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February 2012

TOKY Wins Three Golds at the 2011-12 ADDY’s

TOKY staff had a great time last night celebrating with our colleagues at the ADDY Awards, held at the downtown wine bar and restaurant Copia. We were nominated for 11 awards in total, and we brought home the Gold in three categories:

Contemporary Fund mailer for the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (Advertising for the Arts & Sciences: Brochure/Sales Kit)
“Share the Season” packaging for Panera Bread (Sales Promotion: Point of Purchase)
“Texts in the City” invitation for the St. Louis Public Library Foundation (Advertising for the Arts & Sciences: Cards, Invitations and Announcements)

We congratulate all the nominees and winners last night, especially Rodgers Townsend, whose team had a big night and deserved to.

Stephen Schenkenberg

Posted by Stephen Schenkenberg
Arts and Culture Branding, Awards + Press, Branding + Design, Museum Branding, Packaging, Premium Products Branding, St. Louis

February 2012

New Work: CAM Gala 2012

TOKY was proud not only to be a Gold Sponsor of this past weekend’s Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis Gala, but also to design the special event’s collateral. Here’s a look at the central materials, from the invitation mailed out to the official Gala program. With the last photo, you’ll see that our design team used a die cut on the program’s cover to creatively celebrate the man of the hour, former Director Paul Ha.

Stephen Schenkenberg

Posted by Stephen Schenkenberg
Arts and Culture Branding, Branding + Design, Brochures and Catalogues, Causes, Museum Branding, St. Louis

February 2012

A Tweet from Tyler Green

As the firm behind every one of the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts‘ exhibition catalogues to date, we were pleased by this tweet from well-known visual arts journalist and critic Tyler Green. The Pulitzer has been a wonderful partner. Thanks, Tyler!

Stephen Schenkenberg

Posted by Stephen Schenkenberg
Arts and Culture Branding, Interactive, Museum Branding, St. Louis

February 2012

“Staging Reflections of the Buddha” Site Launch

In January, TOKY launched the web catalogue for Reflections of the Buddha, the current exhibition at the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts. Yesterday, we launched a companion site for “Staging Reflections of the Buddha,” an innovative project that “unites theater, visual arts, and social work to build connections between the art and all audiences while transforming lives and fostering connections between communities.” It’s a highly original program — built on a partnership between the Pulitzer, Prison Performing Arts, St. Patrick Center, and Employment Connection — with free events and performances happening through March. TOKY built the site using WordPress, helping the Pulitzer offer an integrated event calendar that offers, for the first time, seamless ticket reservations through Eventbrite.

Stephen Schenkenberg

Posted by Stephen Schenkenberg
Arts and Culture Branding, Interactive, Museum Branding

February 2012

TOKY Earns Gold in “Graphis Poster Annual”

The Graphis Poster Annual 2012 winners have been announced, and TOKY’s poster for “Staging Old Masters : Former Prisoners Perform at the Pulitzer” (above right) — the innovative theatre/community program at the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts — has been given the Gold. This is a tough, international competition, and we’re thrilled with the recognition — especially since TOKY was responsible not just for the design but for the original photography on this project as well.

Here’s a bit about the book:

Graphis Poster Annual 2012 features some of the most visually compelling posters from the past year chosen from thousands of international entries, including Platinum award-winning entries from Thomas Wedell and Nancy Skolos, Paul Garbett, Hei Yiyang, Carlo Fiore, Kasai Noriyuki, Andrea Castelletti, Guy Mastrion, Fritz Klaetke and Mike Barker. The 185 posters selected for this volume clearly demonstrate the potency of this medium. This year’s edition also includes a revealing interview with Stephan Bundi, an accomplished professional art director and designer who is internationally renowned for his poster work.

You can pick up the new book at the Graphis Store. Congrats to all the winners!

Stephen Schenkenberg

Posted by Stephen Schenkenberg
Arts and Culture Branding, Awards + Press, Museum Branding, Poster, St. Louis

January 2012

TOKY Nominated for 11 ADDY Awards!

TOKY HQ is running high on high-fives, having just learned that we’re up for 11 ADDY awards in this year’s St. Louis competition. We’re particularly pleased with how well the range of work represents our firm’s concentrations, from arts and culture (Laumeier Sculpture Park, CAM, the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis) to premium products (Panera Bread) to ”world changers,” as we call them (St. Louis Public Library Foundation, Food Outreach). Congrats to the entire TOKY team, and to the clients we worked with on the projects!

