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Friends with You (originally from Miami now in LA)

Friends with You is a company from Miami.

Established in 2002 by Miami-based artists Samuel Borkson and Arturo Sandoval III, FriendsWithYou set forth on a mission to spread the idea of Magic, Luck, and Friendship™ around the world, and become Friends-With-You!

Designed as a resource center for all things creative, FriendsWithYou is a unique think-tank that has the ability to seamlessly incorporate their distinct artistic style and one-of-a-kind ideas into a wide range of mediums and applications. FriendsWithYou’s work spans all creative realms from fine art to large-scale experiential installations and interactive events to public playgrounds, directorial work, live performances, animation and multimedia projects, branding and licensing. All FriendsWithYou projects offer once in a lifetime experiences, as FriendsWithYou is in a category of its own as a first class multidisciplinary art collective and creative studio (from FwY website).

LUST

There is no other conceptual studio in The Netherlands where conceptual thinking about graphic design and cutting edge digital technology are as obviously interdependent as they are at LUST. Its members describe themselves and their select group of like-minded designers as Generation Random. What means that every piece conceived by LUST has an element that is randomly generated. Each job is seen as an incentive to research and question the strategies and workings of design itself.

LUSTlab researches, generates hypotheses and makes unstable media stable again. The future of digital media lies in the design of its use. Humanizing the unhuman, bringing the internet down to earth and finding the missing link between the digital and the physical. The outcomes vary from (strategic) visions to new communication tools, man-machine installations and physical products using digital content. 

Enter LUST.

TOKO

• When did you get started?

Toko was established in 2001 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and is now operating out of Surry Hills, Sydney, where it relocated in the beginning of 2006 to pursuit new (geo)graphic adventures.

• What about the name?

The name Toko has a strong Dutch-Asian historical background and is common Dutch slang for "shop".

• What do you do?

Toko is a multidisciplinary design studio with the emphasis on print design.

What more do we do; signage and environmental graphics, editorial, book and magazine design, identity and concept design, poster, flyer and invitation design, music and fashion related design and more...

• How can you describe your intervention area?

We would like to maintain our intervention area as broad as possible because every field has it's own unique set of opportunities for interesting and challenging outcomes.

• What place does typography take into your work?

Typography plays a significant role in our work. If possible we like to experiment with it or create an unique typeface per project. Typography is much more then just getting information across.

• Favorite cocktail?

The mix of creativity and a down to earth approach.

(Taken from TOKO's Website)

(TOKO's "CODE" above, for Final Exam).

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