Graphic Content

It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's the Web

Here at FP Headquarters, we're busy plugging away at the massive marketing effort that is the Sioux Falls Air Show.  Today we're going to share some of our favorite "flyers" from the world wide web...

A sampling of flyers to come.

The web has taken off and more SFAS action is coming your way, so keep your head in clouds...

Credits for this web monstrosity go to Quinn the Wordsmith, Gavin the Flash-ineer, Adrian Ilchuk the Programmer, Jim the Acct Exec, SFAS the Client, and, your humble GC curator, Kiel MagicMouse as the Visuals.

Tomorrow we're unveiling our exciting theme for next week.  We got submissions, art, a guest blogger (wha?!), so tune in tomorrow for some GC firsts...

Send your own artwork in to [email protected] to get your work posted.

-kiel mm.

Upstage Reality: A Making of...

Regular GC visitors will remember that a few weeks ago the FP Headquarters sounded out a Red Rocket Alert Stage.  We only initiate the Red Rocket Alert Stage during the most intense of times, during which we experience extreme productivity, massive amounts of work, and general madness.  During this most recent RRAS, we helped the Washington Pavilion launch next year's Husby Series.  So upon an unknowing SxFs, "Upstage Reality" was released.

Here's a massive "making of" for the campaign's illustrations as seen in "The Script":

Initial sketchin's-

Figure study and ink studies-

Yee-haw for scanning in real ink brush strokes!

Earlier computer work-

Initial brochure spread (a little too reminiscent of another local performing arts venue...)

Final cover in all it's embossed glory-

Final inside spread-

This is only one facet of our Upstage campaign.  For more info check out www.upstagereality.com and keep your eyes peeled for instances of Upstaging...

The team included copywriter mavericks, Quinn Kathner & Ted Heeren; an account exec the likes of which SxFs has never seen before, Jim Speirs; the steady drum of the "Hammer", Jessica Rice; our own digital Johnny Appleseed, John "F. Produce" Meyer; and the doodlin' musings of your humble GC Curator, Kiel Mutschelknaus.  And perhaps the biggest player in this project, the client that said "Yes", the Washington Pavilion and it's astonishing Marketing Dept.

Also!  You have an assignment tonight!  Go to Fly Away Sparrow's release concert at 8.00 pm tonight at Latitude 44!  Or get your copy now!

Send your own work in to [email protected] to get your work posted here on GC.

-kiel m.

The Fold Stops Here

The Foldness is over! That's a wrap! Go home! You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here! We're out!

We're going to end The Foldness by digging in the ol' GC archives for a nice example of seeing the Foldness in the real world. This is the DSU Info-Tron we did for DSU last year. Evidently school counselors love them. We have reports of them making armies of their own Info-Tron's. The Foldness!

"Making of"

A nod to FP Headquarter's new Art Director Eva Hofer for creating the look and feel. The Foldness touch courtesy of yours truly.

And that's it.

Will all this Foldness happening over the past 2 weeks, we've gotten backed up with tons of non-paper craft pieces to start covering. We got some illo's, some ethn' knowledge, some from our very own FP Headquarters, and some from a new, uber-mysterious contributor, a mystery involving socks. What is this Mystery of Socks? We haven't a clue. Tune in next week. We'll explain.

Join in the fun by sending your own artwork to [email protected] and get your chunk of the digital white cube known as Graphic Content.

-kiel m.

The Horror! The Foldness!

Hey everybody,

FP New Media Specialist and GC PR Extraordinaire John Meyer has sent in his paper toy!  The first downloaded, folded, decorated, and pic'd paper craft has made an appearance courtesy of Mr. Meyer and his friend Kelley. Here is the greatness, the madness, the Foldness!

And that item in John's hand?  His New Media weapon of choice, the iPhone.

Major props to John and Kelley for their great delve into the foldness.

Let's see some more people!

Later today, we will have a panda. Serious. Later today, we will have a paper panda. No joke. It may sound silly like I was joking but I'm not. Panda. Here. Later today.

-kiel

More Foldiage: From the Graveyard

Our Paper Craft Week continues with some models from the wastepaper basked.  These were some initial pieces we cooked up initially that were quickly crumbled up.  These all relied on glue and the challenge and convenance of a glueless model was too alluring to turn down.  So these dome heads were tossed aside for the ones we posted earlier.