Here’s a look at the TOKY work that’s being recognized this year:

1. “Texts in the City” Invitation, St. Louis Public Library Foundation (related blog post)

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2. Contemporary Fund Mailer, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis

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3. “Share the Season” Packaging, Panera Bread (related blog post)

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4. stylus box/catalogue, The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts

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5. Grab grassy this moment your I’s catalogue, Laumeier Sculpture Park (related blog post)

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6. 2011 Season Poster, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis

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7. Dreamscapes website, The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts

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8. “Design Legends of St. Louis“ Video Series, AIGA St. Louis (one of five videos is shown above)

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9. “Return to Summer” In-Store, Panera Bread (related gallery at Facebook)

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10. “Share the Season” In-Store, Panera Bread (related blog post)

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11. “A Tasteful Affair” Invitation, Food Outreach

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Our thanks to the ADDY judges who have recognized this work! We’re looking forward to celebrating St. Louis creativity with our colleagues at the February ceremony.

Stephen Schenkenberg

Posted by Stephen Schenkenberg
Arts and Culture Branding, Awards + Press, Branding + Design, Brochures and Catalogues, Community Branding, Design Legends of St. Louis, Featured, Interactive, Museum Branding, Packaging, Photography, Premium Products Branding, St. Louis

January 2012

New Work: “Reflections of the Buddha” Web Catalogue for the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts

TOKY is proud to have designed and developed every one of the exhibition web catalogues for the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, from Ideal [Dis-]Placements to Stylus and everything in between.

This week saw the launch of the full web catalogue for Reflections of the Buddha, its current exhibition of 22 artworks presented in harmony with the Pulitzer’s building, designed by Pritzker-winning architect Tadao Andō. Like all Pulitzer exhibitions, Reflections of the Buddha (the installation and the curatorial commentary) considers the relationship between the artworks and the architecture. The relationship may be even more pronounced in this exhibition, with organizing curator Francesca Herndon-Consagra exploring what happens when centuries-old Buddhist objects are installed in a contemporary building designed by someone who, while not a Buddhist, has been influenced by the Buddhist structures and philosophy of his native Japan.

Here’s a look at a few pages of the site:

Senior curator Francesca Herndon-Consagra’s video introduction, produced by TOKY

A mosaic of the exhibition’s artworks

New this catalogue: TOKY helped the PFA present audio — from Pulitzer staff and outside scholars — to accompany and more fully introduce specific artworks. Visitors to the above page, for example, can click through various points of view of the artwork with the audio (at left) playing continuously.

Pulitzer staff have ongoing, easy access to the blog for continual updates.

The exhibition is on view until March 10. While we like the website, we certainly recommend you see the show yourself, if you can, during an upcoming Wednesday or Saturday.

Jay David

Posted by Jay David
Arts and Culture Branding, Interactive, Museum Branding, St. Louis

January 2012

TOKY Honored Twice in Prestigious “Typography 32″ Annual

The Type Directors Club, the world’s leading organization supporting excellence in typography, is out this month with its brand new anthology of “the most innovate, contemporary achievements in typography” created during 2010 (Amazon). TOKY is proud and excited to have two projects honored with inclusion.

First up is our end-of-year card for the St. Louis Public Library Foundation (above left), chosen for the competition’s “Greeting Card” category.

And second is TOKY’s identity for Mysterios de Mayo, a month-long series of fundraisers for the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. This piece was honored in the “Logotype” category.

Cheers to everyone involved with these fantastic projects, including the clients who commissioned them! We’re thrilled to be included in some incredible international design company.

Stephen Schenkenberg

Posted by Stephen Schenkenberg
Arts and Culture Branding, Awards + Press, Branding + Design, Museum Branding, St. Louis

December 2011

Kind Words from designworklife

When the phrase “stunningly beautiful” is used to describe one of our designs, we’re all smiles here at TOKY HQ. Such was the praise yesterday, when designworklife spotlighted TOKY’s invitation for the St. Louis Public Library Foundation‘s 2011 Gala, a project we posted about back in November. New to our blog’s readers, though, will be this complete look at both sides of the invitation (be sure to click for a larger view!):

Thanks for the kind words, designworklife!

