B.Akerlund
We outfitted Costume Designer / Stylist B.Akerlund with a new branding wardrobe and interactive portfolio that stitches together a design representing her signature “over the top” look that has attracted an assortment of today’s most daring fashion forward musicians; Madonna, Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Britney Spears, Blondie, Black Eyed Peas, the list goes on! From the logo, to the design and development of the website, we created an experience that replicates the attitude and innovative styles she is known for.
Edyta Photography
Edyta doesn’t high-five, she high kicks! We designed a new brand and interactive experience that does away the cheesy slide-show of boring work and straight into the exciting personality of this talented photographer. She focuses on telling stories in a way that are creative, cute, and of course memorable… weddings, products, pets, oh my!
Reduce Use
Reducing power consumption is an environmental responsibility, not only to reduce bills, but crucial for sustainability during peak seasons within many metropolitan areas. We teamed up with Sensis to design and develop an interactive tour for SDGE, outlining reductions you can make during a reduce use event!
Mailboxing
Our first iPhone & iPad game Mailboxing is now available on the App Store. Every city has its jerk. In this urban jungle, it happens to be the postman, spamming every mailbox in his way. Stand up for the angry locals and smash those mailboxes as you chase down that sneaky postman in a single-tapping frenzy.
DJ Cassidy
DJ Cassidy worked closely with us to craft an experience that is both a mix of visual branding as well as an easy-to-use interface that documents the robust career of the celebrity deejay on a multitude of devices. Reeeemix!
Proxymines
We co-op’d with Droga5 on this 007 campaign for the new Goldeneye Wii game. We designed and developed an explosive interface for users to lay proximity mines on the web. Mine the internet, mine your friends!
Black Star Beer
ButcherShop Creative led us on a thirst quenching quest of reintroducing Minott’s double hopped golden lager out of a short hibernation. We designed and built a new hoppy home for Black Star Beer online… including a CMS, various online activations ranging from a tour of the original brewery, a convenient store locator, and even a sweepstakes that is known as “Maybe the Best Trip Ever”. Enjoy Beer!
Instrumenti debut album – TRU
‘TRU’, the debut album of Instrumenti is an eclectic mix of different genres and overtones. Their sound with each new track so we decided to let the music paint the picture. Every piece of the album artwork was created by the song itself. We might have helped by pouring paint onto blasting speaker membranes and catching the paint spills on paper, we might have helped by playing the drums with paint splashing drum sticks, but the real artist was the sound. We were just instruments.
RIGA shirts
We love our city Riga – a place where we breathe, work and do life. Initially, we did just a few shirts as a tribute to our city, but responding to the fellow-citizen demand, it has turned into a project that has gone beyond our expectations. Join Riga movement and get your RIGA at MIESAI online store.
Latvian Architecture Since 1991
We love books, so when an opportunity presented itself to work for the new book – V*X, Latvian Architecture since 1991, we jumped on board right away. The book assembles essays from five architectural critics of different generations, experiences, opinions and world-views to give an interesting and extraordinary insight into contemporary Latvian architecture. Our aim was to extend this extraordinary view through design, typography & various materials.
Betsy Works
Betsy Works is a production company specialising in high-end moving image for the world of advertising and beyond. We came along and designed their new website–simple yet elegant portfolio with a clear focus on the produced videos.
Palladium
The legendary Palladium Cinema located in the very heart of Riga has been reborn into a remarkable concert hall. We were glad to be a part of this venture by redesigning the old logo and giving the identity a fresh spark. We’ve perfected the old letterforms and expanded the identity to suit different artists, moods and events that will charge up the venue.
BurtusType.com
We love beautiful typography and knew there were talented Baltic designers & typographers out there with a bunch of nice typefaces in their pockets. To give them the deserved spotlight and collect all the best of Baltic typography under one roof we created BurtusType.com – a showcase of selected typography from the Baltic designers.
QuakeQuiz
Increase the size of your quake preparedness by 110%. ISH handled the design and we Interactified a site that teaches San Francisco what to do before, during, and after an earthquake.
