February 2010
We got a look at the new Design Review from the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), and we’re proud to see our “Dan Flavin” and “Light Project” websites for The Pulitzer Foundation looking so good. The AIGA Design Review is one of the top awards in the design profession, and we’re humbled and honored to be the only St. Louis area firm included this year.
Winning this award means the Pulitzer sites will become part of the permanent collection of the Denver Art Museum, where the AIGA Archives are housed. It will join several other AIGA winners the TOKY team has, going all the way back to 1990. Search the AIGA Archives online here.
February 2010
TOKY and long-time client HOK launched the newest in a long line of projects last week — and this one’s been a long time coming. We started conceptual work on the HOK History & Lore site way back in 2007. Since then the TOKY team has been working with HOK’s great archivists, writers, technologists, and project managers to build a comprehensive timeline of their major projects, people and events. Even cooler, the site encourages others to add their memories to the timeline through interactive tools.
February 2010
The site we developed for Saint Louis University’s Parks College of Engineering went live Friday. Following on the heels of our well-received Parks view book, we worked hand in hand with the SLU Parks team pulling off one of the largest, most complex sites we’ve ever designed and developed. And it’s all the better that, like McCarthy.com, it’s built on TOKY’s proprietary MYOS Content Management System, making it faster and easier for the SLU team to update. Great work by Jay, Tyler, Melissa, Kathy, Jacob, and the rest of the TOKY web team!
February 2010
Recently the National AIGA updated its massive Design Archives web site. Now the site makes it easier to sort, search and create your own collection from over 20,000 selections in the last 80+ years. While at first glance some may think it may have lost a little sex appeal, when digging a bit deeper the tools built into this make up for it.
It’s nice to see such a large archive of works move away from the previous all Flash experience. The new site has much smarter search and sort methods, resizable thumbnails, its easier to share and easier to find specific works online.
AIGA Design Archives is one of the richest online resources available to those who practice, study and appreciate great design. It represents the quality of work being created, as well as shifting aesthetics and sensibilities of the designers of the day. Included in this resource are more than 20,000 selections from AIGA’s annual juried design competitions dating from 1924 through the present.
A look back at TOKY in the AIGA Design Archives
2008 Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts: Dan Flavin Web Catalogue
2004 FK Photo
1990 Demo Tape Label, “Street of Dreams”
1990 Stroube
1990 Wedding Invitation Pairs
February 2010
We recently launched the online catalogue for the current Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts exhibit Urban Alchemy: Gordon Matta-Clark. This site serves as a permanent archive of the exhibition and how it relates to the space designed by Tadao Ando. TOKY designed and developed the site, outdoor pole banners, and some promotional materials for the event.
Visit the site: http://mattaclark.pulitzerarts.org/
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
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.
September 2009
TOKY-designed HOKlife.com, HOK’s public blog, continues to receive great press!
From the article in the St. Louis Business Journal:
Life at HOK (hoklife.com) was launched last October — with no promotional advertising — to show the world the people behind the scenes at the design powerhouse, which had $752 million in 2008 revenue. Since then the slick medley of design and pop culture has won awards and become a frequent destination, not only for HOK’s 2,000-plus employees, but for potential hires, clients and competitors, said HOK communications specialist Jeannette Thompson.
“It has just been a great addition to our toolkit of ways we communicate both internally and externally,” Thompson said. “It’s really interesting how people are craving this kind of information.”
For more information on this project, please visit the following older related posts:
HOK Life featured in Architect Magazine
HOK Life on the A-List
HOK Life Video
July 2009
http://www.vimeo.com/5807828
We’ve recently completed design, development and install of new digital signage at the St. Louis International Airport. Using existing glass walls and interactive touch foil, we created 3 experiences for visitors to explore the arch ground activities. 4 weeks from concept this was up and running, just in time for the All-Star Game traffic. Take look if you’re coming in town or heading out, it will be on display until the end of the year.
May 2009
We’ve just been notified that two web sites we’ve designed for the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts in St. Louis — Dan Flavin: Constructed Light & The Light Project — are to be included in the AIGA National Awards for 2009! The category for our winning selection – Educational and Nonprofit: Non-ecommerce sites.
“365: AIGA Annual Design Competitions” make a definitive statement on the quality of communication design in North America this year. The survey of selections is published in AIGA’s online design archives; published in a book that is distributed as an authoritative chronicle of current design; and exhibited in AIGA’s New York gallery on Fifth Avenue.
This competition extends a legacy that began more than 90 years ago and is widely recognized as the most selective statement on design excellence today.
May 2009
TOKY has recently launched a site for Grayhawk. Grayhawk is a 1,800-acre private lakefront property tucked away in one of the most beautiful corners of historic Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri. Upcoming updates to the site will include an in-depth exploration of the map of properties and photography.
Users of the site are also able to pull up the property information, maps and directions easily on a mobile device, so TOKY developed a custom site for the iPhone as well as a version for other mobile devices. Visitors to grayhawkmo.com on a mobile device are redirected to the appropriate site.
Visit grayhawkmo.com
April 2009
Recent reviews regarding the Old Masters at the Pulitzer Web site launched weeks ago:
“The Pulitzer is currently showing Ideal (Dis-)Placements, Old Masters at the Pulitzer. It’s been up since October and it’s received rave reviews. The Pulitzer has just launched the show’s website. No one does single-shows-in-space websites better than the Pulitzer (witness: Dan Flavin, Water) and I wouldn’t miss a one of ‘em.”
Tyler Green, Modern Art Notes
”The show has been up since October…but it is now accompanied by a fascinating, elegant and in many ways exemplary online catalogue… This show — perhaps even more than most — needs to be experienced in the space and light of the real world. But the website offers its own richly involving experience, balancing looking, listening, reading — and looking again.”
John Wyver, Illuminations
The exhibition is currently running through June 20th, so don’t miss this before it is gone forever. More information on the exhibit can be found at the Old Masters Web site or the exhibition site at Pulitzerarts.org
