Everything Studio
In 2013 we were featured in ‘Image of the Studio,’ a group show highlighting various designers working in New York City. The exhibition aimed to represent a cross-section of the design industry from famous international branding agencies to small-time independents laboring in obscurity. This wasn’t so much a curated list of the best or most interesting designers in NYC, (many of our favorite studios did not participate), as much as it was a random sampling, a state of the industry poll. The brief was simple; use the surface of a square poster to illustrate your design philosophy. Graphic designers are mostly creatures of humble temperament, so we couldn’t imagine anyone producing a bombastic visual manifesto. Nobody wants to look foolishly sincere. As a pro-bono exhibition, it also didn’t seem likely that the participating studios would devote much energy to their responses. Paying work usually takes precedent, and these posters were likely to emerge in off hours, or in between ‘real’
Everything Studio Deep Thoughts In 2013 we were featured in 'Image of the Studio,' a group show highlighting various designers working in New York City. The exhibition aimed to represent a cross-section of the design industry from famous international branding agencies to small-time independents laboring in obscurity. This wasn't so much a curated list of the best or most interesting designers in NYC, (many of our favorite studios did not participate), as much as it was a random sampling, a state of the industry poll. The brief was simple; use the surface of a square poster to illustrate your
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