Baltic Film Services
Baltic Film Services delivers film, tv & commercial production services in the Baltic region. Their clients are looking for clarity, punctuality & efficiency so we designed an identity that communicates these qualities in a well-defined way by using clean typography and a simple grid system. The website incorporates these ideas with a clean layout, gorgeous shots from behind-the-scenes & smooth navigation.
Veto Magazine contribution
We were approached by Latvian music & culture magazine Veto to contribute illustrations & art direction for two consecutive issues. They gave us freedom to experiment & play around so we mashed up different styles, shapes and techniques for your eyes to rejoice.
British Council CCE
The British Council asked us to create a graphic identity for Creative and Cultural Economy programme, which recognizes the centrality of creative entrepreneurs to the development of a sustainable and competitive creative economy.
eParaksts
For the new identity of eParaksts (eSignature), we’ve taken the original medium of a person’s signature – ink – and expressed it in its digital context – a pixel. Everyone has a unique signature. So does the eParaksts logo is versatile with countless color and pixel combinations.
Weather Underground
We worked with WU to provide some conceptual approaches to both usability and visual design for their iPhone application. We kept the power user in mind and created a usable interface that allows users to skim locations or quickly browse into scientific details.
DS Magazine Cover
We used eleven different typefaces to design the cover of DS, the latvian design magazine. The issue’s main theme being based around Latvia’s identity, we entertained a variety of typefaces from the Baltic type showcase – Burtustype.com. We maintained the theme throughout the magazine by typesetting article titles in the same fashion.
Instrumenti
Instrumenti is a lovely music duo created by two talented musicians. They perform everything from pop-music to electro beats and even operatic arias from the 18th century. What they didn’t have though was a proper website. This is where we came in and designed a small but handy website that gives you the most relevant content in an easy to understand way.
Graffiti Jam 2010
Graphic identity for Graffiti Jam Festival 2010 was another contribution we did to the local street-art scene here in Riga. And it gave us an opportunity to get our hands dirty with some spray-paint during the event.
Seeks Music
Originated in London, Seeks Music is a homemade independent eclectic freeform internet radio station made by music creators, bloggers, promoters, and obsessives. We like what they do, so we spent our summer vacation designing & developing their website.
Warning Lights App
Occasionally we found ourselves in daily-life situations where we thought, what if we had… a rotating warning light. Our lives have never been the same ever after.
Latvia World Expo 2010
Creating the graphic identity of Latvia for the World Expo 2010 has definitely been our biggest project so far this year. Moving away from the old and worn-out traditional patterns, we’ve taken a different look at our nation and ignited a new spirit of happiness into its identity to help present the country in a different way. Latvia – Technology of Happiness.
Liba Ece
Liba Ece is a young singer & songwriter from Riga. We did a light yet elegant promo website to help her spread the music. Click around to see the colorful vibrations.
Cirulis Typeface
The typeface “Cirulis” was specifically made for the book of Ansis Cirulis – one of the first latvian designers. The characters of this typeface is based on the original calligraphy found throughout Cirulis’ work.
ir
In collaboration with creative director Armands Leitis, we spent months of sleepless nights designing the new weekly magazine “ir” (is). This was an entirely new experience that made us fall in love with magazines. In addition, we were also asked to design the website for ir.lv.
Tvida Brauciens
Poster design for the local tweed run, organized by our friends at the bicycle renovation studio Erenpreiss and Latvian Vintage Bicycle club.
Kalnina Mammas Tejas
Kalnina Mammas Tejas (Kalnins Mom’s Teas) is our newly developed brand introducing hand picked tea from Latvian fields and forests. In collaboration with pharmacist Lillija Kalnina, we’re bringing the purest leaves and flowers to the city.
Sniegaklubs
Our friends from a Latvian snowboard club “SNIEGAKLUBS” needed a redesign for their logo and website. Wanting this to be more than just another logo, we crafted them a custom typeface to strengthen the visual identity and to have a fun and unique look
Hyundai USA
Number 9 led us into a world of Sedans, CUV’s and Sport Hatches. They headed the design for this truly elegant online experience. We helped polish, buff and innovate portions of this shiny new paint job. The mechanics at KNI were originally under the hood and did amazing work! Lets just say that ultimately the client didn’t stick with the “Premium Package”.
