Thievery Corporation is one favorite group playing on the sound waves here @ Creative Session. They make good music, very easy to listen to and we stay productive and not distracted. A new favorite recommended by Keith called "See-Saw Kids" by B. Lewis & Xperiment -- Check em out.
Whats your favorite work music?
Finally made a little time between all the regular work I had to swing by Keith studio in Oakland to start designing the final Oregon graphics for us to make the screen. We are well on our way in getting the Oregon sweaters for this winter season. Stay tune.
What's an event with no trailer:
Qualities we highly respect here at the CreativeSession lab is people with pure passion and talent. Weeks ago we had the opportunity to witness our homie A-1's live studio session. He's an extremely gifted vocalist out of the Bay Area from the Mission district. Accompanying A-1 is "Rawdad," another talented and brilliant band.
Being a totally spontaneous session we didn't come prepared with a nice camera, so excuse the low quality candid photos! And shout outs to "Yours Truly" and "Different Fur Studios" for making this session happen!
Enjoy, and make sure you guys check back for more A-1 hotness!
FINAL RESULTS! GIVE IT A LOOK!
"Look up & there are those more fortunate, look down & there are those less fortunate. Stay true stay humble." --Creative Session
Recently my back has been hurting and I've been looking around at new office chair options. I was so fascinated by the concept of the Knoll Generation chair and wanted to save up some money to buy this chair. Turns out our favorite design site Core77 was holding a collaboration contest with Knoll inc. to give away free Generation chairs if entered a contest with your secret to success - Its very simple follow them on twitter and tweet with the hash marks #secret2success and you could win! The quote above is what i tweeted and to my surprise I won a chair! Can't wait to get a hold o fit.
Nixon pioneers some of the most aesthetically interesting watches to us. They are a brand we've continued to follow and be inspired by. We're quite positive a percentage of you have friends whom own at least one or more purely because of how well designed these watches are. Here at the CS lab we are more than familiar with the Nixon brand, the recent Tone on Tone Ad by Nixon is something we reference and keep on being influenced by. With this said we're giving it a go, here is our own spin on a Nixon watch called "The Minamalist"
"simplicity is the new black."--creative session
"The Minimalist" is a design inspired to be pure simplicity. Our goal is to design a watch that equates to "Less but Better." The question we asked our selves was; How do we make something more meaningful by taking away? We understand as we continue to grow expectations began to pile up, with more expectation we require more time. "The Minimalist" is our attempt in removing the anxiety to our constant battle with time and disguising it subtly. Designing the watch we redirected the focus to the hour hand of the watch, by doing this - the initial read should give the watch bearer the approximate hour of the day and not be distracted by the minutes left within that hour. The minute hand is designed to be a secondary focus. With the "Less but Better" philosophy we also wanted to focus more on the materials and design but less on the overwhelming graphics most companies add to their watches.
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HERE IS THE LINK TO the WIRED write-up. click on the image below.
A little reminder of the project.
Ever since Adam commonly known as A-1 released "The Book of Adam" Mixtape this past August, we cannot stop listening. Check out his music NOW. // Facebook / / Music / / Twitter //
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Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.
Ron Paul
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In early September we did a lot of commuting to and from the city to capture the essence of SF for the “Intel IDF” event. Often times we found ourselves caught up in some sketchy situations (not necessarily first hand, but more like a witness or bystander.) An idea came to me while walking down a street scandalous enough to make me wish I had a bat in hand just in case something crazy breaks out.
A reminder sketch. I doodled this as soon as I got home.
“Tha Business” is a self defense kit. A concept designed to target people who commute at odd hours of the day and are often caught in sticky situations. My inspiration is a wallet size magnifying lens. I thought it’d be pretty knarly to design a deck of self defense cards. Things such as brass knuckles, pepper spray, pocket knives & whistles to name a few. These are common self-protection objects most civilians carry. Essentially the person would be able to pick and choose the specific tool s/he would need depending on the situation.
So this began my design adventure. The project was short, but a fun exercise in graphic, packaging & industrial design. I specifically chose this idea so that I can polish up on my graphic and packaging department.
These last two images are wallpapers. Click to download.
We're getting somewhere here, possibly a red cross giveaway?
"I will probably spend less than 1/100th of my lifetime actually snapping photos, but hopefully my photos last more than my lifetime."
