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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

New Work: Mardi Gras St. Louis 2012

For the fourth year in a row, TOKY has provided the design work for marketing Mardi Gras St. Louis, a series of a dozen major events celebrated for six weeks during January and February. It’s one of the most exciting national Mardi Gras celebrations outside of New Orleans itself. While this year’s identity is completely new, we’ve continued last year’s efforts at communicating that Mardi Gras St. Louis is much more than the massively attended Grand Parade. From the Cajun Cook-Off to the Wiener Dog Derby, the series is packed with events for all types of audiences. Find out more above, and at the website, designed and developed by TOKY.

Stephen Schenkenberg

Posted by Stephen Schenkenberg
Community Branding, Outdoor, Poster, St. Louis

November 2011

Cranksgiving is THIS Sunday — Grab Your Bike!

Want to be a part of the largest food-collection bicycle ride in the country? Grab your bike and join us for Cranksgiving: THIS Sunday, November 6th, at 10 a.m. at Schlafly Bottleworks!

Now in its sixth year, Cranksgiving is hosted by BicycleWORKS, with proceeds going to our friends at Food Outreach. Riders can choose from a 5-, 10-, or 25-mile route, on which they’ll stop by several local grocery stores to pick up non-perishable food items to donate to the cause. Last year, more than 650 riders collected more than 6,000 food items, making it the largest Cranksgiving event in the country!

TOKY has long supported BicycleWORKS and their many fine projects. T-shirts for this year’s event are currently sold out, but you can still order yours online. You’ll be able to pick it up the week after the event at BWORKS. Once again, all proceeds from the sales go directly to Food Outreach.

For more information about Cranksgiving, visit bworks.org/bikeworks. We hope to see you there!

Jamie Banks-George

Posted by Jamie Banks-George
Announcements, Causes, People, Poster

September 2011

Midtown Alley Street Fest is Coming Up Fast!

Save the day of Saturday, October 1, 2011. Our neighborhood, Midtown Alley, is planning its Third Annual Midtown Alley Street Fest. This year its blowing up into something more amazing than ever before, with 10 bands playing throughout the entire day (for free). About a half-mile of Locust Street right outside our window will be closed off and ready for the crowds coming to see the live bands, try beers in the Microbrew Beer Garden, sample food from the many award-winning local restaurants, see the Antique Car Show and much, much more.

Many of the local businesses (including ours!) and available living spaces will have their doors open. Come down on the first and see what all is going on in the Neighborhood, and see why we love it so much here.

More information on the Midtown Alley site.
RSVP for the event on Facebook.

or like Midtown Alley Street Fest:

Poster designed by TOKY

Jay David

Posted by Jay David
Midtown Alley, Poster

May 2011

“Best of Show” and an Embarrassment of Riches in AIGA St.Louis Design Competition

This one has taken a little while for us to post, because, frankly, we were a little embarrassed by it.

In AIGA St. Louis’ 16th Annual Juried Design Show, TOKY did well. We were honored and humbled that we were given awards for “Best of Show”, “Judge’s Choice” (the only one given to a professional organization), and two “Best of Category” awards. Altogether we took home 18 of the total 43 awards given to Professional organizations (the rest were awards to students).

Best in Show: The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, “Ann Hamilton: stylus” catalogue

Judge’s Choice: Washington University Medical School “Century of Excellence” retrospective book

Best of Category / Branding: Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, CAM Rebranding

Best of Category / Books: The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, “Ann Hamilton: stylus” catalogue

Additional Awards:

The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, “Ann Hamilton: stylus” website

Armstrong Teasdale LLC, brand identity

Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, “Contemporary Fund” mailer

Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, “Mysterios de Mayo” identity

Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, website

David Richard Contemporary Gallery, identity (Santa Fe, NM)

Bridge Tap Room, logo and identity materials

Laumeier Sculpture Park, Jessica Stockholder “Grab Grassy Your I’s” exhibit catlogue

Bike St. Louis, “Cranksgiving” poster

Brown School of Social Work, “Social Impact” magazine

Metro, “Core of Discovery” website

St. Louis Public Library Foundation, “Looking Glass” invitation

Schlafly Brewery website

SPACES Gallery (San Jose, CA) identity

Eric Thoelke

Posted by Eric Thoelke
Arts and Culture Branding, Awards + Press, Brochures and Catalogues, Featured, Identity, Interactive, Museum Branding, Poster, Premium Products Branding

May 2011

ARTCRANK STL: A Poster Party for Bike People

May 12-14 • Opening night party: Thursday, May 12, 7pm
Atomic Cowboy – 4140 Manchester in The Grove

More than 30 local artists including our own Logan Alexander, Katy Fischer, Kirsten O’Loughlin and myself will be displaying our limited-edition bike-inspired posters (available for just $30 each) at the 3rd Annual ARTCRANK STL, A Poster Party for Bike People, at the Atomic Cowboy tomorrow night.

