New around the PDX office…

It’s baseball season, and our client is called LeftField, but we will, with some difficulty, restrain ourselves from too many baseball analogies.

But we hope that we, like LeftField, hit it out of the park this week with Boston-based construction project guru Jim Rogers’ FINE new home.

LeftField takes the burdens and headaches of construction management off the owner’s shoulders, orchestrating the details of some of the Northeast’s highest profile, large-scale developments (from Harvard University labs to bankcard complexes).

And don’t neglect to check out the 2^nd best use of a Show/Tell toggle ever.

Much of what LeftField does is down in the project management dugout trying to prevent unforeseen expenses from arising from out of left field. Their focus on the finished product brings it all sliding gracefully into home.

(OK, so we lied about not using baseball analogies…)

View the project

A hearty congratulations to James Sheppard and the rest of the Vetrazzo team for their recent induction into Polycor, world leader in natural stone. Vetrazzo came to FINE for the creation of a striking brand identity, print and digital marketing platform upon which to launch the company. The identity, speaking to both old and new world sensibilities had an immediate impact on the market, backed by inspired product and solid customer service.

According to James, “A large part of what Polycor was after was our brand, and you guys played an instrumental role in that.” Vetrazzo transforms recycled glass into artful surfaces for home and commercial applications such as countertops, tabletops etc. Polycor says this fits perfectly with their current brand, specializing in locally-produced environmentally friendly products.

Funny you never know where or how the things you help with will find their way to the ‘interweb’.

FINE knowledge and kudos from a friend.

In this case, I was lucky to get it right. Funnier yet, is that I just recently reviewed an SEO recommendations document from the second largest recruitment firm in the country that got it all wrong, <sigh> and they charged big bucks for that doc… shame shame.

Thanks, Beth, for the kudos.

Can’t wait to decorate my breakfast table with it. Mmm-mmm-mmm.
Yum!

This is a few years old now, and I’ll be the first to acknowledge that the structure itself is pretty darn ugly, but the idea is pretty darn cool. The One Day Poem Pavilion was a Master’s thesis experiment artist Jiyeon Song.

The perforated surface, combined with the changing angles of sunlight throughout a day, spells out a 5-line poem, but here’s the kicker in today’s…well you know how fast we expect things to happen. For this, you have to wait. Each line takes about an hour.

An hour, for each line to form, become clear, be absorbed, and fade into the next, an hour spent outside in the sun thinking about beautiful things at leisure . Sounds kinda nice on a Monday doesn’t it?

And some of Song’s other typography and shadow experiments.

from xkcd.com

Word’s gotten around about a new partnership FINE’s formed with TAG Consulting that aims at an increasingly important part of the branding and digital communications world – employer branding. And now it’s gone public with the launch of the new placeholder site at  http://www.employbrands.com/ which hints at a greater Employ Brands site to come.

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Beautiful ink illustrations by Eri Griffin.

http://www.theimageglimpse.com/eri/