The winner of the first Feast Mass grant, Christine Liu, put her dollars toward creating Boston's first Food Truck Festival. It was held August 8th in conjunction with SOWA market and Citysearch. Golden Arrows created the identity, which we used to make posters, ads, a map and sweet Tshirts (they are still for sale, shoot us an email if you're interested). Christine's dream was a smashing success and we were happy to have been a part of it. If you missed the trucks or can't wait for more then you'll be happy to know that they will be at SOWA every Sunday until the end of October. Keep on truckin!
http://bit.ly/foodtruckfest#foodtruckfest
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Feast Mass is a recurring supper in Boston, MA. Guests get a locally sourced meal and the chance to vote on one of a handful of community-based, art, or experimental projects to receive a grant funded by the night's tickets. Golden Arrows designed the identity, website and all the print materials. We are also a part of the planning and organization, which we have really enjoyed, and we hope to become engaged in similar omnifarious design opportunities. The next Feast Mass is scheduled for October 16, 2010. Check out the Feast Mass website for more information.
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Three times a year, the Dance Complex in Central Square puts on an event that allows young and developing dancers to learn how to produce, budget and choreograph for a dance performance. We designed programs, posters and flyers for the spring 2010 edition, titled "Perpetual Motion." We screen printed the posters in both black and white on warm white paper. Most of the white ones we chopped up into 4 x 5 cards and stamped ticket, date and contact information on the backs. The white on white ended up giving a surprisingly iridescent finish.
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Michelle Moon Lee brought us back to MIT to help with her thesis. The project, a pervasive game inspired by The Count of Monte Cristo and played in the physical space of MIT campus as mapped to 19th century Paris, was called Civilité. It ran for seven days during January 2010, and explored ethical decision-making within the context of a game.
We created two logos to represent Civilité and its historical setting, one for before and one for after the revolution which happened midway through the game. The logos appeared on documents, invitations, and an online gossip rag through which players followed the game's progress.
For their decisions and conduct, players received various badges, including: the Saint, the Spy, the Badaud, the Citizen, the Flaneur, and the Saboteur.
We also designed a map and a style guide for the various documents that facilitated gameplay.
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The Jamaica Plain forum is "a venue for timely community-based conversations on the great issues shaping our neighborhood and our planet," a series of speakers and events that takes place in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston. A collaborative project, we did a visual redesign of the website, and the folks at Quilted built the WordPress backend.
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The KCADP is a non-profit that fights to repair an inhumane and unjust part of the Kentucky legal system. Their mission is defined by six main reasons to abolish:
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Gabriel's Fold is a Cambridge-based bluegrass-folk outfit. For their show at P.A.'s Lounge, we carved a woodblock and printed a set of sixteen posters to display around town.
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Sam Mendoza is a fashion designer out of Boston, and he claims that you will eventually run into him. We did, and then we worked with him to create his new website. He also generously allowed Golden Arrows to use some of his satin to create promotional swatches for a fashion show at the Brattle Theatre.
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Farmers of the Americas is an organization that partners with the University of Massachusetts to support small farmers in North, Central and South America and ensure they are fairly compensated and represented in the global food market.
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A Minneapolis native, and recent transplant to Brooklyn, Chloe Pappas had been in fronting a band in Boston for several years before recording her solo debut album. "Ingenue" is set to be released this fall. The artwork involved photos from a day with Chloe in a Jamaica Plain cemetery, live shows and studio shots.
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The Music Technology Department holds an annual senior show, the Concert of Digital Artists, a fusion of electronic and acoustic sounds. Golden Arrows joined up with these artists to produce their concert poster, made with love of hand-production, and the program, so you knew who was playing and doing what when.
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How do you make decisions as to what produce to buy? Organic, conventional, local, fair-trade... Learn the advantages and disadvantages by playing this educational game that with it's socially-conscious edge lets its players learn through the act of selling. Golden Arrows worked with the game's creator, Michelle Moon-Lee, to come up with simplified graphics: people, places, things, that made this virtual produce world exist.
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The concept and implementation of this experiment was done by Michelle Moon Lee and Elliot Pinkus. Golden Arrows was brought in as artistic collaborators to create web mockups, layouts and bold tangramical graphics for this alternative reality game to twist the minds of their graduate class at MIT in the Comparative Media Studies program. Topic of the experiment: "imagined-real."
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