Vendy Awards 2010

The Vendy Awards is a fundraiser for Urban Justice Center's Street Vendor Project. And a NYC street food lovers paradise. Gdy2shs is helping with branding and collateral, for our third year. Check the illustration by Sean Finocchio!

New Destiny

New Destiny Housing provides housing and services to survivors of domestic violence in NYC. More than shelter, they provide their clients with the assistance needed to begin a new and independent life. After 16 years, they'd outgrown their old logo. I was happy to have the opportunity to create a new brand identity for them, they do important work!

We did it.

Thank you to all the volunteers, friends, family and students from Pratt and LaGuardia Community College who came out to help make NYCamo a 1,584 foot success!

NYCamo

Please join me in helping “camouflage” a dingy stretch of Queens Boulevard one third of a mile long.

Over a three day period, between 150-250 volunteers are needed to stencil and paint a design along a pedestrian walkway and bike lane at Queens Plaza 1,584 feet long.

The design, NYCamo, is a brightly colored camouflage pattern based on the shapes of the five boroughs of New York City. The commission was awarded by the NYC Department of Transportation Urban Art Program.

Dates

Stencil Day 1: April 22nd 10am-4pm

Stencil Day 2: April 23rd 10am-4pm

Paint Day: April 24th 9am-4pm

rain or shine

Location

Queens Plaza Overpass

Queens Boulevard between Jackson & Skillman Avenues

DIrections

G, R or V train to Queens Plaza

Contact

Niko Courtelis

nikoc@earthlink.net

646.415.2300

Facebook: NYCamo

Sixty!

Donating blood, or in my case platelets, is an ideal volunteer activity. You recline in chair and watch TV for a few hours, then eat as many cookies as you can. Platelets are vital to bone marrow transplant, cancer and leukemia patients and others with compromised immune systems. To celebrate my 60th platelet donation, I made this logo. Consider a visit.

Carry Hope

Print Magazine has invited 12 artists to choose a cause and design a tote bag to be sold to raise money for the charity of their choice. And now they are opening submissions up to anyone.

CinemaStreet

Gdy2shs recently completed branding and identity for a new independent film company, CinemaStreet. Started by two industry veterans, CinemaStreet already has several high-profile films on their slate and are getting some buzz in the trades. We wish them all the best success and look forward to watching some terrific indie films.