Award-winning documentary filmmaker Doug Pray‘s exuberant portraits of subcultures and maverick individuals have led him to three Sundance premieres, critical raves, numerous awards, and worldwide distribution.
Career
Thornberg & Forester’s time
It has been almost two years since fate connected me with Elizabeth Kiehner, Scott Matz, Justin Meredith and their colleagues at the award-winning NYC-based design and digital production company Thornberg & Forester, and as time marches on, their story just keeps getting better. Most recently, they collaborated with the gentlemen behind Paris-based creative agency VERSUS for a new global campaign for Bisquit Cognac.
A Transparent House Seen Around the World
When the international next-generation creative studio Transparent House launched in 2004, it began as a design visualization firm, creating 3D architectural renderings and animated walkthroughs of residential and commercial buildings. That led to 3D renderings of products, and producing videos for launch events and keynotes, which led to the studio offering complete branding services to … Read moreA Transparent House Seen Around the World
Adventures in publishing: Maria Popova
The Marginalian is the brain child of Maria Popova, an interestingness hunter-gatherer and curious mind at large, who also writes for Wired UK and The Atlantic, among others, and is an MIT Futures of Entertainment Fellow. The Marginalian is a record of Maria’s reading and reckoning with our search for meaning: sometimes through science and … Read moreAdventures in publishing: Maria Popova
Great to know: Leviathan’s Jason White
Jason White, the executive creative director of design-focused production studio Leviathan, recently returned from a very successful trip to Australia, where he participated in events with Autodesk in Sydney as well as the Pause Digital Festival in Melbourne. At Pause, Jason presented “Moving Masses: The Art of Transformative Visual Experiences” as part of the PauseStage premiere conference event, and he hosted the world premiere of the dramatic short “Lilith,” Leviathan’s first original narrative film. The film was very well received, and so were Jason’s presentations. Here is some of the feedback.
Sharing secrets: Architizer
The principals of Architizer.com believe the internet can transform the way architects do business.
Since launching in 2009 with the mission of connecting architects to a vibrant network of peers, fans, and potential clients, the open community has become the largest and fastest-growing database of architecture online.
Adventures in Publishing: Charlotte Cheetham
Charlotte Cheetham is a French curator in graphic design: her publications and exhibitions projects, about graphic design and art relevant issues, are thought-like spaces for experimental proposals. The blog she has run since 2006 proposes one possible reflection of a landscape and promotes a contemporary adventurous and transversal practice of graphic design that comes closely … Read moreAdventures in Publishing: Charlotte Cheetham
Creative entrepreneurs: Tina Roth Eisenberg
Swissmiss is a design blog and studio run by Tina Roth Eisenberg. Besides swissmiss, she also founded and runs CreativeMornings and TeuxDeux. Above, I’m sharing Tina’s presentation from the 2011 Future of Web Design conference. “The talk is mostly about lessons I want to teach my kids, hoping that one day, they will be at … Read moreCreative entrepreneurs: Tina Roth Eisenberg
Scion’s moving story…
The evolving brand campaign from Scion and its creative agency of record ATTIK debuted in late September, and the newest facet entitled Motivate launched last week. Motivate presents young self-starters in the creative arts community with opportunities to achieve their dreams by winning personal business mentors, up to $10,000 and Scion vehicles. Full contest rules … Read moreScion’s moving story…
Shilo is stepping up…
Fans of U.S. creative production company Shilo, fasten your seatbelts! This year the company has welcomed director Luc “Reso” Janin to its roster for commercial and music video representation in America, and Brad Tucker came onboard in June as a creative director and director. Behind the scenes in New York City, Shilo added Robert Berman … Read moreShilo is stepping up…