Stephen Schenkenberg

Posted by Stephen Schenkenberg
Arts and Culture Branding, Awards + Press, Branding + Design, Causes, St. Louis

December 2011

TOKY Honored in Print’s Regional Design Annual

The December issue of Print is out, and TOKY is one of only two St. Louis-based creative firms awarded inclusion in the magazine’s ”Regional Design Annual” cover package, Midwest category. The competition’s judges honored TOKY’s identity for Mysterios de Mayo, a month-long series of fundraisers for the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. It’s been a good year for this particular design work — it was honored by the AIGA in April and featured in the Type Club Directors Annual in August. Perhaps best of all, the effort helped CAM raise a record amount of money for its operations, exhibitions, and programs.

Stephen Schenkenberg

Posted by Stephen Schenkenberg
Arts and Culture Branding, Awards + Press, Branding + Design, Museum Branding

November 2011

Miss the Latest TOKY E-Newsletter?

The above shows just one of 10 stories published in last week’s e-newsletter. Read them all here. Want to receive the next one the day it’s published? Join the list today.

Stephen Schenkenberg

Posted by Stephen Schenkenberg
Apps, Arts and Culture Branding, Branding + Design, Brochures and Catalogues, Interactive, Packaging, Premium Products Branding

November 2011

New Work: Sean Landers Monograph

I’m thrilled that a project started more than a year ago has finally come to fruition. Sean Landers: 1990-1995, Improbable History is a comprehensive monograph that includes almost all of Landers’ early oeuvre, from 1990 to 1995. A companion to this 2010 Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis exhibition, the book provides the first available overview of Landers’ text and cartoon works on paper, his first paintings and sculptures, and video and audio works chronicling his beginnings. I had the pleasure of getting to know Sean and his family during this project and spent two wondrous trips in New York working with him in his studio, fine-tuning every aspect of this catalog.

A few words about the artist and his work from the promotional material accompanying the book’s release:

Since the early 1990s, Sean Landers’ work has been one of the most fascinating and repeatedly irritating projects in contemporary art. The polar opposites of tormented self-doubt and endless self-aggrandizement run like a thread through the artist’s practice along with a number of masks of failure used by the subject as a strategy to preserve himself from impending loser status. This monograph presents an overview of Landers’ oeuvre including text and cartoon works on paper, paintings, sculptures, and video and audio works from 1992 to the present. With text and video works that appear disguised as conceptual art, he introduces into this genre the taboo of the artist as subject, as well as the artist’s emotions. He has become known as the artist who — with confessional and stream-of-consciousness texts and videos — presents himself as a failure in his art, his life and his relationships.

Sean Landers: 1990-1995, Improbable History is a 10 x 13 inch cloth-bound hardback with a wrap-around dust jacket. At 390 pages and including 400 color images, the book is published by JRP|Ringier and the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, with the support of Ringier Collection, Zurich. It is distributed in the U.S. through ARTBOOK|D.A.P. and available for purchase here.

Bruce Burton

Posted by Bruce Burton
Arts and Culture Branding, Books, Brochures and Catalogues, St. Louis

November 2011

Central Library’s “Texts In The City” Gala Invitation

We’ve been very pleased at the enthusiastic reception for this year’s Gala invitation for the St. Louis Library Foundation. For the last two years we’ve created iconic invitations to this signature fundraising event (here and here), and we always try to top ourselves.

This year’s invitation was especially challenging, since the theme we were working with seemed to lead down the route of a simple “Sex In The City” parody. Instead, our designer Mary Rosamond came up with a wonderfully clever way to take real literary texts and weave them together into an evocative passage about a gala party under the stars in a faraway sparkling city. The passage is paired with illustrations handcrafted from bits of found book and advertising ephemera. Mary designed a custom accordion fold, “so that it would look like you were turning through the pages of the books quoted in the story, make you feel like you were entering into the story, with characters coming to life on the pages.”

It was a good solution – a format that fit the content well, was out of the ordinary, yet very cost effective to produce. The result is hauntingly beautiful, childlike, and quietly elegant all at the same time.

The “Texts and the City” Gala, to benefit the St. Louis Public Library Foundation and the renovation of our magnificent Central Library, takes place November 19 at St. Louis City Hall. Tickets are available here.

Eric Thoelke

Posted by Eric Thoelke
Arts and Culture Branding, Branding + Design, Causes, Featured, Museum Branding

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