Again, modeled after the most handsome man in the FP Headquarters, Kiel Mutschelknaus < / modesty >.

We had also kicked around the Ill-Fated Rocktopus.  Don't use this idea!  We might still need it...

The Rocktopus head-

The Foldness continues tomorrow...

And hurry up assembling your FP workers.  The week is almost up and you may never get another chance to have your creations posted here.  Is it hard?  Are people having difficulties?  Need better instructions?

-kiel m.

Additional Challenge This Week: the Chalkboard Dilemma

Attention Gawkers, Gander-ers, and Glancers alike,

In addition to the festival that will be Paper Craft Week, we also have a challenge for you.  We're taking suggestions on what to put on the chalkboard outside of the FP headquarters.  We get a ton of lost sheep looking for law offices and despite our hours of marketing communication brainstorming sessions on what to say to deter their interuptions, we cannot come up with anything effective.  For the whole story, listen to last week's Fresh Friday-

http://www.pickfresh.com/files/pods/FF-41-No-Birdseed-Please.mp3

So GC regs, you have two homework assignments.

1.) Create some Paper Crafts for us to display.  If you feel you cannot tackle such complex tasks, worry not, for tomorrow we shall upload a template for you to create your very own Paper Craft creation

2.) Listen to last week's FF and write your suggestions on what should be on our chalkboard to stop the lost sheep from mistaking us for a law firm.  You can comment here on your ideas or send them directly to [email protected]

Busy week, we know.  But nobody said reading this blog would be easy...

-kiel m.

Call Sherlock, kiddos

Because the "Mystery Abounds" submissions are back.  Big addition being announced soon-ish.

Whet your palette on this-

More to come...

Send your own art work in to [email protected] to get your work posted on Graphic Content.

Seriously.

Do it.

Why wouldn't you?

Really.

-kiel m.

The Ill-Fated Rock 'n' Bowl

Being an agency with people in the SDAF, Fresh Produce was put in charge of the mailer to advertise the Rock'n'Bowl, the local ad agencies' annual bowling party.  Well this year's bowling soiree was canned do to lack of participation.  On behalf of the creative dept, I would like to apologize for not making a direct mailer that was enticing enough to recruit people to come.  I, Kiel, am sorry for not making it more "rockin'" or "awesome" enough to inspire people to come and bowl.

Next time we work with the rock'n'roll theme, we promise to use at least one (1) instance of live traced punk wearing aviator sunglasses, two (2) instances of vector wings, four (4) instances of flourishes, and will make the font grungierer < / joke >.

Have a good weekend all.  Send your own artwork in to [email protected] to get your work posted on Graphic Content.

-kiel m.

The Ipso: Eat Your Heart Out Corporate Art!

Well this is a big week for FP and the Ipso.  We have a grand ol' opening this Friday for the Ipso and an open house for the 5 year anniversary for Fresh Produce.  That's this Friday, March 6th, post 5 o'clock and will be in conjunction with the Fine Arts Trolley Tour.  Fine food, fine drink, fine art, fine fellahs (and ladies).

Here at GC, we will provide continuing coverage of the Ipso as it grows into a full grown, bona fide art gallery. And to start our coverage we're going to show you an ingenious addition to the Ipso, the long awaited and talked about "Art Tree".  From the fine minds at Perspective, this wonder is a great idea for hanging art.  The central trunk has several adjustable branches that shoot off from the radius and provide surface area for hanging bits of art.  Brilliant!

Take a gander!

The tree "naked"

An exclusive "making of" sketch-

Art from Mary Groth and Liz Bashore Heeren will be coming this week and we'll keep you up to date.

Send your own bits of artwork to [email protected] to get your work posted on Graphic Content.

-kiel m.

FP in Red Rocket Alert Stage- A Mystery Abounds to hold you over.

The FP creative dept just experienced a "0 to 60" type day, followed by a "60 to 132" type day, which pushed us well over the Red Rocket Alert Stage.  Ergo, the GC submissions have suffered.  The Management apologizes.  Here's another submission to the Mystery Abounds series, which may prove to be a verrrrry long reveal.  And the Art Tree we were telling you about?  Just chill, you'll see it when it's ready.  Hold on to your horses please.

Make our lives easier and send your own work in to [email protected] to get your work posted on Graphic Content.

-kiel m.