Webby Awards Honoree

On the heels of winning an ADDY for BBDO's "REI Headline Hiker" ad, we're thrilled that the piece has also been selected as an Official Honoree of the 16th Annual Webby Awards in the Banner Campaigns category. Artifact handled all production, post, and development for this great page takeover concept, check it out below…

Artifact wins Three ADDY Awards

We're thrilled that our rich media campaign for outdoor retailer REI through BBDO Atlanta won three 2012 ADDY awards from the Atlanta Ad Club. The work was honored with two bronze and one silver awards for our Backpacker Getaway Banners, Outdoor Loyalty Digital Campaign and Unpack Banners, respectively. Click below to check out the work!

Chicago Auto Show Debut

Kia's high performance concept car, the Track'ster, was all the rage at the Chicago Auto Show last week. Artifact worked with GO! Productions to highlight the car's features in a photo-real CGI model on a 70 foot x 10 foot screen for the show. Check out the presentation of the Track'ster below...more coming soon!

Job Posting: Office Coordinator

About the position:

The Office Coordinator's primary focus is to assist the General Manager and Office Manager with accounting, administrative and organizational tasks. The most important attribute of the Office Coordinator is that he/she is extremely organized. He/she must also have a pleasant phone demeanor and good people skills. He/she must exhibit a strong ability to prioritize and perform his/her tasks proactively. The first three months of employment are considered to be on a trial basis. Contact amanda@artifactdesign.com.

Full description (PDF)

Update from the road

We're on location this week, shooting in Fresno, CA, with our friends from The Glenn Group and Abe Froman Productions! Despite the five a.m. call times and chilly temps, we're having a blast capturing some really great footage with a Shotmaker camera car and crane. Can't wait to start our VFX work on this great fireworks-themed spot, which we'll finish mid-January. Stay tuned!

Casino Night

Hold 'em! To celebrate designer/animator Chase Oliver moving to LA and joining our Culver City office, we turned our Atlanta studio into a Vegas style casino, put on our poker faces, and threw caution to the wind as if we were playing with Monopoly money...which we were. Congrats to Paco Vergachette for being the big winner of the night!

We're Moving!

We're saying goodbye to Abbot Kinney and all of it's gloriously eclectic people, shops, and restaurants and moving into our new bigger and better digs in Culver City as of December 1st. Very exciting! More pics and a housewarming party soon!

Halloween Costume Contest

Congrats to Jeff Wyner, one of our Designer/Animators in Atlanta, for winning the 2011 Artifact Halloween costume contest. Check out Jeff's fabulous rendition of Humpty Hump here and remember...The Humpty Dance is your chance to do the hump.

Leaving La Floresta

As a personal project, our designer Paco Vergachette created the logo, titles, and design elements for Leaving La Floresta, a documentary by non-profit organization Give Us Names about the displacement of farmers in Colombia due to US fumigations. The graphics are an integral part of telling the story by visually defining the problems, the solution and what people could do to help the cause. Fabulous work (for a great cause), Paco!

Green Hornet Wins TELLY Awards

Congrats to Karen Hutchinson and her team at The Sponsor Shop for two 2011 Bronze TELLY wins for the "TBS Green Hornet Cross Promotion" project! Original Animation by the Artifact Team! You can check out some of the work here: