This past weekend I received the latest House Industries catalog in the mail and I’ve hardly been able to stop looking at or thinking about it since. We had friends over on Friday night to watch The Cove and I even had to bring it out to show and wow everybody then—mostly because I felt awkward just staring at it by myself. Anyways, House released their latest (and greatest?) font family (and it is a big, happy, diverse, and beautiful, and extended family), Eames. Check out some pics below and check out the site. And, if you don’t get the catalogs already, sign up for one now!

My friend Travis Pitcher (I think I’ve talked about him before) works for this great organization called the Tipping Bucket. If you haven’t heard of it, please, please go check it out. It’s a great company created by some BYU students that has gathered a TON of national and international recognition. They help different non-profit organizations every few days to every few weeks (depending on the cause) and the video above is promoting the current one. I think this one was really fun and creative in its execution within its modest means.

Recently we’ve been asked to help with branding/advertising/etc for an upcoming summer concert series here in Provo. I think this will be a really fun, challenging, and hopefully rewarding project. I’m really excited and will keep things posted on here.

One member of the committee is in a band called Fictionist, and this video above is one of their songs. Great video. Check it out.

This is a piece I worked on years ago back in school. There were a lot of frustrations and concessions made and at the time that we finished it I was fairly disappointed with the results. Now, however, a thousand+ days removed, I can look at this and appreciate some pretty cool stuff going on.

This is also the first music-for-media piece that Micah and I collaborated on. We created a cacophony of chaos in the first scene with samples of old Johnny Carson reruns, MIA, the Smiths, car horns, street drummers, and so on, with a lot of that audio captured on the streets of NYC. In the second scene, we did some pretty cool stuff with a bowed electric guitar, a boumbek, and some bells—the last two were reversed in the mixing to create some interesting sounds.

Anyways, check it out. I wouldn’t necessarily classify it as an “easy watch” but hopefully it will be worth your time. Let me know what you think.

The past few weeks I’ve been logging long hours in hopes of getting my portfolio up to date. I’m not going to say that I’m 100% there, BUT… I do have a new site up with some new work, some old work that I never published, and some new takes on some old work, too.

As I’m always trying to improve things, please take a look around and then maybe come back and let me know what you think… what’s working? where could I improve?

check it out here.

it’s our baby’s first birthday tomorrow and this is the invitation designed for the celebration.

Since making it big with “A Million Things”, OK GO has had the daunting, but somewhat-enviable task of not just writing new pop hits, but coming up with new choreographed dance routines and artistic continuous-shot music videos. Their latest, “WTF” is another hit. The almost Pollock-like use of the frame traces of their bodies on the canvas is super cool. ]]> http://colenielsen.com/blog/2010/04/wtf/feed/ http://colenielsen.com/blog/2010/04/tough-guy/ http://colenielsen.com/blog/2010/04/tough-guy/#comments Fri, 02 Apr 2010 20:54:42 +0000 colenielsen http://colenielsen.com/blog/?p=358

I’m currently working on the brand and other promotion material for Tough Guy, USA—the U.S. franchise of the infamous race of death over in the United Kingdom. Check out the video above to have your mind absolutely blown away. … I’m still reeling.

This should be a fun project.

I’m Here is Spike Jones’ most recent venture. It’s a short (?30 minutes) film about Love… and Robots. While there really is nothing shockingly new about the premise (I mean, it’s just a story about love between two robots), but there is something shockingly real and heartfelt in the delivery—it has soul.

This is yet another great film presented by Absolut. It’s kind of interesting their patronage of the art world right now… it’s like they’re the Medicis or something.