Colorado Whiskey Stranahan's Colorado Whiskey rebranding. Products, branding, print.     2014 Branding, Print Design, Product Design
  • The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories Collection Graphic Design, Objects, Books, Print     2014 Graphic Design, Print Design
  • Moncrieff Project Residential architectural project.     2014 Architecture
  • The Fray Covers We recently made this album cover with The Fray. They had self-produced an EP album of covers—which is one of my favorite things they’ve recorded—and they asked us to design the album cover.

    The artwork concept we pitched is a fairly obvious pun — covers album, all covered up — but we had a ton of fun over a long weekend making it, and really love how it came out. Along with Ben (the drummer) and a few friends’ help, we wrapped literally every piece of equipment they own in their studio with white vinyl and built it all up into the background for the cover shot. We worked with Michelle Wysocki who photographed the final composition, and we brought it all together for the vinyl album artwork design.         2014 Art Direction, Graphic Design
  • The Fray, LP 2 Art Direction, Graphic Design, Album Art     2014 Art Direction, Graphic Design
  • St. Kilian's Cheese Shop & Market Graphic Design, Interior & Exterior Layout, Web Design     2014 Graphic Design, Print Design, Web Design
  • Broke* Limited Poster Broke* is a documentary about music; exploring whether it still possible for an artist to "break" in today's industry.

    Will Gray, the producer & director, asked The Made Shop to make a special limited-edition poster for patrons of the film.

    We made 5 different pieces, all featuring the same title but each made out of different broken audio media formats (e.g. vinyl, sheet music, 1/2" tape) as a sort of visual history of a broken industry.         2014 Graphic Design
  • HIT RECORD Websites, Art Direction, Graphic Design     2014 Art Direction, Graphic Design, Web Design
  • Yoko Ono & Plastic Ono Band Graphic Design, Posters
         2014 Graphic Design
  • Tumblr's Reblog This Film Festival Art Direction, Graphic Design, Posters     2014 Art Direction, Graphic Design
  • Letterpress Linear Calendars We came up with this idea a few years ago for a full-year poster calendar that, instead of showing all the months as a bunch of tiny boxes, kept each month intact as a complete line across a grid of weeks and weekends. Initially we just made them for ourselves, but we started making more and selling them because people on tumblr really liked the idea.

    It’s now become my favorite and most useful calendar format for planning and projects, because it seems to be a much more natural way to view multiple weeks, unbroken weekends, and because it allows easy notes for deadlines and trips which isn’t normally possible on standard year-at-a-glance calendars. Also, they look really cool.

    They’re limited-edition debossed letterpress-printed in single colors onto nice thick paper.

    You can buy them in our shop for the quite-reasonable price of $25.         2014 Graphic Design
  • King Art direction, layout, and design for the debut album from Joe King     2014 Graphic Design
  • Archie Goods Graphic Design, Logos, Branding     2014 Branding, Graphic Design
  • Artists Against Fracking Graphic Design, Websites     2014 Graphic Design, Web Design
  • RECollection Graphic Design, Objects, Books     2014 Graphic Design
  • The Brothers Bloom Graphic Design, Album Art, Film Art     2014 Graphic Design
  • Butter Music & Sound Logos, Branding, Graphic Design
         2014 Branding, Graphic Design
  • Cross Stitch Star Chart Art, Art Objects, For Sale     2014 Product Design
  • Faux Fix Graphic Design, Album Art, Art Direction     2014 Art Direction, Graphic Design
  • Little Red Riding Hood Redux Print Design, Books     2014 Print Design
  • Family Tree Wall Tattoo Objects, Art Objects, For Sale     2014 Graphic Design
  • Secondhand Serenade Graphic Design, Album Art, Art Direction     2014 Art Direction, Graphic Design
  • The Pee-Wee Herman Show Art Direction, Graphic Design, Posters     2014 Art Direction, Graphic Design
  • The Fray, Scars & Stories Art Direction, Graphic Design, Album Art     2014 Art Direction, Graphic Design
  • The Sea The Sea, Love We Are We Love Graphic Design, Art Direction, Album Art     2014 Art Direction, Graphic Design
  • Shell House We’re thinking it could be called the Shell House, or else maybe The House of Four Gables, Two of Which Are Oddly Interior Pseudo Gables and Not Really Gables At All.

    It’s very simply organized along three dividing axes (two in section (shown above), the third in plan):

    Public / Private (vertical division, as is standard in most houses)
    Us / Them (lateral division at the foyer between Kim & I and children & guests (hence the two extra gables).
    Front / Back (longitudinal division between “back of house” dense services, plumbing, etc. and open, flexible "front of house" spaces)

    This is pretty early in the design process. It still needs a basement and lots of service and storage space design, plus some overall tinkering with scale and square footage. But I think it succeeds as a diagram of how we eventually want to live.         2014 Architecture
  • Katie Chastain, Firecracker Art Direction, Graphic Design, Album Art     2014 Art Direction, Graphic Design
  • Silent Bob Speaks Poster Graphic Design, Print, Posters     2014 Graphic Design, Print Design
  • N&K Wedding Graphic Design, Print     2014 Graphic Design, Print Design
  • Proxy Logos, Branding, Graphic Design     2014 Branding, Graphic Design
  • Making The Made Shop Shirt A short little peak into the process of making the hand-made iron-on Made Shop shirts.

