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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Click here to view the embedded video.

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.

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.

We were pleased to have this partnership move strongly into fall, with a new round of autumnal signage, greeting stands, catering materials, and merchandise signs installed in nearly 1,500 bakery-cafes in 40 states around the country. We crafted this series around a “Welcome to Our Table” theme, encouraging Panera customers to gather together with family and friends and savor fall’s best flavors.

As fall comes to a close, you might be wondering: What’s in store for winter? Stay tuned.

In October, TOKY’s national partnership with Panera Bread continued with this colorful, cause-supporting Baker’s Dozen Bagel Box designed by our team in St. Louis. With each customer purchase, Panera has donated to local efforts to fight breast cancer, in every one of its communities all across the country. TOKY is proud to have played a part in this vital effort!

Fresh out of the box, Stephen Prina: Concerto for Modern, Movie, and Pop Music for Ten Instruments and Voice, is a 36-page hard bound CD booklet designed for the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.  The booklet is the visual and audio documentation of Stephen Prina’s exhibition and concerto from 2010 at CAM.  From CAM’s site:

Simultaneously riffing on classic conceptualism and modernism’s formal tropes, American artist Stephen Prina has, for thirty years, developed a singular and multifaceted practice that encompasses painting, installation, photography, sound, and film. At the same time, he has had an acclaimed career as composer and pop musician—releasing over a dozen music albums under his own name and with The Red Krayola. Having kept his artistic interests separate from his musical pursuits for decades, Prina has begun to synthesize the two endeavors. Presenting recent work in multiple media alongside his music for the first time, Modern Movie Pop considers the role of reprisal in art-making.

The exhibition’s namesake is shorthand for Prina’s newest musical score, a complex homage that combines his own pop songs and soundtracks. Featuring distinguished musicians from Saint Louis, Concerto for Modern, Movie, and Pop Music for Ten Instruments and Voice (2010) premieres at the Contemporary. Prina—who often resurrects the motifs of previous projects—has long taken the position that history is always present. Suspending richly painted monochrome window blinds alongside a white carpeted video lounge as “movable stage spectacle,” Prina orchestrates a taxonomy of his art that, at its heart, reveals an attention to the consonant spaces of painting, film, and music.

To get your copy go here: http://camstl.org/shop/stephen-prina-modern-movie-pop

TOKY work has been included in “Brand Identity Essentials: 100 Principles for Designing Logos and Building Brands”. The book outlines 100 key steps to creating world-class brands. We’re pleased that so much of our work has been used in their case studies.

Butler’s Pantry and Pappy’s Smokehouse logos, illustrating principle 1: “Illustrative Logos”
Rooster Café logo, illustrating principle 13: “Logo Shapes”
Art The Vote, illustrating principle 27: “Brand Stories”
Smokehouse Market packaging, illustrating principle 29: “Program Consistency”
Mercantile Exchange District logo, illustrating principle 61: “Trademarks”
Bissinger’s Confections packaging, illustrating principle 82: “The Truth Comes Out”
Rooster and MX, illustrating principle 95: “Connecting the Dots”

Every year PRINT Magazine issues its “Regional Design Annual”, with their selection of the best design in the U.S. of A., selected by region. This year there were five selections from St. Louis, and TOKY took three of them.

Even better, they were three of our quirkiest projects from last year: a letterpress poster celebrating David Sherman’s 50th birthday, the cute honey packaging we did for our friends Amos Harris and Natalie Semchyshyn, and all four of our posters for the Pulitzer’s “Prisoners at the Pulitzer” performance series. It’s great to represent St. Louis in such a highly visible national design competition!

Our work for Baileys’ Chocolate Bar was recently published in Box Bottle Bag: The World’s Best Package Designs from theDieline.com. TheDieline.com is the go to site for packaging design, so we were thrilled to see our work included.

If you’re interesting in trying this beer, a few local places have it on tap. It’s brewed by O’Fallon Brewery. We’ve also seen this for sale at places like Randall’s in the city. Your best bet would be to go to the source, Baileys Chocolate Bar… or perhaps come to one of our staff meetings.