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

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

Advanced Photoshop Magazine, Issue 63 featured interview.  Grab a copy at your local airport.

We’ve recently delivered new video’s for Ovi by Nokia which will soon be playing in their flagship stores world wide. Both videos will be in the projects section of our site shortly.

Downtown Calling is a film by Shan Nicolson about the late 70s – early 80s music scene in downtown New York City. Narrated by Deborah Harry. Produced by our main man Ben Velez with design, logo, titles and packaging by GHAVA.

We also just finished running a couple hundred posters for the film’s world premiere at the Austin Film Festival. Black soy ink on varied pastel 11×17 inch sheets.

Established in 1994, Graphic Havoc a visual agency (GHAVA for short) is a direction and design studio. Our approach is highly collaborative and focused on innovation. GHAVA executes tailored solutions in any medium to meet the communication needs of our clients, helping them create and bring to market meaningful products, services, and experiences.

With a core team of 5 creatives, GHAVA provides art and creative direction, graphic design, brand identity development, and moving image direction for live action and animation that span multiple technologies and media outlets. GHAVA works across a broad spectrum of industries, including consumer electronics, telecommunications, healthcare, publishing, education, finance, retail, and fashion.

Compensation to be negotiated.

Essential Skills and Responsibilities (most critical to success):

Lead Generation: in partnership with the cofounders, research and develop list of potential clients, proactively identify, locate, and qualify new business leads. Work with the team to develop and secure new opportunities.

Communications: creatively and confidently convey the added value of GHAVA’s services to current and prospective clients. Effectively guide the GHAVA team in crafting a strong approach that addresses the needs of the project and the client’s goals.

Execution: respond to RFP’s and RFI’s in a timely manner and with an informed understanding of customer’s needs, industry best practices while emphasizing the positive impact GHAVA can have on their business. Collect initial drafts and supporting verbal, written and graphic input from our team. Incorporate drafts into professionally formatted and clearly structured documents. Generate comprehensive and visually compelling proposals which provide sufficient detail to meet customers’ business and technical requirements. Confidently, position GHAVA’s solution and skills relative to other solutions potentially offered by competitors.

Organization: build relationships with cross-functional teams including business development, marketing, strategy, design research, technology, program management, finance and legal. Demonstrate the ability to leverage internal and external resources to better understand client’s industry, vernacular and typical industry practice. Remain current on industry trends, best practices and relevant topics to grow domain expertise. Examine portfolio and history of competitive comparative landscape so as to better understand GHAVA’s value proposition and design process distinctions.

Specific Skills

Graphic Design or Advertising firm experience desired.

General knowledge/understanding of design research.

Industry knowledge around print, film, video, and interactive production is a plus.

Experience taking commercial projects from research to definition through design and production is desired

Please submit your resume to: info at ghava d0t com

Peter got busy with the Risograph and designed some new stationary for us.

Peter and Randall just got a new toy for the studio and are printing tour posters for our friend Roberto’s band Helado Negro. Using the Risograph is more like screen printing than photocopying, and keeping things in register is just as hard.

Just received promo copies of the upcoming Bear In Heaven album, Beast Rest Forth Mouth due to be released on Hometapes in mid-October. We’ve been working closely with the amazing illustrations of Laura Brothers for the upcoming release.  Stay tuned for the whole package; CDs, LPs, posters, t-shirts, etc.