The team here at MODE is growing and we are very excited to introduce two new, very talented friends and colleagues (actually they’ve been with us for over a month now so this is a long overdue introduction). We couldn’t be more excited to have them as part of the team, so if you’re in the neighborhood stop by and introduce yourself or give ‘em a call and say hello. More »
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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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 »
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.
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 »
To celebrate Kelly’s 2nd Anniversary at MODE (or his 2nd M-irthday) we need to do something extra special–after all he’s the Director of Party Planning. We needed to do something big, something elaborate, something to really show him just how much we care. Something that we would all be talking about for the weeks to follow. Something like the time we filled Tyler’s work space with 200+ multi-colored balloons, for his birthday. A cake just wouldn’t do. It would take; 6 rolls of striped wrapping paper, 3 rolls of tape, a handful of unnamed individuals and a web cam to record the reveal, to really make it memorable.
The office is buzzing with excitement over MODE’s big move across town, myself included. Talk of 10-foot glass walls, more individualized workspaces and a never-before-had break room complete with a full size refrigerator has the team anxious to step foot into the new building. While every one of the improvements tickles my fancy, I am most excited about all the new workspaces to choose from, and the possibility of having one that I can call my own, as I have not had that luxury at our current office. I live a nomadic lifestyle here in the office, changing desks every so often based on needs. More »
Something that has fascinated me with the evolution of the web have been the ever changing methods in which users are able to describe content on the web. The idea behind describing content is a rather simple one. You can take an image, sound or video and use words to describe it. More »
We are proud to announce that MODE will be featured in Print Magazine’s 2008 Regional Design Annual. Our inclusion marks our 3rd consecutive and will feature MODE’s own identity system, always a complicated but great opportunity for a studio to create something unique. More »
I was never really big on job titles at my previous employers, hell, at my last job I was listed as “Programmer I”, not even sure I know the difference between the tasks I am given here on a daily basis verses my last employer. Well actually, I take that back. I started working here Nov 2006 and was told I would be working on a large Enterprise Java Application, so I guess that makes me a “Java Developer.” As time went by, the titles began to pile up. Being from out of town and moving to a new city, I found myself going out often to meet new people in the Uptown Charlotte area and convincing co-workers to go to bars, concerts, and sporting events. It wasn’t long before I was telling my weekend stories on Monday morning to a very attentive audience. I had them hanging on my every word. These actions would soon gain me more respect in the office as I was the front-runner for the position of “Director of Fun Stuff”. More »
As a relative newcomer here at MODE (coming from ?What If! The Innovation Company), I have had the opportunity to witness the creative processes of two very different ‘creative’ companies. I came to MODE from a company that leads innovation projects and teaches their clients how to be more creative, so as you can imagine, I am inherently cognizant of my “creative climate” and how it affects workplace dynamics, both in my office and the client’s. More »
