Tadahiro Uesugi did visual development for Windy Day very early on in the development stage. We love Tadahiro’s elegant, graphic style, the suggestion of light and space and his brilliant use of color. Our director Jan Pinkava’s initial direction was that though we will see a world through the small screen of a phone, “it should be both beautiful and elegantly simple.” High-res

Tadahiro Uesugi did visual development for Windy Day very early on in the development stage. We love Tadahiro’s elegant, graphic style, the suggestion of light and space and his brilliant use of color. Our director Jan Pinkava’s initial direction was that though we will see a world through the small screen of a phone, “it should be both beautiful and elegantly simple.”

jonklassen: nice little write-up on a project I worked on with Motorola. we made an animated 3D short for their new phone, the Moto X, in which the phone screen acts as the free-moving camera inside the space where the story is taking place. I got to art direct the short (as well as this limited-run box) with Mark Oftedal as character designer and Jan Pinkava directing, as well as a whole crew of hugely talented people. It was a great project and I’m proud to have been on it! Our amazing Creative Director Jon Klassen shared a bit about his experience working on Windy Day on his beautiful tumblr. High-res

jonklassen:

nice little write-up on a project I worked on with Motorola. we made an animated 3D short for their new phone, the Moto X, in which the phone screen acts as the free-moving camera inside the space where the story is taking place. I got to art direct the short (as well as this limited-run box) with Mark Oftedal as character designer and Jan Pinkava directing, as well as a whole crew of hugely talented people. It was a great project and I’m proud to have been on it!

Our amazing Creative Director Jon Klassen shared a bit about his experience working on Windy Day on his beautiful tumblr.

Phase two of our Windy Day pop-up locations involved a total transformation of the spaces. We brought Pepe’s world out of your phone and built an indoor forest for you to explore. Of course there were also plenty of phones for people who hadn’t experienced Windy Day yet! What do you think? Look like fun?

A couple of weeks ago, when Windy Day was just about to launch, we set up temporary creative spaces in New York and Chicago and invited people to come in, explore and get creative. As adults, we often need a little help loosening up so we enlisted the the famous sketch and improvisation group, Upright Citizens Brigade, to help people share some of their own stories before experiencing ours.

Stay tuned for part two when the space gets totally transformed!