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NEWS, PRINT / New Seal. Get ready for some "premiumness"
Here is our new seal that we will use on all our communications. It's really nice to move away from sending PDFs and receive a nicely set letter on quality papers and envelopes sealed with gold.
Posted on 16.09.2006
NEWS, PRINT / "FUTUREOPOLIS" book design for C.R. Stecyk III and Arkitip
Book design for next issue of Arkitip #35, based on photographer C.R. Stecyk III reknowned for his skateboarding imagery and keen eye on culture. Stecyk was commissioned by Nike to showcase Soccer Culture in L.A.
Posted on 20.05.2006
PRINT, WEB / Earthbound Industries Identity
Identity and webdesign for Earthbound Industries a Portland based furniture, cabinet and remodel company with strong ethics on the well being of our earth.
Posted on 14.05.2006
PRINT / Aigle Noir Hotel Identity
Identity studies for Aigle Noir Hotel a luxury boutique hotel 50 km south of Paris. Across the road from the famous Chateau de Fontainebleau.
Posted on 26.04.2006
PRINT, WEB / Portland 2006 Action Sports Film Contest
Poster and website design.
Posted on 26.04.2006
PRINT, WEB / Wonder Women Identity
Identity development for WonderWomen Life Coaching. Client wanted to move away from traditional conservative style of Coaching identities, to cater to a younger client base. Identity reflects a sort of heroic image of what one can achieve when empowered.
Notes: website in development
Posted on 26.04.2006
RANDOM / Untitled
First painting i have had the chance to do in a while. Sure feels good to get off the computer and spatter some paint on a canvas.
Posted on 08.04.2006
NEWS, FASHION / Pharrell can't skate TShirt
Designed graphic for Plain Gravy's "Pharrell Can't Skate" tshirt. Get it here.
Posted on 08.04.2006
RANDOM / Native Logo Exploration
While working at Native DBG (now the KDU) i worked on abstract versions of the logo in 3 dimensions
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second image is VR Quicktime.
Posted on 26.03.2006
PHOTOGRAPHY / LOMO San Francisco
Posted on 26.03.2006
MOTION / Coca-Cola Animation Boards
Work done for VITAMIN in Chicago. Concept boards for Coca-Cola stingers.
Posted on 25.03.2006
NEWS, RANDOM / 10" Custom Nike Trexi for NYC show March 17/18
I got the opportunity to design a 10" Trexi as part of the Nike collaborative of designers. Staying under a Nike theme, i chose to make the Trexi, Nike Considered. The head is a solid piece of bamboo and the little fella "grass flocked." See event description below.
Play Imaginative and Toy Qube are proudly presenting “trexi invades nyc”, an exhibition that will feature the work of more than 70 artists and designers with backgrounds in fine art, graffiti, illustration and graphic design. In a unique exhibition of customized 10" trexi toys held at Toy Qube NYC, Play Imaginative will celebrate the launch of the 10" trexi toy figures.
Among the artists and designers who will participate are world-famous graffiti/street artists like NYC LASE, Dizmology, Too Fly and YOK; illustrators, Gary Baseman, Cameron Tiede and KOA; toy designers Tim Tsui, Brothersfree and Patrick Ma; graphic artists including No Pattern and Aobavision; fashion designer Jenna Rivers of SVSV and sneaker designer Jason Bass. Design studio contributors include artists from NIKE Brand, Thunderdog Studios and The KDU; also including recording artists like Lupe Fiasco and Mel of Taiwanese Hip Hop super group, MACHI. And many more.
contact me hello@contrecoups.com
Posted on 04.03.2006
FASHION / Ltd. Series 1 // KEY INFLUENCER™ Tee
Limited series to 20 tees on demand. The KEY INFLUENCER™ series spawns from an inside joke with co-workers and the hierarchy of supremacy over who gets to have the cool shit. Not meant as a serious statement, the reaction, is the result. 1/20 is ours to keep (Gold ink on off white).
For your own Tee, contact us for your size. All tees printed on American Apparel Organic Cotton.
Posted on 23.01.2006
PHOTOGRAPHY / x3 SHOTS
Posted on 22.01.2006
PRINT, WEB / Palaquin on site chair massage
Identity, marketing and web design for Palaquin on-site chair massage a startup company focusing on bringing RELAXATION AT WORK in Portland and soon to a national scale. The site features an online scheduling system where clients can book their appointments themselves and manage their massage schedule: an innovation brought to you by Contre Coups.
Posted on 11.11.2005
SPACE / Nike Invincible Retail
Art direction, design and concepting for Nike Invincible Fall 2005 Retail USA. One way inverted glass was used to endlessly reflect the footwear inside each cube. The cubes are lit from the inside with individual diffusion light boxes, and each of the 15 customizable towers have a video screen looping an animation.
Posted on 10.11.2005
FASHION / Nike One Piece Hawaii Dunk SOLE Collector MAGAZINE
Sneaker mag Sole Collector Sept 2005 features our Nike One Piece Dunk in red as was featured in a special event in Hawaii.
