Office's Stag print was among 100 works selected by Tokyo Type Directors Club for an international exhibition at Ginza Graphic Gallery in Tokyo from April 2-25. Part of this exhibit is now on display at ddd gallery in Tokyo through July 6, 2012.
Office's Stag print was among 100 works selected by Tokyo Type Directors Club for an international exhibition at Ginza Graphic Gallery in Tokyo from April 2-25. Part of this exhibit is now on display at ddd gallery in Tokyo through July 6, 2012.
The Tokyo Type Directors Club selected Office's Stag print from more than 3,200 entries from around the world. The print will appear in the organization's design annual, The Best in International Typography & Design, published next year.You can buy your own Stag in our Shop.
At a ceremony held in San Francisco last night, Office was recognized by Cause/Affect, a biennial international design competition that honors the work of designers who set out to make a positive impact on society.The awards recognized Sesame Workshop's annual report, which Office concepted, wrote, and designed. It highlights how the nonprofit organization is helping kids around the world -- from slowing the spread of AIDS in Africa, to teaching respect and tolerance in the Middle East, to fighting childhood obesity in the U.S.
The report will be part of an exhibit at the AIGA SF Gallery from Nov. 3 - Nov. 30, and will be entered into the AIGA National Design Archives.
AIGA, the professional organization for design, recognized Office in its AIGA 365 Design Effectiveness Awards.Four of Office's projects were selected as examples of outstanding design produced in 2010. This included the eBay Box, IBM Smarter Planet Business Services campaign, Sesame Workshop Annual Report, and the Coca-Cola Latin America Water Brands repositioning.
The work will be part of a public exhibition scheduled to open at the AIGA National Design Center in New York in September 2011, and then travel to galleries throughout the country during 2012. The selections will also be part of a permanent historical record of notable graphic design, in the AIGA Design Archives at the Denver Art Museum.
Communication Arts, one of the most influential global graphic design competitions, selected the eBay Box among the best design of the past year. The eBay Box also won Third Place in The Dieline Awards, a global competition that recognizes the best in packaging design. Office collaborated with the eBay team to develop a unique new box that encourages greener shipping. The work will be featured along with other winners in Design Annual 52, the September/October 2011 issue of Communication Arts and on The Dieline, the most visited website on packaging design in the world.
A series of IBM posters designed by Office were selected to appear in D&AD Annual 2011: The Best Advertising and Design in the World.Office partnered with Ogilvy & Mather New York on the series for IBM's business services, as part of the company's Smarter Planet campaign.
D&AD's book will be published next fall and feature approximately 500 of the best in advertising, design and interactive, selected from more than 20,000 entries from around the word.
Shanghai-based Choi's Package, which showcases the world's best new graphic design, featured the eBay box as an example of cutting-edge creativity. Office worked with the eBay team to develop the box as part of a program to help encourage greener shipping.
The eBay Box was awarded the prestigious silver CLIO award for design excellence. “Making the CLIO Awards Shortlist is a massive compliment and achievement for individuals in this evolving industry,” said Nicole Purcell, Executive Director, CLIO Awards. “In today’s media landscape, creative professionals have to work harder to engage people, and this year’s Shortlist really reflects the most innovative work we have seen to date.”As part of a pilot program to encourage greener shipping, eBay distributed 100,000 boxes to its top sellers, with the idea that they'd be passed along and re-used. Office designed the box with friendly illustrations that emphasize the potential benefits: If the boxes are used five times, it saves 4,000 trees, 2.4 million gallons of water, and enough energy to power 49 homes for a year.
Each box is made with 100 percent recycled content, printed with water-based inks, and made to require a minimal amount of tape. And when the box reaches the end of its useful shipping life, recycling is encouraged. From the box's fine print: “Don’t worry, it will come back as something nice, like a birthday card or movie theater popcorn bag.”
