A sneak peek at the photography for Las Vegas Design Center’s 2010 Integrated consumer campaign, currently in publications, direct mail, banner ads, on-site environmental graphics and on billboards throughout greater Las Vegas. More »
We are pleased to announce MODE was awarded 5 Addys at the American Advertising Federation’s 2010 Charlotte ADDY® Awards & Gala. It was an incredible night and we were honored to be recognized amongst such a talented group of creative professionals. Congratulations to all the winners and the AAF for a tremendous show.
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Every year Winthrop University’s Graphic Design and Illustration Seniors put on an event to showcase their brand spankin’ new portfolios of work to friends, family, the design community and anyone else that might be interested. I look forward to this event every spring since I, too, was once one of these enthusiastic seniors ready to show off my work to anyone who would look. It’s exciting to see, not only the portfolios of each student, but also how each class brands and advertises their show.
You should check out the website for this year’s show simply titled ‘Illustration & Graphic Design Show.’ The event will be held on Friday, April 16th, 2010 at the Design Resource Center at 1930 Camden Rd. Charlotte, NC 28203. The students put a lot of work into these shows (believe me, I know), so come out and support Winthrop’s Visual Communication Design Seniors, I will be!
The January 2nd opening of the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art brought a buzz to the city of Charlotte as the number of visitors topped 5,000 in just 5 hours. The opening was exciting to all for many reasons, but especially exciting to everyone here at MODE. We have had the opportunity to work with the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art for more than 18 months, designing everything from the visual identity to the ticket counter digital displays, to the signage seen throughout the building. More »
The Bechtler Museum of Modern Art opened their doors to the public in January, kicking it all off with a black tie New Years Eve Gala. The museum asked MODE to design an invitation for the night that would celebrate the beginning of a new year and welcome a new cultural institution to Charlotte. More »
During the design phase of the new Mellow Mushroom website, a very cool opportunity presented itself: I had a chance to create my first typeface, BadManners Sans. The name references the quirky style of the face, but is also one of my many nicknames here at MODE. Don’t ask how I got the nickname “BadManners,” its a long story… More »
MODE is excited to announce completion of the visual identity and temporary website for the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art. The museum, dedicated to the exhibition of mid-century European modernism, houses the collection of the Swiss-born Bechtler Family. With works from Giacometti, Miro, Tinguely, Picasso, Warhol, Degas to name a few, the museum will be located uptown in the Cultural Campus and was designed by internationally-acclaimed architect Mario Botta. More »
July has been an exciting month for us here at MODE, earlier this month we celebrated the launch of the redesigned Mellow Mushroom website. We planned some low-key festivities around the studio and we knew our friends from Mellow Mushroom were going to join us in Charlotte for the launch, we were quite surprised however, to find that they had transported a mobile oven from their headquarters in Atlanta and were set up to bake pizzas in our parking lot. More »
As with any development team, we are constantly looking for better tools to do our jobs. Personally, I have messed with Flex for a while but never really had the inspiration to create anything with it. That changed recently when we began development on a new e-commerce platform for Jacobson Floral a national floral goods wholesaler. More »
Saturday was the date of the Boom! Gala and Exhibition at the Mint Museum here in Charlotte. The show is alternately hosted each year by the Charlotte and Raleigh AIGA chapters, and this year accepted over 500 entries from all over the Carolinas. We are proud to announce that Mode had 6 pieces selected of the 96 in the show, and ended up taking home three gold, one silver, one bronze, and one merit award! The calibre of work across all the entries was extremely high, so we are honored to have received these recognitions. More »
Hailing from Beantown and making a much anticipated visit to the Queen City, POSTGIG is a national exhibition of original music posters curated by design industry royalty Clifford Stoltze. the show features original works by Modern Dog, Aesthetic Apparatus, Patent Pending, the Small Stakes, Seripop, Hammerpress, the decoder ring and many more. join us opening night April 17th, 7–9pm at green rice gallery in NODA where Clif will be on hand to discuss the exhibition as well as his new book “1000 Music Graphics” published by Rockport.
