Finally it’s May! We have waited so long for this event. Already packing bags and heading slowly to the airport. I got a feeling that this year will be even more fun. Anyone is coming?

See you in Lisbon!

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OFFF’08

We are pleased to announce that we won one of the prestigious Kreatura Awards for our illustration series: Freedom (w/ Drew Flaherty), New Day & Stay Alive. Ars Thanea was also nominated for new company identity. This year the members of international jury awarded only 17 projects from all media: TV, outdoor, radio & internet. Congratulations for all winners and nominees.

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Kreatura Awards
Few photos from the event

Since we didn’t have much time lately to finish up our proper website we thought it would be good to have simple showcase with more information and works in compare to splash. Hopefully there will be a chance to get done our main website soon. For now please sit back, relax, grab a cup of coffee and check our temporary showcase.

This is the last entry on our blog in 2007 so…We wish you all Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2008. With cheers from our team! See you in January 2008.

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www.arsthanea.com

The Styles is a new funky product from guys over People Like Us Style. They are available for different iPod sizes, generations and made from a non-destructive adhesive (they won’t hurt your iPod). The Styles completely protect your iPod from scratching, scuffing and dust. First show includes the works of No Pattern, Electric Heat, Shinybinary, 013a and myself among others. For some more photos or information you can go here.

It was fun - it’s actually always fun to use your stuff anywhere on something material, not only pixels on the screen. I have received some samples few days back and it’s looking very sweet even when I have an old iPod. Totally good way to refresh an old look.

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peoplelikeusstyle.com
hejz.com

We finally finished Ars Thanea official blog. We want to share with you our knowledge about newest trends in interactive design and not only. In Flash section you can find few interesting articles and tips about programming or Flash platform. You can also read the latest news about our company, what we do and what interesting is going on all over the world. We decided to keep high standards, so you can be sure that things you will find here are really useful. Some of them are up to date, but we thought that few things are worth to be recalled as well. We’ll keep it updated. So… read, comment and be part of it. Our blog is officially open. Have fun!

New identification

After few attempts on our new logo we all agreed we prefer mono color and interesting shape. Our goal was to achieve elegant, recognizable logotype made of typography. You will never guess how bizarre things came up ;-). After few days of trying we decided to go into the hand writing direction. Several proposals were made but this was still not it… If you ever tried to make logotype for yourselves than you know what I mean.
After hours and tons of props Peter was drawing some sketches in PS and suddenly we knew this is it. There was a problem, because our first version of the logotype was drawn on tablet in 72 dpi in PS. We had the direction but what’s next? We put it into the Adobe Streamline, and made irregular vector shape. Then few hours playing with vectors in Illustrator with high zooms and we’ve got it. Funny thing - we tried to make it more regular but it lost it’s character, so we stayed with non perfect letters shape, just few lines and curves. It had a flow, it had character, it was elegant. Ars Thanea logotype came to life.
Couple of days later, together with Peter, we have made business cards which was quite easy after hours spent on logotype. We decided to go for black, simple shape with small cut under 2/3 of height. We printed it on Plike paper 330g. Effect you can check on photos above.

New office

We set up our office on Miodowa 23/17. It’s close to Old Town, full of trees habitant area. If you want to visit us give us a call.

New beginning

In our professional life we always try to make best we can. We will stay in this direction. Stay tuned.