The One Show Design, which honors innovative design worldwide, recognized Office's work in its 2011 awards competition. Our "Stag" holiday art print received a merit award and will be published in the One Show Design Annual out next year.If you'd like a Stag of your own, the print is now available for purchase in our Shop.
The sixth volume in the best-selling LogoLounge series features case studies of Office's work for 826 Valencia and IBM's Smarter Planet campaign. Office worked with Ogilvy & Mather NY to develop design principles and a cohesive visual vocabulary for the award-winning IBM campaign, which was rooted in designer Paul Rand's original creative vision for the company. "Rand was about boldness and clarity," says Office creative director Jason Schulte. "And his work usually included a 'wink' -- something unexpected that made his work emotionally connect with people."
Ogilvy's executive creative director Greg Ketchum told LogoLounge the campaign successfully provoked conversations about building a smarter planet, from classrooms, to boardrooms, to the White House.
"Eight days after being sworn into office, in his first major speech on the economy, President Barack Obama invited IBM Chairman Sam Palmisano to the White House to stand by him as he unveiled his plan to move the nation forward," says Ketchum. "With the launch of Smarter Planet, IBM turned a mandate for change into a mandate for smart."
The latest issue of Le Fourquet, Mexico's premiere luxury lifestyle magazine, profiled Office's work for 826 Valencia's Pirate Supply Store. The line of nearly 50 pirate products and posters have helped raise thousands of dollars to help fund the nonprofit organization's writing programs for kids.
The Communication Arts Typography Annual featured eBay's shipping boxes, designed by Office.
eBay distributed 100,000 boxes to its top sellers, encouraging the eBay community to continue to pass them on. Re-using each box at least 5 times could protect 4,000 trees, save 2.4 million gallons of water and conserve enough energy to power 49 homes for a year.
The boxes are designed with space to include a personal message to the next person who receives it, giving each box its own story. They're made with 100 percent recycled content, printed with water-based inks, designed to require minimal tape, and fully recyclable once they reach the end of their useful shipping lives.
Graphis recognized the Sesame Workshop Annual Report as one of the 100 Best Annual Reports of the year, awarding it a prestigious Graphis Gold award. Office designed and wrote the report in collaboration with the team at Sesame Workshop."When most people think of Sesame, they think of the television show that's aired on PBS for the past 40+ years," said Office President Jill Robertson. "Few people know about Sesame Workshop's other initiatives that are helping kids around the world. So we wanted a concept that emphasized the important issues they're addressing -- from slowing the spread of AIDS in Africa, to teaching respect and tolerance in the Middle East, to fighting childhood obesity in the U.S. The team used powerful storytelling to inspire potential funders to provide support."
The report will be featured in Graphis' 100 Best Annual Reports 2011 book, published this fall.
Photo courtesy of: James Provost
The Art Directors Club asked Office, along with 89 other leading designers and agencies, to design our interpretation of the iconic ADC Cube award. In celebration of ADC's 90th Annual Awards this year, the 90 cubes were on exhibit at the ADC Gallery in New York. One of the most venerable shows in the world since 1920, the ADC Annual Awards honor the best work ever produced in advertising, design, photography, illustration, and digital media. Check out all the cube submissions here.
The December issue of Sunset magazine featured Office's Blue Bird art print in its holiday gift guide "for the design hound."
"Let this foil-embossed print, designed in San Francisco, shine in a sunny spot." You can get yours here.
Office's poster for 826 Valencia's Pirate Supply Store was selected for the 2010 Chicago International Poster Biennial. The worldwide competition recognizes a selection of outstanding posters that will be featured in a catalog and exhibition in Chicago later this summer.
The CIPBA's mission is to help realize posters as the quintessential public art form — one that requires an emotional and intellectual response, and stimulates dialogue and articulation of important social, political, and economic issues.
You can buy the poster here. All proceeds benefit the 826 Valencia Writing Center.