Posted on 20.09.2005
SPACE / Futura/Lance event paris July 2005
Working at NIKE enables me to work with a lot of creative people and amazing athletes. In this case it was a collaboration between Futura and Lance. The concept of the icons was born from Futura and then elaborated on by Mark Smith of Nike. I was tasked with coming up with a way to use 7 bikes (one for each year of the tour and an unique icon story for each) and all the icons to tell a compelling story.
The main design revolved around "the Wheel". It is a fractal vision of a wheel, where the main frame that holds the structure is the back geometry of a bike, and the spokes are the frames and the wheels are Futura's art. Each icon story was also interpreted as an abstract pattern that was applied to the walls of the space in Paris and store fronts.
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This energy was also carried to Colette window and Opium store in Paris, as well as 1 store in the UK (dover street market).
as see on Freshness Mag, and many more.
Posted on 06.08.2005
PRINT / Portland Promotional material summer 2005
Commissioned by Portland City Council to promote key events over the summer. Portland Action Sport Film Contest and Portland International Raceway Champ Car Grand Prix 2005.
Posted on 24.06.2005
FASHION / Nike "Jogos" One Piece Dunk
Developed a pattern based on 5 Key Brasilian Fütbol moves. The resulting idea was that of a camouflage pattern that would appeal to an Indie crowd. Only 276 pairs were sold around the world, from Paris to Tokyo.
This Piece here is a ONE OFF (YES we own it, and i would sell it for an exorbitant price!). Made of premium Cobalt Blue Suede 2'x2', it was made as a possible Point of Purchase for the promotion of the shoe, but never made it through the rounds in time, so here it is.
Posted on 20.04.2005
MOTION, SPACE / Nike Global Brand Camp Event
Design of all visual elements and space* for Nike's yearly Global Brand Camp.
*Space designed in duo with Andy Walker designer extraordinaire.
Posted on 20.04.2005
SPACE / Nike ID 255
our favourite pillow we designed for Nike iD energy space in NY on 255 Elizabeth Street, Soho.
Posted on 11.04.2005
PRINT / RBK AD Concepts
Hired by Arnell Group NY to give a new art direction concept and breath of life to the then outdated visual style of RBK.
Posted on 25.08.2004
PRINT / Scion Tc
Ad concepts commissioned by Attik SF.
Posted on 10.07.2004
PRINT / Kanye West Album Cover
Art direction and design on Kanye West's Award winning first album "The college dropout".
Posted on 11.02.2004
PRINT / 2004 Rocawear Ad Campaign
Assistant Art Director and layout design for RW campaign.
Creative Director David Gensler, Photography by Albert Watson
Posted on 25.01.2004
PRINT / 2004 State Property AD Campaign
State Property 2004 Campaign shot by Albert Watson. Working with the utilitarian theme of the brand, the 2004 advertising campaign for State Property is reminiscent of the 1920’s Propaganda era, influenced by posters from Cuba, China and the Soviet Union.
Work done while at NATIVE/DBG, Photography by Albert Watson.
Posted on 24.01.2004
MOTION / Rocfiles Volume 1 Broadcast spot
Posted on 07.01.2004
MOTION / New Years Day
Experimental video of the feeling of silence the day after New Years.
Posted on 01.01.2004
WEB / Maiju Make-up artist
Website for london based high fashion make-up artist Maiju Lanamaki represented by Balcony Jump. The site features a PHP driven server end to automatically add thumbnails and images to the flash interface when images are uploaded to the server.
Posted on 25.11.2003
FASHION, SPACE / NYC Fashion week tent Spring 03
Design and concept New York Fashion Week Spring 03 Tent and collateral.
Posted on 05.05.2003
MOTION / Eleion, a short film
Short film, written and directed as an study on surreal dreams and schizophrenia.
Posted on 23.01.2002
INFO / about , contact and other miscilaneous facts
Eric, a native of the Royal Land of France, immediately set off after middle school to become an orthopedic surgeon. Well on his way and after 2 years of intense studying, and a multitude of late nights in the ER, medicine fell out of love with Eric. At a loss, he attended a weekend conference of the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers in Blackpool, where he learned to stuff a lobster and properly remove an eel's head. He believed he had found his calling. Alas, after 18 gleeful months, he fell out with the fish people over a quarrel to save an abnormally large lobster. It was then that he started self publishing and designing a local magazine entitled "Saving fish and some crustaceans," now out of print, in which he discovered his acute sense of visual aesthetics. A few years at the prestigious Central Saint Martins Art and Design School in London led him to manipulate a small group of influential fashion and design innovators. Shortly after this success, fleeing the fame, he moved underground back to his homeland in Paris to consult high society ex-royalties and quarantined artists. A few of these noble clients enabled Eric to promptly move to New York City where he tried out for the NHL, was cut (both by the coach and in the head), and-destitute-but he promptly rebounded and proceeded to a senior design and leadership position at a world renowned hip-hop label. Hundreds of CD packaging, apparel and accessory designs later, not to mention countless advertising campaigns and event promotions, Eric disappeared overnight...once again. He left no trace for a few months, apart from a few eel heads in random places, only to resurface on the west coast at Nike, Inc., where Eric is who he is: A man, his wife, a passionate love for chocolate, a story and an accent.
hello@contrecoups.com
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Ornaments by ENEONE, Thanks thomas and Ben.
Posted on 01.01.2001