Art Alliance Austin’s Cityswatch App
Austin is full of color. Art Alliance Austin wanted to invite Austinites to get involved with art by finding the art all around them in the city and tell Austin’s color story. In order to do this, we created a mobile app called Cityswatch, allowing users to snap photos around town, create a color swatch and upload it onto an online gallery. Check out the demo below and download the app today.
Art Alliance Austin’s Cityswatch App from Zachary Vernon on Vimeo.
ART ALLIANCE AUSTIN COLOR SWATCHES
Art makes a city. And in Austin, it makes a rather colorful city thanks to Art Alliance Austin. We gathered images from several past Art Alliance Austin events and initiatives and put them together in color swatches to build an overall campaign for the 2011 season. The campaign spanned all media: oversized takeaway swatches, event programs, outdoor, online, social media, mobile, magazine, newspaper, tickets, installations, you name it. We also created an iPhone app so that people could get involved and create their own swatches from their favorite parts of the city.
Art Alliance Austin has a huge story to tell. And a color story felt just right.
LOOKTHINKMAKE WINS NATIONAL GOLD ADDY
After capturing Gold at the Austin and District 10 ADDY Award Shows, lookthinkmake and Art Alliance Austin’s weaveable strips have won a Gold at the National ADDYs in San Diego. To see the what the buzz is all about, click here.
ART ALLIANCE AUSTIN 2011 INITIATIVE
2011. It’s huge. A great convergence of art events happened in Austin in the Spring of 2011. So Art Alliance Austin wanted to capture the grandness and importance of the year, and the idea of connectivity, in its membership outreach. We put together a graphic point of view that encompassed a Holiday/New Year’s invitation card, a season collector badge, print, online, and membership collateral. And here are a few samples.
ART CITY: COMMERCIAL
Art City Austin: Commercial co-developed with Time Warner Cable and hosted on YouTube.
As part of a season-long campaign, this commercial showed off the colors of Austin through swatches created from past Art Alliance Austin events in order to entice viewers to come see their city’s colors on display at Art City Austin. It was aired on TV and made it’s way online as well so that people could share it with their friends via social media.
Art Alliance Austin Donation Cans
Sometimes art needs a little bit of help. So we created some cool paint-style cans for people to throw some green Art Alliance Austin’s way. They tend to get pretty full.
Art City Austin: A Call For Artists
It’s call for artists time for the 2011 edition of Art City Austin, Downtown’s Art Festival. We were tasked with helping our good friends at Art Alliance Austin get the word out to artists. Here’s the result: a simple mark and concept to be distributed through multiple media channels. Oh, and if you want to apply, visit artallianceaustin.org for the details.
Art City in 30 Seconds
Art City Austin: Commercial co-developed with Lucky Rabbit Films and hosted on Vimeo.
Social Media: A documentary-style approach, with a large group of local artists collaborating on a large canvas over several hours. The final canvas was displayed in Austin’s 2ND Street district’s storefront windows as a sort of rolling billboard. Hosting on Vimeo allowed the commercial to be easily shared and linked by all involved and those supportive of the event.
Art City Austin: Austin Monthly Ad
Part print ad about the vibrancy of Austin’s amazing downtown art festival, part giant sculptural collage built on the wall of the studio, that was then photographed for print.
Art City Austin: Color Strips
Here’s a modular woven take on art communication. Is it a poster? An outdoor board? Interactive guerilla? We’re not sure, but we’re sure about a few other things. It’s flexible. It’s different. It’s pop art, woven into the fabric of the city. People could take a piece—or a picture. And it’s all about Art City Austin’s concept: together we make.