Studio Akemi

04/27/2018

Studio Akemi has put a little loving into our Pinterest boards. Check it out to see what's currently firing up our creativity 👉 https://www.pinterest.com/studioakemi/boards/

07/28/2017

Happy Friday everyone! We started the workday with a jaunt to the lagoon.

02/27/2017

It is with great pleasure that Studio Akemi designed an alternative Metropolitan Farms logo for our friend's bday. Combining tilapia, p**p, hook, and shovel, this hand drawn logo was a sh*tload of fun to create. Many thanks to Karissa Seltz and Shockey Funke for the new gardening hat.

01/30/2017

It's been a rough 10 days. Here's little something to sustain that fire inside. It's the second Atlantic video I've posted. What damn good work.

01/12/2017

Really loved process and her devotion to working things out in layers. I worked on a logo for more rounds than I normally do. Thank you for the inspiration.

12/05/2016

Today is sketching time. People of my generation got a soft spot for it.

11/01/2016

Bite size #505 . Feeling: stormy when the internet goes down.

10/05/2016

Studio Akemi's designing a series of projects for BIP Lab this fall. Presently, we're working on playing cards for the lab's pilot study on early mathematics engagement. You can check out our first BIP Lab project, an animation collab w/ Scrappers Film Group.

Using behavioral tools like reminders, commitment devices, and social incentives, the BIP Lab studies ways to leverage parents' investments in children's out...

09/15/2016

A seamless blend of words and stop-motion illustrations by Jay-Z and Molly Crabapple. Watch this op-ed piece on America's War on Drugs and its punitive targeting of black and latino communities.

Why are white men poised to get rich doing the same thing African-Americans have been going to prison for?

08/30/2016

Really nice animation from The Atlantic, David Lynch on Where Great Ideas Come From. The visuals smoothly and economically transition from one thing to another. They're not overdone and easily compliment David's tone. Produced by The Atlantic's own Jackie Lay, Katherine Wells, and Jennie Rothenberg Gritz.

08/23/2016

Back to school with pencils sharpened! Re-experience WTTW - Chicago PBS and Scrappers Film Group's Central Standard show as it follows five Chicago 8th grade students navigating their way to selective high schools. The show was StudioAkemi's first time animation collab with SFG's post-production director, Peter Galassi.

08/02/2016

Right now on WBEZ Morning Shift, Tony Sarabia discusses the launch of the Array of Things, a project from one of our clients, UrbanCCD. It's a network of sensors that collects data on the vitality, environment, and health of Chicago. All data will be available on the city's data portal.

The Urban Center for Computation and Data’s mission is to catalyze and pursue an urban research agenda aimed at increasing our understanding of cities and our ability to anticipate the effects of rapid global urbanization on the built and natural environments and socioeconomic systems.