The Rare Studio

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- YGX @ Apple Store Santa Monica
  
  This month, the ADC Young Guns spotlight shines on Ricardo R. Bojorquez, design director and partner at The Rare Studio in L.A. Just us at the newly opened Third Street
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- SVA: Critical Information
  
  Partner, Salvador Orara presented his MFA Thesis Project: Affection Research Lab at the School of Visual Arts Critical Information Conference in New York City on December 2nd, 2012. This conference is
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- ADC: Young Guns X Winner
  
  Partner, Ricardo Bojorquez has been named an Art Director’s Club 2012 Young Guns for his work: Feedback Occurrences, UCLA AUD RUMBLE, and The Rare Studio. Ricardo was among a selected
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- ABA 2.0
  
  Partner, Michael Manalo spoke at Architecture Beyond Architecture 2.0 at Woodbury University on November 9th, 2012. Michael presented his MFA Thesis Project: Soft Publics and The Rare Studio. The panel
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About

The Rare Studio is a contemporary media design studio based in Los Angeles that creates identities, interactive installations and experiences, research strategies, websites, apps, and printed matter for clients and their audiences.

Rare has worked with the following clients:

Academic

Woodbury University, School of Architecture
UCLA Architecture & Urban Design
Media Design Practices
Art Center College of Design

Arts

For Your Art
Big City Forum
Matin Gallery, LA
See Line Gallery, LA
Studio Museum in Harlem
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Queens Museum of Art
Gavin Brown, NYC
Design East of La Brea
J. Walter Thompson, London & NY

Architecture

Architecture Research Office
Grimshaw Architects, NY
Halstead Properties
John Kaliski Architects, LA
Rachlin Architects, LA
SORG Architects, D.C.
Francois deMenil Architects

Non Profit

UNICEF Innovation Labs
Belwop Rescue Center, Kenya
Latino Consultants
Ploughboy Organics
NYH2O

New Media

Commotion New Media
Potion Design, NYC

Corporate

Target
The Rockwell Group
Nokia
The St. Regis Hotel, NYC
Corcoran Group
New Deal Design

Music

Orchestra of St. Luke’s, NYC

Fashion

The Lady Liberty Building
Deere Colhoun

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Contact

Located in the Los Angeles Fashion District:

T 213 457 3724
info@therarestudio.com

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Opportunities

The Rare Studio is always looking for collaborators for projects. Please check back regularly for updates.

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Workshops

We are currently planning out our 2013 workshop schedule. Please check back soon for updates.

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YGX @ Apple Store Santa Monica

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This month, the ADC Young Guns spotlight shines on Ricardo R. Bojorquez, design director and partner at The Rare Studio in L.A. Just us at the newly opened Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica as Ricardo presents his work, his inspirations and opens the floor for Q&A.

Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 – 7:30 PM

Apple Store Third Street Promenade

1415 Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica

Free, no reservation required.

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ITS, Junior Fellows

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The Interdisciplinary Studies Junior Fellowship is a term long research project open to junior level students at the Institute of Transdisciplinary Studies at Woodbury University. The student make up of this group ranged from accounting, graphic design, architecture, business administration, and animation. The program’s instructors, Will McConnell and Ani Okkassian, collaborated with The Rare Studio on a set of workshops that focused on developing project narratives and documentation as a form of making. These workshops were conducted on 5 week schedule and included a series of individual and group work.

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SVA: Critical Information

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Partner, Salvador Orara presented his MFA Thesis Project: Affection Research Lab at the School of Visual Arts Critical Information Conference in New York City on December 2nd, 2012. This conference is an interdisciplinary graduate student conference examining the contemporary dialogue between art, media, and society. Sponsored by the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department at SVA, the Critical Information conference provides a critical forum for current scholarship exploring the juncture of media, theory, criticism, and the visual arts.

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ADC: Young Guns X Winner

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Partner, Ricardo Bojorquez has been named an Art Director’s Club 2012 Young Guns for his work: Feedback Occurrences, UCLA AUD RUMBLE, and The Rare Studio. Ricardo was among a selected group of creative professionals age 30 or younger. ADC Young Guns is the industry’s only international, cross-disciplinary, portfolio-based awards competition that identifies today’s vanguard of young creatives, and is open to both ADC members and nonmembers.

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ABA 2.0

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Partner, Michael Manalo spoke at Architecture Beyond Architecture 2.0 at Woodbury University on November 9th, 2012. Michael presented his MFA Thesis Project: Soft Publics and The Rare Studio. The panel discussed how architecture degrees are working in a variety of fields: fashion, food, film, and design and pushing at the boundaries of practice. This event was organized by the American Institute of Architecture Students, Woodbury Chapter.

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BCF: The Hub at WUHO

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Big City Forum: The Hub at WUHO is designed as a lab for ideas that encourages cross-disciplinary explorations and exchanges between various creative disciplines. BCF: The Hub presents three separate collaborative presentations focusing on ideas and social narratives around the concept of space and envisioning our relationship to change both at an intimate, personal level and at the urban scale. The Rare Studio designed the offical print announcements that reflected the curator’s theme: “density with multiple arrows suggesting various paths.”

