SKAGGS Blog - New Work

SKAGGS is proud to announce the launch of visual artist Rodney Durso’s new portfolio site. Rodney is a Chelsea-based visual artist and a fixture of the New York art and music scene.

He wanted a design that wasn’t the traditional stagnant portfolio site: the usual flip-through format didn’t suit his varied forms of expression and he wanted something more dynamic. We were tasked with programming a website…

Sketches to Stylesheets: A Fully Customized Site

Phil Campbell produces artwork, storyboards and concepts for the video game industry. He’s worked as a Creative Director for Electronic Arts on the Godfather and the James Bond series, as Senior Designer for the Tomb Raider series, and as Architectural Designer for Legoland UK. He now lives, works and blogs in San Francisco.

“Phil Campbell creates fantastically detailed and nuanced drawings. He’s…

SKAGGS has been lucky enough to work with a some of the juiciest names in gourmet foods: Valley Produce Company, Wallaby Yogurts, Scrumptious, Meat and Livestock Australia, Madelaine Chocolates and 3 Tarts Bakery and Boutique NY –- to name but a few. In the last few months our tastebuds have been exposed to plenty of top-notch nosh–-although if you ask the team, they’ll tell you it was all purely…

With the “Three ‘S’s” in mind (Style, Sophistication and Seduction) SKAGGS created a complete one-of-a-kind brand identity and attitude for Vanity Beauty Lounge in San Francisco, and brought that certain va-va-voom to the subsequent collateral and retail interior.

“For the logo, we started off by taking a serif typeface—Bodoni—then we refined the letters to reflect the Vanity Beauty…

K•BIS — The Kitchen/Bath Industry Show, is one the largest KB industry conferences of the year. It features some of the most revolutionary and innovative products in the kitchen and bath industry, and gives attendees the opportunity to experience the products firsthand. 

TOTO approached SKAGGS to create the graphics for their booth at the Chicago show. In previous years we’ve used imagery to communicate the TOTO…

It took almost 2 months of planning, 1 trip from El Paso to Dallas and back, 1,000 - 5 gallon water bottles, 3 trucks, 2 tractors, 1 buggy and a whole lot of man (and woman) power to show that TOTO’s High Efficiency toilets are all about saving water—lots of water. It’s proven that TOTO’s HET’s can save up to 24,655 gallons of water, in just 1 year. A fantastic…

Early this past summer we undertook a large, and in some respects daunting project for the Brooklyn Public Library redesign all of the informational and wayfinding signage in the Main Library. Large task…not much time!

The existing signage had a variety of problems.

• They weren’t accurate after many years of changes to the functional layout of the library
• Hard to read due to the material
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The guest at SKAGGS’ Holiday soiree didn’t have to worry about eating copious amounts of calorie laden appetizers thanks to Peter Kamieniecki, the mastermind behind Mrs. Le’s — fresh and innovative Vietnamese inspired food. His concept is good, wholesome food made up of purely organic ingredients.

Born in Vietnam and raised in California, Peter decided to bring his knowledge of Viet-Cuisine to NYC with a plan of launching his mouth…

Food Glorious Food! — The best way to anyone’s heart, especially if it’s gourmet and specially prepared for you…The seasons of over eating are almost upon us and what better way to kick off the culinary delights fest, than announcing the completion of our latest “scrumptious” project. In collaboration with the brand gurus at KVD NYC, we created a brand identity, marketing collateral and website for Samantha McCuen — chief…

Iceland is more than just volcanic spa baths, vikings and vodka…

It’s my motherland and home to some of the most cutting edge artists, talented musicians and fashion designers and interestingly enough, hair stylists. We’ve just completed a website for Harbeitt, a premier hair salon in Hafnafj??rdur, Iceland, that truly represents the cool fun and down to earth people that work there.

Harbeitt…

New York Fashion Week is upon us and while it maybe Spring ‘08 at Bryant Park, we’ve got a remarkable Fall ‘07 project to showcase. In collaboration with Kim-Van Dang at KVDNYC, we designed and produced a visually stunning identity and collateral system, Spring ‘08 Look Book and website for Lovenia. KVDNYC developed the brand ethos of Lovenia, citing that in the Lovenia world simple and complex…

The images above show concept to execution for one of the most grueling yet creatively rewarding photot shoots we’ve done yet. Shot over 5 days, the Ethos Collection is the latest luxury bathroom product collection from TOTO USA. Inspired by 3 major cities—New York, Chicago and Los Angeles—in the United States, each set is inspired by characteristics from the city it’s named after.

NY1 takes inspiration from the old…

Established in 1935, Edward Fields became one of America’s greatest carpet manufacturers, with many accomplishments including the invention of the “Magic Needle”, inventing and coining the “Area Rug” and his undeniable influence on the interior design industry. Edward Fields died in 1979, leaving the company to his son Jack Fields. During the late 80’s and through the 1990’s the company slowly began to fade from prominence. In 2005, Tai Ping Carpets…

How do you bring fun, a lil’ bit of sex appeal and a whole heap of vibrancy to a development project on an already visually saturated strip?

That was the question posed to us when we were brought on board to create an attention getting barricade for City Center Retail in Las Vegas.

CCR’s latest 100,000 sq. ft. development project, located right on Las Vegas Boulevard needed to capture the…