Complete was asked to develop a CD design for this Irish Music concert series. Each year, the Center for Irish Music in Saint Paul hosts the Young Irish Musicians Weekend. The event brings in master musicians from all over the world and culminates in a concert. Irish music is not known for being a hot-house of design innovation, so we decide to introduce some fun into the area. Using strong type and illustration we think we’ve come up with something fun and lasting.
Complete is really happy to welcome our two summer interns Mike Greenwell and Connie DeMillio. Mike is a recent design graduate from the College of Visual Arts in St. Paul and Connie teaches design and interactive media at Century College. They both make great additions to the team during this hot and stormy summer. Wish them luck!
We have just finished work on an exciting project with our friends at Hip Hooray. Hip Hooray creates smart celebration gear. Think renewable and reusable party gear. They came to us with a unique challenge. Could we help them create a branded user experience using Network Solutions built-in eCommerce solution. We were able to complete rebuild the NS templates from the ground up to give the customer a cohesive user experience. The site was design to be very modular and as the company grows, the site will grow with them – integrating their blog, social media, galleries and featured products. Keep your eye on http://www.hip-hooray.com.
Sadly, our preferred candidate and client Paul Thissen has withdrawn from the Minnesota Gubernatorial race. Happily, Paul has decided to run again for the House of Representatives. We’ve updated his site to reflect this. Keep following the race and get involved with your candidate of choice!
We’re really please to welcome Meghan O’Hare to the Complete compound as our latest design intern. Meghan graduated Magna Cum Laude from College of Visual Art in St. Paul so we expect some incredible stuff out of her. I’m sure we won’t be disappointed.
Complete is really psyched to announce our new partnership with Ames Adventure Outfitters – one of the big players in the Midwest outdoor gear and apparel rep industry. They’re out there getting brands like Marmot, Scrapa and Osprey into the community and onto retailer shelves. We’re going to be setting the new industry standard in rep websites with this bad boy, so keep you eyes peeled.
Once again we hosted a poster show at the studio as part of the Art Crawl. Dozens of our favorite local poster artists including Erik Hamline, Paul Gardner of Florafauna, Ross Bruggink, Bill Moran of Blinc, Lucas Richards and Derek Presnail or Mausesaw, Lindsay Noble, Samantha Michaels and others sold prints from recent shows. We had a great show and are already looking forward to the next one!
Another joint project with Brew for D’Amico. D’Amico Kitchen at the Chambers Hotel is one of the most anticipated restaurant openings of the year. This video blog highlights the opening of the restaurant with executive chef John Occhiato.
We teamed up with our friends at Brew and created a page to host their annual holiday video. Great little project that we had a lot fun doing.
Complete hosted a poster sale at the studio on October 9th, 10th and 11th. We celebrated the St. Paul Art Crawl and the opening of our new space. That’s right, we’ve expanded.
Artists in the show included: Sharon Werner, Sarah Nelson Forss, Mousesaw, Anthem Heart, Florafauna, Patrick Maun, Hot Snot USA, Craig Johnson, Jeff Johnson, Jena Petit, Micah Thompson, Scribble And Square, Chelsea Brink and Jessica Hall Burns, Steve Jockish, Ross Bruggink, Lindsay Noble, Blinc and Andy Powell.
Keep your eyes open as we’ll be holding the poster show again this spring on April 23rd, 24th and 25th.
December 6, 2011
Pro Cycling Team Kelly Benefit Strategies Optum Health Pro Cycling (say it fast three times) came to us to help them with a complete site redesign. We’ve got some great tricks up our sleeves and this thing is going to be awesome.
September 15, 2011
We’ve been working for quite awhile with a new client developing a new brand and site featuring fine custom Italian furniture. We’re looking to shake up this category and are insanely happy with the work we’ve kicking out for this project. We’ll post updates as it develops!
August 20, 2011
Continuing our work with philanthropic groups, we partnered with our friends at Solve to create these early concepts for a complete reboot of the GiveBack brand and site. This one is going to be fun and good for you.
July 27, 2011
We’ve just been too busy to update this site. But we’ll get to it soon we promise. The shop is currently at five people and we’ve got new projects underway or launched for Neve Designs, Nicros Climbing, Solve, GiveBack.org, ItalyByWeb, Ikaati, Sweeney Brothers Millwork and more. Wow.