Luft

DLCouch needed an display for the largest interior design show there is—Neocon. Inspired by their custom-made wall graphic made out of beautiful purple and pink tones, Luft created a ‘fractal’ installation rising out from the floor. Materials were salvaged cardboard and remnants from DL Couch’s own wall covering.

Luft was invited to create wishing trees for the Chicago Community Trusts 100th anniversary celebration. As they looked to the second century, Chicago Community Trusts wanted to renew their commitment to Chicago. They asked their community to get together and share wishes for a sustainable and vibrant future.

All the wishes were harvested and CCT made them into an inspiring notebook and they are saved for future wishing tree installations. The trees were donated to Neighborspace and placed into community gardens in Chicago.

Luft was contracted by Partners by Design to help integrate Mead Johnson's branding into their stunning reception area. We were given their baby formula labels to experiment with and a 30' wall as our canvas. Inspired by blowing bubbles, we turned the labels into small circular cones playfully organized them by size and color along the wall. They were sculpted into an organic form to create a structure - harmonizing the architectural space with the light hearted art work. All extra materials were donated or recycled.

Ace Bounce is bringing ping pong to the Chicago community along with amazing art. Part of their art program was inviting Luft into their space to create a heart (to show the love to Chicago) out of paint pots and UV paint.  To carry the vibe throughout the space, we also painted the walls in a drippy paint style as a backdrop to a private event space.

One Medical is bringing us a new way to communicate with our medical professionals. They invited us to develop a new window display for their Chicago location and we honed in on using wood spheres to emphasize their logo in a spiral shape - - because their health care for you only grows and grows.

When an office drinks a copious amount of La Croix (pronounced La Croy) they want some beautiful La Croix can art.  We had the pleasure of installing two walls of La Croix can art, designed by a Sprout Social staffer, Melissa Flowers.

Sprout Social is a company that wants to push their boundaries and inspire their employees to do so too. This installation of about 12,500 clear push pins graces their walls to invigorate the day to day of their employees. This piece was designed by Sprout Social staffer Rusty Cook and installed by us.

Influenced by the idea of suture thread, we created the Medline logo to grace the wall behind their reception area. This installation used 18,900 yards of string.

Partners by Design challenged us to create a woven portal for their client, Medline.  They wanted us to use a product they sell - respirator tubes.  Inspired by such a challenge we put 8,000 + feet of tubing to work and created 6 wall panels and 6 ceiling panels for their corridor.

Medline has a reach all over the world. They wanted to share this point with their employees and their interior design and branding firm, Partners By Design, connected with us to create a world map out of map pins - 28,000 to be exact.  Larger pins were used to show their locations around the world and new pins can be added as they grow.

Wanting to show their commitment to touching peoples lives, Medline was interested in a piece of art created out of simple bandaids.  We worked with them to select the silhouette of someone pushing another in a wheel chair, and lovingly sculptured the image out of hundreds of bandaids.

Medline needed an epic installation for their 3 story high atrium.  This installation insets their logo front and center with 3 heights of wood blocks set around it. Each block was cut by hand, painted and placed.

MKTG came to us asking to create an installation for an experiential event in NYC. We set out to create a grove of orange trees to help elevate the space.  Custom molded orange spheres held affirmations that someone could pluck out and read - these were cleverly disguised to look like the iconic Tropicana straw.

Created during tenure at INDO. The National Resource Defense Council (NRDC) recently moved into a Studio Gang designed space within the historic Lyric Opera Building. INDO repurposed all of their old, saved collateral, from business cards to promotional booklets, in a custom work of art. The wall-mounted pieces wrap walls and columns throughout the space in the spirit of rippling water.

Created during tenure at INDO. For the 100th anniversary of the Highland Park Library a 12' x 4' installation was made using a material of the past: old card catalog cards.

Created during tenure at INDO. Versteel, located in the Merchandise Mart, always wants designers to feel limitless, starting with the seemingly endless variety of materials Versteel offers. For Neocon 2014, INDO created an infinity symbol out of their material samples. What better way to embody “endless possibilities?”

Materials were later disassembled as reused as materials swatches for the company.

Created during tenure at INDO. Honey Maid wanted to respond with love to less than loving comments about a Droga5-produced commercial featuring diverse families. A dozen volunteers, from friends to loved ones to people from the agency, gathered in an old warehouse to help INDO create a sculpture comprised of paper featuring all the positive public responses.

Beyond a huge outpouring of online support, the paper was saved and the sculpture appeared in a show at the Lacuna Artists Lofts in Chicago as well as in LA at the Paley Center for a night celebrating the LGBT television industry and was then recycled.

Created during tenure at INDO. The 5th Photography Benefit was held in October of 2013 at the center of Griffin Court at the museum's Modern Wing. The event celebrated the museum's permanent collection of photography. It is the most important event of the year for the department, as it is the main source for funding. We worked closely with the curators and team at Paulette Wolf events to re-imagine the decor.

The 40 tables doted centerpieces of custom made lightboxes topped with thousands of vintage slides, the backdrop being a massive slide curtain. 27,000 slides were used in total.

Completed during tenure at INDO.  88 Brand Partners moved from closed off office environment with cubicles and small rooms to an open floor plan in the South Loop of Chicago.  We had the opportunity to redefine the look of their space by putting the way they work - collaboratively - at the forefront of the design.  Many small breakout areas are paired with the open desk plan.  Entire walls of cork are used for pinnable areas and custom pieces by local fabricators are highlights of the space.  Notably the conference table by Strand Design and a bookcase area by Vero LLC.

At the first impression of the space we made an omage to the brand's all heads together approach, and created their logo out of thousands of map pins.

Tru Studio invited us on to create Lazy Dog's logo out of vibrant food items for their new logo release.

Spark challenged us to create a logo out of woven chin strap material from Riddell's classic helmets.  We responded creating a 4x8 loom to weave the material, hand cut their logo out of the weaving and secured the edges.  Now the hand made signage is at two of their locations greeting staff and customers alike.

Paylocity's branding firm, Spark, invited us to reimagine their logo in a variety of materials meant to showcase the depth of values the company's employees hold. Armed with a material idea from the branding company and their logo we set out on many material explorations to deliver logos with texture and depth. Click 'Paylocity' to see of the art installations for the company!

Partners by Design designed an office for cars.com that harkened to driving off into the sunset and their concept for this installation was nothing short of that.  We chose to rely on the beauty of the wall covering for color, and layer a classic black matte and gloss acrylic overtop matte vinyl to create depth to the artwork.

Paylocity's branding firm, Spark, invited us to reimagine their logo in a variety of materials meant to showcase the depth of values the company's employees hold.  Armed with a material idea from the branding company and their logo we set out on many material explorations to deliver logos with texture and depth.  Click 'Paylocity' to see of the art installations for the company!

Paylocity's branding firm, Spark, invited us to reimagine their logo in a variety of materials meant to showcase the depth of values the company's employees hold.  Armed with a material idea from the branding company and their logo we set out on many material explorations to deliver logos with texture and depth.  Click 'Paylocity' to see of the art installations for the company!

88 Brand Partners approached us to help them activate The Cube at Westfield's Old Orchard Mall for 2015's Breast Cancer Awareness month. Taking weight off of the very heavy issue of breast cancer we helped them highlight the never ending spirit of survivors and their support community with an epic 30'x30' balloon installation and an expanse of paper butterflies taking flight.