Archive for the Video Category

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!
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Announcements, Awards + Press, Identity, Interactive, Photography, Poster, Video
July 2009

Interactive Touch Foil Display at the St. Louis Airport

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.

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Featured, Interactive, Video
July 2009

HOK Life Video

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We recently completed the video above for HOK. The video is highlighted at hoklife.com, will be shared around through various sites and will mainly be used for recruiting efforts. Much of the video used in this clip was a result of the blogger event we helped put together late last year, click here for more information. Coming up next will be a series of smaller clips!

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Video
April 2009

The Luckiest

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TOKY designer Mary Rosamond, also a member of the a cappella group ‘the Amateurs,’  just returned from performing (and recording) with Ben Folds!

In her own words:

I guess Ben Folds became interested in a cappella after hearing some of his songs arranged and performed by a cappella groups on youtube and decided to make it the concept for his latest album. He held a contest for arrangements/performances of his songs, and from a couple hundred submissions, he selected a handful of groups to record with in person. My group, the Amateurs, was one of those groups. Ben came to St. Louis this past December to record our version of his song, The Luckiest. (He was wonderful to work with!) We were then lucky enough to be one of only 14 groups who recorded with Ben to make it on the cd: Ben Folds Presents: University A Cappella (we close the album!) which is now available on itunes.

Then, this April, Ben contacted our group again to ask if we would be interested in opening for him at his upcoming performance at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. And of course, we were! We drove to Nashville on April 7 and opened for Ben that evening in front of a very enthusiastic crowd in Ben’s home town. It was an awesome experience!

The song titled “The Luckiest” is now available on iTunes, listen for Mary’s voice… it’s the highest one! All proceeds from the sale go to Save the Music.

The recording was also covered in the Wall Street Journal: Harmony 101, A Pop Pianist Recruits College Singers For a New Album of A Cappella Songs

Here’s a video clip of the recording session:
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People, Video
April 2009

16 Awards in the Local AIGA Awards, Including Best of Show

We had a great night at the 14th Annual St. Louis Chapter AIGA awards, which took place Friday, April 3rd. TOKY took home 16 of the 46 awards including Best of Show. Our awarded work represented nearly every service from packaging to identity to interactive to print collateral.

This video for Dr. Barry Singer at MSLivingWell.org took Best of Show:
http://www.vimeo.com/4048026

Pictured below was an invite created for “An Evening with John Waters” at Laumeier Sculpture Park:
An Evening w/ John Waters

Our logo for the Miles Davis Jazz Festival won in the Branding category:
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Below is a list of the other TOKY winners for the night:

Branding
Title: 100 Wood Fire Grille Logo
Client: 100 Wood Fire Grille

Title: Thinking Cap Logo
Client: Thinking Cap

Informing

Title: Dan Flavin Constructed Light Brochure and Website
Client: The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts

Title: The Light Project Exhibition Brochure and Website
Client: The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts

Title: Old Masters Kiosk
Client: The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts

Title: Old Masters Catalogue
Client: The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts

Title: The Light Project Exhibition Brochure and Website
Client: The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts

Promoting

Title: Cahokia Mounds Website
Client: Cahokia Mounds

Title: Art the Vote Campaign
Client: Art the Vote

Title: St. Louis Public Library Holiday Card
Client: The St. Louis Public Library Foundation

Title: Winter White Invitation
Client: The St. Louis Public Library Foundation

Packaging

Title: Eckert’s Peach Boxes
Client: Eckert’s Orchards

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Announcements, Awards + Press, Featured, Video
April 2009

HOKlife.com Feature in Architect Magazine

HOK Life

In addition to designing HOK’s new brand, business papers and various web sites, TOKY recently worked with HOK to design, develop and launch their presence on various social networking tools. Most successfully and significantly was HOK’s effort in making the blog at HOKlife.com work.

More than just an entertaining peek inside an architecture firm’s offices, Life at Hok is a small revolution in corporate communication.

“The blog Life at HOK is important not so much for what it offers—tales from the HOK cubicle as well as snark-free design-related postings, travelogue, commentary, videos, and ephemera—as for what it represents: a blue-chip firm, the kind of outfit one would expect to tightly control all external communication, allowing more than two dozen of its younger staff to express themselves on company time. (Most of the contributors, located around the globe, are under 35.)”

by Braulio Agnese, Architecture Magazine

Read the full article at ArchitectMagazine.com
Visit HOKlife.com

As a kick-off event for the blog launch, all of the contributors were brought to St. Louis, given flip video cameras, and sent out in groups around town to interview each other and gather footage for some upcoming video spots. Here’s a small collection of some of the highlights from the day:

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Interactive, Social Media, Video