PUBLIC SCHOOL is a group of creative folk working on the east side of Austin together, yet not together. The same studio, different professions. Similar tastes, varying favorite Bob Dylan song. Consistently unified love for the Mexican food on the east side of town.
Our collective and individual clients include Chronicle Books, Conde Nast, Sweet Leaf Tea, Iron and Wine, Baylor University, Ogilvy & Mather, LIVESTRONG, Pearson Publishing, Stussy, Time Inc., NIKE, The University of Texas, The Sunday Times of London, as well as a few other folks.
It’s a good thing I found Michael Paukner’s work yesterday or otherwise you’d be at a total loss for where the next solar eclipse paths are leading up to 2025. You also wouldn’t know how many satellites every country has up in space or where all the oldest trees are in the world. It’s a really good thing I found his work.
An interesting point was raised by something Justin read yesterday concerning the new Levi’s Go Work ad. Matt posted the video a few weeks back after showing all of us at the studio and we were all quite moved by it. Along with Wieden + Kennedy’s other great patriotic Dodge ad, felt like the recent slew of pro-American manufacturing commercials (that last one is by GS&P) was a good thing. What Justin read though raised a very valid point about an otherwise fantastic piece of advertising.
Really nice video that reveals all aspects of Amber B Diana’s most recent exhibition in LA. Her husband did a great job filming and the music is by the extremely rad band Cults.
My good friend, Bryan Schutmaat, just wrapped up a website for esteemed photographer Steven Fitch. Although Fitch has never had much of a web-presence, we can now get a good look into Fitch’s work. Click through the jump to view more photos and make sure to check out the rest of Fitch’s stunning work on his website.
James Deavin’s series titled The Games We Play is exactly what you need at 5 o’clock. It reminds you that once you’re done reading this, you should go outside and play a game.
I’d like to throw a quick shout out to the new company my buddy co-founded and that is hosting PUBLIC SCHOOL. It is called WP Engine and is a new Wordpress hosting platform that is more advanced and configurable than Wordpress.com but a hell of a lot cheaper than Wordpress’ enterprise solutions. They’re publicly launching and opening up the waiting list for signups this week but over the last two months we’ve been lucky enough to be given some of the first access to the platform.
My buddy Cullen had complained to me for a while that there were no cheap solutions for Wordpress hosting that handled backups, security, and scalability for blogs. Your options were limited to Wordpress.com which only allows for a tiny bit of customization, a self hosted installation with which you have to handle all of the backups and upgrades, or a full on Wordpress enterprise solution which costs several thousands of dollars a month. Faced with that problem he and his partner decided to build a company around solving that problem.
There are a few artists who I see that make me wish I lived in the worlds they created. Bombo, aka Maurizio Santucci, is now one of those artists. He is an illustrator based in Lucca, Italy and has some of the most playful stuff I have seen in a while. He has the uncanny ability to make pretty much anything look cute, including the above oil drenched raindrops. Check out more of his work after the jump.
I bet you didn’t know that there was a direct correlation between a person’s beard and how trustworthy they are did you? Well thanks to this chart by Matt Mcinerney, now you know exactly how trust worthy that beard-sporting friend of yours is. Check out the super-wide spectrum of trustworthiness after the jump.
I honestly wish I knew more about who Stan Mott was but there isn’t a ton of information to be had. Luckily though there is plenty of imagery to be had. My favorite illustration of his if of a contraption that embeds “You have just run into a Volkswagen” right after you run in to the back of said Volkswagen. More quirky illustrations after the jump.
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