Office's work for 826 Valencia's Pirate Supply Store was selected to be featured in the California Design Biennial exhibition at the Pasadena Museum of California Art (PMCA).
"The exhibition highlights the most significant and innovative designs being created in California, focusing on how California's established and emerging designers are responding to current economic, political and environmental challenges," says the PMCA.
The opening reception for the exhibition is on July 17, and it's on display at the PMCA through November 1, 2010.
Graphis, The International Journal of Visual Communication, recognized IBM's Smarter Planet campaign with the prestigious Graphis Gold Award. Office partnered with Ogilvy & Mather to create the visual vocabulary for the campaign. The work will be published in the Graphis 2011 Design Annual.
Office's work for IBM's Smarter Planet campaign, developed in partnership with Ogilvy & Mather New York, was selected to appear in the prestigious Communication Arts Design Annual. The organization's 51st annual will be published in October 2010.
IBM's Smarter Planet campaign won the coveted Gold Global Effie award for the year's most effective marketing communications.
By positioning IBM as a leader in solving the world's most pressing problems, the campaign increased the company's brand value in the toughest economic climate since the Great Depression, and helped expand IBM's market potential by as much as 40 percent worldwide, or $2.3 billion.
Building a Smarter Planet began as a core business idea that IBM Chairman and CEO Sam Palmisano unveiled in a speech to the Council on Foreign Affairs. He said, “Our political leaders aren't the only ones who've been handed a mandate for change. Leaders of businesses and institutions everywhere confront a unique opportunity to transform the way the world works.”
Congratulations to IBM and to our partners at Ogilvy & Mather on winning the Effie.
AIGA, the professional organization for design, selected two of Office's projects as examples of outstanding design in 2009. Office's Fanta video and IBM Smarter Planet illustrations will be published in the annual 365: AIGA Year in Design and will appear in an exhibition at the AIGA National Design Center in New York in 2010, as as well as in traveling shows in 2011.
FANTA and the FANTA Splash Bottle are trademarks of The Coca-Cola Company. Copyright 2008 The Coca-Cola Company.
As part of San Francisco Design Week, AIGA and other professional design organizations are staging an exhibit featuring award-winning San Francisco design. Office's Holiday Art and 826 Valencia Pirate Supply Store products will be on display in the AIGA/AIA Gallery space from June 14 through August 6, 2010.
For more information, visit the AIGA Events Calendar.
Recognizing its work on IBM's Smarter Planet campaign, Office was awarded a bronze CLIO Award on May 27. Office collaborated with Ogilvy & Mather New York to develop a series of illustrations for IBM's global advertising. The CLIO Awards celebrate creative excellence, honoring the impact that advertising and design has on culture.
Office was awarded a Gold Cube from the Art Directors Club on May 19 at a ceremony honoring the year's best work in advertising and design. The award recognized a series of illustrations that Office developed in partnership with Ogilvy & Mather New York, for IBM's Smarter Planet campaign. The work will be exhibited in New York this summer, and published in The Art Directors Annual 89, available in December.
Office's "blue bird" print was selected by the Tokyo Type Directors Club to receive one of its prestigious 2010 global design awards. The print will be featured in the organization's design annual, which will be published next year.
The Tokyo Type Directors Club was established to "embrace free-flowing ideas, flexible rules and a perceptive eye for quality ... and provide an environment that inspires and nurtures new artistic energy." We love that.
Office's work for The Institute for Play has been included in Viction:ary's newest publication, Colour Mania. The book features the Institute's multicolored fundraising kits, created to capture the attention of potential donors.
Graphis has selected Office's work for 826 Valencia's Pirate Supply Store for inclusion in its 2010 Design Annual that features the year's most outstanding graphic design across multiple disciplines.
In an interview with the publication, Office's president Jill Robertson describes the project's origins, the collaborative process with 826 Valencia and inspiration for the unconventional products — "People aren't really buying what's inside the bottles; they're buying the idea."
