American Seating Premieres “The Us Family” Video

June 12, 2013

Check out our product animation created for NeoCon 2013 and beyond. It includes an upbeat sound track custom composed for this project and is less than a minute long.

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Print Shop: The Art and Craft of Letterpress

February 28, 2013

Object Agency’s own Cameron Spalding directed, edited, and narrated (and even appears in!) this short documentary. Enjoy.  

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Looking Forward to 2013

December 22, 2012

“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.”   This year’s Object Agency holiday card celebrates the vision of Abraham Lincoln. We are ending […]

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A Holiday Tradition Ties Past to Present

December 21, 2012

Another objet d’art in the Object Agency letterpress series is born. This year’s card celebrates the leadership of Abraham Lincoln, whose wise words — spoken in the face of challenge and adversity — are as relevant today as they were 150 years ago.   Our design presents a bold “X” shape, inspired by the Crossroads […]

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GlassLab Design Session

December 3, 2012

Jon Otis describes working at GlassLab during a design session at The Corning Museum of Glass, July 17 – 18, 2012. Learn more about Jon’s work with CMOG.

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Tandus Booth Wins “Silver” at IIDEX 2012

September 28, 2012

Object Agency is proud to announce that our work with Tandus Flooring was recognized at IIDEX Canada 2012. The booth won a Silver Innovation Award in the 101 to 400 sq. ft. category. Thank you Tandus Flooring for the opportunity to work on this innovative project!

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Fusion Concept Realized at GlassLab

July 19, 2012

Invited to Corning GlassLab to work with master glassmakers, Jon Otis explores designs that fuse blown glass objects to pre-fabricated wooden forms. During the fusion process, each component changes the other. The molten glass takes on the shape of the form, while it burns away a portion of the wood. The final pieces (to be […]

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Jon Otis Returns to Corning GlassLab

July 12, 2012

Object Agency Principal Jon Otis is returning this summer to GlassLab, the innovative glass design initiative sponsored by Corning Museum of Glass. Jon will appear at design performances at GlassLab at Governors Island (Sunday, July 15, 3pm to 4:30pm) and at GlassLab at Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, NY (Tues. and Wed., July 17 […]

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Tandus Flooring: NeoCon 2012

June 19, 2012

Tandus Flooring claims clairvoyance at NeoCon — with the help of a Tandus branded Magic 8 Ball, that is. This year, our showroom design featured quite an assemblage of the retro toys. For more information, see Interested in Experiencing the Future?              

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Interested in Experiencing the Future (of Flooring)?

June 18, 2012

(shake shake) As I see it, yes. Remember the Magic 8 Ball future-telling toy from when we were kids? The Object Agency team had a lot of fun helping Tandus Flooring launch this retro promotion with an eblast and the Neocon 2012 showroom design featuring Tandus-branded Magic 8 Balls.   Trivia question: how many possible […]

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