We just helped our friends at Foodspotting.com create an online demo video for their new iPhone app. You can view the video here.

Wedding invites hot off the press from Studio on Fire.  We worked closely with James Elliott and Sarah Welsh on the invitations for their upcoming wedding at the Standard, NYC. Taking cues from their personal style, we went all out geometric for this deco-inspired system.

The rest of the pieces can be viewed here.

At the 57th Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival this year, the Design Lions attracted 1297 entries. We are pleased that our work with Wolff Olins on the rebranding of AOL brought home a Bronze in the Large Scale Corporate Identity Schemes category.

Working closely with Wolff Olins, we recently finished up creating a new batch of art and videos for AOL. The videos were launched at the New Museum in NYC this past May. Check out the project here.

GHAVA was also included in AOL Artists, a new site showcasing the artists behind their unique brand identity.

We just helped our friends Amy and Nevett at KCDC skate shop by creating a 3 minute mini doc for the MTN DEW Shop Series. There was already 20 minutes of hilarious Nevett footage before he even realized we were rolling.

Check out the 3 new, super fun exercise themed spots we just did for Mtv here. They’re airing now!

We’re in the post production stages of a bunch of new projects and will have them up soon. For now we will just have to post a couple of teaser images.

Our friend Jay Parkinson has a new design and consulting firm and we supplied him and his partner with a logotype and an initial direction for their website which was built by Fangohr.
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We just received our copy of Harry Benson: Photographs and it’s getting Rave Reviews.

“Brilliantly designed by Randall J. Lane from Williamsburg-based GHAVA, with additional sequencing by Gigi and Harry, I think this is easily among the best books we have done, and if we were to stop tomorrow, there could be no finer final note.”- Daniel Power, CEO and founder of powerHouse Books.

“You can never go wrong with a sumptuous photo album from a legendary lensman. Spanning 60 years of starlets and presidents, Harry Benson: Photographs traces the buoyant trajectory of the American spotlight.” –Vogue

“As powerHouse Books’ new monograph Harry Benson: Photographs demonstrates, he relentlessly and patiently wormed his way into hotel and locker rooms long before high-powered publicity firms began restricting access.” –New York Magazine

See it on our site here

UPDATE: Check out the full project here

We are currently working with Wolff Olins on their rebrand of AOL. Check out the NY Times article here and the AOL press release here. Much more to come!

Some of the world’s best creative artists, including Universal Everything, GHAVA and Dylan Griffin created art and animations for the brand.-AOL press release

The above montage shows a small selection of the brand videos we created for the project.

Related:

• Creative Review Blog: “AOL becomes Aol.”
• TechCrunch: “Sneak Peek: AOL’s New Branding Video Appeals to Artsy Headbangers And Acrobats”
• WSJ Blogs > Digits: “AOL Lays Off Its Logo”
• paidContent: “Armstrong On AOL’s New Branding And ‘Very, Very, Very Inexpensive’ Campaign”
• Guardian: “New video of AOL brand identity”
• smartbrandblog: “AOL Repositions Itself As Aol.”
• The Business Insider : Silicon Alley Insider: “AOL Unveils New Brand, New Logos”
• MediaMemo: All Things Digital: “Meet the New AOL Logo: ‘Aol.’”
• Washington Business Journal: “AOL is now Aol.”
• CNET News: “Farewell, triangles: AOL preps its post-Time Warner look”
• Brand New: “Aol. Generation. Next.”
• designboom: “new AOL identity by wolff olins”
• WIRED: EPICENTER: “AOL Becoming Automated, On-Demand Content Factory”
• Brand New: The Best and Worst Identities of 2009
• PSFK: The Best and Worst Brand Identities of 2009