The Communications Arts Design Competition recently honored Office in its prestigious annual award show. Office's work for IBM's Smarter Planet campaign, Fanta, AIGA Get Out the Vote and the 826 Valencia Pirate Supply Store will be featured in the Communication Arts Design Annual 50, published in November 2009.
Office was honored to be included in Iowa State University's College of Design alumni exhibition, 30 and Beyond, celebrating the college's 30 year anniversary. Exhibit curator David McFadden, also chief curator at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, selected Office's work for 826 Valencia's Pirate Supply Store along with 29 other works that he called "exceptional and memorable." McFadden described Office's work as "brilliant brand identity and packaging ... fresh, intelligent and engaging." The exhibit is on display in the college's 181 Gallery until September 26, 2009.
Thanks to your votes, Office won the AIGA SF's Cause/Affect People's Choice Award, recognizing work for 826 Valencia's Pirate Supply Store. The Office team donated the monetary award to 826 Valencia, an incredibly worthy nonprofit based in San Francisco's Mission district that provides free writing programs for kids.
AIGA created the Cause/Affect competition to recognize design that supports social good. Thank you, AIGA SF.
Office’s work for 826 Valencia’s Pirate Supply Store was selected for inclusion in the prestigious ID Annual Design Review. The work will be on display at Annual Design Review Exhibit from June 25 to August 21 in New York. The work is also highlighted in ID’s 2009 Design Review.
PRINT Magazine selected Office’s work for the Pirate Supply Store as a winner from over 5,000 entries for the Regional Design Annual. Find the work in the November/December issue of PRINT magazine.
Office’s work for 826 Valencia’s Pirate Supply Store is a nominee for AIGA’s cause/affect People’s Choice Award, which recognizes graphic design that supports social good. You can help by voting for 826 Valencia. AIGA will provide a donation to the winning entry -- so your vote will support 826 Valencia's free writing programs for kids.
826 National just published Essentially Odd: A Catalog of Products Created For and Sold at the 826 Stores.
From the book's introduction: "It's a showcase of insane creativity on the part of local designers, artists, and craftspeople making strange things for a good cause. All the products herein are for sale, and sales are not only final but should, upon arrival, be considered the buyer's favorite thing they own."
The 181-page catalog features products like Peg Leg Oil, Glass Eye Drops, Beard Extensions and Scurvy BeGone, created by Office for San Francisco's Pirate Supply Store. It also showcases dozens of wares from The Greater Boston Bigfoot Research Institute, Seattle's Space Travel Supply Co., The Boring Store in Chicago, Ann Arbor's Robot Supply & Repair, the Echo Park Time Travel Mart in LA, and the Superhero Supply Store in Brooklyn.
Buy it now at the 826 Valencia Pirate Supply Store or it will be available from Amazon.com in August 2009.
Office's 2008 Holiday Art and and work for 826 Valencia's Pirate Supply Store won honors from AIGA, the professional association for design. The work will be published in 365: AIGA Year in Design 30, and exhibited at the AIGA National Design Center in New York.
Office Recognized by Tokyo Type Directors Club and The Type Directors Club
05.11.09 | Recognition | Share
The Tokyo Type Directors Club selected Office's 826 Valencia Pirate Supply Store work for their 2009 awards. It will be published in Tokyo TDC, Vol. 20 - The Best in International Typography & Design.
In addition, Office's work for 826 Valencia's Pirate Supply Store and AIGA's Get out the Vote won the Type Director's Club 55 Competition. The packaging and posters will appear in Typography 30, published next year, and will be exhibited worldwide in the TDC traveling exhibitions.
Office was honored by The One Show, a worldwide competition recognizing the best in innovative design, at its awards festival held at the Chelsea Art Museum in New York on May 4.
Office's posters for AIGA's Get Out the Vote campaign were awarded a silver pencil, the show's second-highest honor. In addition, Office's work for 826 Valencia's Pirate Supply Store received a merit award. Both projects will be featured in The One Show Design Annual, published next year.