-- Paul Vu
Paul Vu is someone we consider ambitious, talented and has been establishing himself in parallel to Creative Session for quite some time now.
Being Portland bred an artist and in the same age bracket, it's surprising our creative journey has never crossed paths until now. Paul recently relocated from Portland OR to Oakland CA post finishing a degree in Commercial Photography from the Art Institute of Seattle. His goal is to keep evolving as a photographer, seek new adventures, network & to add to his impressive portfolio.
Paul has a knack for active lifestyle photography, but this doesn't limit him in experimenting with new forms of photography. His photographs are amazing and he continues to query boundaries and challenge himself with each project. We are doing this featured artist interview of Paul because of his recent collaboration on the project we designed for Intel, If you haven't seen the Intel posting yet check it out here. The collaboration between Paul and C.S was the creative "Session." Thanks Paul without you we would have ended up with poor quality photos and a low resolution 26X8ft graphic for Intel.
Check out the interview:
Paul just finished a photoshoot this week @ the Hornet for a Game convention hopefully these photos will surface sometimes soon. Keep an eye on this guy everyone. Here are a few samples of his work.
--Minty
It's been a while since I've had the chance to sit down and rock out a quick page! I'll try to post atleast one per week! :) Enjoy!
Lately I've been ultra busy with work, work. I mean Lab126 work.
Yes, CreativeSession is just a side hustle that Bro and I started back in 07' It's a way for us to collaborate with other artist, designers to do crafty, designer'esk type things. I'm very proud of C.S and how far this journey has taken us. What I appreciate most about my life as of yet is that I get to design 24/7. My 9 to 5 @ Lab126 is to design products for the Amazon brand. We just released 4 new kindles BTW. (be sure to pre-order yours.) After the 9 to 5 hustle, If the energy is there I'd unwind with dinner and a beer and have a bit of fun Creative"Sessioning" with little Bro.
This week we both have been burnt out from designing electronic products at work so decided we'd revisit our high school infatuation which is shoes. Both him and I actually went to school to become shoe designers. 4 years later the geeky, techie bug had us! We are both now product designers that still wished we kept our sneaker dreams.
Anh had re-worked an Audi inspired pair of skates this week if you havn't seen it LINK YO SELF HERE!
Here are images of what I did:
Quick sketches in order to lock down final shape & form.
Here is the final design : Nike ACG "Boat Dreams"
These are screen shots to show the details of the shoe! Done in Photoshop! SKILLING IT!
I'm Making this into a poster if anyone is interested. It'll be up on our fanpage soon. Be sure to like us. www.facebook.com/CREATIVEsession
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As an industrial designer I'm forced to live one life, and one life only; a highly sacrificial one. I spend my days chiseling away chunks of my brain in hopes of revealing a smarter future by designing products and experiences that impact how we will live five to ten years down the road; So while you're enjoying your iPhone 4, we designers are out creating the 6! Simple task? No. Bruised brain? Yes, but I'm willing to trade anything for a little CreativeSession love!
This project however, is the total opposite. I see it as an escape from the daily mind grind. It's always nice to be able to sit back, put A-1 on the tracks, and rock out a quick mindless illustration for the pure love of art.
After cruising Coroflot for a few hours I was crazily inspired by some of Jan Bujnak's work which led me to the illustration of these boots! Enjoy!
More shots can be found here!
Thanks for looking! And remember to join our fbook fan site! :) -B
Up late last night had so much fun rendering this......(3d modelling/photoshop/illustration) #skilling Check main page for final results! :)
Not only that he hustle hard at CREATIVESESSION's LAB keith also rocks out with his PAINT out at his studio in the heart of Oakland.
This is exciting to us over at the CreativeSession lab. The recent wrap-up on a graphic project with Intel had mad love thank you everyone for reading and having a beer with us when it all was over. Back in July we were approached by them to design a huge- 8ft by 24ft collage of San Francisco's landscaped used for a future camera concept they demoed at IDF (intel developers forum) IDF had just ended and some highlight reels have surfaced from the company! Here is a highlight video from day one:
at about 0:50 second you can see a glimpse of the wall. & at 1:20 second you see our friend Lucas demo'ing the product.
for those whom haven't seen the final design here it is again.
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