Barneys + Lexus: #CENTIMENTS

Our latest holiday collaboration with Barneys focused on giving. We produced a series of looping videos centered on #CENTIMENTS – a holiday filled with charity and service, imagined through the lens of Barneys style.

Check it out this holiday season at Barneys’ flagship and downtown New York locations.

Director: Elliot Kealoha Blanchard
Art Direction: Wiena Lin
Design: João Lavieri
Animation: Ryno Eksteen, Guilherme Vasconcellos, Steve Yasin, Elliot Kealoha Blanchard

Barneys + Lexus: Arctic Chase

Welcome to the future on ice. We made this short film for Barneys’ 2015 holiday window. Arctic Chase mixes classic anime, CG, and glitch into an insane race through an arctic world. Daredevil penguins, Low G racers with anger management issues, monster race announcers, robot submarine captains, cyborg Yeti – and more – crowd into a wild race that threads through futuristic cities, ice caverns, and under the frozen sea.

Less a coherent story and more a lost trailer for some forgotten 97 part series, Arctic Chase is our scrambled love letter to classic racing anime. We were lucky to collaborate with Gary Gerding, who built an amazing translucent slot car track on which 3D prints of our three crystal-embellished heroes race each other.

Barneys was a great partner: Creative Director Dennis Freedman and VP of … Read More »