Besides a brand new look, you’ll notice that there’s a new component to the site – design work. Moving forward Artefacture will function as a multidisciplinary design studio as well as a purveyor of design themed apparel, personal acces- sories and home/office products.
The decision to combine my Osika Design studio with Artefacture was recommended by family, friends and colleagues. After some deliberation, it appeared that this was a natural step to combine both businesses as they are both essentially about creating good design. Once I came to the conclusion that this made sense, I set plans in motion late last year and now after many months of hard work, the new Artefacture is here.
Besides working on the new site, the studio has been up to it’s eyeballs with design projects. We just wrapped up designing a Propsectus for SOS Ministries – a Christian Ministry working in Central America, Africa and the Middle East. We also recently teamed up with an awesome San Francisco product design firm, Y Studios, and together developed a new brand identity and packaging design for “Sphero” – a cool robotic ball that is controlled via an iPhone. Artefacture has also been very busy working with Nokia on a variety of visual UI/UX initiatives for new Social Networking apps – all this work plus more will be posted in the Work section soon.
Now that the site is complete, Artefacture can focus on adding new t-shirts and products to our collection. We are currently developing new t-shirt designs as well as creating new versions of “I Will Pay for Goodesign” as well as “Design Will Save the World”. We also have a few new coffee mug designs coming out and perhaps a surprise or two. Expect to see these new products released in the next few months, we will keep you posted.
Time flies! It’s been 8 months since Artefacture switched coasts and moved to this wonderful city. Apart from figuring out where the best Vietnamese restau- rant is and getting used to scaling the hills in our neighborhood, things are slowly starting to settle and we are proud to now call SF home! (still can’t believe that it’s this cold in the summer).
Please check back often for news updates on the blog, we’ll be posting new projects as they happen as well as concepts/sketches of new product ideas – feedback is always welcome.
Thanks to our fans, best to you all – Andreu O.
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