Office's 826 Valencia Pirate Supply Store identity received Brand New's top honor in their annual "Best and Worst of 2008." "As far as I can remember, this is the only post in the history of Brand New that has come close to 100% positive remarks," says Vit.
Four Office projects were selected as winning entries in the juried STEP Design 100 competition. The 826 Valencia Pirate Supply Store identity, packaging and posters; Fanta rebranding; Beverage Partners Worldwide identity system; and Office 2007 Holiday Art will be featured in STEP’s March/April 2009 Annual.
Office also has two projects in the running for STEP’s Reader’s Choice online contest. Please vote for the AIGA Get Out the Vote posters and Coca-Cola Plus Light packaging at www.stepinsidedesign.com/readerschoice by January 12.
FANTA and the FANTA Splash Bottle are trademarks of The Coca-Cola Company. Copyright 2008 The Coca-Cola Company.
AIGAsf asked Office’s creative director Jason Schulte, along with 40 other area designers, to create a wine label for the organization’s benefit auction. Event sponsor Clos du Val winery selected Schulte’s design, and will be producing it for its limited edition release of 2006 cabernet sauvignon next year.
The label is laser cut wood, depicting a tree illustration designed to reflect the wine’s balance, complexity and elegance -- and to integrate with the winery’s existing logo.
Proceeds from the auction support Inneract Project, a professionally supported program that provides free design classes for inner-city youth.
Office’s Get Out the Vote poster was the cover art for the October issue of GDUSA. Created for the AIGA’s Design for Democracy initiative, several posters designed by Office were selected for publication and for curated exhibitions at the Denver Art Museum and Walker Art Center in Minneapolis during the national conventions. Office’s posters also popped up in other publications this fall, including ReadyMade, Creativity, cmyk and US Weekly. “The idea behind Design for Democracy is simple, good design is a valuable tool for social good,” said AIGA executive director Ric Grefe.
Office's Get Out the Vote posters were selected to be exhibited at the Denver Art Museum and Walker Art Center in Minneapolis during the national conventions.
AIGA, the professional association for design, invited designers from across country to create and submit nonpartisan posters that inspire people to vote in the upcoming general election.
As part of a juried competition, AIGA also chose two of Office's posters to be printed and displayed in public locations across the country.
Office’s re-design of the Fanta identity was reviewed on Brand New, an influential blog about corporate and brand identity work.
“I really, really like the work created by Office, it's exuberant and well crafted, and it manages to be both elegant and youthful, and it stands apart from other fruit drinks,” posted Armin Vit, designer, writer and co-founder of UnderConsideration.
Comparing the new design to the current Fanta identity, Vit wrote, “The new identity is more cohesive, more evident about what it's selling (oranges!) and, most importantly, it's more varied, diverse and versatile. And the new cans, which may or may not be the final product, look pretty damn fantastic.”
FANTA and the FANTA Splash Bottle are trademarks of The Coca-Cola Company. Copyright 2008 The Coca-Cola Company.
Office’s work was recognized in the prestigious Communication Arts design competition; two percent of all submissions were chosen for publication. The studio's brand identity and packaging design for enviga, a line of sparkling green tea beverages, will be published in the Communication Arts Design Annual in November 2008.
“The design challenge was to help define a new beverage category,” said Jason Schulte, founder and creative director, Office. “Enviga invigorates metabolism to burn calories. So the packaging needed to be bold and innovative, clearly communicating the product's functional benefits.”
Office’s work for adidas Golf, The Coca-Cola Company and Target, was featured in Matt Mattus’ new book, Beyond Trend: How to Innovate In An Over-Designed World.
“The world's most noteworthy creative leaders share certain traits: They are inspired by a constant desire for originality, they have a sturdy respect for those with true talent, and they are consciously driven forward by a relentless pursuit of excellence,” wrote Mattus, design head of Hasbro’s Intellectual Property Development Team and Entertainment Division.
