January 2010
The first Pecha Kucha Night in St. Loo was an electrifying success tonight at BRIDGE, the new downtown (and under downtown) nightspot. Organized by members of HOK Architects, TOKY, Switch and lots of other great folks, the evening gathered a standing-room-only crowd (beyond the fire marshal’s liking) to listen to 14 great presenters talk about how to move our region forward. The beer was great, the conversation wonderful, the passion evident, the sparks tangible. Let’s do it again February 20 in a PK Night for Haiti. See pkstl.com for details.
January 2010
TOKY work has been nominated for 16 Addys in this year’s Ad Club of St. Louis “best of” review.
For us, the cool part is that we were nominated in so many different categories, for doing so many different kinds of things: web sites, print brochures, brand identity, photography, high-end invitations and holiday cards, posters and video storytelling.
Here’s a list of our nominations:
See you February 18th at the awards ceremony!
January 2010
TOKY will be included in “Typography 31″, the annual review of the Type Director’s Club, the leading international organization whose purpose is to support excellence in typography, both in print and on screen. We’re in with the banners that TOKY’s Katy Fischer created for the Saint Louis Public Library, art directing LA artist Noah Woods. This latest honor means that our Library work has now led to a regional Addy, a silver National Addy, Graphis Design annual, PRINT Design Annual, TDC Annual and AIGA-STL show wins. See more on TOKY’s Flickr set.
January 2010
Pecha Kucha is coming to Saint Louis! Look for many of us at TOKY to be there, and our own John Foster will be one of the presenters, talking about his collection of Accidental Mysteries. Each presenter gets 20 slides, at 20 seconds each, to talk about their big ideas or creative outlets.
The event is January 28th, at the Foundation in downtown St. Louis. Show up early, this event is limited to the first 200 people!
For more information, visit pkstl.com
January 2010
We recently launched a new small site for the Saint Louis Club, the foremost dining club in St. Louis for the past 45 years. TOKY designed the site, built it on our own our content management system, and much of the photography on the site was shot by TOKY’s photographer Geoff Story.
January 2010
We got an emailed call for entries for the 2011 Design Annual from international design publishing powerhouse GRAPHIS this week, and it took us all of a few nanoseconds to realize that the image they were using to promote the 2010 Design Annual was one of our pieces. Specifically, it’s one of the banners we designed (and Noah Woods illustrated) for the St. Louis Public Library Foundation. The attaboys started rolling in from our friends and colleagues across the country, which made all of us in our humble loft in Midtown St. Loo feel very worldly indeed. Thanks, Graphis!
January 2010
TOKY’s Associate Creative Director and photographer Geoff Story got the last word in the January 2010 St. Louis Magazine. Geoff’s collection of antique glass slides turned up a mysterious and silent little beauty, which the magazine ran on its “Flashback” page. 
January 2010
I’m honored to have joined the Board of Directors of the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. The Contemporary has long been a friend of TOKY, and we’ve spent a great deal of effort over the last several years in helping them promote their various fundraising efforts. Joining their Board will, I hope, allow us to make even more progress to help this vital institution gain the support and recognition it deserves in St. Louis, in the Midwest, and in the world of contemporary art. Check them out at www.contemporarystl.org
