Client — Adam Block Design

Concept

Adam Block Design is a leading brand in Custom Greek Apparel. The reason they’re so good is because they stem from that system. This isn’t a corporate giant that is going to give you your letters on a t-shirt. These are two guys that are devoted to the medium of printed tees and apparel. These are quirky guys. Their favorite cereal is Lucky Charms, hands down. As a result we took a traditional grid system and added touches of idiosyncrasy through motion, color, and the iconic “blocks.” This is a site where one shouldn’t be shy to click around and see what pops up.

Client — Sharif Guest Studio

Concept

Maria Guest and Mohamed Sharif comprise an architect studio whose work resides in Academia and Private Clients. They came to Freelance Republic looking for something minimal and clean. They had large photography and wanted to keep the requisite text at bey so as to keep the photography the centerpiece of the site. They loved the standard that French designers and developers Indexhibit implore. As a result we used Indexhibit as a foundation and customized the Sharif Guest Studio website with their own personalized plugin that handles the viewing of all imagery.

Client — Minogi LLC

Concept

Minogi offers Millennials a range of services that expand and enhance your Creatively Entrepreneurial abilities, help you build your career in Creative Work, and support the development of your Creative Ideas. This vision saw itself in a BuddyPress with BBPress Social Networking Site. When consulting Freelance Republic it became clear that the most integral action for members was to discuss. We abandoned the idea of creating a Social Networking site and created a Social Networking Tool that leverages existing Social Networks and Social Media in order to foster this growing community of Millenials. With Studio Number One rebranding Minogi we rewrote and redesigned this startup’s site.

The Freelance Republic is pleased to present a rare interview with Willem Henri Lucas – the award winning Dutch Designer and Chair of the Design Media Arts Dept, UCLA.

Biography:

Willem Henri Lucas studied at the Academy of Visual Arts in Arnhem in the Netherlands and did his post academic studies at the Sandberg institute (Rietveld Academy) in Amsterdam. From 1990 to 2002 he served as a professor and chair of the Utrecht School of the Arts’ Graphic Design department. He works for clients mostly based in the field of Culture and Art.

In 1998 he designed holiday postage stamps for the PTT (Dutch Post and telecom company). He won several book design awards in the Netherlands and the US. Primarily a book designer (exploring sensibility of printed matter; in material as well as content), Lucas is interested in addressing social issues and bringing design back ‘to the street,’ and ‘humanity’ back into design, encouraging future designers to be a valuable part of their communities. His body of work deals with issues of ‘war’ and ‘love’, and ‘the human condition.’

Interview conducted by Gareth Walsh, June 11th 2009, UCLA

Client — UCLA Design | Media Arts

Concept

This poster is the presentation of three fundamental classes in the Design | Media Arts program, Motion, Video 1, and Dynamic Typography. An undergraduate has to undergo these classes in order to fulfill their degree. As a result I started with a three column grid. I then went on to choose the colors Red, Green, and Blue because they are the three fundamental colors that make up video, the format which all these classes display their work. I then overlaid all of the shapes to get secondary colors Cyan, Yellow, Magenta, as well as the completed White shape. I finished the poster off with a Processing texture I created to focus the poster and give the poster a little more depth. The shape reminds me of a candle-light or a rocket ship so the rather tangential association was the moment of having an idea. When the lightbulb goes off in your head.

Client — Luckman Gallery

Concept

The poster explores each artists’ perspective on the meaning of the archive and how it transformed throughout the seminars. The imagery explores the use of space as the ultimate archive of past, present, future, and its change in meaning through how each artist understand their unique reality through their own personal ‘lenses’.

Client — Aviator Nation

Concept

The Aviator Nation site began as a translation from their previous Flash version into a more web friendly and searchable HTML version. Once development commenced it became clear that the site had rather large potential and turned into a marginal redesign of the entire site. Full functionality as a blog, e-commerce, and gallery the Aviator Nation website relies heavily on photography. On the back end Aviator Nation utilizes user-friendly and infinitely customizable Wordpress.org. The website is living proof that jQuery can and is replacing the necessity of such closed and proprietary software such as Flash Player.

The AVN shop has recieved world-wide attention and has greatly boosted the amount of order that are being recieved online.

Concept

Client — USC Marshall School of Business

Concept

This project is a chat client and subsequent survey to model and question undergraduate students at USC. The website poses various scenarios and roles and then pits students in a negotiation with programmed bots. The students are then prompted with a series of questions to produce data on bidding hierarchies, classes, and positions. The design follows the form of IRS Tax forms. The project is a farce and as a result the design, flow, and development are molded to fit a stable and authoritarian point of view.

Client — MeMee

Concept

Getting people excited about a product that doesn’t exist yet is tough, but not for Jeff Schiau owner of MeMee. He is pioneering a new wave of trendy biodegradable tupperware. He came to Freelance Republic with a vision to inform prospective clients through a contemporary look, but not downright environmental. This is where the concept starts.