The charitable partner for ARTCRANK STL this year is St. Louis BicycleWORKS, a nonprofit organization that helps at-risk youth improve academic, vocational, and social skills through their Earn-A-Bike Program.

Posters will be on display Thursday (7:00pm – Midnight), Friday (5:00pm to Midnight) and Saturday (3:00pm to Midnight) as part of the 2011 Tour de Grove racing series.

Jamie Banks-George

Posted by Jamie Banks-George
Arts and Culture Branding, Branding + Design, Community Branding, People, Poster, Uncategorized

February 2011

PRINT/PULL Show

There’s a show coming up in town at SPACE Architects featuring many local and ex-local letterpress printers and screen printers. Our very own Kirsten O’Loughlin will be a part of the show, and she’ll even be doing some demo printing at the event with one of her many letterpress machines from home. Stop by from 6:30 to 8:30p and say hey.

Not sure who to look for? She’s there at the bottom, with a portrait shot by our own Geoff Story.

TOKY scores three-fer in PRINT Regional Competition

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!

Eric Thoelke

Posted by Eric Thoelke
Awards + Press, Identity, Packaging, Poster

October 2010

Celebrate Cranksgiving Sunday, November 7th

Grab your bike and/or some non-perishable food and join us for Cranksgiving!

Sunday, November 7th, 10 A.M. at Schlafly Bottleworks

BicycleWORKS and Trailnet will host the 5th annual Cranksgiving bicycle ride to help out our friends at Food Outreach. Riders can choose from a 5-, 10- or 25-mile route where they’ll be asked to visit several local grocery stores in order to buy food to donate. Last year, this event attracted around 500 riders and collected over 3,400 food items, making it one of the leading Cranksgiving rides in the country.

The TOKY family has been a long-time supporter of BicycleWORKS and their many projects. This year, Jamie Banks-George designed the awesome poster and t-shirt!

For more information check go to stlbikeworks.com. We hope to see you there!

Katy Fischer

Posted by Katy Fischer
Announcements, Causes, People, Poster

January 2010

TOKY nets 16 Addys nominations

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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:

Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts “Staging Old Masters” Promotion; Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts “Staging Old Masters” Photography; Thinking Cap Brand Identity; Mississippi Bluffs Condominiums Brand Identity; Grayhawk Properties Website; St. Louis Public Library Foundation “Stranger Than Fiction” Gala Invitation; St. Louis Public Library Foundation Holiday Cards; St. Louis Public Library Foundation Logo; “The Unconscious” Holiday Show Poster; Chaminade College Preparatory School Viewbook; Chaminade Viewbook Photography; Opera Theatre of Saint Louis Spring Gala Invitation; Susan and David Sherman 50th Birthday Invitation; JJCA Architects Website; McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. Web Site; and Dr. Barry Singer “Carrolle’s Story” Video.

See you February 18th at the awards ceremony!

Eric Thoelke

Posted by Eric Thoelke
Announcements, Awards + Press, Identity, Interactive, Photography, Poster, Video

January 2010

Pecha Kucha Saint Louis!

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

Jay David

Posted by Jay David
Announcements, Featured, People, Poster

November 2009

The Unconscious Poster

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The band, the Unconscious, was originally formed in 1986. Their popularity grew through the late 80s and into 1990 (when they broke up). They recently came back together for a 3-show Labor Day Weekend reunion tour. Now they are reunited full time.

TOKY did the poster for the Labor Day Weekend reunion performance in St. Louis at Blueberry Hill (which sold out). The poster was hand drawn in pencil by TOKY designer Mary. We recently reissued the poster with updated details about their upcoming show at the end of December:

The Unconscious Live
Monday, December 28th at The Pageant Theater, 6161 Delmar, Stl. MO, 63112
w/ The Great Crusades
Visit the Unconscious on Myspace

7:00 door, 8:00 show, $15
21+ only

Jay David

Posted by Jay David
Poster

June 2009