A fascinating stop motion Brianne Bower made for a local Jewelry store. The video is currently still airing in the theaters around the area!

Smith, the jeweler, went back to Bowers and asked her to edit her winning entry from a 90-second video to a 30-second commercial that could be tailor-made for retailers in non-compete markets.

“I’m currently approaching several retailers who are interested in buying the customizable spot for their market,” says Smith. “Sales of this ad will help make up for the original event investment.”

Bowers now works on creative projects for Smith and his brother, including a large mural she painted of the Smiths’ parents from black and white photographs taken many decades ago when the family business was in its infancy.

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Cinders Gallery Presents: Alternative Spaces for Gallery Exhibition

An evening with Kelie Bowman and Sto from Cinders Gallery, an artist-run alternative space started in 2004 here in Brooklyn, NY.

This Thursday April, 26th 2012 @ 6pm 6 East 16th Street room 1200

http://blog.cindersgallery.com/

Come view the premier of the documentary Typeface with us on Monday, March 14th 2012. The screening will be held in room 1009 in 6 east 16th street.

In rural Wisconsin, a lone employee waits in a cavernous old museum for visitors to come. A few individuals straggle in every few days and then, come Friday, the museum fills with life. Machines hum, presses print, artists buzz about. One weekend each month, the quiet of Two Rivers is interrupted as carloads of artisans drive in from across the Midwest. The place comes alive as printmaking workshops led by, and filled with, some of the nation’s top design talent descend on the sleepy enclave.

In a time when people can carry computers in their pockets and watch TV while walking down the street, Typeface dares to explore the twilight of an analog craft that is freshly inspiring artists in a digital age. The Hamilton Wood Type Museum in Two Rivers, WI personifies cultural preservation, rural re-birth and the lineage of American graphic design. At Hamilton, international artisans meet retired craftsmen and together navigate the convergence of modern design and traditional technique. But the Museum¹s days may be numbered. What is the responsibility of artists and historians to preserve a dying craft? How can rural towns survive in a shifting industrial marketplace where big-box retailers are king?[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=oAHQ2AGtZr8]