Recent news

November 2009

Telescopes: Through the Looking Glass wins the special trade division of the Chicago Book Clinic's 2009 Book and Media Show.

October

Mercy Home for Boys and Girls selects Studio Blue to develop and design a website.

The redesigned Passionists' magazine mails to over 140,000 people.

University and College Designers Association Design Competition selects the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts website (excellence) and the Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts brand tools (excellence) for recognition.

September

Chicago's Terra Foundation for American Art selects Studio Blue to assist with the development of brand standards that will be used by the Chicago headquarters and the foundation's newly opened Paris office.

Under Control, the latest exhibition catalogue for the Krannert Art Museum is released. Exploring contemporary art surrounding issues of control, both personal and institutional, the catalogue will accompany an exhibit opening in October 2009.

August

Studio Blue begins to design a signage system for the Richard H. Driehaus Museum. This assignment includes collaborating with architect Dan Weese to design furniture and a master plan for the admissions area.

Studio Blue is hired to use the brand standards created for the Passionists, a centuries-old worldwide religious community within the Catholic Church, and redesign the order's magazine.

Krannert Art Museum's Selected Works and Look at Me: Photographs of Mexico City by Jed Fielding are featured in Print Magazine's 2009 Regional Design annual.

July

Roosevelt University in Chicago selects Studio Blue to design comprehensive brand tools. This assignment includes creating a logotype for the “Lakers,” RU’s newly launched Division III athletic team.

Bold Cautious True: Walt Whitman and the Art of the Civil War is released.

The Richard H. Driehaus Museum website launches.

Blown Away, a Krannert exhibition catalogue, is featured in I.D.'s Annual Design Review.

June

The San Jose Museum of Art selects Studio Blue to design and develop a new website.

May

Krannert Art Museum's Selected Works and Look at Me: Photographs of Mexico City by Jed Fielding are honored by AIGA in their prestigious 2008 50 Books/ 50 Covers competition. Each piece will become part of the design archives at the Denver Art Museum and Columbia University's rare books collection.

Studio Blue's work is included in the inaugural exhibit of the Architecture and Design collection at the Art Institute of Chicago's new Modern Wing.

The Herron School of Art and Design website is one of five websites nominated in the School/University category in the 13th Annual Webby Awards competition.

April

Telescopes: Through the Looking Glass, is released by the Adler Planetarium.