We’re excited to announce that we’ve begun a comprehensive rebrand for Orlando-based QAS. Recognized by Inc. magazine four consecutive years as one of the fastest growing private companies in America, QAS is concentrated on new and evolving medical diagnostic technology for the consumer and physician markets. MODE will be working closely with the team at QAS to develop key collateral and visual standards across all mediums including printed collateral, advertising and interactive initiatives.
Based on the early success of the rebrand we’ve also been tapped to develop the 2008 annual report for QAS’s parent company, Inverness Medical Innovations. Headquartered in Boston, MA with 7500 employees worldwide and 1.6 billion in revenue, Inverness is a global leader in rapid diagnostic products. Inverness Medical Innovations has major research & development and operational centers in the US, UK, Germany and Israel, and manufacturing sites in the UK, China, Japan and the US.
UNC Charlotte has embraced a bold new direction in creating the College of Arts + Architecture combining Architecture, Art & Art History, Dance, Music, and Theatre disciplines to collaborate, expand programs, reach new audiences, research, and develop a new generation of leaders. We’re proud to announce that MODE has been selected to develop a comprehensive branding initiative for the newly formed college. We are excited to work with UNC Charlotte COA+A to capture and communicate the collaborative spirit and culture that has developed through the combination of college’s varied disciplines. We are currently in the midst of an extensive exploration and planning process that will result in a comprehensive brand package including visual identity, printed collateral, website, mobile and social media tools scheduled for roll out in time for the 2009-2010 Academic Year.
If you live in the Southeast you’ve no doubt heard of a pizza place with a cult-like following called “Mellow Mushroom”. It turns out that what you thought was your local pizza joint is actually an Atlanta-based restaurant franchise with 80 plus locations scattered throughout the country, reaching as far West as Arizona. The trick is that each location is so amazingly localized and full of tremendous culture it always feels home grown.
MODE is excited to announce that we’ve been officially selected as the interactive partner to create the new Mellow Mushroom online experience. We’re honored to be collaborating with our new friends at Markham Unlimited in Miami, FL, who have been hard at work as Mellow Mushroom’s lead agency developing fantastic branding initiatives for the past year.
Keep a lookout for the new MellowMushroom.com and associated interactive campaigns in Summer of 2009.
…now if we can only convince them to re-open a location in Charlotte.
Our client The Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, Andreas Bechtler, and Charlotte’s Cultural Campus is in the international spotlight in this month’s issue of Apollo Magazine. The London-based magazine’s feature story looks at the Bechtler Family, the collection and The Bechtler Museum of Modern Art which the magazine refers to as “part of a new cultural centre driven by public-private leadership that could be a blueprint for cities around the world.”
To learn more about Apollo and read the article: http://www.apollo-magazine.com/features/3285971/a-family-gift.thtml
We are excited to bring our good friend and colleague Brian Mah to town this month in conjunction with the AIGA for a presentation at the Mint Museum. On February 26th, Brian will lead a discussion centered around the diversity of work created at Imaginary Forces and how design plays an integral role in each medium. More »
Obscured by the Mint Museum’s Warhol exhibit is a showing of a different flavor, grandiose in its own right. The ‘Scene in America: A Contemporary Look at the Black Male Image’ is a collection of work of various artists who focus on concepts of racial identity.
The highlight of the exhibition [to me] is the artist Kehinde Wiley, whose ‘Philip the Fair’ larger than life piece marries the visual rhetoric of European classicism with representations of contemporary urban, black and brown male. It is a hint of ethnographic aesthetic that I too echo in my photographic work.
More on the art of Kehinde Wiley:
http://www.kehindewiley.com
More on the ‘Scene in America’ exhibition at the Mint Museum of Art:
http://www.mintmuseum.org/current-exhibition.html
Our client Liquid completed the visual effects and finishing on 3 Goodby, Silverstein and Partners broadcast spots that ran during the Super Bowl this year. So, congratulations to the guys over at Liquid and keep a look out for those spots and more with a launch of Liquid’s new brand identity and website coming soon.
