THE LOGO

A few things were already established by the time we started working on the project.

• They wanted the color red.
• They wanted their dog in the logo [That's where the company got it's name]

We provided three proofs of varying styles.

They chose the first design, which was also the version we thought represented them best. After fine tuning the color palette we landed on the final logo.

THE WEBSITE

The first proof was a step in the right direction:

We went for bigger video, less text and a more diverse color scheme. Soon we arrived at the perfect site for Chilibean.

Here is a before and after comparison of the portfolio page.

Before:

After:

The site is fantastically coded by our great friend and favorite co-conspirator Andy Davis. As always he used all the CSS standards we’ve come to know and love and also included a simple content management system. We hosted the site on Media Temple’s Dedicated Virtual Server to push the video as fast as possible.

You can see the final product live here: ChilibeanProductions.com

THEY

]]> http://they-design.com/chilibean-project/feed/ 0 http://they-design.com/meat-and-greet/ http://they-design.com/meat-and-greet/#comments Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:00:33 +0000 admin http://they-design.com/v5/?p=1 THEY summon to their Studio a multitude of friends for a gathering of most unusual magnificence.

An affair of the heart, possessed and twisted by the machinery that now sits cold on the stone floor of our Studio. A hideous letterpress with blood as its seal, flesh as its paper.

Dare it insult us all with its mockery? Or shall we revel in defiance?

There will be beer and camaraderie. There will be art and candy. There will be music and… the scarlet-stained ink of movable type.

Come, join us for our industry party and see our space, our work, our mural and our letterpress. It would love to meat you.

Version 2 of our portfolio – the TV zooming through time – is also live at THEY-design.com/v2

Special thanks to Chris Grap from the MN Film & TV Board, for staying up all night printing with me and his sister Sophie for all the help getting us on Chud!

Happy Life Day,
- Clint of THEY

With the SWHS providing so many foul ideas to be inspired by it was hard to land on just one. We arrived at the realization that there aren’t enough drugs in the world for us to get to the same mental place as the creators. But we couldn’t let the wookiee win on this, so we dug deep. Sometimes the truth is just so simple it cannot be denied. In this case a furry brown Christmas tree is as close to the truth as one can come without losing their mind. But is it a Wooktree? Is his name Chewtree? No, his name is Treebacca.

18″ x 24″
Chewbacca brown & yellow on off-white paper
Limited edition of 50 hand screen printed and signed by the artist Clinton Lugert.

The posters will be for sale at the screening at the Bryant Lake Bowl on Dec. 16th.

Here are some news articles about the event:
TheForce.net
Wcco.com
TwinCities.com

Besides the quote, the concept was to incorporate the 80’s root of the band, as well as a sarcastic take on death. What evolved was an image of the Grim Reaper experiencing the classic 80’s Maxell “Blown Away” ad [where Steve Steigman was the photographer and Richard Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries" was used for music].

Extremely special thanks to the gifted surrealist artist Alison Lindburg for her excellent illustration of the concept.

The very limited edition 9″ x 24″ posters will be for sale this Friday 12/04/09 at the Fineline for $15 and hand signed by the band as well as the artist Clinton Lugert.

Farewell “So It Goes”, you will be dearly missed
- Clint of THEY

This screening that this poster was for included shorts by Sleepy Eye, Jonathan Nowak and the premiere of Ryan Wood’s “Fear of Girls 3″.

They are 18″x24″. Green, yellow & pumpkin ink on beige French Paper. Edition of 100. Signed & numbered by the artist Clinton Lugert & hand screen printing by Tom Kemmer.

To get your mitts on them after purchase you can either pay for it to be shipped in bag & tube, or pick it up at THEY’s studio.

They are 18″x24″ silver/white ink on thick metallic black paper. Signed and numbered edition of 100 by the artist Clinton Lugert.