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PRINT'S Regional Design Annual, the most comprehensive survey of graphic design in the United States, selected a project by Wall-to-Wall Studios for inclusion in the December 2011 issue of PRINT. The winning entry was for the Identity and Branding of Burgatory, a restaurant in Pittsburgh that features helluva burgers and heavenly shakes. In addition to creating the visual branding (logo, taglines), W|W also designed the on-site collateral (menus, gift cards, to go packaging), website, environmental and decor elements (signage, wayfinding) and merchandising.

Other recent accolades for Burgatory include:

-Featured in the InVigor8 branding blog.

-Featured in Art of the Menu, a division of Underconsideration

-Burgatory at Consol Energy Center featured by Sports Business Daily

-Featured in Boring Pittsburgh blog.

-AIA Pittsburgh Interior Design merit winner 2011

-Pittsburgh City Paper (CP), best burger

View the Burgatory website
View the Burgatory integrated branding case study
 

Wall-to-Wall Studios is seeking a Motion Graphics Designer/Animator. This is a full-time position in our Pittsburgh, PA location.

Job Description for Full-Time Candidate: 


The Motion Graphics Designer/Animator will be tasked with strategic direction and design development and technical execution. Assignments will include a wide variety of video and online marketing projects (TV commercials, corporate presentations, short films, web animations, etc.) for a broad range of clientele. He or she will work closely with creative directors and other team members to deliver quality results under high pressure deadlines. He or she displays an exceptional sense of visual design, passion for typography and a clear interest in motion graphics and related technology. View some past Wall-to-Wall Studios motion graphics/animation/video projects on our YouTube channel.

Responsibilities:

-Designing concept mood boards, storyboards, animation sketches, an sample animatics, including music and voiceover


-Designing and producing final motion graphics involving typography, photography, live video and/or 3D animation


-Producing projects ranging from end tags, bumpers, 30-sec commercials to longer format corporate productions


-Working closely with creative team, project managers, third-party collaborators and clients to deliver completed projects

Requirements:

-A minimum of 3 years related education or 3 years motion design work experience

-Serious attention to detail with a strong working knowledge of motion/design-related applications
-Ability to articulate creative ideas in verbal and written communication
-Focused creative thinking while multi-tasking on several assignments and overlapping deadlines
-Collaborate closely, yet remotely, with our creative team across the pond in Honolulu, HI

Technical Skills:

-Advance knowledge of After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Cinema 4D preferred

-Moderate knowledge of Final Cut Pro, Mac OS, and Quicktime

-Advanced knowledge of 2D and 3D animation

-Moderate knowledge of VFX (motion tracking and creating track mattes)

-Must be self-motivated, able to multi-task and work well with others and as part of a team

Perks include:

-Great learning environment

-Benefits including retirement plan, medical, dental, vision, life & disability insurance

-Rootbeer on Tap
 

About Us:
Wall-to-Wall Studios is an award-winning multidisciplinary creative and branding agency. Founded in 1992, we are a full-service strategic firm headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with a second office in Honolulu, Hawaii. Our work spans many industries, and our clients are just as diverse - big, small and in between; local, regional and national. We have experience representing the full emotional and aesthetic spectrum.

To apply, please view our Resumator job posting here.

Principals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster.

A classic photo was recently unearthed from the Wall-to-Wall Studios archival vault.  The image, from 1996, was used in a Pittsburgh Magazine article that featured young, successful entrepreuners in Pittsburgh. The image showcases Wall-to-Wall Studios co-founders James Nesbitt and Bernard Uy getting down to business. Today, both creative directors are sporting the same hair style, but James has gone grey while Bernard has a "wee" less of it.

View more recent Nesbitt and Uy images here.
 

What sets your business apart from your competitors? How can you craft a “personality” for your business (and why)? How can technology and social media help drive your business success? Why is it important to build a brand and how can you do it? Are brands only for big businesses or can a small business build a brand too?  

