The KDU recently collaborated with Translation Marketing and the Strategic Group to execute visuals for the 2 Kings event during NBA All Stars in New Orleans. During this project we put together a true KDU Global Dream Team. Si Scott from London, Peter Jaworowski from Poland (Ars Thanea, The Hejz), Justin Maller from Australia, Matt Andrews, Philippe Richardson / Laundry from Los Angeles, along with the KDU NYC core team worked together to create the work. Even the team from Proof 7 NYC jumped in to handle printing. Special thanks to everyone that helped make this go as smooth.

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The KDU

Bought new house or maybe just thinking about re-decorating? Now you can do that without making a mess in your home or drawing dozens of room plans - mydeco.com is coming to help you. This is an amazing project, it’s a community where the main thought is “interior design”. But that’s not all! You can plan your room, decorate it as you like using thousands of real components (all kinds of furniture, paints, wallpapers etc.) and on the end… you can buy all of them. You can even see your room from the point you like, mydeco gives you a tool which creates a 3D render of your room in just a couple of seconds! Still, it’s not everything. You can meet there real interior designers, read their advices, browse their designs.

It may look like an ad, but really, try it. Did your girlfriend spend hours on The Sims? Show her mydeco.com and she’ll love it! :)

We’re also very proud we can tell that we’re involved in mydeco 3D room planner project. With Radek and our new developer - Jacek Jarosiewicz, we have been developing new functionalities for this tool for couple of months now and I must say this is quite ambitious job. We learnt quite a few new things and I hope we still will.

Stay Alive is another new wallpaper made for The FWA visitors. You can download it - here. It took me some time to finish this one. Basically I did it like my other works - primarily in Adobe Photoshop and loads of different stock photography, no 3D involved. Hope you enjoy.

Related links:
thefwa.com
hejz.com

Nokia Trends Lab is a series of experiments designed to support our creativity. NTL connects estabilished artists with up-and-coming local talent to co-create multimedia projects across various European locations. In the end a live performance will take place in each of participating country.

In close colaboration with K2 Internet we prepared polish site for this international event.

The goal was: To create interesting and innovative in visual layer site, where visiting users can share their ideas and thoughts in each Lab. Read the rest of this entry »

New Day is a new wallpaper made for The FWA visitors. Enjoy.

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thefwa.com

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.

While back, together with my good friend Jericó Santander, we did this collaboration for fun. Whole creation process took us about 2 weeks. Since it was personal stuff we had plenty of time, so we could work slower, try different things and experiment as much as we wanted. Here’s the effect. Hope you guys enjoy this one! There’s actually no message behind it, we just wanted to make it very nice when we’ll hang it on on the wall. Original size is fairly big so it will look sweet printed. Will post some more photos later on.

Related links:
rarz.org
hejz.com

We did promo minisite for latest production of Devoid of Yesterday. Devoid is an arts based collective specializing in the creation of personal short film projects and not for profit commissions. Although consisting of motion directors Rob Chiu and Chris Hewitt, Devoid’s work is about as far removed from the world of commercial motion design as you can possibly get. Together with Ben Boysen the trio are plotting out new territory that is constantly changing with the emotions and experiences gained from the friendship that binds the three together. Devoid of Yesterday creates dark twisted narratives with flickers of hope that reflect the human nature of the artists. Please choose maximized version of video and enjoy watching.

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devoidofyesterday.com

Illustration for Unicef’s book for their 60th anniversary. Inside the book you can find wide variety of styles from artists all over the world. 60 artists, each of them had one page for their work and one for their thoughts about Unicef and it’s actions. Almost all pieces combine strong messages and emotional feelings. The book itself is dedicated to adults. The outcome of the work is to prompt reflection while stimulating creativity in the opinion of the public. Publish date is set up on September 2007. After release every piece will be exhibited worldwide starting from Paris, France.

Related links:
apag-editions.org
60uniteforchildren.com