This is the first in a series for our favorite skate shop, KCDC. Each team rider will get a chance to pay their respects to the people who influenced them by recreating a line from a video that stoked them to skate when they were growing up. The first one is of Bill Pierce recreating Chris Pastras’ line from Tincan Folklore !

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.

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.

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

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.