Aerodium
After flying for few a minutes in the air with Aerodium vertical wind tunnels we came up with these different designs for their overall visual identity, website and various promotional materials. We’ve had great fun working with Aerodium for the last couple of months and hope to bring more excitement and flying experience all around the world.
BMW X1 – Do the joy! campaign
Paint the streets of four different environments with this microsite for the new BMW X1 campaign. Type a message and watch as the X1 creates a skid mark masterpiece. Look what I made Ma!
ROCIS
The identity of accounting bureau ROCIS communicates the two main ideas: the primary language of ROCIS accountants – numbers, and their work – characterized by integrity and transparency.
IVA – Desert Gardens
IVA asked us to design their debut album cover. The plain, deserted sleeve makes way for the intricate gardens that unfold within, bringing the title “Desert Gardens” to life, and letting us to play with origami at work.
Tramplini – Tumba Rumba
Our rockstar friends Tramplini put out a nice little album under the U.S. label Series Two Records. We were happy to help them with the cover.
Arhitekturas Atelje
Website for Arhitekturas Atelje, an architectural practice founded in Riga, Latvia, was designed to portray the philosophy of their works putting emphasis on simplicity, clean forms and rich use of the medium.
Satellites LV
Satellites LV has always been one of our favourite bands, so we were particularly excited for the possibility to work on one of the designs for their new double album release. Both album designs used drawings by Satellites LV member Edgars Zilde, which then were interpreted in different ways.
Luzumpunkts
Luzumpunkts is an adventure organization specializing in various activities ranging from surfing and snowboarding to kayaking, climbing, etc. We had to design a logo that would be easy to adjust and expand over time. The whole identity was based on a custom-made typeface, which we developed specially for this purpose. Luzumpunkts typeface can be used by itself or together with various symbols and illustrations thus forming an ever growing identity.
Keas Keasler
The website we did for Keas Keasler was another project we have enjoyed doing for this intense communicator who loves inspiring and empowering others to share in the love affair with God that has stoked his passion for building knowledge, relationships, experiences, understanding, discipline, and community – for the kingdom.
Place to get lost
This tee was particularly designed by one of our designers as a special birthday gift to his girlfriend.
Pagrafs
Pagrafs is a social project located in a basement, which is dedicated to graffiti workshops. Besides teaching various street-art tendencies and techniques, this is a place where the young graffitists can get help in their struggles and realize that there is something more than just this life. We supported the project by creating Pagrafs’ identity.
UPPE
UPPE is a company providing a variety of creative solutions in glass. When creating UPPE’s website, we decided to use real glass and real objects animated in real time. Working alongside the creative team at UPPE, we were able to achieve a sense of realism in everything you see on the site. The initial shoot took us 18 hours straight, but it was well worth it!
ADWARDS 2009
We were approached by the Latvian art directors club to do the design for 2009 ADWARDS festival celebrating the best design and advertising in latvia. The whole concept was focused on an idea of a little country having a great festival.
1PLUS1
1 PLUS 1 + ARHITECTURE + CITY + DESIGN + INTERACTION + GRID + SIMPLICITY + USABILLITY + ECONOMY + ENVIRONMENT + NICE PEOPLE.
Nick Pride & The Pimptones
Irresistable funk grooves by Nick Pride & The Pimptones and a nice poster we did to help promote their show.
Bastions Security
The goal of this project was to completeley rebrand the company now know as “Bastions Security”. The tasks included developing a new brand name, corporate identity, website and promotional materials.
Plikums
Having the aim to collect all the best Latvian & Baltic design related news and events we launched a small newsblog so you can know what’s going on around the block. Recently we’ve started a video series meeting some of the most influential designers, photographers and creative people in the region to talk about their life, work and ideas.
James Phillips Voiceovers
Combining vocation & experience, James Phillips directs voice castings, film dubbing, ADRs for feature films, and original voice soundtracks for animation films. He has become a signature voice in English, ranging from TV/Radio commercials to documentaries.
Haunted Attraction
A social platform that is not afraid of a little blood. We created an online community for HA magazine, a community that embraces horror in a fun, shit-your-pants kind of way!