We hope to tackle these and other questions when we join small business owners for the next SmallBiz Lunch and Learn on Friday, July 22: “Leveraging Technology and Social Media to Grow Your Small Business” by Hawaii Business Magazine. Wall-to-Wall Studios co-founder Bernard Uy will be participating in a panel discussion with Cyrus Driver (VP of Oceanic Time Warner Business Class), Roxanne Darling (partner at Barefoot Studios),  and moderated by David Tumilowicz, Publisher of Hawaii Business magazine. See you there!

Event details here.

Follow along via Twitter - #HBLunchLearn

Pittsburgh Magazine featured Wall-to-Wall Studios' client, Burgatory, in its June issue, noting that the restaurant truly delivers on its promise to provide a “helluva burger” and “heavenly shakes.” Wall-to-Wall Studios designed Burgatory's integrated branding that included the visual branding (logo, taglines), on-site collateral (menus, gift cards, to go packaging), environmental and decor elements (signage, wayfinding) and merchandising.

View the Burgatory integrated branding case study.

Read the Pittsburgh Magazine Burgatory article.

"Change A Life", the branding campaign created by Wall-to-Wall Studios for Robert Morris University, a private, coeducational university in Pittsburgh, PA, was recently honored with several awards.

CASE, the Council for Advancement in Support of Education, recognized the campaign with 2 Silver Awards (Advertising Campaign, TV/Commercial Spots) in its Circle of Excellence competition, advancement’s premier international awards.

And, The Press Club of Western Pennsylvania honored the campaign in the 47th annual Golden Quill Awards, a competition that recognizes professional excellence in written, photographic, broadcast and online journalism in Western Pennsylvania.
Winner: Most Creative Use of Technology to Tell a Story
 

"Change A Life", the integrated marketing initiative, was deployed across outdoor, print, web, social marketing channels and admissions recruitment materials. "Change A Life" promotes the unique Engaged Learning curriculum, whereby students "reach-out" into the community to inspire change, including their own.

View the Robert Morris University Change A Life case study and TV commercials.

View the Robert Morris University Change A Life website.

"FLUX Hawaii is the only magazine propelling an entrepreneurial generation toward positive social and creative action within our communities through a thoughtful cultivation of dialogue and a strong commitment to quality of design." Cool. And for some reason, they still decided to do a profile of Wall-to-Wall Studios as part of their "Art & Design" issue, which just hit the newsstands this month.

"Most of us are capable of discerning which advertisements are successful and which aren’t simply through observation of our responses to them. But when it comes down to it, what does it really take to create a successful campaign? Nestled in the bustling creative hub that is downtown Chinatown, the design firm Wall-to-Wall Studios is working to address this very question..."

Special thanks to the fine folks of FLUX Hawaii, publisher/editor Lisa Yamada, creative director Ara Laylo , writer Carolyn Mirante and photographer John Hook.  Interview, photoshoot at the Honolulu office... the whole nine yards. Do yourself a favor and pick up a copy of this issue, or better yet, subscribe.

Also, W|W co-founder Bernard Uy will be a featured speaker ("Humor, Emotion and Wit in Branding") at FLUX Hawaii's all day multimedia event "Talk Story Sessions" on May 29th at the Waikiki Edition Hotel. See you there.

Wall-to-Wall Studios continued its integrated branding collaboration with the Frick Art & Historical Center (aka The Frick Pittsburgh) via the design of the promotional campaign for the upcoming exhibition, Faberge at the Frick. "Faberge: The Hodges Family Collection" comprises more than 100 objects made by the legendary House of Faberge, goldsmith and jeweler to the Russian court and will arrive at the Frick Pittsburgh this Fall, running from Oct. 23 through Jan. 15.  In addition to all of the promotional materials (save-the-date, invitation, signage, advertising), Wall-to-Wall Studios also designed the exhibit microsite, www.FabergeAtTheFrick.org.  

Read the article in the Post-Gazette or Tribune-Review.

Visit the Faberge at the Frick website.

View the Frick awareness campaign case study.

Brand Identity Essentials, published by Rockport in the Fall of 2010, celebrates well-executed brand programs and really great marks including the logo, identity system and branding for The Mob Museum in Las Vegas. Authors Yang Kim, Kevin Budelmann and Curt Wozniak of Peopledesign acknowledge that "a little humor may be a way to help a brand stand out. In addition to providing simple entertainment, wit can have a humanizing effect on a brand."