Office is honored to be included alongside respected artists and designers like Tord Boontje, Tim Biskip, Marcel Wanders and others.
Office’s 2007 holiday artwork has received recognition from the One Club’s annual design competition, One Show Design. The competition, in its eighth year, celebrates outstanding work in the fields of design and communication.
The art will be featured in the One Club’s annual book, One Show Design: The Year’s Best Communication Design and honored at a festival in New York in May. You can get yours here.
Two of Office’s recent campaigns for Target Stores—Halloween and Back to College—have been profiled in LogoLounge 4 from Rockport Publishers. The book, released this month, is a collection the year’s best work in logo and identity design from around the world. LogoLounge 4 takes an in-depth look at the development and design of the two campaigns, giving readers a glimpse of Office’s creative process.
Office Principal Jason Schulte was also a featured juror of the work included in LogoLounge 4. The panel, comprised of influential designers from all areas of graphic design, provided commentary and helped select work to be included in the book. LogoLounge 4 is available at book stores nationwide, and through the LogoLounge website.
STEP magazine will feature Office's "Happy Summer" campaign for Target Stores among the top design work of 2006 and 2007. The campaign will appear in the publication's annual Design 100 issue this March and will also be featured online as a part of their reader's choice awards.
The campaign has also been recognized by HOW magazine's International Design competition. The campaign was selected from over 3,000 entries and will be featured in the magazine's April issue.
“Happy Summer” appeared last summer in Target stores nationwide. Office developed the concept, identity, in-store marketing (writing and design), and packaging ideation.
“Our goal with the Happy Summer campaign was to build an emotional connection with Target guests,” said Jill Robertson, principal, Office. “We wanted to make what might otherwise be just a set of plastic picnic forks, or just a rubber ball, or just a beach towel — feel special. So we built a story. Tapping into the nostalgia of what it felt like to be a kid in the middle of June, the campaign was about the simple pleasures of summer — dirty hands in gardens, piggyback rides, and popsicle kisses. Using playful copy and imagery, as well as hand-drawn graphic elements, we carried this theme across in-store marketing and packaging. Building that story created a store experience that guests connected with and wanted to be part of.”
Fast Company magazine profiled Jason Schulte in its annual “Masters of Design” issue, naming him one of 14 “Designers To Watch.”
“He has won plenty of awards for graphic design, but Jason Schulte prefers to think of his seven-member team at Office as ‘creative problem solvers, idea generators, and storytellers.’ While some clients come calling for help with graphics, Schulte almost always takes a step back to look at the larger brand. His peers may be surprised that such a tiny firm is working for big guns like Coca-Cola, Target and Adidas, but he says Office’s size keeps ideas from getting watered down. ‘When people see the work, they need to be amazed or have a smile on their face. I would almost rather have them hate it and react instead of feeling nothing,’” wrote Tim McKeough.
Office’s CHAQWA visual identity system and Korbin Kameron wine packaging have received top honors from AIGA, the professional association for design. The work was selected out of more than 4,700 entries to be published in their annual awards publication, 365: AIGA Annual Design Competition 28, among 103 examples of outstanding design.
Office’s in-store campaign for Target’s back-to-college season, as well as Office’s 2006 Holiday art, received design awards from The One Show. The work will be published in the organization’s annual awards publication.
Office’s Work Exhibited at Ginza Graphic Gallery in Tokyo; Wins Award from Tokyo Type Directors Club
04.09.07 | Events, Recognition | Share
Office’s 2005 Holiday art was selected to be featured at the Ginza Graphic Gallery in Tokyo in April. The exhibition features winners of the world's best-known international competition for cutting-edge trends in typography, the Tokyo Type Directors Club Award. Office’s art was also selected to be part of a traveling exhibition celebrating 20 years of typo-graphics from the Tokyo Type Directors Club. The show is currently in Melbourne, Australia.