The Owen Reel
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OWEN JONES – AN ARTIST’S TAKE
What would an artist do to visually represent Owen Jones and our agency mantra of Show, Don’t Tell? CD Mark Rawlins came up with the idea to pose that question to his friend, Dan Christofferson (aka Beeteeth). After a few sketches shared over email, we bought Dan a plane ticket, a nice hotel room in [...]…
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OWEN & PINTEREST
Owen Jones Co-Founder has made a vow: He will pin only stuff that he (or we) have created. Below is a look at some - but not all of those pins in one big, fatty-fat image. Sorry about the load time. In advance. That is, if you're still waiting.…
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PRODUCTS WITH GENETIC VARIANCE
Nervous System utilizes genetic algorithms to create beautiful and unique, no-two-alike lamps. …
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006 / FRIDAY INSPIRED FASHION
Asymmetrical design shirt: First time using this pattern... I altered it only slightly (made the neck opening bigger in the front and back and used rolled edges on neck and sleeves) and am pretty happy with the pattern overall. There will be some small fit alterations next time I make it but in general it fits pretty well. …
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DRAGON FIGHT | FREE TO GOOD HOME
Another in the Owen Jones & Partners LTD Free to Good Home series. This one another Depth of Field study, and super shallow at that. The background is an image printed off an inkjet printer, and mounted on cardboard. Thrown out of focus it doesn't look too bad.…
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57 CHEVY / FREE TO GOOD HOME
These images are an exercise is super shallow depth of field. The car is a slightly over-sized MatchBox™ car, shot on a piece of of old wood. If you like any of these shots, go to the OWEN Flickr site and download them for your own use. If you do, send us an example, and, if possible, credit Mr Owen Jones.…
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OWEN GRANT RAWLINS / CARD DESIGN
Not too long ago, Mark, Andi, Liam and Oliver Rawlins welcomed a new addition to the family. Owen Grant Rawlins was born on October 6, 2010. At a generous and healthy 8lbs the young new Owen is doing great. Not long after the birth, talented dad (Mark) designed and recently printed this super lovely birth announcement. It i…
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005 / OWEN PHOTOGRAPHY: TRAVEL
Mark, Rusty and Tami spent a few days on the road this last month (as did other Owen-ites). These shots we're a taken (and processed) by Mark on his journeys. Some pretty lovely stuff here – thanks Mark.…
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RELAXATION STATION
Everyone needs a break. Everyone needs to recharge. Some people are better than others. Lucas works crazy hard, but is also crazy-good at relaxing when he can. Witness this moment, captured in the South Pacific.…
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SWEDEN HASN’T CHANGED, YOU HAVE
Peter Dean is also a musician (a multi-instrumentalist) that has created a damn fun set of power-pop tracks that have been in the Owen playlist rotation off and on for the last year. Heart Geometry from Fat Computers is on a few best of 2007 lists in the iTunes store. You can find (and buy) Fast Computers' Hear Geometry on…
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004 / OWEN PHOTOGRAPHY: ABSTRACTS
Over the last few years we’ve been shooting all manner of stuff with our iPhones. This abstract set is heavily altered in several iPhone photography apps. We almost never rely on just on a single app – though you will notice that we used ShakeIt Photo as the finishing app.…
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003 / OWEN PERSONAL: UNCLE RENDER
This is another one that should be filed under a new “messing with design tools” category that we intend to build in to this blog (reference the Cowbells from an earlier post). For the record this is a design + PSD experiment and Ryan plays the drums and dabbles in guitar. But not enough on the guitar. Yet. …
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MORE COWBELL BABY
Ryan loves to experiment. Behold his latest Cinema 4D artistic creation. More cowbell for Ryan means learning new things. Pretty simple, but pretty cool as well.…
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ART FITZPATRICK: MASTER ILLUSTRATOR
The value and environmental cost of the automobile to American society is, indeed, a debatable subject. However, America’s love of the automobile and how that love was created is a fascinating early study in the creation of brands. I took a class at Berkeley back in the late 1980′s – a full third of which was devoted …
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IRA GLASS ON STORYTELLING
Owen has been a big fan of Mr Glass for quite some time. He's been a fan of story telling and narrative even longer. Please excuse the poor video quality on these – but if you pretend this is Ira on the radio, it won't matter much.…
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002 / OWEN TYPE STUDY: AUTO
This entire collection was shot on a 3GS iPhone. Each image is heavily altered by mix several iPhone photo apps and several filters inside each app. We've been using ShakeItPhoto as the finishing app for final output.…
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001 / OWEN TYPE STUDY: PLATES
This small collection of interesting type comes from a mis-matched collection of plates that came with an old hunting cabin bought in the late 1970's. If you Google the names of some of these you can find out which companies are still in business – and, in some cases, that they are rare. …
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ARTIST JONATHAN W QUEEN
"Queen's meticulously rendered still life paintings have a heightened sense of realism. He works from direct observation, developing intriguing, enigmatic compositions that are based on personal narratives." Miller Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio…
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REVOLUTIONARY ART
In the late summer just before my senior year at Berkeley, Huey Newton was killed in west Oakland in what looked drug deal gone bad. The Bay Area news outlets trotted out old news clips of black men in berets carrying guns as they walked through neighborhoods and played shots of angry speeches in scratchy black & white vide…
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SONNENMEIR SEI PDX PHOTOSHOOT
2 years ago we sent photographer Jan Sonnenmair over to SEI in North Portland to capture some images of the kids (and staff) for us to use in various marketing work. We suspected that Jan’s journalistic style and amazing eye for kids would capture the amazing essence of place and people. Wow, were we ever right. Below is …