Learn more about the Brand Identity Essentials book.

Visit the Mob Museum branding case study.

Read the Fast Co.Design article.
 

Wall-to-Wall Studios designed an integrated branding solution (naming, logo/identity, stationery, more) for StormWorks, a social enterprise from The Nine Mile Run Watershed Association that provides water runoff solutions. StormWorks products and solutions are designed to capture rainwater and storm runoff before they overflow sewers and threaten the health of rivers, streams and wetlands. StormWorks sells and installs attractive, durable rain barrels for residences and small businesses. In addition, StormWorks also designs and installs rain gardens and tree plantings, nature’s best stormwater managers. Read more about the people behind this company in this Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article.

People often ask us "So... why do you have offices in Pittsburgh and Honolulu?" Well, we happen to love living (and working) in both cities, and it seems like the folks at the The Economist Intelligence Unit (the in-house research unit for the Economist Magazine) tend to agree. The annual livability ranking examines the living conditions in 140 cities around the world and rates each city across five categories: stability, health care, culture and environment, education, and infrastructure. (Sadly not a single U.S. city ranked in the world’s top 10, or even top 20 of the most livable cities. But in the U.S. look who wound up at number one and two.)

Read more about this story via American Public Media.

Print's Regional Design Annual, the most comprehensive survey of graphic design in the United States, containing 200 pages of award-winning work, and the only design annual organized by geography, hit the newsstands in December 2010 containing a quote from Wall-to-Wall Studios partner and creative director, Larkin Werner.  Werner's response to a question about the Pittsburgh design community:

     "Pittsburgh has had a reputation for being fairly conservative, maybe a little

     provincial, a vestige of our blue-collar history, perhaps. But there's a lot of great,

     progressive, and smart design going on here."

Read about Wall-to-Wall Studios' award-winning work in the Print Regional Design Annual for the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama (season campaign) and the community of Oakland (branding).

The state of Hawaii marked another milestone in its 12-year, $2.3 billion Airport Modernization Program today with a dedication ceremony for its new International Terminal arrivals corridor. The 2,100-foot-long enclosed, air-conditioned corridor at Honolulu Airport has glass windows on the outside with a series of three people-mover systems that will eliminate the need for Wiki-Wiki shuttle buses...

Read more via Honolulu Star Advertiser.

View the W|W Case Study: Hawaii Airports Modernization Website

Pittsburgh Magazine, a prominent lifestyle magazine covering the greater Pittsburgh metro area with a monthly readership of nearly 350k, named Wall-to-Wall Studios as "One of the Great Places to Work".  The magazine's survey focused on the intangibles, such as workplace rewards, professional-development opportunities and family-friendly policies, which showed that its winners scored high in all aspects of employee engagement.

Read the Pittsburgh Magazine article.

Wall-to-Wall Studios launched a branding campaign for Robert Morris University, a private, coeducational university in suburban Pittsburgh, PA. "Change A Life", the integrated marketing initiative, was deployed across outdoor, print, web and social marketing channels. The campaign was initially introduced in Robert Morris recruitment collateral, including the admissions viewbook, travel piece and corresponding kit. Change A Life promotes the unique Engaged Learning curriculum, whereby students "reach-out" into the community to inspire change, including their own. Wall-to-Wall Studios collaborated with Ray Werner, Longfellow Productions, Euphoria Studios, Reider Photography and RMU's crack marketing team on the project.

View the Robert Morris University "Change A Life" case study

View the Robert Morris University "Change A Life" website

View the Robert Morris University Change A Life TV Ads

View the article in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette

View the article in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review

Congratulations to Koa Ridge, a Castle & Cooke Hawaii project, for securing state approval on the planned development in central Oahu.  Koa Ridge brings a vision to build a community the way it should be built; smarter, greener & with the people first. Wall-to-Wall Studios designed and developed the website for Koa Ridge (www.koaridge.com) which utilizes the Wall-to-Wall Studios Content Mangement System (W|W CMS).

Read the Koa Ridge article in the Star Advertiser.

Read the Koa Ridge article in the Pacific Business News.

View the Koa Ridge website.