Civic IQ

Civic IQ

2019 Poster series

Chattanooga’s CIVIQ is a quarterly event which introduces and humanizes national and international movements in urban design by showcasing visionary work being done by practitioners in other cities. With each free public event, CIVIQ aims to make attendees to leave inspired, informed, and activated. More than a lecture, each event is intended to equip the city to think differently about challenges faced in our community. 

With a poster grid structure established by designers Ben Dicks and Mark Walter, Widgets & Stone created posters inspired by the speakers and topics. The only unifying elements in the series are the colors and the grid.

Creative Direction: Paul Rustand; Design: Brad Dicharry; Mark Slawson; John Le.

The Three B’s

The Three B’s

Event posters for the mayor

Every year, Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke hosts a special event get together with select constituents. The staples of the event are barbecue, a Bruce Springsteen playlist and the mayor himself – hence the title of “Bruce BBQ and Berke.”

Widgets & Stone donated a bunch of poster designs, and these are three of the favorite finalists.

Creative Direction: Paul Rustand; Design: Travis Hitchcock, Mark Slawson.

Do You Hear the People Sing?

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Do You Hear the People Sing?

#HeartEchoesDrums

Campaign design for the 2016 season of the Chattanooga Football Club. Widgets & Stone’s design team drew on inspiration from the lyrics of “Do You Hear the People Sing” to capture the wild enthusiasm of the city that embraced the soccer team at the end of 2015: over 18,000 fans attended the NPSL National Championship game in August of 2015.

A simple black and white photo treatment, activated by dynamic diagonals and wonderful photography helps to tell the story of the joy of the game — both for the team and for the fans.

Outstanding photography contributed by Ray Soldano, Pat & Tom Corey and Jim Meyers.

Creative Direction: Paul Rustand; Design: Matt Greenwell and Travis Hitchcock.

Traction Avenue

Traction Avenue Collection Posters

Shimoda Design Group + Mannington

Shimoda Design Group is a 10-person studio that has worked with a number of clients, including Steelcase, Mikimoto, Rolex, MTV, and several local California creative companies, including TOMS Shoes. Principal Joey Shimoda was Contract Designer of the Year, 2013. 

With a history of collaborating with design talent, Mannington Commercial will be launching a new line of flooring in 2015 – designed with Shimoda Design Group. Widgets & Stone is collaborating to create promotional and advertising materials for the new products.

Here is a sneak peek at the collaborative poster design. Led by Joey Shimoda’s creative vision, Design Director Mandy Meredith led the Widgets design team on a project exploring design styles of the international and modernist eras. This custom designed giveaway was letterpress printed in a limited edition at Chattanooga’s Open Press. Keep an eye out, there is plenty more to come.

Creative Direction: Joey Shimoda; Design Direction: Mandy Meredith; Designers: Mandy Meredith, Aggie Toppins, Matt Greenwell, Amy Trumbull; Letterpress printing: Wendy Halvorson, Matt Greenwell (The Open Press).

We Believe In Main Street

We Believe In Main Street

Poster for AIGA Chattanooga and Mainx24

This December, the Chattanooga Chapter of the AIGA (the association for design in the US) hosted a show of custom designed posters during the seventh annual Mainx24 festival.

Designers were asked to create a poster that captured the spirit of the event and of Chattanooga in general. Paul Rustand (and Widgets & Stone) have a studio just off of Main St and have done many projects on Main St… So Paul grabbed a wonderful slogan that seemed to capture the sentiment — a slogan his colleague Matt Greenwell coined for Collier Construction (also on Main St) years ago.

Design: Paul Rustand.