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Basically, Our long time homey Ruben from Zombieland passed along our work to Jeff Tremaine and the jackass producers because they were making a show with Travis Pastrana for mtv called Nitro circus. The premise was similar Jackass style stunts and jokes but more motorcross driven. They wanted an all american evil knievl feel, which we happily obliged to. We never heard back, but it was fun to make nonetheless and now you monsters get to see the fruit of our lost labor.
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When you have the Ramones as the preset musical backdrop to any commercial, you are likely going to end up in a good place. This was no exception. Cartoon network presented us a brief with the goal of bringing a variety of the shows to life and create a winter image spot that elevated the energy of the brand. Further, they did not want to have it feel like a traditional cartoon, or edit of cartoons, but wanted the characters to rip apart the tv screen as if tearing pixels apart with the energy of the movement. To achieve this, as always we explored many design options to kick this off.
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Our good homey and frequent collaborator Nathalie Canguilhem hit us up once again for graphics and animation help for her follow up video for Ed Banger princess, UFFIE. The concept was a playful pop culture infused street race between UFFIE in a denim Chevelle, and Pharrell in a Kaws stickered out vintage porsche. Intercut with performance and animation to break up the pace, what followed was a humor inspired race to the finish, ending in arrests and visual psychadelia. Will it feed hungry children worldwide? not likely, but was it fun to make? yes.
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With our old friends at Picasso Pictures in the UK, we designed these bumpers for the Orange Brand. the idea was to take music instruments and make characters and a playful landscape that reflects both the sponsors and the instruments themselves that tie in. In all the directions we presented, we really wanted to create some dimensionality that would create a sense of space and really allow us to be flexible in the different little stories and personalities we will let emerge.
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Last Summer, Nemo Design in portland came to us to freak out some Nike 6.0 Bmx Commercials with Garrett Reynolds. The idea loosely was to support their live action edits with a tarrot card-esque, crystals and new age visual theme to make it feel psychedelic and space age. The designs below are what we presented within that theme. [click to continue…]
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So we mentioned we opened our big traps and helped contribute to us narrowing our odds on winning the job in the previous Alexa post. Well before we graced the universe with that minor decision, we had moved to a second round of designs that were requested to be a bit more sophisticated then our first batch. At times, we flat out ignored the sophisticated part and just did what stoked us out. [click to continue…]
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Awhile back, Saatchi and Saatchi Los Angeles approached us with an idea to make a stop motion commercial highlighting the positives of Toyota. Clearly this did not apply to their brakes, but we werent going to let a little thing like losing complete control of your car while driving at the risk of death get in the way of our creative. So, with a bit of back and forth, a few reads of their scripts, and a good amount of caffeine of all flavors and creeds, we came up with a few styles below. [click to continue…]
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Nike Running in Portland approached us to help brand a few t shirts for their Nike human race awhile back. They wanted a proposal of how some of the designs might work in other mediums, which naturally we took as a green light at Laundry! to design a full branding package across a variety of mediums and platforms. The following are some of the highlights from the proposal in all its playful variations. [click to continue…]
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In the earlier days of Laundry! one of our biggest fans and frequent collaborators was ultra talented and super nice guy, Ruben Fleischer. We worked with him mostly on commercial projects, but when the opportunity came up for him to do a feature, he was a dear and looked us up for some animation help. In this case it came in the form of creating unique animation transitions throughout different parts of the film. I know this seems like a very minor project within the context of a 90 minute story on the silver screen, but rest assured that little touches like customized transitions can very often set the tone and language in a sequence that can be the different between conservative and quirky. [click to continue…]
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