This Friday, the Honolulu office is serving Chili For Chile. It's gonna be hot. The Wall-to-Wall Studios First Friday Happy Hour will be taking donations and all proceeds will go to the American Red Cross. If you are in the Chinatown neighborhood of Honolulu, drop by and check it out. And bring some of that tsunami beer you stocked up on this past weekend. www.WWFFHH.com
Honolulu Magazine's BEST OF HONOLULU 2010 issue is now on the newsstands and the Editors have concluded what we've known all along: J.J. Dolan's has the Best Pizza around. "Our favorite (after extensive testing, of course) is the New York style pie served at J.J. Dolan’s. We love the crust, the sauce, the cheese. Oh, the cheese..." Read more about it here. So congratulations to our pals (and clients) J.J. and Danny for recognition well deserved! See you guys at pau hana.
Wall-to-Wall Studios recently launched the new branding (logo, brand standards, stationery system, bags) for Leather Soul, a top-of-class retail operation based in Honolulu, HI. Leather Soul provides the discriminating gentleman with a comfortable, classy store for all their footwear needs. Founded in 2004, Leather Soul has just expanded into a new location in Waikiki in early March, and will be followed later this year by another new store in Beverly Hills, CA. Esquire Magazine recently named Leather Soul one of the Top Three Men's Shoe retailers in the country. Kudos to owner Thomas Park!
Wall-to-Wall Studios was recently honored with "Best of Show" accolades for the Little Brag Book designed for Carnegie Mellon University Advancement Office. The Best of Show honors were bestowed by the Educational Advertising Awards, the largest competition in the country. The Little Brag Book showcases innovations attributed to the university's alumni, faculty and students and was created to support the Campaign for Carnegie Mellon University, Inspire Innovation. W|W also won a "Silver Award" for its brochure design for the University of Hawaii Shidler College of Business and a "Merit Award" for its Logo / Identity design of the West Virginia Research Trust, commissioned by West Virginia University.
Wall-to-Wall Studios produced a promotional video for Tesoro Corporation, a Fortune 100 company and independent refiner and marketer of petroleum products. The video showcases Tesoro's cutting-edge ILI (In-Line-Inspection) process for oversight and maintenance of its product pipelines. Mahalo to our good friends at Bluewater Multimedia for the collaboration.
Wall-to-Wall Studios' Partner Larkin Werner donated the design for Haiti Rising, a fund-raising event to help rebuild Haiti's St. Damien Hospital and Orphanage, which provides free pediatric care. Haiti Rising will include more than 30 performers, Haitian art auction and Haitian food and cocktails. The event:
Sunday, February 21, 2010
4:00pm - 10:00pm
Map Room Grill and Bar
Please attend this free event and support this worthwhile cause.
Wall-to-Wall Studios launches a new website for the 'Imiloa Astronomy Center in Hilo, HI. 'Imiloa brings together stories of the renowned Maunakea volcano, its world-famous astronomy and rich traditions of the great Hawaiian explorers who navigated the Pacific with the stars. W|W also designed the 'Imiloa's logo / identity and wayfinding system.
Wall-to-Wall Studios has begun the application process for listing on the U.S. GSA (United States General Services Administration) Schedule 541, Advertising and Integrated Marketing Solutions. The GSA is the centralized procurement office for the federal government offering products, services and facilities that federal agencies need to serve the public.
Wall-to-Wall Studios launched a new television advertising campaign for Hawaii National Bank, Hawaii's only locally-owned, privately held bank specializing in helping small and mid-sized businesses grow.
Wall-to-Wall Studios was hired by the Pittsburgh Jewish Film Forum, a program of the United Jewish Federation of Pittsburgh, to design the promotional campaign (poster series, opening-night invitation, program and ads) for this year's Pittsburgh Jewish Israeli Film Festival, taking place March 4-21. The festival showcases the best of Jewish film from around the world.
Our Chief Meteorologist gives us the extended First Friday Forecast for Honolulu: 100% chance of Happy Hour. Take it away, Mark.
Visit the official First Friday W|W invitation:
http://wwffhh.com
With only six more weeks until St. Patrick's Day, Wall-to-Wall Studios begins preparations by making the annual switch to Guinness. If you are in the neighborhood, please stop-by for a pint.
For tips on pouring the perfect Guinness, check out this video.
Located in Selinsgrove, PA, Susquehanna University is a national liberal arts college founded in 1858 and is committed to excellence in educating undergraduate students for productive, creative and reflective lives of achievement, leadership and service in a diverse and interconnected world. Wall-to-Wall Studios was hired by the University to provide prospective students with an interactive experience that gives them a true sense of the place without the space. The all Flash website is driven by Wall-to-Wall Studios' content management system (W|W CMS).
Founded in 1992, Peter Vincent Architects is one of Hawaii's most highly regarded architecture and interior design firms, with work encompassing a broad spectrum of styles and genres. The new website features Wall-to-Wall Studios' custom content management system, W|W CMS, and the portfolio module to showcase Peter Vincent Architects' case studies.
View the Peter Vincent Architects website.
After launching the new branding for the Clothes Line, founded by The Women’s Auxiliary of Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC in 1937, Wall-to-Wall Studios had the organization's logo silk screened on clothespins for use inside the retail store. The branded clothespins serve a functional role in the store as well as a unique "calling card" for The Clothes Line -- Pittsburgh's premier women's fashion resale store. The branding and graphic design collaboration included a new identity for Clothes Line, its website (http://clotheslineresale.org), merchandising and signage.
The Eastern University website (www.eastern.edu) designed by Wall-to-Wall Studios was one of 100 university/college sites reviewed by EDU Checkup in 2009 and achieved an overall 96-A rating, the third highest score given. Eastern's website scored a 96 in graphics and imagery, a 96 in content and navigability, and another 96 in the behind-the-scenes coding.