Soulellis Studio: October 2008 Archives

A color combination chart for layered clothing.

No. 1221613. A color combination chart for layered clothing, by Yoshiyuki Hagino, 1868.

I just got turned on to the digitized image collections of The New York Public Library. Wow. Six hundred thousand images in all kinds of specialized collections. Menus, charts, maps, photographs, illustrations, advertisements, cigarette cards, diagrams, costumes. I could spend hours in here (I just did).

No. 468952. Menu cover for the National Wholesale Druggists Association Banquet, 1900.

No. 1221643. An illustration of horses. Yoshiyuki Hagino, 1908.

No. 96883. Prismes 17. E. A. Seguy, 1931.

No. 473220. Menu, Portland, ME, 1908.

Tags ephemera | Posted on October 8, 2008 5:14 PM | Permalink

Blogging the city.

The Municipal Art Society of New York quietly relaunched MAS.org last month. Soulellis Studio designed the site as part of the re-branding, but MAS built it entirely in-house. At its core it's a highly-functional blog reporting on urban planning and preservation issues in NYC, in real time. But it's also their most visible communications channel, and we helped them extend that reach with a branded email blast that goes out weekly (also administered in-house by MAS).

MAS showed me the stats last week, and the traffic has gone through the roof — since the relaunch, it's more than doubled. That will get even better as they refine their online voice. This is a client who understands how non-profits need to communicate.

Tags web work | Posted on October 16, 2008 11:44 AM | Permalink

This is what it looks like when we diagram a website.

Can't really talk about this one yet, but it's a nice glimpse into the process we go through when we evaluate site architecture. More soon.

Tags in progress web work | Posted on October 22, 2008 12:02 PM | Permalink

Sam sent us a poster.

Sam Mallett is a talented guy in South Wales, UK and he sent us a few bits in exchange for some Cornell posters. I really admire his work. He's experimenting with letterpress printing and original wood type, and the results are beautiful. Thanks Sam!

Tags inspiration | Posted on October 22, 2008 12:35 PM | Permalink

510 photos.

Tonight, Cornell University alumni welcome the new Dean for Architecture, Art and Planning at a party at the New Museum. They asked us to do a mural representing the entire college, so we asked every student, faculty and staff member to email us photos and we assembled the results, which was output on vinyl (22.5 ft. x 11 ft.). More here.

Tags 3D Cornell University work | Posted on October 26, 2008 3:55 PM | Permalink

Collage city.

Here's issue #5 of the Cornell University College of Architecture, Art and Planning alumni newsletter, fresh from the printer. I really love our cover on this one, totally conceived by Erik. The collage features student work from last semester's South Africa studio, plus 23 images of students, faculty, staff, Dean Kleinman and guest lecturer José Oubrerie. A few hundred of these were spread out all over the party at the New Museum last night, and the bright purple-pink Pantone 807 was perfect.

Tags Cornell University print work | Posted on October 27, 2008 6:08 PM | Permalink