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Parking Day 2012: de-Lab

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The Rare Studio collaborated with Design East of La Brea (de-Lab) to create a pop-up green museum, with the use of the Soft Publics system. The temporary installation featured all kinds of herbal plants, including lemon balm, basil and organic hierloom wormwood. This took place on Parking Day 2012, a nationwide event where designers take over metered parking to create pop-up parks. This installation was featured on Curbed LA, Inhabitat and Los Angeles Times.

Curbed LA article

Inhabitat article

Los Angeles Times article

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Ploughboy Organics

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In mid-2012, Ploughboy Organics, an eco-textile company, came to us in need of complete a branding strategy for their company launch. The company wanted to announce their patented technology that transforms tobacco into unique dyes and fibers. The brand’s main focus was to create a paradigm shift to change how tobacco is generally associated with smoking, cancer, and unhealthy living.

The concept for the visual direction was a system that represents sustainable farming- a process from leaf, to dye, to fibers. Rare worked with Ploughboy to come up with a set of strategic brand elements to illustrate their one-of-a-kind technology and innovation at tradeshows and conventions.

Rare is continuing to collaborate with their founder, Suzanne De Vall, to help manage the company’s brand execution as they work with major manufacturers in the textile industry.

http://ploughboyorganics.com/

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Fluent Flyers

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The Rare Studio collaborated with Fluent Flyers on their yearly trade-show booth at UNIQUE LA SUMMER 2012. This event was held at the Santa Monica Barker Hangar, a retrofitted airline hangar that facilitates large scale events. The event featured over 200 specialty vendors selling one of a kind goods and crafts. Rare designed the booth as being made of paper airplanes that would slowly distribute itself to customers and visitors. In addition, an Instagram contest was held throughout the event that generated photos of the booth and the paper airplanes from visitors.

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Feedback Occurrences

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Feedback Occurrences uses standard materials, common techniques and everyday electronics to create an inventory of interactions. The staged events double as meditations on the poetic and the material. The interactions that were created follow a simple rule in which take objects designed with a single purpose, arrange them in different ways to give them new meaning. Through these interactions, the aim is to create a space for people to experience the blending of these materials outside their known qualities. Within each object relationship a level of anticipation and surprise is introduced where the imagination can be leveraged. This projected is interested in creating works where your movement and thoughts ignite a process in which these staged events come to life. The following explorations are based on the definition of feedback as a reaction from one object to another object in equal measures.

For more information, please visit: www.feedbackoccurrences.com

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Affection Research Lab

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The Affection Research Lab has been created to develop Affection Stations and The Signal Archive. With the mission to become the seed of a device-affection development center and institution. ARL provides a counterpoint to today’s utilitarian computation culture and help to make affective computing more common. ARL fosters device-affection through the framework of the immaterial residuals and incidental sounds of our electronic devices, not through their surface features, determined outputs, or physical attributes.

Affection Stations are for the public. They are a means to poetically inform our generation and of those to come, of the materiality of our time. The Stations are a means to express the possibilities of new relationships with our devices — a paradigm shift on how they are constructed physically and computationally. The Stations embrace the inevitable electromagnetic spectrum, and poetically unveils a critical realm for design to take hold. The Stations allow us to engage with the fact that our devices are more organic and unique than we believe, and exposes the potential of a new level of digital transparency which might inform the development and interactions between humans and computers in the days to come.

For more information, please visit: www.affectionstations.org

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Soft Publics is a private agency that believes in leveraging under-utilized streetspace to practice democracy. We are inspired by the events of the Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Los Angeles, Occupy Orange County and 2011 Arab Spring Protests. We use temporal means to activate unnoticed public utilities. Municipal Codes define parking stalls as hourly spaces (30 min, 2hours, 4hours, etc.) The right of way for sidewalks and the setbacks of buildings are set by city codes to be dedicated open areas for purposes of traffic and accessibility. The new public utility is a formula defined by the time allotted for street parking, the width of the public right of way, and the area of adjacent set backs. The project operates a mobile system that exists in the margins of urban streetscape. We take a proactive stance by stretching the definition of ‘a registered vehicle with an attached trailer’ to activate these spaces. The system stretches across parking stalls in both and height and length to re-negotiate the right of way.

For more information, please visit: www.softpublics.com

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Lecture
YGX @ Apple Store Santa Monica

This month, the ADC Young Guns spotlight shines on Ricardo R. Bojorquez, design director and partner at The Rare Studio in L.A. Just us at the newly opened Third Street
more…
Lecture
SVA: Critical Information

Partner, Salvador Orara presented his MFA Thesis Project: Affection Research Lab at the School of Visual Arts Critical Information Conference in New York City on December 2nd, 2012. This conference is
more…
Awards
ADC: Young Guns X Winner

Partner, Ricardo Bojorquez has been named an Art Director’s Club 2012 Young Guns for his work: Feedback Occurrences, UCLA AUD RUMBLE, and The Rare Studio. Ricardo was among a selected
more…
Lecture
ABA 2.0

Partner, Michael Manalo spoke at Architecture Beyond Architecture 2.0 at Woodbury University on November 9th, 2012. Michael presented his MFA Thesis Project: Soft Publics and The Rare Studio. The panel
more…