    Music: 'Everlasting Light' by The Black Keys         2014 Fashion
  • The Cinematic Underground Art Direction, Graphic Design, Album Art     2014 Art Direction, Graphic Design
  • Imagine Goods Graphic Design, Logos, Branding, Websites     2014 Branding, Graphic Design, Web Design
  • Copper Penny Tile Jig We designed this custom jig for making 18"x16" tiles of pennies for a recent project. When we posted photos, a lot of people wrote asking if they could buy them, and now that we're finished with the project we decided to sell the unused jigs we had made. The jigs are made of 1/16" chipboard.
         2014 Product Design
  • The New Time — An Incomplete History Art Direction, Graphic Design, Album Art     2014 Art Direction, Graphic Design
  • Rufus Wainwright & The McGarrigle Christmas Hour Art Direction, Graphic Design, Posters     2014 Art Direction, Graphic Design
  • Kiki & Herb Live at Carnegie Hall Graphic Design, Objects, DVD Art, Posters, Ads
         2014 Advertising, Graphic Design
  • The Fray, How To Save A Life Art Direction, Album Art, Graphic Design     2014 Art Direction, Graphic Design
  • Philistine Matchboxes Poor Yorick     2013 Art Direction, Graphic Design, Product Design
  • Slava's Snowshow VIP Invitation Graphic Design, Print     2014 Graphic Design, Print Design
  • Gretel, The Meteorite Art Direction, Graphic Design, Album Art     2014 Art Direction, Graphic Design
  • Selected Architectural Work Architecture, Student Work     2014 Architecture
  • Ecolomy Studio The Ecolomy Studio was run by BIG's Bjarke Ingels when he was a visiting professor at Harvard GSD in 2007.

    "Ecolomy" is Bjarke's term conflating "economy" with "ecology." Until recently most large-scale architecture projects were economically sound but ecologically unsustainable. Recently that trend is reversing, unfortunately many new projects that are now ecologically sound are often economically unsustainable.

    The problem of the studio was to create a project where –as often as possible–economic benefits increased ecologic sustainability, and ecologic benefits also helped the bottom line.

    This project is situated in Iceland. After extensive research into Iceland's economy and ecology, I proposed a drastic expansion of Iceland's current aluminum production. This was controversial because most aluminum plants are noisy, ugly, and cause pollution. However, because of Iceland's vast hydroelectric power potential it is shockingly more ecologically sustainable to produce aluminum in Iceland than nearly anywhere else in the world. (See the video for a more detailed explanation.) So, counter-intuitevly, as we increase Iceland's GDP we reduce world-wide CO2 production from aluminum smelting.

    However, every new aluminum plant requires building a large town to house all the workers needed to run it. This doubles the ecologic footprint and impact of every aluminum plant. To address this problem, my project combines the plant and the town into a single footprint by excavating the aluminum potlines underground and using them to form the city blocks. Excess heat energy is used to warm the city above, and tourist-friendly sea-water canals are used simultaneously to cleanse the CO2 exhaust in a cutting-edge new filtering process that is much cleaner than standard filtering methods.         2014 Architecture
  • Lonely Cities Exhibition Graphic Design, Print, Posters     2014 Graphic Design, Print Design
  • Gretel, The Dregs For Gretel's last album, The Dregs, we wanted to use the cover illustration (a hand holding an empty-ish cup) as a small flip book icon in the liner notes to animate the album's theme of being emptied to (and filled from) the dregs.     2014 Art Direction, Graphic Design
  • Volume Chair Objects, Furniture     2014 Furniture Design
  • Supermarket Super Market was my graduate thesis project at the Harvard GSD with advisor Mark Mulligan. Its site is the Hudson Rail Yards in Manhattan, NY.

    The project explores the feasibility of introducing Big Box retail into Manhattan. It examines the nature and juxtaposition of the artificial and constructed ground and attempts to forge a new typology that responds to both ecologic and economic vernacular types.
         2014 Architecture
  • Addict, N.Y.C. Architecture, Interior Design, Retail     2014 Architecture, Interior Design
  • Family Guy Sings at Carnegie Hall Graphic Design, Print, Posters, Ads     2014 Advertising, Graphic Design, Print Design
  • Columbia University Expansion Architecture, Urban Planning, Student Work     2014 Architecture
  • Coastal Watch Concept Coastal Watch Concept     2014 Product Design
  • Copyright Infinite Copyright     2015 Animation
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